PNDC Updates Week 2 | 2024 WSOP PokerNews Deepstack Challenge

06-05-2024 17:30 UTC-8

Congratulations to Raymond Chiu - The First PNDC Weekly Leaderboard Winner

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The opening week of the PokerNews Deepstack Challenge was completed yesterday (June 3), and with that, the first top ten players to qualify for the $600 PokerNews Deepstack have been determined.

Taking the top spot was Raymond Chiu, whose back-to-back Deepstack victories propelled him to first place. Along with the ticket, he'll be awarded his very own PNDC trophy.

For those still looking to take part, there are plenty of opportunities over the next three weeks to qualify for the PokerNews Deepstack Championship bracelet event.

The Week 2 leaderboard started today and runs until Monday, June 10 and is then followed by Week 3 (June 11-17) and Week 4 (June 18-24).

Week 1 Top Ten Leaderboard

Rank	Player	Points
1	Raymond Chiu	1,075
2	William Plitz	952
3	Jesse Gardner	821
4	Clark Robertson	795
5	Cory Biddle	782
6	Connor Woodland	767
7	Russell Brooks	765
8	Edgar Mascorro	762
9	Georgios Skarparis	747
10	Jingwei Qi	747

06-05-2024 16:15 UTC-8

PokerNews Deepstack Championship FAQs

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What is the buy-in for the PokerNews Deepstack Championship?

The buy-in for the PokerNews Deepstack Championship event at the 2024 WSOP is $600 - among one of the lowest buy-ins in the Series. We looked to give low-stakes grinders an opportunity to win their way to a coveted WSOP bracelet, and the $600 entry fee is both affordable and offers the chance to win big money from an expected large prize pool.

When is the PokerNews Deepstack Championship?

The PokerNews Deepstack Championship event will be held between June 25 and June 28 2024. It's the 62nd event in the 2024 WSOP and takes place just less than one month into the Series and three weeks before its conclusion.

Where is the PokerNews Deepstack Championship?

The PokerNews Deepstack Championship will be held is a new, vibrant venue near the Horseshoe poker room, Las Vegas. It's located on the Las Vegas Strip, less than a 10-minute drive from Harry Reid International Airport.

How Can I Play the PokerNews Deepstack Championship?

Like any other event at the Series, to play the PokerNews Deepstack Championship simply register from one of the multiple registration desks at the venue.

What is the PokerNews Deepstack Challenge?

The PokerNews Daily Deepstack Challenge is a leaderboard promotion running from May 28 to June 24. Players participating in the daily $200, $250, or $400 deep stack tournaments at the WSOP will earn points. The top 10 point earners each week will receive complimentary seats for the $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship.

What is the leaderboard system?

The leaderboard system will follow the same formula used for the WSOP Player of the Year

06-05-2024 16:06 UTC-8

Tournament Report: $250 Daily Deepstack (June 4)

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Adel Jo, a 36-year-old professional poker player from Miami, emerged victorious in the $250 Daily Deepstack held on June 4.

With over $1 million in live tournament cashes, this latest win marks his sixth-largest career score. Jo's first WSOP Circuit ring came last year in Pompano Beach, where he won a $1,100 Mystery Bounty event, taking home $56,148.

The $250 Daily Deepstack on June 4 saw an impressive turnout of 1,014 participants, generating a prize pool of $202,800. Jo secured the top prize of $29,183 and earned 819 points.

Ricky Carden finished as the runner-up, taking home $20,637 and 410 points, while Mark Ferrell claimed third place with $14,802 and 369 points.

Rank	Player	Payout	Points
1	Adel Jo	$29,183	819
2	Ricky Carden	$20,637	410
3	Mark Ferrell	$14,802	369
4	Benedict Bauer	$10,769	328
5	Joshua Jordan	$7,947	307
6	Minh Nguyen	$5,951	287
7	Sean Greenough	$4,523	246
8	Marvin Joseph	$3,489	225
9	Miguel Jaikel	$2,733	205
10	Paul Harvell	$2,174	164
11	Mitchell Smith	$2,174	164
12	Sung Lee	$1,757	164
13	Jane Howard	$1,757	164
14	Byron Hurst	$1,443	164
15	Christopher Green	$1,443	164
16	Anthony Grappo	$1,443	164
17	David Garcia	$1,443	164
18	Caleb Westall	$1,204	164
19	Marta Hilworth	$1,204	164
20	Annie Tang	$1,204	164
21	Rimbaud Ruelle	$1,204	164
22	Trina Newberry	$1,204	164
23	Soheil Ighani	$1,204	164
24	Bruce Turner	$1,204	164
25	Tuan Le	$1,204	164
26	Benjamin Geurs	$1,204	164
27	Renish Momin	$1,021	164
28	Saul Mendoza	$1,021	164
29	Nathan Daharsh	$1,021	164
30	Michael Wilklow	$1,021	164
31	Sarah Kaidanow	$1,021	164
32	Nicholas Riker	$1,021	164
33	James Rafferty	$1,021	164
34	Clarence Philipneri	$1,021	164
35	Rui Yi	$1,021	164
36	Xiang Lin	$881	164
37	Steven Saab	$881	164
38	Jake Peterson	$881	164
39	Soukha Kachittavong	$881	82
40	Karen Sevoian	$881	82
41	Waheed Feda	$881	82
42	Bruce Herman	$881	82
43	Jason Farkas	$881	82
44	Steve Rada	$881	82
45	Istvan Szabo	$773	82
46	Renli Liu	$773	82
47	David Moreno	$773	82
48	David Anderson	$773	82
49	Marc Kalvari	$773	82
50	Joseph Mccarron	$773	82
51	Jason Aden	$773	82
52	Kevin Senn	$773	82
53	Naomi Raznavi	$773	82
54	Zachary Bassett	$690	82
55	Edgardo Rosario Figueroa	$690	82
56	Gerardo Amezola	$690	82
57	William Bear	$690	82
58	Frank Ledbetter	$690	82
59	Cash Mcgregor	$690	82
60	Shawn Sparks	$690	82
61	Haobo Zhang	$690	82
62	Kais Mohammad	$690	82
63	Matthew Brenn	$627	82
64	Byron Shock	$627	82
65	Henrica Vanwordragen	$627	82
66	Yotam Shmuelov	$627	82
67	Christopher Pratt	$627	82
68	Benjamin Moschel	$627	82
69	Dennis Zosch	$627	82
70	Louis Hillman	$627	82
71	Sam Dryden	$627	82
72	Carl Freeman	$580	82
73	Neil Mcfayden	$580	82
74	Jose Luis Herrero Azpiazu	$580	82
75	Be Pham	$580	82
76	Chase Fredensburg	$580	82
77	Caitlin Comeskey	$580	82
78	Guillaume Daleux	$580	82
79	David Soulier	$580	82
80	Eric Reyes	$580	82
81	Ali Berenji	$547	82
82	Christopher Fraley	$547	41
83	Andrei Balta	$547	41
84	Thomas Villetto	$547	41
85	Sandra Mooney	$547	41
86	Joshua Moskoviz	$547	41
87	Michael Bundschuh	$547	41
88	Michael Pompoco	$547	41
89	Joseph Soundarajan	$547	41
90	Julio Venegas	$525	41
91	Adam Rotstein	$525	41
92	Balakrishna Patur	$525	41
93	Chube Medina	$525	41
94	Samrat Ray Chaudhuri	$525	41
95	Christian Morfin	$525	41
96	Jaime Hernandez Delgado	$525	41
97	Ronald Anderson	$525	41
98	Christos Gennaios	$525	41
99	Dustin Leary	$500	41
100	Yves Kupfermunz	$500	41
101	Nathan Pringle	$500	41
102	Jonathan Threats	$500	41
103		$500	41
104	Shahram Afzal	$500	41
105	Timothy Horwath	$500	41
106	Gordon Konkin	$500	41
107	Gregory Jewell	$500	41
108	David Dusome	$500	41
109	Erik Lefkowitz	$500	41
110	Victor Paulino	$500	41
111	Christopher Nolan	$500	41
112	Michael Lazarev	$500	41
113	John Ash	$500	41
114	Jana Muller	$500	41
115	Jay Lockett	$500	41
116	Christopher Chapla	$500	41
117	Darren Hill	$500	41
118	Stanley Cornelius	$500	41
119	Henry Sweere	$500	41
120	Frank Bullington	$500	41
121	Trung Vu	$500	41
122	Brian Kaplan	$500	41
123	Thanh Nguyen	$500	41
124	Yves Stoll	$500	41
125	Darrell Shock	$500	41
126	Ting Cheng	$500	41
127	Mustafa Hassanzada	$500	41
128	Jason Pardy	$500	41
129	Liu Mingxia	$500	41
130	Leonard Miller	$500	41
131	Francis Ryan	$500	41
132	Jeffrey Parcher	$500	41
133	Mohammad Haghdoust	$500	41
134	Hector Larios Canseco	$500	41
135	Timothy Little	$500	41
136	Ana Segura	$500	41
137	John Lucarotti	$500	41
138	Farris Abdulla	$500	41
139	Stuart Svaton	$500	41
140	Thomas Symonds	$500	41
141	Rajagopal Sankaranarayanan	$500	41
142	Michael Powers	$500	41
143		$500	41
144	Xuebing Feng	$500	41
145	Frank Pergola	$500	41
146	Manuel Javier	$500	41
147	Christiphor Herrin	$500	41
148	Kostantinos Gennaios	$500	41
149	Lei Xiang	$500	41
150	Galvin Van Brussell	$500	41
151	Phong Nguyen	$500	41
152	Ahmer Dalaig	$500	41
153	Junjie Wu	$500	41

06-05-2024 15:45 UTC-8

Join the Fun: PokerNews Daily Deepstack Challenge Leaderboard

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Ready to show off your skills and compete for amazing prizes? The PokerNews Daily Deepstack Challenge is here from May 28 to June 24, and it’s your time to shine! Play in daily WSOP deep stack tournaments, earn points, and score fantastic rewards—including seats to the $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship and some cool memorabilia.

Want to see how you’re doing? Track your progress, check out the latest standings, and get all the updates on our leaderboard page. Click the link below to dive into the action!

Check Out the Leaderboard Now!

06-05-2024 15:36 UTC-8

Still Plenty of Time to Rack Up Those Points

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06-05-2024 14:30 UTC-8

Get Ready for the 4 p.m. $400 Daily Deepstack

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Get ready for some poker action! The second Daily Deepstack of the day shuffles up and deals at 4 p.m. This single-day extravaganza comes with a $400 buy-in, giving you a hefty 30,000 starting stack to play with.

Feeling adventurous? Late registration is open until the start of Level 9, around 7:35 p.m., and you can reenter as many times as you like. Each level is a quick 20 minutes, with plenty of 15- and 20-minute breaks to catch your breath and strategize.

Blinds kick off at 100/100, and the big blind ante is in play from the get-go.

Level	BB Ante	Blinds	Breaks & Notes
1	100	100-100
2	200	100-200
3	300	200-300
4	400	200-400
5	600	300-600
6	800	400-800	Remove 100 Chips (20-Minute Break)
7	1,000	500-1,000
8	1,500	1,000-1,500
9	2,000	1,000-2,000	Remove 500 Chips (15-Minute Break) (Reg. ends)
10	3,000	2,000-3,000
11	4,000	2,000-4,000
12	6,000	3,000-6,000
13	8,000	4,000-8,000
14	10,000	5,000-10,000
15	16,000	8,000-16,000
16	20,000	10,000-20,000	Remove 1,000 Chips (15-Minute Break)
17	30,000	15,000-30,000
18	40,000	20,000-40,000
19	60,000	30,000-60,000
20	80,000	40,000-80,000
21	100,000	50,000-100,000
22	150,000	100,000-150,000	Break (15-Minute Break)
23	200,000	100,000-200,000
24	300,000	150,000-300,000
25	400,000	200,000-400,000
26	600,000	300,000-600,000
27	800,000	400,000-800,000
28	1,000,000	500,000-1,000,000	Break (15-Minute Break)
29	1,500,000	1,000,000-1,500,000
30	2,000,000	1,000,000-2,000,000
31	3,000,000	1,500,000-3,000,000
32	5,000,000	2,000,000-5,000,000

06-05-2024 13:30 UTC-8

Raymond Chiu Goes Back-to-Back to Become PNDC’s First Two-Time Winner

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Raymond Chiu, a 42-year-old IT consultant, achieved a remarkable milestone by becoming the first two-time winner in the PokerNews Deepstack Challenge. His consistent performance has secured him a place among the top ten weekly players, each receiving a $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship ticket at the 2024 WSOP.

Chiu's impressive run began with a victory on Friday, May 31, in the $400 Daily Deepstack, which drew 177 entries and a prize pool of $58,410. He took home $13,709 for this win. The very next day, on June 1, he triumphed again in the same event, which attracted 229 participants and generated a prize pool of $75,570. This win earned him $16,489, marking his largest payout to date.

These back-to-back victories have boosted Chiu's total earnings from these events to $30,198. Not bad for a $800 investment.

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Visit our dedicated safer gaming hub for more information about safe and responsible gaming.

06-05-2024 13:00 UTC-8

Raminder "Raminor" Singh's Top Tips and Exclusive Interview

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At this summer's World Series of Poker (WSOP), we're thrilled to sponsor the $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship alongside the PokerNews Deepstack Challenge, which will send 40 qualifiers into the bracelet event via the leaderboard promotion.

Running from May 28 to June 24, the PokerNews Deepstack Challenge will see the players who take part in the daily $200, $250, or $400 deep stack tournaments at the WSOP earn points towards the leaderboard, where the top ten point earners each week will receive complimentary seats for the $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship.

So, in our bid for you to conquer the PokerNews Deepstack Challenge, we've drafted in tournament crusher Raminder "Raminator" Singh, who knows a thing or two about grinding it out and getting the job done in these lower buy-in events, to give you a helping hand.

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As well as giving out some handy advice, Singh sat down with PokerNews' for Connor Richards' new podcast: Life Outside Poker.

For the fifth episode, Connor spoke with the South Florida crusher about his nearly one hundred live tournament victories, moving to the US from India and running a business full time. He also shared his strategies for various tournament stages and gave Connor a tour of his one-of-a-kind poker trophy collection.

This interview took place inside Singh's South Florida home during the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown in Hollywood, Florida.

The Life Outside Poker podcast is available on major streaming platforms including Apple Podcasts, Spotify and iHeartRadio. You can also watch the interview with Raminder Singh by heading to the PokerNews YouTube channel.

Be sure to follow Raminder Singh and Connor Richards on X.

06-05-2024 12:15 UTC-8

WSOP Circuit Ring Winner Cory "CJ" Biddle Takes On the PNDC

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WSOP Circuit Ring winner Cory “CJ” Biddle has been heavily grinding the PokerNews Deepstack Challenge and notched a victory on May 28.

Biddle took down the third Daily Deepstack of the series and plans to top at least one of the four weekly leaderboards. He gave his thoughts on why these tournaments are perfect for poker players looking to maintain their bankroll over the summer.

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06-05-2024 12:00 UTC-8

Responsible Gaming Resources

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At PokerNews, we're committed to promoting responsible gaming. We encourage all our readers to play responsibly and within their means.
Visit our dedicated safer gaming hub for more information about safe and responsible gaming.