PNDC Updates Week 3 | 2024 WSOP PokerNews Deepstack Challenge

06-12-2024 12:00 UTC-8

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06-12-2024 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

06-12-2024 14:45 UTC-8

Tournament Report: $250 Daily Deepstack (June 11)

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The first winner of Week 3 in the PNDC was New Zealand's Charlton "Charlie" Hawes.

The 32-year-old poker player topped the 841 entry field and claimed the lion's share of the $168,200 prize pool.

Hawes collected $25,495 for the triumph, along with 800 points to put him top of the weekly leaderboard. The windfall marks his fourth career-best cash, some ways behind the $104,702 he won in the 2018 Sydney Championships Main Event.

Rank	Player	Payout	Points
1	Charlton Hawes	$25,495	800
2	Richard Watts	$17,974	400
3	Vicente Sanchez Benitez	$12,854	360
4	Wenhua Yin	$9,329	320
5	Bruno Pegoraro	$6,872	300
6	Shane Dellus	$5,140	280
7	Hakan Zengin	$3,904	240
8	Babak Khalajestani	$3,011	220
9	Gladys Landegger	$2,360	200
10	Christoph Gibson	$1,880	160
11	Josiel Da Cruz	$1,880	160
12	Daniel Asbury	$1,522	160
13	Jason Yeung	$1,522	160
14	Farzad Raji	$1,253	160
15	Shawn Wilson	$1,253	160
16	Richard Endicott	$1,253	160
17	Wolfgang Posik	$1,253	160
18	Jeffrey Parcher	$1,049	160
19	William Johnson	$1,049	160
20	Thomas Abbas	$1,049	160
21	Steven Lebron	$1,049	160
22	Chico Jones	$1,049	160
23	Gregory Drumheller	$1,049	160
24	Craig Teti	$1,049	160
25	Raed Abualfilat	$1,049	160
26	Eric Parsons	$1,049	160
27	Josef Kacherl	$894	160
28	Andre Matthews	$894	160
29	Dennis Zosch	$894	160
30	Kevin Grabel	$894	160
31	Shubert Benjamin	$894	160
32	Eddy Asady	$894	160
33	Randall Kuwahara	$894	160
34	Eric Fisher	$894	80
35	Manuel Alt	$894	80
36	Xiling Che	$775	80
37	Luis Tejada	$775	80
38	Matthew Demarsh	$775	80
39	Susan Purdie	$775	80
40	Sigurdur Thengilsson	$775	80
41	Enzo Vacca	$775	80
42	Dustin Serr	$775	80
43	Daniel Ferketa	$775	80
44	Armando Then	$775	80
45	Herbert Oberholzer	$684	80
46	James Smith	$684	80
47	Joseph Crowley	$684	80
48	Wesley Ingram	$684	80
49	Christopher Miller	$684	80
50	Maria Quint	$684	80
51	Angelo Campanile	$684	80
52	Dennis Baker	$684	80
53	Matthew Henigan	$684	80
54	Philip Jackson	$615	80
55	Felipe Balanos	$615	80
56	Xiao Huang	$615	80
57	Liang Yin	$615	80
58	Ryan Mccabe	$615	80
59	Manuel Murcia	$615	80
60	Yubin Wang	$615	80
61	Krystal Mcnabb	$615	80
62	Runsheng Du	$615	80
63	Jairo Velasquez	$563	80
64	Victoria Ondis	$563	80
65	Jason Brown	$563	80
66	Lorie Keller	$563	80
67	Matthew Emerson	$563	80
68	Gerardo Ruiz	$563	80
69	Dennis Bantugan	$563	40
70	Mark Perry	$563	40
71	Laurent Pumiglia	$563	40
72	Germ De Haas	$525	40
73	Pierre Neuville	$525	40
74	Richard Betts	$525	40
75	Thomas Oneal	$525	40
76	Sinha Gunisha	$525	40
77	Rebecca Walter	$525	40
78	James Scott	$525	40
79	Jeremy Hamey	$525	40
80	Taylor Howard	$525	40
81	Adamastor Santos	$500	40
82	Joshua Brodsky	$500	40
83	Gregory Jewell	$500	40
84	Farhad Mirahmadi	$500	40
85	Steven Liebenthal	$500	40
86	Maxime Jaafar	$500	40
87	Larry Turley	$500	40
88	Marcel Maurer	$500	40
89	Glenda Radigonda	$500	40
90	Max Davids	$500	40
91	Guillermo De La Vega	$500	40
92	Alan Chute	$500	40
93	John Brinkman	$500	40
94	Donna Stewart	$500	40
95	Suman Chen	$500	40
96	Chechun Chu	$500	40
97	Jordan Macfarlane	$500	40
98	Richard Bondi	$500	40
99	Donald Price	$500	40
100	Paulo Schneider	$500	40
101	Juan Medina	$500	40
102	Benjamin Cardenas	$500	40
103	Chanwoo Jun	$500	40
104	Nesrin Can	$500	40
105	Laura Cole	$500	40
106	John Ruddy	$500	40
107	Christopher Pierce	$500	40
108	Jean Joseph	$500	40
109	Stephen Lee	$500	40
110	Ryan Haddad	$500	40
111	Marvin Joseph	$500	40
112	Terrence Marchio	$500	40
113	Adam Lalopoulos	$500	40
114	Jackson Young	$500	40
115	Hunter Cole	$500	40
116	Christopher Hecht	$500	40
117	Thierry Madine	$500	40
118	Joseph Galvan	$500	40
119	Fabien Perrot	$500	40
120	Kevin Rustice	$500	40
121	John Colucci	$500	40
122	Brian Richardson	$500	40
123	Erviena Bigwood	$500	40
124	Jackson Gray	$500	40
125	Kenneth Faires	$500	40
126	Kory Kallenbach	$500	40
127	Ai Tsuchiya	$500	40

06-12-2024 15:30 UTC-8

Duy Ho Tops Week 2 of PNDC Leaderboard

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Like Raymond Chiu the week before him, Duy Ho's Daily Deepstack double victory put him in top spot of the PokerNews Deepstack Challenge Leaderboard.

He finished with 1,538 points, the most anybody has recorded thus far.

Yotam Shmuelov and Nicholas Burnett also broke the 1,000-point barrier, ending the week with 1,264 and 1,149 to round out the top three.

Rank	Player	Points
1	Duy Ho	1,538
2	Yotam Shmuelov	1,264
3	Nicholas Burnett	1,149
4	Adel Jo	965
5	Kurt Taphorn	912
6	Chun Lung Wong	883
7	Joseph Esbenshade	877
8	Shahabaldin Shirazi	754
9	Brett Schniebolk	746
10	Gerry Fordham	745

06-12-2024 16:00 UTC-8

Tournament Report: $400 Daily Deepstack (June 11)

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Srikanth Aleti, a 31-year-old student from India, emerged as the winner of the $400 Daily Deepstack on June 11.

His victory not only earned him $17,425 and 731 points but also more than doubled his all-time live tournament earnings, marking a significant milestone in his poker career.

The $400 Daily Deepstack attracted 246 entries, generating a prize pool of $81,180.

Jeffrey Yarchever secured the second place with a payout of $11,756 and 365 points. Mario Flores finished in third place, earning $8,121 and 329 points.

Rank	Player	Payout	Points
1	Srikanth Aleti	$17,425	731
2	Jeffrey Yarchever	$11,756	365
3	Mario Flores	$8,121	329
4	Marcio Cid	$5,748	292
5	Angel Iniquez	$4,171	274
6	Niall Costigan	$3,106	256
7	Trung Le	$2,374	219
8	Roman Nuraev	$1,864	201
9	Jack Lieberman	$1,505	183
10	Martin Schroeder	$1,250	146
11	Spiro Lempesis	$1,250	146
12	Cyrus Khorram	$1,069	146
13	Christy Cranford	$1,069	146
14	Jessica Vierling	$943	146
15	Shawn Quinn	$943	146
16	Kenneth Berenhaut	$943	73
17	Andres Garcia	$943	73
18	Kai Spindeldreher	$857	73
19	Diogo Aguiar	$857	73
20	Giuseppe Maggisano	$857	73
21	George Vidal	$857	73
22	Steven Geralis	$857	73
23	Kyle Hughes	$857	73
24	Kevin Mcleskey	$857	37
25	Timotheos Timotheou	$857	37
26	Benjamin Mccoy	$857	37
27	Juan Ramirez	$817	37
28	John Kruse	$817	37
29	James Kirbow	$817	37
30	Eric Tea	$817	37
31	Eduardo Montoya	$817	37
32	Liao Yinghsiang	$817	37
33	Jared Nott	$817	37
34	Kaveh Akram	$817	37
35	Adam Greenlee	$817	37
36	Ankur Khemani	$817	37
37	Deborah Zwanka	$817	37

06-12-2024 16:30 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.

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06-12-2024 18:10 UTC-8

Tournament Report: $200 Deepstack (June 11)

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Roger Perez, a 44-year-old poker player, took down the final Daily Deepstack on June 11, topping the 269-player field.

Perez claimed $8,697 from the $41,695 prize pool, along with 672 PNDC points. The payout also marks Perez's biggest cash to date.

Aliaksei Ivanou and David Readman rounded out the top three finishers, collecting $5,832 and $4,009, as well as 336 and 302 points for the leaderboard.

Rank	Player	Payout	Points
1	Roger Perez	$8,697	672
2	Aliaksei Ivanou	$5,832	336
3	David Readman	$4,009	302
4	Erin Sullivan	$2,826	269
5	Adam Berberich	$2,043	252
6	Christopher Becker	$1,517	235
7	Neil Ziegler	$1,158	202
8	Jae Song	$909	185
9	Valerik Malkhasian	$734	168
10	Kevin Tribble	$610	134
11	Andrew Nemeth	$610	134
12	Thayler Hernandez	$523	134
13	Patricia Kempe	$523	134
14	Xavier Morin	$463	134
15	David Fernandez	$463	134
16	Peter Lametta	$463	67
17	Aurelian Furcoiu	$463	67
18	Lian Liu	$423	67
19	Tetsuro Tomita	$423	67
20	Charles Buehler	$423	67
21	Eduardo Montoya	$423	67
22	Jennifer Morreale	$423	67
23	Lorraine Widener	$423	67
24	David Erquiaga	$423	67
25	Jason Jacobson	$423	67
26	Dragan Zaric	$423	34
27	Daniel Garcia	$403	34
28	Kenneth Dulce	$403	34
29	Stacey Diederich	$403	34
30	Jorge Charrouf	$403	34
31	Scott Stopa	$403	34
32	Jeremy Herb	$403	34
33	Said Bahtat	$403	34
34		$403	34
35	Martin Katz	$403	34
36	Nasser Mansour	$403	34
37	Dominique Terzian	$403	34
38	Soeren Vendsahm	$403	34
39	Leyla Rogers	$403	34
40	Joseph Irrera	$403	34
41	Austin Drake	$403	34

06-12-2024 18:30 UTC-8

Time for a Night Cap in the 8 p.m. $200 Daily Deepstack

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Wrap up your day with some thrilling poker action! The final Daily Deepstack of the day kicks off at 8 p.m. as a single-day showdown. With a $200 buy-in, you'll start with a 20,000 stack of chips.

For those who like to make a dramatic entrance, late registration is open until the start of Level 6 (approx 10:20 p.m.), and you can reenter as many times as you want until then. Each level lasts 20 minutes, with plenty of 15-minute breaks throughout the evening.

Blinds start at 100/100, and the big blind ante is in play right from the start. If this event runs long, the tournament director reserves the right to suspend play and resume the following day.

Level	BB Ante	Blinds	Breaks / Chip Removals
1	100	100-100
2	200	100-200
3	300	100-300
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	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	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
33	6,000,000	3,000,000-6,000,000
34	8,000,000	4,000,000-8,000,000

06-12-2024 21:00 UTC-8

PNDC Week 3 Leaderboard After June 11

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Rank	Player	Points
1	Charlton Hawes	800
2	Srikanth Aleti	731
3	Roger Perez	672
4	Richard Watts	400
5	Jeffrey Yarchever	365
6	Vicente Sanchez Benitez	360
7	Aliaksei Ivanou	336
8	Mario Flores	329
9	Wenhua Yin	320
10	David Readman	302
11	Bruno Pegoraro	300
12	Marcio Cid	292
13	Shane Dellus	280
14	Angel Iniquez	274
15	Erin Sullivan	269
16	Niall Costigan	256
17	Adam Berberich	252
18	Hakan Zengin	240
19	Christopher Becker	235
20	Babak Khalajestani	220
21	Trung Le	219
22	Neil Ziegler	202
23	Roman Nuraev	201
24	Gladys Landegger	200
25	Jae Song	185
26	Jack Lieberman	183
27	Valerik Malkhasian	168
28	Andre Matthews	160
29	Chico Jones	160
30	Christoph Gibson	160
31	Craig Teti	160
32	Daniel Asbury	160
33	Dennis Zosch	160
34	Eddy Asady	160
35	Eric Parsons	160
36	Farzad Raji	160
37	Gregory Drumheller	160
38	Jason Yeung	160
39	Jeffrey Parcher	160
40	Josef Kacherl	160
41	Josiel Da Cruz	160
42	Kevin Grabel	160
43	Raed Abualfilat	160
44	Randall Kuwahara	160
45	Richard Endicott	160
46	Shawn Wilson	160
47	Shubert Benjamin	160
48	Steven Lebron	160
49	Thomas Abbas	160
50	William Johnson	160
51	Wolfgang Posik	160
52	Christy Cranford	146
53	Cyrus Khorram	146
54	Jessica Vierling	146
55	Martin Schroeder	146
56	Shawn Quinn	146
57	Spiro Lempesis	146
58	Andrew Nemeth	134
59	David Fernandez	134
60	Kevin Tribble	134
61	Patricia Kempe	134
62	Thayler Hernandez	134
63	Xavier Morin	134
64	Eduardo Montoya	104
65	Angelo Campanile	80
66	Armando Then	80
67	Christopher Miller	80
68	Daniel Ferketa	80
69	Dennis Baker	80
70	Dustin Serr	80
71	Enzo Vacca	80
72	Eric Fisher	80
73	Felipe Balanos	80
74	Gerardo Ruiz	80
75	Herbert Oberholzer	80
76	Jairo Velasquez	80
77	James Smith	80
78	Jason Brown	80
79	Joseph Crowley	80
80	Krystal Mcnabb	80
81	Liang Yin	80
82	Lorie Keller	80
83	Luis Tejada	80
84	Manuel Alt	80
85	Manuel Murcia	80
86	Maria Quint	80
87	Matthew Demarsh	80
88	Matthew Emerson	80
89	Matthew Henigan	80
90	Philip Jackson	80
91	Runsheng Du	80
92	Ryan Mccabe	80
93	Sigurdur Thengilsson	80
94	Susan Purdie	80
95	Victoria Ondis	80
96	Wesley Ingram	80
97	Xiao Huang	80
98	Xiling Che	80
99	Yubin Wang	80
100	Andres Garcia	73
101	Diogo Aguiar	73
102	George Vidal	73
103	Giuseppe Maggisano	73
104	Kai Spindeldreher	73
105	Kenneth Berenhaut	73
106	Kyle Hughes	73
107	Steven Geralis	73
108	Aurelian Furcoiu	67
109	Charles Buehler	67
110	David Erquiaga	67
111	Jason Jacobson	67
112	Jennifer Morreale	67
113	Lian Liu	67
114	Lorraine Widener	67
115	Peter Lametta	67
116	Tetsuro Tomita	67
117	Adam Lalopoulos	40
118	Adamastor Santos	40
119	Ai Tsuchiya	40
120	Alan Chute	40
121	Benjamin Cardenas	40
122	Brian Richardson	40
123	Chanwoo Jun	40
124	Chechun Chu	40
125	Christopher Hecht	40
126	Christopher Pierce	40
127	Dennis Bantugan	40
128	Donald Price	40
129	Donna Stewart	40
130	Erviena Bigwood	40
131	Fabien Perrot	40
132	Farhad Mirahmadi	40
133	Germ De Haas	40
134	Glenda Radigonda	40
135	Gregory Jewell	40
136	Guillermo De La Vega	40
137	Hunter Cole	40
138	Jackson Gray	40
139	Jackson Young	40
140	James Scott	40
141	Jean Joseph	40
142	Jeremy Hamey	40
143	John Brinkman	40
144	John Colucci	40
145	John Ruddy	40
146	Jordan Macfarlane	40
147	Joseph Galvan	40
148	Joshua Brodsky	40
149	Juan Medina	40
150	Kenneth Faires	40
151	Kevin Rustice	40
152	Kory Kallenbach	40
153	Larry Turley	40
154	Laura Cole	40
155	Laurent Pumiglia	40
156	Marcel Maurer	40
157	Mark Perry	40
158	Marvin Joseph	40
159	Max Davids	40
160	Maxime Jaafar	40
161	Nesrin Can	40
162	Paulo Schneider	40
163	Pierre Neuville	40
164	Rebecca Walter	40
165	Richard Betts	40
166	Richard Bondi	40
167	Ryan Haddad	40
168	Sinha Gunisha	40
169	Stephen Lee	40
170	Steven Liebenthal	40
171	Suman Chen	40
172	Taylor Howard	40
173	Terrence Marchio	40
174	Thierry Madine	40
175	Thomas Oneal	40
176	Adam Greenlee	37
177	Ankur Khemani	37
178	Benjamin Mccoy	37
179	Deborah Zwanka	37
180	Eric Tea	37
181	James Kirbow	37
182	Jared Nott	37
183	John Kruse	37
184	Juan Ramirez	37
185	Kaveh Akram	37
186	Kevin Mcleskey	37
187	Liao Yinghsiang	37
188	Timotheos Timotheou	37
189	Austin Drake	34
190	Daniel Garcia	34
191	Dominique Terzian	34
192	Dragan Zaric	34
193	Jeremy Herb	34
194	Jorge Charrouf	34
195	Joseph Irrera	34
196	Kenneth Dulce	34
197	Leyla Rogers	34
198	Martin Katz	34
199	Nasser Mansour	34
200	Said Bahtat	34
201	Scott Stopa	34
202	Soeren Vendsahm	34
203	Stacey Diederich	34

06-12-2024 21:30 UTC-8

PNDC Week 3 Winners

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Date	Event	Entries	Prize Pool	Winner	Prize
Tue 11 Jun	$250 No Limit Hold'em	841	$168,200	Charlton Hawes	$25,495
Tue 11 Jun	$400 No Limit Hold'em	246	$81,180	Srikanth Aleti	$17,425
Tue 11 Jun	$200 No Limit Hold'em	269	$41,695	Roger Perez	$8,697