Event #84: $600 Ultra Stack No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1b Started
Event #84: $600 Ultra Stack No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1b Started
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Today sees the Day 1b of Event #84: $600 Ultra Stack No-Limit Hold'em here at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.
This three-day event gets underway at 2 p.m. local time, with late registration open for 12 levels. This event allows for two reentries per flight. There will be 20-minute breaks every three levels, with a 60-minute dinner break at the end of Level 12 (~8:40 p.m.).
The starting stack is 60,000 chips, with the plan to play 20 levels of 30 minutes each.
For the surviving players, Day 2 resumes at 1 p.m. local time on Tuesday, July 9, and plays 17 40-minute levels or down to five players, whichever comes first. Day 3 is when a winner will be determined.
This is only the second edition of the Ultra Stack, which debuted at the 2023 WSOP. Last year’s event garnered a field of 7,207 entries generating a prize pool of $3,675,570. The winner was Joseph Roh, who defeated Denny Lee heads-up to win $401,250 and his first WSOP bracelet.
Day 1a saw a yet-to-be-confirmed number of entrants take to the felt, and only 284 progress. Michael Bell turned his 60,000 starting stack into 2,635,000, almost 750,000 more chips than Lee Clark (1,620,000) in second place. Anyone wishing to climb into the top ten must accumulate at least 1,400,000 chips by the close of play.
Popular Belgian grinder Kenny Hallaert (pictured) made it through Day 1a with 665,000 chips as he hunts what would be his first bracelet. Hallaert has almost $5.5 million in live cashes
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First bracelet event since Colossus. Here we go…
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Life Outside Poker is a new podcast for PokerNews hosted by Connor Richards that seeks to pull back the curtain on poker players and allow viewers and listeners to get to know them on a personal level.
In the 11th episode, Connor speaks with Dan "Jungleman" Cates about accountability in poker, his notorious heads-up challenge with Tom Dwan, Game of Gold, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, mindfulness in poker and his new podcast Winning the Game of Life.
Cates also talked about his iconic Poker Players Championship outfits and a six-figure downswing he experienced at Bellagio during the summer.
This interview was filmed at the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) inside Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.
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Another year, another record with the 2024 WSOP Main Event having surpassed last year's figure of 10,043.
The official figure is as yet unconfirmed, but the WSOP has announced that the record was broken shortly after 3 p.m. local time midway through the second level of Day 1d.
The prize pool is also yet to be announced, but it's widely expected to be a figure similar to the $12,100,000 that Daniel Weinman won twelve months ago.
Late registration remains open until approximately 5:10 p.m. ET. The WSOP is reminding players who wish to max late register the Main Event that they need to be registered and IN LINE at the Late Registration desk by the start of Level 8.
Getting underway! One hand at a time - staying in the moment.