PNDC Updates Week 1 | 2025 WSOP PokerNews Deepstack Challenge

05-30-2025 10:51 UTC-8

Week 1 Leaderboard As of May 30

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Rank	Player	Points
1	Juan Sosa	754
2	James Derosa	722
3	Sinead Davenport	713
4	Koveh Waysei	669
5	Daniel Kleist	644
6	Mark Selley	641
7	Lewis Christensen	623
8	Jeremy Calverley	616
9	Adauto Viana Junior	599
10	Roger Perez	486
11	Jeffrey Atkins	456
12	Jerrimie Pacheco	444
13	Sean Fitzpatrick	398
14	Liran Betito	361
15	Branden Shimamoto	356
16	David Garcia Araque	340
17	Haruka Murata	339
18	Anthony Flanagan	325
19	Jack Garrett	322
20	Michael Moran	321
21	Mika Hilaire	321
22	Dustin Bryan	311
23	Gregory Gius	308
24	Pasi Petteri Kakkonen	302
25	Ramana Epparla	301
26	Mark Lacoste	299
27	Darren Cunningham	290
28	Mikhail Prokopchuk	289
29	Nir Azriel	289
30	Adam Greenlee	285
31	Rene Lazaro Cifuentes	283
32	Dhananjay Bhor	280
33	Da Lu	277
34	Joakim Brochard	271
35	James Shibley	269
36	Isaac Cramer	268
37	Shayne Mogilski	267
38	Bahman Ataeianfar	258
39	Thomas Erdmann	253
40	Lachlan Crilly	251
41	Aaron Magers	249
42	Bryan Cabalo	249
43	Handrianto Minderman	246
44	Philip Corhan	242
45	Yunhan Yang	240
46	Benoit Fiasson	239
47	Jason Hunter	237
48	Michael Turri	234
49	Oscar Quezada	234
50	Joanne Liu	231
51	Dustin Merrill	229
52	Alan Oaxaca	226
53	Konstantin Polin	226
54	Shih Lo	225
55	Martin Hogan	224
56	Titus Balliett	218
57	Jesus Ayala	215
58	Jennifer Zewe	214
59	Scott Butler	210
60	Pedro Claus	207
61	Dean Boeving	199
62	Drake Espenlaub	196
63	Nello Adducchio	196
64	Oded Levin	192
65	Ernesto Vidales	188
66	Teppei Ishizaki	187
67	Mark Martinez	185
68	Robert Redman	184
69	Kelvin Tana	181
70	Keith Temm	180
71	Vincent Walker	179
72	Carson Davis	178
73	Spencer Yahnke	177
74	Richard Kleinman	176
75	Richard Samuel Williams Jr	171
76	Tyree Johnson	169
77	Jonathan Stephens	165
78	Peter Dirksen	161
79	Jose Fernand Garcia Gutierrez	156
80	Meylin Heng	154
81	Andrew Ahn	151
82	Connor Fulkerson	151
83	Joe Eckford	151
84	Jonathan Braker	151
85	Lucas Langsweirdt	151
86	Oleg Rezabek	151
87	Omar Taveras	151
88	Pascal Gregoire	151
89	Ralph Massey	151
90	Scott Born	151
91	Stephen Placial	151
92	Tao Chu	151
93	Thomas Connors	151
94	Brad Finsilver	144
95	David Bauer	144
96	Delano Jackson	144
97	Eric Weber	144
98	Jay Mendoza	144
99	Matthew Cardoza	144
100	Richard Gress	144
101	Timothy Acker	144
102	Xiling Che	144
103	Austin Moseley	143
104	Craig Trevenna	143
105	Eric Kronenthal	143
106	Pierre Lewandowski	143
107	Jerry Woudstra	134
108	Amin Hosein	129
109	Bingjie Wang	129
110	Katsumoto Sakaguchi	129
111	Platt Robertson	129
112	Benito Lozoya	128
113	Jacob Gordon	128
114	Michael Russell	128
115	Baoqiang Ho	125
116	Christian Young	125
117	Robert Nicholson	125
118	Suresh Tirumalai	123
119	Gregory Rahn	111
120	Robert Keating	108
121	Naor Cohen	97
122	Allan Secord	75
123	Brandon Winkler	75
124	Christopher Intal	75
125	Cristian Gutierrez	75
126	Geoffrey Wei	75
127	Guy Cannon	75
128	Jael Lewis	75
129	Jeremy Standiford	75
130	Joshua Fait	75
131	Justin Frank	75
132	Kelli Mcguire	75
133	Kelly Vandemheen	75
134	Kenneth Mapoy	75
135	Leonardo Castro	75
136	Mariya Ilieva	75
137	Rami Hammoud	75
138	Robert Slezak	75
139	Romeo Samblero	75
140	Roscoe Hayden	75
141	Alexandre Servies	72
142	Bradley Fry	72
143	Daniel Woo	72
144	Dunji Weng	72
145	Frank Smario	72
146	Gonzalo Gonzalez	72
147	James Fisher	72
148	Joel Cleary	72
149	John Lewis	72
150	Jonathan Goetze	72
151	Karine Nogueiradasilva	72
152	Paul Kroh	72
153	Ryan Lashmar	72
154	Tyler Johnson	72
155	Deaitra Virdenburks	71
156	Jiachi Li	71
157	Mark Ebner	71
158	Raymund Uy	71
159	Tigran Gasparyan	71
160	Trenton Shaw	71
161	Vera Greenstein	71
162	Viacheslav Fentisov	71
163	Jason Kolpin	67
164	Lucas Tae	67
165	Mengqi Chen	67
166	Bin Yuan	64
167	Charlas Pollock	64
168	Choong Baek	64
169	Jarrett Bengert	64
170	Luis Cisneros	64
171	Matthew Sullivan	64
172	Ronald Hasbrouck	64
173	Ryan Stackman	64
174	Van Ngoc Nguyen	64
175	Zhun Wang	64
176	Debbie Mendoza	62
177	Jared Talarico	62
178	Jason Looney	62
179	Max Serpaabril	62
180	Plamen Petrov	62
181	Ricardo Cermeno-Sandoval	62
182	Aaron Karlsson	36
183	Alex Miao	36
184	Andrew Insignares	36
185	Bradley Bone	36
186	Charles Mast	36
187	Christopher Weiser	36
188	Clayton Russell	36
189	Danny Lu	36
190	Dennis Pratt	36
191	Divan Van Wyk	36
192	Gary Capoccia	36
193	Heather Morrill	36
194	John Ypma	36
195	Jose Mendez	36
196	Kelly Giannetti	36
197	Kirion Kim	36
198	Lejohn Pai	36
199	Manoj Batavia	36
200	Mark Murphy	36
201	Matthew Davenport	36
202	Michael Rosenfeld	36
203	Michael Steigman	36
204	Mykhailo Lendel	36
205	Richard Rohr	36
206	Rostyslav Huriak	36
207	Samuel Butters	36
208	Taha Benhmama	36
209	Yuan Yu	36
210	Yukun Zhang	36
211	Abass Ngam	35
212	Cameron Smith	35
213	Damion Richardson	35
214	Daniel Silva	35
215	David Trujillo	35
216	David Wilkens	35
217	Erick Banzon	35
218	Eugenio Garbuglia	35
219	Fabian Urias	35
220	Franz Holzner	35
221	Howard Mash	35
222	James Sutherland	35
223	Jeffrey Parcher	35
224	Jordan Vidal	35
225	Joshua Jacobs	35
226	Karl Pirkopf	35
227	Kim Lam	35
228	Kimlong Lav	35
229	Konstantinos Tzinis	35
230	Lawrence Senibaldi	35
231	Marc Doring	35
232	Marshall Pittman	35
233	Michael Hatlevig	35
234	Naoki Kuwahara	35
235	Nicholas Aune	35
236	Nikolas Metaxas	35
237	Or Butz	35
238	Samir Tageldin	35
239	Sonja Hodge	35
240	Stephen Calhoun	35
241	Thomas Bellizzi	35
242	William Moore	35
243	Honghao Shi	33
244	Michael Cole	33
245	Pierre-Alexandr Lessard	33
246	Theodore Cohan	33
247	Andrew Brinkley	32
248	Claude Gaudet	32
249	Jaroslaw Osinski	32
250	Jodi Hurley	32
251	Kevin Golden	32
252	Michael Misikoff	32
253	Richard Martin	32
254	Tony Miller	32
255	Yotam Shmuelov	32
256	Albert Tapia	31
257	Alexander Bulmer	31
258	Daniel Hernandez	31
259	John Six	31
260	Karen Crawford	31
261	Martin Newlin	31
262	Michael Evans	31
263	Monty Klistoff	31
264	Remi Tessier	31
265	Robert Flude	31
266	Walter Ring	31
267	Barry Russell	7
268	Elizabeth Comeau	7
269	Irwin Reiter	7
270	James Mchenry	7
271	Michael Miller	7
272	Svetoslav Dobranchev	7

05-30-2025 11:15 UTC-8

How to Find the PokerNews Daily Deepstacks

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05-30-2025 11:30 UTC-8

$250 WSOP Daily Deepstack 1 p.m. Info and Structure

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Kick off your day with some poker excitement! The opening Daily Deepstack of the day starts at 1 p.m. and promises a thrilling single-day event. With a $250 buy-in, you'll get a solid 25,000 starting stack to work with.

For the latecomers, late registration is open until the start of Level 9, and you can jump back in with unlimited reentries. Each level runs for 30 minutes, with 15-minute breaks sprinkled throughout the day, and a longer 30-minute break after Level 12 to recharge.

Blinds start at 100/100, with the big blind ante in play right from the start. Get ready to shuffle up and deal!

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

05-30-2025 11:30 UTC-8

$250 WSOP Daily Deepstack 1 p.m. Info and Structure

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Kick off your day with some poker excitement! The opening Daily Deepstack of the day starts at 1 p.m. and promises a thrilling single-day event. With a $250 buy-in, you'll get a solid 25,000 starting stack to work with.

For the latecomers, late registration is open until the start of Level 9, and you can jump back in with unlimited reentries. Each level runs for 30 minutes, with 15-minute breaks sprinkled throughout the day, and a longer 30-minute break after Level 12 to recharge.

Blinds start at 100/100, with the big blind ante in play right from the start. Get ready to shuffle up and deal!

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

05-30-2025 12:00 UTC-8

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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.

05-30-2025 14:00 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

05-30-2025 15:00 UTC-8

Looking for the Best Daily's in Town?

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05-30-2025 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.

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!

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05-30-2025 18:00 UTC-8

What's Your Favorite Daily Deepstack?

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05-30-2025 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