Day 2 of $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship Kicks off at 11 a.m.
Day 2 of the Event #78: $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship will see 635 players return to Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas, to battle it out to make it to Day 3 and edge closer to the title. Day 1 saw 5,667 entries create a total prize pool of $2,856,168. All players returning will have their eye on the top payout of $302,165 and the chance of winning a WSOP gold bracelet.
Prasad Vemulapalli returns top in the counts and Caleb Levesque is close on his tail. Thanh Duong returns in third and will be looking to have a similar deep run to his recent cash in Event #19: $500 The COLOSSUS. Duong finished 76th and outlasted the majority of the huge 16,301 player field, so is no stranger to these kinds of tournaments.
Top Ten Chip Stacks
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prasad Vemulapalli | United States | 1,542,000 | 154 |
| 2 | Caleb Levesque | United States | 1,156,000 | 116 |
| 3 | Thanh Ha Duong | Viet Nam | 1,057,000 | 106 |
| 4 | Kajetan Renke | Poland | 961,000 | 96 |
| 5 | Gregory Teboul | France | 958,000 | 96 |
| 6 | Alex Todd | United Kingdom | 935,000 | 94 |
| 7 | Mohit Vasudeva | United States | 907,000 | 91 |
| 8 | Zhan Xi Guo | Taiwan | 892,000 | 89 |
| 9 | Jason Li | Canada | 865,000 | 87 |
| 10 | Dorian Rios | Venezuela | 845,000 | 85 |
Qiang Xu (761,000), a previous WSOP bracelet winner, will be one to watch as he returns within the top 20 and plenty to play with. Brazil’s Murilo Figueredo is also coming back today and will have his heart set on another title. Fellow bracelet winner Ismael Bojang is the only remaining 25K Fantasy player still in the mix.
A number of PokerNews Qualifiers remain in the tournament: Tanner Martinelli, Waheed Feda, Keith Becker , Dannette Mason and Lucas Jumalon. Last years champion Hector Berry returned to defend his title, and was seen in action for most of the day, but busted just before the dinner break in Level 16.
All players returning made the money yesterday and have locked up $1,200. There were a number of rounds of hand-for-hand play and many lucky survivors. Andrew Bart found himself down to around ten big blinds and woke up with aces during the bubble and held to double, and now returns with a more comfortable stack (215,000). Sterling Harris (241,000) and Kristianne Phamolivo (36,000) also doubled with aces on the bubble and will return today to continue battling it out. The bubble burst with two players eliminated in the same hand, Carson Nennstiel and Sean Troha; they split a min-cash between them.
Remaining Payouts
| Rank | Prize | Rank | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $302,165 | 54-62 | $5,583 |
| 2 | $201,233 | 63-71 | $4,709 |
| 3 | $149,601 | 72-80 | $4,007 |
| 4 | $112,101 | 81-89 | $3,441 |
| 5 | $84,676 | 90-98 | $2,982 |
| 6 | $64,477 | 99-143 | $2,608 |
| 7 | $49,497 | 144-188 | $2,302 |
| 8 | $38,310 | 189-242 | $2,052 |
| 9 | $29,897 | 243-296 | $1,846 |
| 10-11 | $23,526 | 297-350 | $1,677 |
| 12-13 | $18,669 | 351-404 | $1,538 |
| 14-17 | $14,941 | 405-458 | $1,425 |
| 18-26 | $12,060 | 459-512 | $1,333 |
| 27-35 | $9,818 | 513-566 | $1,259 |
| 36-44 | $8,063 | 567-635 | $1,200 |
| 45-53 | $6,680 |
Play will resume today at 11 a.m. local time in the Horseshoe Blue section. Players will be playing through ten 60-minute levels, and resume at Level 18 with 5,000/10,000 blinds and a 10,000 big blind ante. They will take a 15-minute break every two levels and there will be a 60-minute dinner break after Level 23 at approximately 5:30 p.m.
Stay with PokerNews to keep up to date with the action throughout the day.