Event #78: $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship
Day 2 Started
2025 World Series of Poker
Event #78: $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship
Day: 2
Event Info
2025 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 2
Buy-in
$600
Prize Pool
$2,856,168
Entries
5,667
Level
40
Blinds
800,000 / 1,600,000
Ante
1,600,000
Entries
635
Players Left
55
Players Left 1 / 5,667
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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 |
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| 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.
Level: 18
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
Level 18
: Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
Cards are in the air at the Horseshoe Blue for Event #78: $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship. The 635 players have returned and will battle it out for ten 60-minute levels with 15-minute breaks every two levels. There will be a dinner break after Level 23.
Level 18
: Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
Level 18
: Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
Christopher Mckenna was among the early eliminations when he got in ace-three against king-queen.
Christopher Mckenna: Ax3x
Martin Gavasci: K♥Q♠
Gavasci scooped the pot after picking up the flush on the 10♥Q♥8♥2♥2♣ runout.
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Level 18
: Blinds 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante
Action was picked up on the river on a board of 6♣10♣4♠K♣2♥, and Robert McAdam was in early position, and Joshua Brodsky was in the big blind, and both players were all in, with Robert McAdam having the dominant stack.
Joshua Brodsky: A♥K♠
Robert McAdam: A♦10♠
Brodsky's higher pair won the pot.
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