It's Day 2 of Event #17: $800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack; Deeb's in There
Day 2 of Event 14: $800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack will kick off at 11 a.m. local time at the Horseshoe Las Vegas. This tournament only allowed one reentry per competitor and an incredible 4,732 bullets were fired, building a prize pool of $3,331,328. Of those that entered the fray, 710 made it into the money. The remaining 310 players are well past that milestone and will have their eyes on the $368,977 winner's purse.
Only two players eclipsed the two million mark in the bag in the form of bracelet-winner, James Calderaro and Min Zhang, with the prior bagging a healthy 81 big blinds. Six-time bracelet winner, Shaun Deeb, will also be in contention with a stack worth 770,000; his best buddy Matt Glantz was right there with Deeb, but the wheels fell off the last couple hours of Day 1 for Glantz.
| Rank | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | James Calderaro | United States | 2,440,000 | 81 |
| 2 | Min Zhang | United States | 2,075,000 | 69 |
| 3 | Matthew Laslo | Canada | 1,865,000 | 62 |
| 4 | Lei Yu | China | 1,750,000 | 58 |
| 5 | Anton Smirnov | Russia | 1,725,000 | 58 |
| 6 | Ryuta Ogawa | Japan | 1,615,000 | 54 |
| 7 | Yuvaraj Rai | United States | 1,611,000 | 54 |
| 8 | David Rosenbloom | United States | 1,580,000 | 53 |
| 9 | Tzahi Dagan | United States | 1,555,000 | 52 |
| 10 | Anatoly Korochensky | Russia | 1,540,000 | 51 |
Some other bracelet winner's still in contention include Giuseppe Pantaleo, Jonathan Pastore, Arnaud Enselme, Ari Engel, Shawn Buchanan, Benjami n Ector, Daniel Strelitz, and Satoshi Tanaka.
Play will resume with blinds at 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 big blind ante. Levels are 30-minutes long and breaks are slated after every four levels with a one hour dinner break after Level 34 at approximately 5:45 p.m. local time. The plan is to play to a winner in this two-day event.
As always, stay tuned to PokerNews for all the action for this event and other WSOP bracelet events.