Day 2 of Event #57: $600 DeepStack Championship No-Limit Hold'em Begins at 12 Noon
June 27th saw the start of Event #57: DeepStack Championship No-Limit Hold'em at the 2022 WSOP at Bally's and Las Vegas. The field reached 4,913 entrants by the close of late registration generating a prize pool of $2,505,630. The final 737 players are all taking home a chunk of that prize pool, with the minimum cash being $961. The eventual winner will take home a pay day of $299,464 and of course the highly sought after WSOP gold bracelet. Play will resume today at 12:00 p.m. local time.
Among those still in pursuit of that bracelet, American Bradley Miller leads the way with the biggest stack, bagging 1,165,000 at the end of the night. Fellow Americans Mark Olivo (1,052,000) and John Ypma (1,000,000) also managed to finish the night at or above 1,000,000 chips.
There were plenty of familiar faces who bagged at the end of the night. Jeremy Ausmus (502,000) is still in contention, looking for his fifth career bracelet and second of this series. Chris Moorman (96,000), Tuan Le (156,000), Eric Baldwin (468,000), Brett Shaffer (466,000), Ryan Eriquezzo (622,000), and Mark Seif (666,000) will all return to play with their eyes set on their third career bracelets. 2021 Main Event finalist Jack Oliver (115,000) remains in the mix, while previous Main Event Champions Greg Raymer and Scott Davies failed to bag. Paul Dewald (560,000), the first WSOP.com Player of the Year back in 2015, also managed to bag.
Players will play through 10 levels, beginning at Level 18, with 5,000/10,000 blinds with a 10,000 big blind ante. Levels will be extended from 40 to 60 minutes long for the remainder of the event. A 15 minute break is scheduled after every second level, with a 60 minute dinner break slated for after Level 23, expected to be around 6:30 p.m. local time.
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