Day 2 of Event #64: $600 Deepstack Championship No-Limit Hold'em Begins At 10 AM
It's a new day at Event #64: $600 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack Championship of the 2023 World Series of Poker. After a Day 1 that attracted 4,303 entries for a total prize pool of $2,194,530, 543 players are coming back at 10 a.m. at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas for Day 2.
All players still in the tournament are in the money, as the bubble burst 30 minutes before the end of Day 1. Since the bubble burst, 100 players have already been eliminated, so all remaining players are guaranteed to win $1,050. However, all eyes are on the first-place prize of $271,032.
To reach that, players need to survive Day 2 to qualify for Day 3, and some will have an advantage compared to others. That is the case for two players who built stacks of over one million chips on Day 1: Steven Stolzenfeld, who finished as the chipleader with 1,190,000, and the French player Adel Kabbani, who had an impressive stack all day. He qualified for Day 2 with 1,052,000.
Start of Day 2 Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Steven Stolzenfeld | United States | 1,190,000 | 119 |
| 2 | Adel Kabbani | France | 1,052,000 | 105 |
| 3 | Jaime Kaplan | United States | 955,000 | 96 |
| 4 | Milan Timko | United States | 916,000 | 92 |
| 5 | Neel Joshi | India | 843,000 | 84 |
| 6 | Gokul Dharmarajan | India | 795,000 | 80 |
| 7 | John De Los Reyes | United States | 793,000 | 79 |
| 8 | Xiang Lin | United States | 783,000 | 78 |
| 9 | Matthew Villarreal | United States | 780,000 | 78 |
| 10 | Rick Whitesell | United States | 779,000 | 78 |
Among all qualified players, several notable names emerge, including Martin Zamani (480,000), Aram Oganyan (382,000), Matt Affleck (343,000), EPT winner Rémi Castaignon (286,000), Ben Yu (249,000), Kyna England (202,000), and Kathy Liebert (308,000).
John Ypma also remains in contention with 643,000 chips. Last year, in the same event, he was the chip leader at the end of Day 2 and finished in ninth place, earning $28,129. To replicate his performance from last year, he'll need to navigate through the ten levels that will be played on Day 2. These levels will be longer than those on Day 1, lasting 60 minutes instead of 40 minutes, with 15-minute breaks every 2 levels and a 60-minute dinner break after Level 23 (around 4:30 p.m.).
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