2024 WSOP PokerNews Deepstack Challenge

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Join the Fun: PokerNews Daily Deepstack Challenge Leaderboard

Daily Deepstacks PN
Daily Deepstacks PN

Ready to show off your skills and compete for amazing prizes? The PokerNews Daily Deepstack Challenge is here from May 28 to June 24, and it’s your time to shine! Play in daily WSOP deep stack tournaments, earn points, and score fantastic rewards—including seats to the $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship and some cool memorabilia.

Want to see how you’re doing? Track your progress, check out the latest standings, and get all the updates on our leaderboard page. Click the link below to dive into the action!

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Pair the Bracelet with this REAL Gold Winner's Coin in the PokerNews Deepstack Championship

PokerNews Gold Coin
PokerNews Gold Coin

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Duy Ho Tops Week 2 of PNDC Leaderboard

Duy Ho
Duy Ho

Like Raymond Chiu the week before him, Duy Ho's Daily Deepstack double victory put him in top spot of the PokerNews Deepstack Challenge Leaderboard.

He finished with 1,538 points, the most anybody has recorded thus far.

Yotam Shmuelov and Nicholas Burnett also broke the 1,000-point barrier, ending the week with 1,264 and 1,149 to round out the top three.

RankPlayerPoints
1Duy Ho1,538
2Yotam Shmuelov1,264
3Nicholas Burnett1,149
4Adel Jo965
5Kurt Taphorn912
6Chun Lung Wong883
7Joseph Esbenshade877
8Shahabaldin Shirazi754
9Brett Schniebolk746
10Gerry Fordham745

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Tournament Report: $400 Daily Deepstack (June 21)

PokerNews Gold Coin
PokerNews Gold Coin

Following a monster 1:00 p.m. field in the PokerNews Daily Deepstacks, the $400 buy-in 4:00 p.m. session was huge as well.

Artur Stepanyan, a 46-six-year-old business owner, conquered the 269-entry tournament for $18,514, earning 739 points in the PokerNews Deepstack Challenge leaderboard for Week 4.

The win saw the Californian more than double their live tournament earnings, according to The Hendon Mob. He was among 42 players who cashed. Here's a list of everyone who finished in the money.

RankPlayerPayoutPoints
1Artur Stepanyan$18,514739
2Robert Reed$12,631369
3Robert Bickley$8,802332
4Dan Komem$6,267296
5Christopher Audrain$4,561277
6James Clarke$3,395259
7Julio Torres$2,586222
8Ricardo Barros$2,017203
9Raed Abualfilat$1,611185
10Brad Siegel$1,320148
11Sebastian Hoyosvillegas$1,320148
12Florian Kraft$1,109148
13Hongru Zhang$1,109148
14Shad Morris$956148
15Nicolas Godoy$956148
16Rachel Delatorre$95674
17Flavio Rietmann$95674
18Chun Lung Wong$84674
19Robert Lothian$84674
20Igor Golovin$84674
21Missphakwala Chonwiran$84674
22Trung Pham$84674
23Douglas Maniscalco$84674
24Douglas Mounsey$84674
25Dustin Estrada$84674
26Jianfeng Sun$84637
27Abraham Rosenkrantz$80637
28Joe Santos$80637
29Emerson Baroni$80637
30Hardey Karem$80637
31Mamoun El-Hinnawi$80637
32Stephen Airola$80637
33Henry Gingerich$80637
34Donald Drummond$80637
35Aleftina Didier$80637
36Thomas Quaade$80637
37Robert Sellers$80637
38Matthew Johnson$80637
39Duncan Mccallum$80637
40Penny Bachman$80637
41 $80637

Get Ready for the 4 p.m. $400 Daily Deepstack

PNDC
PNDC

Get ready for some poker action! The second Daily Deepstack of the day shuffles up and deals at 4 p.m. This single-day extravaganza comes with a $400 buy-in, giving you a hefty 30,000 starting stack to play with.

Feeling adventurous? Late registration is open until the start of Level 9, around 7:35 p.m., and you can reenter as many times as you like. Each level is a quick 20 minutes, with plenty of 15- and 20-minute breaks to catch your breath and strategize.

Blinds kick off at 100/100, and the big blind ante is in play from the get-go.

LevelBB AnteBlindsBreaks & Notes
1100100-100 
2200100-200 
3300200-300 
4400200-400 
5600300-600 
6800400-800Remove 100 Chips (20-Minute Break)
71,000500-1,000 
81,5001,000-1,500 
92,0001,000-2,000Remove 500 Chips (15-Minute Break) (Reg. ends)
103,0002,000-3,000 
114,0002,000-4,000 
126,0003,000-6,000 
138,0004,000-8,000 
1410,0005,000-10,000 
1516,0008,000-16,000 
1620,00010,000-20,000Remove 1,000 Chips (15-Minute Break)
1730,00015,000-30,000 
1840,00020,000-40,000 
1960,00030,000-60,000 
2080,00040,000-80,000 
21100,00050,000-100,000 
22150,000100,000-150,000Break (15-Minute Break)
23200,000100,000-200,000 
24300,000150,000-300,000 
25400,000200,000-400,000 
26600,000300,000-600,000 
27800,000400,000-800,000 
281,000,000500,000-1,000,000Break (15-Minute Break)
291,500,0001,000,000-1,500,000 
302,000,0001,000,000-2,000,000 
313,000,0001,500,000-3,000,000 
325,000,0002,000,000-5,000,000 

Tournament Report: $250 Daily Deepstack (June 21)

Silma Macalou
Silma Macalou

Friday's action in the PokerNews Daily Deepstacks during the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) brought about another day of massive fields and big winners.

In the 1:00 p.m. tournament, a $250 buy-in, there were 1,019 entrants, creating a prize pool of $203,800. When all was said and done, the only player still standing was Silma Macalou. The champion took home $29,339 and earned 820 points on the PokerNews Daily Deepstack Challenge leaderboard.

The top 153 players went home with money, and here's a look at every player who cashed:

RankPlayerPayout
1Silma Macalou$29,339
2Rafael Saul$20,739
3Joseph Davis$14,875
4Jean- Yves Ruaud$10,822
5Andres Monroy$7,987
6Kim Lam$5,981
7Taruli Aritonang$4,545
8Tony Nguyen$3,506
9Matthew Reams$2,747
10Shawn Gill$2,185
11Joaquim Braz De Oliveira$2,185
12Valentin Balanescu$1,766
13Kevin Fernandez$1,766
14Michael Brenden$1,450
15Carlos Tascheck$1,450
16Valerie Tapp$1,450
17Kao Saechao$1,450
18Srikar Donapati$1,210
19Mace Reed$1,210
20William Backes$1,210
21Michael Grodi$1,210
22Cary Douglass$1,210
23Paul Williams$1,210
24Siddarth Singhvi$1,210
25Leandro Gorzonidasilva$1,210
26Mark Mchenry$1,210
27Gregoire Ceran$1,026
28Flavio Palalon$1,026
29Matthew Lewis$1,026
30Jaison Cardoso De Souza$1,026
31Zia Khosravi$1,026
32Michael Forca$1,026
33Jamel Ghizaoui$1,026
34Dimitrios Anastasakis$1,026
35Rodney Levingston$1,026
36Ilavenil Arumugam$885
37Susan Micheal$885
38Christopher Cahoon$885
39Daniel Wojnarski$885
40Howard Feingold$885
41Naceim Qarmout$885
42Craig Lecompte$885
43Makio Pastolero$885
44Dennis Underwood$885
45Dominic Rinaldi$777
46Sebastian Lobo$777
47Thomas Tracy$777
48Gerald Johonnot$777
49Maxime Conte$777
50Kenneth Mackey$777
51Kevin Chen$777
52Michael Cagliuso$777
53Bruce Carter$777
54Edward Pascual$694
55Kim Kelly$694
56Greig W Lumsden$694
57John West$694
58Lily Kiletto$694
59Shawn Murphy$694
60Matthew Stroemer$694
61Balakrishna Patur$694
62Daniel Rossi$694
63Mehdi Malakoti$630
64Boris Glickstein$630
65Aiischa Fox$630
66Jun Lai$630
67Jair Beltran$630
68Terrence Kamisato$630
69Cedric Seguin$630
70Bradley Lewis$630
71David Grandin$630
72Nicholas Major$583
73Wayne Shinsato$583
74David Mccorkle$583
75Michael Hill$583
76Danny Coronel$583
77Kelly Kreger$583
78Duy Ho$583
79Gary Solomons$583
80Norman Johnson$583
81Michael Brandt$550
82Miguel Solano$550
83Jacques Davidson$550
84Wallid Dahoud$550
85Jokari Mackie$550
86Michael Kellett$550
87Alon Zohar$550
88Robert Graver$550
89Cornel Roman$550
90David Zeitlin$528
91Cornel Medes$528
92George White$528
93Jeremy Lyons$528
94Charles Sewell$528
95Nicola Marino$528
96John Colon$528
97Jong Jin$528
98David Gravelle$528
99Jordan Moan$502
100Ronald Parsons$502
101David Jordan$502
102Leonard Greer$502
103Babak Pedram$502
104Ricardo Benedicto$502
105Karl Urbin$502
106Frederick Mcpherson$502
107Irfanullah Khairi$502
108James Henson$502
109Timothy Louwers$502
110Victor Mena$502
111Daniel Garcia$502
112Eric Roberts$502
113James Fox$502
114Mikhail Voloshen$502
115James Ward$502
116Barbel Schroder$502
117Jefferson Glenny$502
118Duane Mortenson$502
119Mike Parekh$502
120Antonio Faulisi$502
121Derek Crooks$502
122Erick Corsa$502
123Andre Welt$502
124Omar Ramirez$502
125Ramsay Emmerson-Franke$502
126Brian Pachciarz$502
127Laurent Colet$502
128Denis Labbe$502
129Patti Zarosky$502
130David Comeau$502
131Arif Bhaloo$502
132Jeffrey Granowsky$502
133Nathan Tucker$502
134Shilei Fan$502
135Marcel Schwarz$502
136Brian Reiss$502
137Brian Hulen$502
138Liron Altman$502
139Ronald Mcdonald$502
140Carlos Inukai$502
141Byron Yip$502
142Michael Meents$502
143Charles Guttierez$502
144John Gardner$502
145Kevin Yoder$502
146Patricia Conrad$502
147Rudijanto Soetikno$502
148David Gonzalez$502
149John Flores$502
150Chunyu Yang$502
151Percy Padua$502
152Timothy Hallinan$502
153Glen Chadwick$502

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How to Claim Your $600 PokerNews Deepstack Winner's Ticket

PNDC
PNDC

Have you secured a spot in the top ten on the weekly leaderboard for the PokerNews Deepstack Challenge? Are you eager to claim your ticket?

Good news: All players who have qualified for the $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship can register for the event.

The World Series of Poker has already received your names. To complete your registration, simply visit any registration window. Remember to bring your I.D. and Caesars Rewards card for verification.