From 60 to Five -- The Quest for Deepstacks Gold is Heating Up

The 2024 World Series of Poker is in full swing, with cards in the air in no fewer than 12 (!) concurrent events today. One of these events is extra special for PokerNews: Event #62: $600 PokerNews Deepstack Championship, our first-ever sponsored bracelet event, has reached its penultimate day. Action will resume at 11 a.m. local time in the Horseshoe Event Center and it promises to be an exciting day.

One of the biggest fields of the summer — 5,110 — has already been whittled down to its final 60 hopefuls after two long days of play. Each of them has locked up at least $5,253 for their efforts — a near 9x return on investment — but the biggest slices of the $2,606,100 prize pool are still up for grabs, including the top prize of $282,876 and the coveted gold bracelet.

What's even better: as the inaugural PokerNews-sponsored bracelet event, PokerNews went the extra mile and will offer the winner a unique, commemorative 24k-karat gold coin as a testament to their accomplishment.

Start of Day 3 Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
1	Kenny Huynh	United States	5,920,000	59
2	Michael Dobbs	United States	5,805,000	58
3	Sihao Zhang	Luxembourg	5,605,000	56
4	Una Kelly	United States	5,565,000	56
5	Darryll Fish	United States	5,130,000	51
6	Hector Berry	United Kingdom	4,660,000	47
7	Kuan-Yu Lin	China	4,650,000	47
8	Diogo Cardoso	Portugal	4,600,000	46
9	Kenneth Kemple	United States	4,550,000	46
10	Harrison Ashdown	United States	4,175,000	42

It's still anyone's game at the start of Day 3, with bracelet winner Kenny Hunyh (5,920,000) leading the pack. Other recognizable faces in the hunt include Darryll Fish (5,130,000), bracelet winner Chris Dombrowski (1,620,000), and Ray Henson (1,080,000). Unfortunately, none of the PokerNews Daily Deepstacks leaderboard qualifiers, who won a freeroll into this event for their accomplishments in the Daily's, could make their way to Day 3.

Day 3 will start in Level 28 with blinds at 50.000/100,000 and feature 60-minute levels throughout, with a 15-minute break after every two levels and a 60-minute dinner break after the conclusion of the sixth level of the day (~5:30 p.m.). The plan is for play to continue until five players remain and then hard stop for the night.