Day 1b of the $600 Ultra Stack Shuffles Up and Deals at 2 PM
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Today sees the Day 1b of Event #84: $600 Ultra Stack No-Limit Hold'em here at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.
This three-day event gets underway at 2 p.m. local time, with late registration open for 12 levels. This event allows for two reentries per flight. There will be 20-minute breaks every three levels, with a 60-minute dinner break at the end of Level 12 (~8:40 p.m.).
The starting stack is 60,000 chips, with the plan to play 20 levels of 30 minutes each.
For the surviving players, Day 2 resumes at 1 p.m. local time on Tuesday, July 9, and plays 17 40-minute levels or down to five players, whichever comes first. Day 3 is when a winner will be determined.
This is only the second edition of the Ultra Stack, which debuted at the 2023 WSOP. Last year’s event garnered a field of 7,207 entries generating a prize pool of $3,675,570. The winner was Joseph Roh, who defeated Denny Lee heads-up to win $401,250 and his first WSOP bracelet.
Day 1a saw a yet-to-be-confirmed number of entrants take to the felt, and only 284 progress. Michael Bell turned his 60,000 starting stack into 2,635,000, almost 750,000 more chips than Lee Clark (1,620,000) in second place. Anyone wishing to climb into the top ten must accumulate at least 1,400,000 chips by the close of play.
Popular Belgian grinder Kenny Hallaert (pictured) made it through Day 1a with 665,000 chips as he hunts what would be his first bracelet. Hallaert has almost $5.5 million in live cashes
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- Scott Seiver bagged up a big stack in the $1,500 Eight Game Mix as he hunts for an unprecedented fourth bracelet win during a single WSOP.
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