$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
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Level 24:  15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  80 of 3,730

Tanupat Punjarojanakul raised from the hijack to 65,000, Lexy Gavin called from the cutoff, Yaroslav Nakonechnyy called from the button, and Trung Pham moved all in from the big blind for 460,000.

Punjarojanakul and Gavin both folded, and Nakonechnyy called with .

Pham turned over , and he needed to improve to stay alive.

The board came , and Nakonechnyy flopped a set of eights to win the pot and eliminate Pham in 81st place.

Yaroslav Nakonechnyy  –  1,625,000  (54 bb)
Trung Pham  –  Eliminated in 81st Place  ($1,800)

With 80 players remaining from a field of 3,730, the average chip stack is about 935,000 (31 big blinds). The remaining players are all guaranteed at least $1,800, and the next pay jump is $1,950 for 72nd place.

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 24:  15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  85 of 3,730

The players return from dinner to begin Level 24, with increased blinds of 15,000-30,000 with a 30,000 ante.

With 85 players remaining from a field of 3,730, the average chip stack is about 880,000 (29 big blinds). The remaining players are all guaranteed at least $1,670, and the next pay jump is $1,800 for 81st place.

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
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Level 24:  15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante
Players Remaining:  85 of 3,730

Level 23 came to an end, and the players left for their 40-minute dinner break. Action is scheduled to resume around 7:33 pm.

With 85 players remaining from a field of 3,730, the average chip stack is about 880,000 (29 big blinds). The remaining players are all guaranteed at least $1,670, and the next pay jump is $1,800 for 81st place.

A scan of the field during the dinner break turned up five players with at least two million in chips, creating an unofficial leaderboard:

1.  Ross Johnson  –  2,455,000  (82 bb)
2.  Willy Stadele  –  2,355,000  (79 bb)
3.  Brandon Noe  –  2,110,000  (70 bb)
4.  Michael Schwartz  –  2,075,000  (69 bb)
5.  Curtis King  –  2,015,000  (67 bb)

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
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Level 23:  15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  85 of 3,730

Here are the payouts for the players who have recently been eliminated:

86th:  Kevin Blewitt  –  $1,670
87th:  Scott Baumstein  –  $1,670
88th:  Kevin Brammer  –  $1,670
89th:  Gregory Abell  –  $1,670
90th:  Frederico Dabus  –  $1,670

91st:  Ernest Brun  –  $1,550
92nd:  Victor Haynes  –  $1,550
93rd:  David Poces  –  $1,550
94th:  Peter Horenstein  –  $1,550
95th:  Rafael Fernandes Junio  –  $1,550
96th:  Alfredo Vaz Reed  –  $1,550
97th:  Sam Sadov  –  $1,550
98th:  Francois Zayas  –  $1,550
99th:  Richard Leger  –  $1,550

100th:  Ramon Chavez  –  $1,440
101st:  Raymond Millard  –  $1,440
102nd:  Terricita Milgrom  –  $1,440
103rd:  Brandon Navarrete  –  $1,440
104th:  Michael Wilklow  –  $1,440
105th:  Jacob Ristich  –  $1,440
106th:  Irog Tretyakov  –  $1,440
107th:  Harjinder Chawla  –  $1,440
108th:  Sandip Guha  –  $1,440

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
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Level 23:  15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  86 of 3,730

A player raised from middle position to 60,000, 2018 WPT DeepStacks Lucky Hearts Poker Open Champion Scott Baumstein moved all in from middle position for 255,000, and his opponent called with .

Baumstein turned over , and needed his hand to hold to stay alive.

The board came , and the pocket queens held up for Baumstein to win the pot and double up in chips.

Scott Baumstein  –  575,000  (23 bb)

Unfortunately, a short while later in the last hand before the dinner break, Baumstein was eliminated in 87th place.

Scott Baumstein  –  Eliminated in 87th Place  ($1,670)

With 86 players remaining from a field of 3,730, the average chip stack is about 865,000 (35 big blinds). The remaining players are all guaranteed at least $1,670, and the next pay jump is $1,800 for 81st place.

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
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Level 23:  15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante
Players Remaining:  102 of 3,730

Brandon Navarrete was all in from the hijack for about 250,000 with , and he needed to improve to stay alive against the of Ron Givens in the cutoff.

The board came — both players made straights, but Givens won the pot with his higher queen-high straight to eliminate Navarrete in 103rd place.

Ron Givens  –  785,000  (31 bb)
Brandon Navarrete  –  Eliminated in 103rd Place  ($1,440)

With 102 players remaining from a field of 3,730, the average chip stack is about 730,000 (29 big blinds). The remaining players are all guaranteed at least $1,440, and the next pay jump is $1,550 for 99th place.

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
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Level 22:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  108 of 3,730

Allan Maloney raised from the cutoff to 45,000, Omar Sader moved all in from the button for 165,000, and Maloney double-checked the amount before he called with .

Sader turned over , and needed his hand to hold to stay alive.

The board came — Maloney turned a spade flush draw with an open-ended straight draw, but missed all of his outs. Sader won the pot with two pair, kings and jacks, to double up in chips.

Omar Sader  –  380,000  (19 bb)
Allan Maloney  –  2,200,000  (110 bb)

With 108 players remaining from a field of 3,730, the average chip stack is about 690,000 (35 big blinds). The remaining players are all guaranteed at least $1,440, and the next pay jump is $1,550 for 99th place.

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
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Level 22:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  108 of 3,730

Here are the payouts for the players who have recently been eliminated:

109th:  Michael Casson  –  $1,340
110th:  Michael Goldfarb  –  $1,340
111th:  Lunique Petiote  –  $1,340
112th:  Keith Johnson  –  $1,340
113th:  Luis Barredo  –  $1,340
114th:  Christopher Funari  –  $1,340
115th:  Christopher Perry  –  $1,340
116th:  Federico Herrera  –  $1,340
117th:  Steven Cohen  –  $1,340

118th:  Christopher Nelson  –  $1,250
119th:  Marco Amaral  –  $1,250
120th:  Brian Moody  –  $1,250
121st:  Jorge Gomez  –  $1,250
122nd:  Christopher Laieta  –  $1,250
123rd:  Sergio Giha  –  $1,250
124th:  James Sebastian  –  $1,250
125th:  Brandon Berkenfeld  –  $1,250
126th:  Justin Zagar  –  $1,250

127th:  Hayden Liotta  –  $1,170
128th:  Alain Candales Falcon  –  $1,170
129th:  Danny Chang  –  $1,170
130th:  Michael Johnally  –  $1,170
131st:  Brandon Schaefer  –  $1,170
132nd:  Selma Sayin  –  $1,170
133rd:  Devond Marshall  –  $1,170
134th:  Mauricio Ameller  –  $1,170
135th:  Brandon Miller  –  $1,170

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
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Level 22:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  121 of 3,730

Christopher Laieta was all in from the hijack for about 300,000 with , and he needed to improve to stay alive against the of Jimmy Corrales on the button.

The board came , and Corrales flopped a full house, nines full of fours, to win the pot and eliminate Laieta in 122nd place.

Jimmy Corrales  –  810,000  (41 bb)
Christopher Laieta  –  Eliminated in 122nd Place  ($1,250)

With 121 players remaining from a field of 3,730, the average chip stack is about 615,000 (31 big blinds). The remaining players are all guaranteed at least $1,250, and the next pay jump is $1,340 for 117th place.

$400 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em
$500,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 22:  10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante
Players Remaining:  135 of 3,730

Here are the payouts for the players who have recently been eliminated:

136th:  Sergio Alvez Sandoval  –  $1,100
137th:  Borja Iglesias Jato  –  $1,100
138th:  Billy Michel  –  $1,100
139th:  Maheshwar Manthani  –  $1,100
140th:  Christian Rodriguez  –  $1,100
141st:  Gary Phillips  –  $1,100
142nd:  Shamica Lamar  –  $1,100
143rd:  David Castranova  –  $1,100
144th:  Ira Schwartz  –  $1,100

145th:  Perry Shiao  –  $1,035
146th:  Robert Tannenbaum  –  $1,035
147th:  Brian Kinder  –  $1,035
148th:  Brandon Maner  –  $1,035
149th:  Jorge Soto  –  $1,035
150th:  Domenico Langone  –  $1,035
151st:  Shivon Yeoman  –  $1,035
152nd:  William Pappas  –  $1,035
153rd:  Philip Whitaker  –  $1,035