Event 6 Day 1B: More Friendly Faces

$1,700 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 8:  400/800 with a 800 ante
Day 1B Entries:  94

Jose Reyes (left) and Caleb Piderit (right)

Players moved into the eighth level of the day and they will take a 40-minute dinner break when it comes to an end. The count is nearing 100 for Flight B and it will continue to creep up towards the guarantee.

A few more familiar faces in the crowd include Jose Reyes, Caleb Piderit, Doug Decker, Al Norman, Albert Barney, Evan Teitelbaum, and Paul Domb.

Doug Decker

Event 6 Day 1B: Wagner Wysotchanski Leads After Break

$1,700 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 7:  300/600 with a 600 ante
Day 1B Entries:  88

Wagner Wysotchanski

Players returned to their seats after the second break and they will go through two more levels before getting a 40-minute dinner break.

Wagner Wysotchanski is the new chip lead and sits up top with 218,500. He was followed by Ducarmel Beaubien in second with 170,000 and Carlos Rodriguez with 161,400 and Michael Johnson was still up there with 134,500.

Carlos Rodriguez
Ducarmel Beaubien

Event 6 Day 1B: Familiar Faces

$1,700 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 6:  300/500 with a 500 ante
Day 1B Entries:  80

Nashaat Antonious (left) and Julio Fernandez (right)

The entry count clicked up to 80 heading into Level 6 to put $243,000 towards the $300,000 guarantee, a number that will be hit before we close registration on Sunday at noon.

Some familiar faces are back with us including Nashaat Antonious, Julio Fernandez, Wagner Wysotchanski, Shawn Mohamed, Nancy Birnbaum, and Solange Lucas.

Wagner Wysotchanski

Event 6 Day 1B: Carlos Bermudez Returns

$1,700 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 5:  200/400 with a 400 ante
Day 1B Entries:  75

Carlos Bermudez

This is the third of three multi-flight events on the May Deep Stack Poker Series schedule. The second ran during the week with a $600 Deeper Stack that drew a nice crowd and Carlos Bermudez took home the title after a late-night six-way deal on Wednesday. He earned $29,648 and he’s back today looking for more.

Bermudez is having a nice run today so far, over 90K in the fifth level of the day.

Event 6 Day 1B: Michael Johnson Leads

$1,700 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 4:  200/300 with a 300 ante
Day 1B Entries:  69

Michael Johnson

Cards are back in the air after the first break of the day with 69 entries in Flight B. We have 151 combined across the two starting flights so far and staring down the $300,000 guarantee.

Michael Johnson is the early front-runner with 106.000 and trying to make another deep run. He made the final table of Event 3, held the chip lead for a good amount of time, and took third place in a six-way deal for a $26,604 payday.

Event 6 Day 1B: Teasing the Guarantee

$1,700 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 1:  100/100

Flight B of May Deep Stack Poker Series Event 6 gets underway at 10 am and the $1,700 Deepest Stack tournament will be aiming for its $300,000 guarantee later today. After a great turnout for Flight A, the tournament is only 118 entries away from crossing the mark.

Players start with 50,000 out front and all Day 1 levels last 40 minutes, going up to 60 minutes on Day 2 and increasing to 90 starting with Level 23. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Day 2 on Sunday at noon.

We expect a great weekend to close out the series.

  • $300,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
  • Players begin with 50,000 in chips
  • Levels 1-14 last 40 minutes; Levels 15-22 last 60 minutes; Levels 23+ last 90 minutes
  • Late registration until start of Day 2
  • Day 1 will end after Level 14
  • Event 6 Structure Sheet

Event 6: Chip Counts Through Flight A

$1,700 Deepest Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Return to Level 15:  2,000/4,000 with a 4,000 ante
Players Remaining:  22 of 82

Flight A: 82 Entries; 22 Advanced
Flight B:  Friday at 10 am
Flight C:  Saturday at 10 am
Day 2:  Sunday at noon

RanksFirst NameLast NameChip Count
1DannyFried496,000
2HowardMash407,000
3JasonRocha306,000
4JosephRossi296,000
5MichaelWadlow277,000
6RaffaelloLocatelli220,000
7NikunjPatel203,000
8ZacharyEisenbaum201,000
9FrankRusso200,000
10UriKadosh200,000
11PasqualeCaiazza159,000
12MartinBorras158,000
13VictorFigueroa146,000
14LarryKlur136,000
15JohnFischer134,000
16CesarFuentes107,000
17HassanEl Hakim104,000
18ChadLipton92,000
19JeffTomlinson84,000
20CharlemagneBenjamin75,000
21JamesCalderaro57,000
22NickYunis55,000