$1,700 Deepest Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 14: 1,500/2,500 with a 2,500 ante Day 1A Players Remaining: 16 of 53
Farid Jattin
After a big hand late in the night when he sent two players out, reigning SHRPO champ Farid Jattin is the early leader heading to Day 2 with 379,000. He followed by Min Zhang with 361,000 and Cameron Strorto with 321,000.
We will post the complete chip count list as soon as it is available.
$1,700 Deepest Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 14: 1,500/2,500 with a 2,500 ante Day 1A Players Remaining: 18 of 51
We are just about out of time in the first flight of the $1,700 Deepest Stack with 51 entries and bags coming out at the end of Level 14. We have locked in another ten entries from the satellite and a huge Saturday flight expected.
$1,700 Deepest Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 12: 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante Day 1A Players Remaining: 20 of 48
Rafael Oropesa (left) and Cameron Storto (right)
Action is back underway in Flight A with 18 players remaining and three levels left before they bag chips for the night. Two new big stacks are in the game with leader Cameron Storto and second-place Rafael Oropesa sitting right next to each other.
Min Zhang, Farit Jattin, and Scott Zakheim make up the rest of the top five and we’ll see if anyone can catch them in the next two hours.
Cameron Storto – 351,000 (176 bb) Rafael Oropesa – 268,000 (134 bb) Min Zhang – 213,000 (107 bb) Farid Jattin – 172,000 (86 bb) Scott Zakheim – 164,000 (82 bb)
$1,700 Deepest Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 11: 1,000/1,500 with a 1,500 ante Day 1A Players Remaining: 19 of 47
Players will soon be taking their last break of the day followed by the last three levels before survivors bag their chips.
We have 47 entries in the flight with 19 players remaining and a satellite now with eight seats up for grabs (and late reg till 8:15 pm).
$1,700 Deepest Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 10: 500/1,500 with a 1,500 ante Day 1A Players Remaining: 23 of 47
Nadya Magnus
We had several players jump into the game either right before or during dinner, growing the prize pool with a huge weekend coming up and the already massive satellite going on now.
Registration for the $200 satellite is open until 8:15 pm and already has six seats up for grabs.
Nadya Magnus, Josh Cranfill, and Andrew Kaplan plus we have a few jump in after not having a successful run with a previous stack.
$1,700 Deepest Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 9: 500/1,000 with a 1,000 ante Day 1A Players Remaining: 28 of 45
Dante Cianfarra
The dinner break ended and cards are back in the air for the first flight of the $1,700 Deepest Stack. Dante Cianfarra was a little late going to dinner because he was in a late hand with Scott Levitt, but it’s ok because he went away with a pretty big chip lead.
He holds 309,500 with Paul Domb a distant second with 161,000. Here’s a look a few chip counts during dinner.
$1,700 Deepest Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) $300,000 Guaranteed | Structure Level 7: 300/600 with a 600 ante Day 1A Entries: 39
Min Zhang
Players returned to their seats and everyone is chasing a familiar big stack. Min Zhang owns three major Hollywood trophies, showed up at another half dozen final tables, and finished runner-up in the Poker Showdown $25K High Roller a few weeks ago.
Now she’s leading the $1,700 Deepest Stack with 159,500 and not many near her at the moment. Paul Domb (118,300) and Noah Schwartz (117,500) are the closest but it’s a long day.
Players will work through two more levels before enjoying a 40-minute dinner break.
The “main event” of the Deep Stack Poker Series is here with Flight A of the $1,700 Deepest Stack tournament getting underway at 11 am. The tournament has a $300,000 guarantee prize pool and three starting flights plus a slow, deep structure.
Players start with huge 50K stacks and all Day 1 levels last 40 minutes, increasing to 60 at the start of Day 2 and 90 minutes in Level 23. Late registration and unlimited re-entries are available until the start of Day 2 on Sunday at 11 am.
Flight A will play through 14 levels and survivors will bag their chips for a return on Sunday.
$300,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool
Players begin with 50,000 in chips
Levels 1-14 last 40 minutes; Level 15-22 last 60 minutes