Event 12 Day 1B Ends with 36 Players

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 15: 1,500/3,000/500 Ante

Allen Kessler
Allen Kessler is among the Day 1B Survivors with 117,000

Day 1B has come to a close in the WPT DeepStacks event at the Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open, and 36 players have advanced to join the 23 survivors from Day 1A. They will all return for Day 2 on Saturday at noon ET.

The overall field size was set today at 396 players. The top 36 will make the money ($2,497) and the winner will take home $103,709 tomorrow.

The chip leader at the end of play is Stephen Diamantas with 477,000. The only other player to bag up more than 400k is Carlos Loving with 421,000. Here is a look at the other top stacks in the field.

Jorge Rivera – 394,000
Lawrence White – 292,500
Raymond Ruszkowski – 274,500
Alfonso Perez – 269,500
Claudio Piedrabuena – 268,000
Pierrot Massenat – 251,000
Adam Rouse – 248,000
Ory Hen – 238,000
Farzad Raji – 157,500
Abbey Daniels – 150,500
Jacob Bazely – 146,000
Peter Chin – 129,000
Steve Karp – 120,000
Mark Dugay – 117,500
Allen Kessler – 117,000
Stuart Greenbaum – 111,000

Some notables lost along the way today were Matt Waxman, Aaron Massey, Angel Vu, Mike Beasley, Michael Laake, Natasha Barbour, Darryll Fish, and Danny Suied. Familiar faces that are still in the hunt include Justin Zaki (44,000), Han Winzeler (52,500), John Dolan (97,500), and Dani Dayan (94,000).

Tune back in tomorrow to follow the action from the final day of this event starting at noon.