$1,100 Seminole Lucky Hearts WPT DeepStacks Main Event
Level 16: 1,500/3,000/500 Ante
Players Remaining: 346
Average Stack: 121,500 (41 bb)
Yesterday was a big one as the last flight of the Main Event drew a big crowd to the $1,000,000 Guarantee tournament. Saturday saw 718 entrants get in the game to push the total count to 1,684 for the showcase event.
They created a prize pool to easily surpass the guarantee and put $1,633,480 out there for grabs. After 15 levels, there were 346 players still around to put chips in a bag and they are getting ready to kick off Day 2.
Kelly Minkin is the only final table member still around from last year’s Championship final table. Not only is she still in the game, she’s sporting a top 20 stack. Some other big stack names include John Dolan, Matt Affleck, Ryan D’Angelo, Ory Hen, and Sean Shah.
Viktor Lavi leads the way with 353,500 but there are plenty of people capable of tracking him down with Edward Mallon only one big blind behind.
The first step is getting the field into the money, sometime between the first and second breaks, then play down to the final table. It will be a long day but they’ll be happy to get that far. The top three players will all earn more than $100,000 with the winner set to take home $344,420.
Players are taking their seats and unbagging their chips before we get underway. Nine people in the room will book their seat to the WPT DeepStacks live-streamed final table tomorrow afternoon.