Main Event: Jeff Trudeau Headlines Final Nine in WPTDeepStacks Main Event

$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event
$500,000 Guarantee
| Structure | Payouts
Level 29: 40,000/80,000 with a 80,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9 of 659

Chip leader Jeff Trudea, Jr.

A starting field of 659 entries is narrowed to the final nine in the WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event.

Leading the last playing session is a Tampa regular and Florida standout, Jeff Trudeau. Trudeau holds 4,650,000 chips and is adding to a poker resume that already boasts more than $1,400,000 in earnings and 18 tournament wins.

Rounding out the final table big stacks are Dan Chalifour in second with 3,555,000 an Saj Illikal in third with 2,530,000.

When play resumes, 28:25 remains in Level 29

Seat 1. Peter Walsworth – 655,000
Seat 2. Jeff Trudeau – 4,650,000
Seat 3. Wendy Vo – 715,000
Seat 4. Fabian Foster – 1,950,000
Seat 5. Mark Scacewater – 1,000,000
Seat 6. Saj Illikal – 3,530,000
Seat 7. Ryan Anderkin – 1,520,000
Seat 8. Alex Kimpel – 975,000
Seat 9. Dan Chalifour – 4,755,000

Each of the nine players has locked up a payday worth $11,783, but it’s a top prize of $120,842 that they all eye.

1st – $120,842*
2nd – $82,627
3rd – $53,259
4th – $38,765
5th – $29,712
6th – $23,776
7th – $19,704
8th – $15,689
9th – $11,783

*First prize inclusive of $3,000 WPTDeepStacks Championship package

Play is slated to restart Monday at 12-noon in the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa poker room and tournament updates will resume at that time. In the meantime, up-to-date results are available in the posts below.