$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event $500,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts Level 26: 20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante Players Remaining: 17 of 659
Dinner got these players ready to play and chips moved across the table at a break-neck pace during the last level. Now in Level 26, just 17 players remain and they’re down into the final two tables.
Here’s a look at the bustouts since dinner:
18th: Mark Picarazzi – $6,490 19th: Mitchell King – $5,319 20th: Woodrow Pass – $5,319 21st: David Hunt – $5,319 22nd: Eric Fetter – $4,492 23rd: Adam Fauser – $4,492
$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event $500,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts Level 25: 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante Players Remaining: 20 of 659
Jeff Trudeau opened the action with a raise to 65,000. Fabian Foster called from the button and Blaise Ingoglia and David Hunt followed suit from the big blind. They were four-handed.
Flop: – Ingoglia checked and Hunt promptly shoved for 305,000 total. Trudeau folded and it was on Foster. Foster, who had both Hunt and Ingoglia covered, thought for a minute or two before he shoved. Ingoglia snapped off.
Ingoglia: for bottom set Hunt: for top pair, queen kicker Foster: for top pair, 10 kicker
Foster smacked the table in frustration. Ingoglia had way the best of it heading to the final two streets.
Turn and river:
Ingolgia’s set held and he scooped a monster while Hunt was eliminated in 21st place
Blaise Ingoglia – 2,385,000 Fabian Foster – 675,000 David Hunt – Eliminated in 21st place ($5,319)
$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event $500,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts Level 25: 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante Players Remaining: 23 of 659
The 60-minute recess has expired and cards are back in the air in the WPTDeepStacks Main Event event. Here’s a look at how the players stack up courtesy of our friends at WPT.
$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event $500,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts Heading to Level 25: 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante Players Remaining: 23 of 659
Level 24 expired and it’s dinner time in the WPTDeepStacks Main Event. Play resumes at roughly 7:40pm to blinds of 15,000/30,000 with a 30,000 ante. It will be Fabian Foster that returns from break with the chip lead.
Here’s a look at the eliminations since the three-table redraw.
24th: Kyle Simpkins – $4,492 25th: Rodney Turvin – $3,798 26th: Robert Schmal – $3,798 27th: Plamen Stoyanov – $3,798
$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event $500,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts Level 24: 15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante Players Remaining: 23 of 659
Kyle Simpkins raised to 50,000 from early position and it folded all the way around to Mark Picarazzi in the small blind. He shoved having Mark Scacewater in the big blind and Simpkins both easily covered. Scacewater made an excruciating fold in the big blind while Simpkins called off just over 400,000.
Picarazzi: Simpkins:
The board ran out no help to Simpkins and he was eliminated in 24th place.
Mark Picarazzi – 1,100,000 Kyle Simpkins – Eliminated in 24th place ($4,492)
$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event $500,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts Level 24: 15,000/25,000 with a 25,000 ante Players Remaining: 27 of 659
Following the elimination of previous chip leader Ken O’Donnell in 28th place, the WPTDeepStacks Tampa Main Event is down to the final 27 and combined to the final three tables. Each still in is assured $3,798 with the tournament champion pocketing $120,842.
Sunday’s play will continue until the nine-handed final table is reached.
$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event $500,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts Level 23: 10,000/20,000 with a 20,000 ante Players Remaining: 29 of 659
With the field trimming around him, Johann Castrillon has stayed steady and found his way to a huge stack. After starting the day with only 48,000 chips — 116th of the 119 Day 2 started — Castrillon sits on 1,315,000 chips and possesses one of the biggest stacks in the room.
Only 29 players are left in contention and they’re set to redraw to the final three tables after they lose two more.
$1,100 WPTDeepStacks Main Event $500,000 Guarantee | Structure | Payouts Level 22: 10,000/15,000 with a 15,000 ante Players Remaining: 38 of 659
Side-by-side at Table 13, Wally Maddah and Tony March followed eachother to the rail. March went first, busting 40th, while Maddah followed going 39th.
Wally Maddah – Eliminated in 39th place ($2,736) Tony March – Eliminated in 40th place ($2,736)