Here are some more photos of our Day 2 players in this evening’s WPTDeepStacks tournament.
With less than $25,000 chips and the blinds at 1,500 / 2,500, Michael Trickey felt now was the time to shove to try to get his tournament back on track, building up a bank to last the rest of the day. Unfortunately for him, he ran into Jules D’mello’s quads.
Trickey: 
D’mello: 
Board: 
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The WPT Ladies event 5 has now started here at Playground Poker Club. This one day NL Hold’em event is reserved for women only and began at 4pm. Play begins 9-handed, but will move to 8-handed as quickly as possible.
This is a single entry event with one entry and one re-entry allowed. Late registration will continue until the begin of level 9. Each level is 25 minutes in length with 15 minute breaks occurring after every fourth level. Players began the day with 30,000. 82 players are currently registered and the guaranteed prize pool of $15,000 has already been surpassed.
Kristen Bicknell is currently chip leading the High Roller Event after 10 levels of play, having accumulated a stack north of 200,000. Registration is still open for another 2 levels of play plus the dinner break, with 81 entries recorded and a $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool.
Here are the top 5 counts as play enters level 11:
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|
| Kristen | Bicknell | 221,500 |
| Pegman | Meleknia | 166,500 |
| Erik | Lemarquand | 131,600 |
| Edward | Lin | 131,400 |
| Tommy | Nguyen | 129,100 |
As our first level of the day comes to a close, there are now 225 players left at the tables, down 25 players from where we started just an hour ago. Here are some photos of remaining our Day 2 WPTDeepStacks competitors, getting ready for a big day.
We had not even finished our initial tour of the tables, taking some photos of our Day 2 participants, when we heard the “all in” from table 17.
The player who made the preflop shove was Maximillian Droege, who started Day 2 with only seven big blinds. He found a caller in Krasimir Zhekov, who also shoved with a larger stack, a warning to anyone else at the table that he wanted to be the only other player in this hand. The table obliged him, and the two flipped their hole cards.
Maximillian: 
Krasimir: 
The flop came down a 
, and Krasimir’s pocket jacks held up. He was now 15,000 chips richer to start the day, and the rest of the table got ready to play some poker.
