Event #11: $600 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack Begins at 10 AM
The 2023 World Series of Poker at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas continues today at 10 a.m. PDT. with Event #11: $600 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack. Players will begin with 300 big blinds, hence the deepstack moniker.
The 2022 version of this event attracted an unbelievable 5,720 entrants to create a $2,914,650 prize pool. Emerging as the winner was former American tennis professional turned poker pro Raj Vohra. Vohra won $335,286 and his first career gold bracelet for the victory.
In 2022, 289 players of the 5,720 bagged their chips for Day 2 restart and were all guaranteed a payout of$1,853. If the beginning of the 2023 World Series of Poker is any indication, this field could reach 7,000 runners or more.
What to Expect
The players will start off with a massive stack equal to 300 big blinds, (30,000 chips) with 22 thirty-minute levels scheduled for Day 1 and 20-minute breaks slotted in after every four levels. The players will be given a 75-minute dinner break at the end of Level 16 ( approx. 7 p.m.).
The event limits players to a single reentry, with late registration open until the start of Level 13 (through the break after Level 12).
The remaining players will come back at 10 a.m. on Monday, June 5th, and play down to a winner. Each level will remain at 30 minutes but this time the players will only have 15-minute breaks every four levels, with an hour-long dinner break at Level 34.
The action kicks off at 10 a.m. local time in the Paris Ballroom and the PokerNews live reporting team will have all the action from this and every bracelet event from the WSOP��s home at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.