Event #42: $600 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em / Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack Final Table Begins at 12 Noon
Event #42: $600 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em / Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack returns to award its bracelet today, as eight survivors from a total field of 2,403 reconvene under the impressive stage lighting of the Amazon feature table to play alternate rounds of PLO and NLHE until only one of them remains.
That winner, who will take home $194,759, will be one of these players:
| Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel Moravec | United States | 2,950,000 |
| 2 | Stephen Ma | United States | 6,325,000 |
| 3 | Adam Lamphere | United States | 17,200,000 |
| 4 | Ashish Ahuja | India | 6,975,000 |
| 5 | Dan Matsuzuki | United States | 14,000,000 |
| 6 | Rainer Kempe | Germany | 8,000,000 |
| 7 | Aristeidis Moschonas | Greece | 7,325,000 |
| 8 | Raghav Bansal | India | 9,300,000 |
For a $600 buy-in event, the competition, especially as Day 2 whittled an in-the-money field to a final table, was fierce, with experience at the highest levels in both poker disciplines on display throughout. There is, however, only one prior bracelet winner still in the running and that is second-in chips Dan Matsuzuki, who took down the 2018 $10,000 Seven-Card Stud Championship.
Gunning for his first bracelet is hugely successful No Limit Hold’em High Roller specialist Rainer Kempe, who has overcome the toughest fields in tournament poker for years but has yet to win WSOP gold. In the chip lead is Adam Lamphere, who has a number of WSOP cashes under his belt and a comfortable buffer of chips, with nearly double the stack of anyone except Matsuzuki.
Fellow finalists Aristeides Moschonas and Raghav Bansal both took the chip lead during Day 2 without ultimately retaining it, the latter being one of two finalists from India where - as it was being discussed with two tables left - Pot Limit Omaha is especially popular.
Prizes to be awarded:
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | $194,759 |
| 2 | $120,374 |
| 3 | $88,410 |
| 4 | $65,482 |
| 5 | $48,914 |
| 6 | $36,852 |
| 7 | $28,006 |
| 8 | $21,469 |
The players assemble at 12 noon; live reporting begins when cards return to air, with the live stream scheduled for 1pm on CBS All Access. You can rely on PokerNews to scoop all the action throughout.
saw Kempe check-raise all in for a couple of hundred thousand more than Moravec's 4,500,000 bet, an offer he couldn't refuse.
turn, the river 
bringing a useless broadway straight for Moravec, whose stack drops into the danger zone of four big blinds.
and Moravec checked. Matsuzuki bet enough to put Moravec all in for his last remaining crumbs and the latter called it off for 1,330,000 total.
turn to go with his non-club gutshot. The 
river, however, was neither of those outs and he became the first to depart from today's final table.
. Lamphere led out for 3,600,000 (a pot-sized bet). Bansal leaned back in his chair, rechecked his hand, contemplated his middle-of-the-pack stack and then moved all in for 5,900,000 total. Lamphere snapped him off with 
; Bansal tabled 
. The 
river, and Bansal scored a double up good for current second in chips.
brought a life-saving jack for Ma, the turned 
a flush-draw sweat for Matsuzuki, and the river 
a double for the super-short stack after his loss to Ahuja.
flop followed by a 
was not one of them and Lamphere has departed long before anyone might have expected him to.
flop. The 
was a blank and Ahuja was gone in fifth place.
