Rulah Divine Bags Top Stack on Day 1b of $1,000 Double Stack No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1b of Event #34: $1,000 Double Stack No-Limit Hold'em is in the books. The new event for the 2018 World Series of Poker is a smashing hit, with the second flight attracting a field of 3,314 entries to create a bumper field of 5,700 entries. 1,280 of them are left standing after both starting days. With the both flights combined, a mouth-watering prize pool of $5,130,000 has been created. The last player standing will parlay his initial $1,000 investment into a life-altering $644,224 first place prize, along with a coveted WSOP gold bracelet. Once the bubble bursts on Day 2, 855 players will be secured of a min-cash of $1,500.
Bracelet winner Rulah Divine bagged one of the top stacks from today's flight with a stack of 145,100. Divine finished first last year in Event #63: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em. He will be looking to add another bracelet to his collection. Day 1b chipleader is Mike Tayakama of the Philippines with 177,400 in chips. Takayama is an experienced player who already boasts over $600,000 in lifetime winnings and made his first six-figure cash just two months ago.
Following Takayama are Eimantas Adomavicius with 168,500 and WSOP Circuit Ring winner Vinny Pahuja with 167,100 in chips. Other notables through to Day 2 include bracelet winners Loni Harwood (23,000), Chris Moorman (67,200),Niall Farrell (58,000), Bertrand Grospellier (20,700), Chris Ferguson (12,200), along with Giuseppe Pantaleo (131,600), Anatoly Filatov (9,500), Harry Lodge (6,500), Manig Loeser (28,700) and Ari Engel (38,800). They will be joined tomorrow by some other big name survivors from the first flight of this event.
Notables who took a shot at glory but could not find it in this event include bracelet winner Heidi May, 2015 WSOP November Niner Federico Butteroni, Dan O'Brien, Joao Vieira and Walter Treccarichi.
All 1,285 remaining players will come back on Monday, June 18, at 12 p.m. local time in level 11 and blinds of 500/1,100 with a 100 ante. Follow along with PokerNews as we bring start-to-finish coverage of all the bracelet events at the 2018 World Series of Poker.
and Deadman continued for 1,200 in position. Only Deutsch came along and on they went to the turn. It was a 
and once again Deutsch checked. This time Deadman made it 3,300 to go further and Deutsch made the call.
on the river and following another check, Deadman moved all in for 12,500, which was snap-called by Deutsch, who turned over 
. The two pair was good and the pot put him up to 30,500. Deadman was left with just 1,150.
, leaving Deadman's 
drawing dead.
in the big blind versus an open and one call.
flop gave him top pair and he check-called a bet from the initial raiser. The turn brought a 
and Akenhead check-called once more. The river was a brick and, after a third check from Akenhead, his opponent didn't fire for a third time and mucked on seeing the pair of queens.
versus an open and two calls. The board came 
and every street had been checked by the four players. When play reached the showdown, Deadman showed his low straight and it was good to take the pot. He has chipped up to 16,750.