Event #33: 8-Handed No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack

After a grueling 14 hours of play, Day 1 of Event #33: $800 Eight-Handed NLHE Deepstack has come to an end with 159 players still remaining. Todd Ivens finished the day among the leaders, bagging a whopping stack of 2,030,000 from a starting stack of just 40,000.

Ivens has multiple World Series of Poker cashes to his name, including two final tables back in 2018. The Illinois native is still looking for that elusive WSOP gold bracelet and he's hoping to do that in the coming days. Ivens finished third in chips, behind Alex Miles who bagged 2,700,000, and Tony Nguyen who will return with 2,185,000 chips.

Miles emerged as the chip leader in the last few hands of the night, scoring a massive double-up. Miles was already sitting on a healthy stack of over 1 million chips when he found himself involved in a pot with the chip leader. Miles flopped a set of eights against his opponent's top pair. Miles also had to dodge a flush draw on the turn when the two players got all of their chips in the middle. A brick on the river would result in Miles bagging the Day 1 chip lead.

Some other notables moving on to Day 2 include Mukul Pahuja (1,605,000), Ian Steinman (1,320,000), Haven Werner (955,000), Matt Affleck (840,000), and Ryan Laplante (650,000).

A total of 2,778 entries were recorded, exceeding the numbers put up in this same event two years ago. Many familiar faces took advantage of the 12 levels of late registration but still fell by the wayside throughout the day. The money bubble finally burst just before the last break of the night when Victor Paredes won a flip with his pocket jacks against his opponent's ace-queen. Unfortunately for Paredes, he was unable to advance to Day 2.

Just 417 players made it to the money with a min-cash being worth $1,282. The bustouts were fast and furious once the bubble burst with players like Gal Yifrach, Jesse Sylvia, Joao Vieira, Koray Aldemir, and Joao Simao all hitting the payout desk on their way out.

Day 2 will get underway at 12 p.m. local time inside the Amazon Room where the remaining 159 players will look to reach the final table. Play will continue until just five players remain, and a bracelet winner will be decided on Day 3 of the tournament.

The PokerNews live reporting team will have all of the updates throughout the tournament so keep it locked here to see who will become a WSOP champion.

There was a raise to 65,000 from the cutoff and Ismael Bojang pushed his last 165,000 into the middle from the big blind. His opponent snap-called and showed   . Bojang was ahead with    and held on for a double up.

At the table next door, Pete Chen and Robert Kuhn were heads-up in a pot with the flop reading    . Pete Chen bet 50,000 on the button and Kuhn check-raised all in. Chen quickly called off his stack of 180,000 and the cards were tabled.

Kuhn had    but it was no match for the    of Chen. The   on the turn sealed the deal for Chen who earned himself a double up as well.

Robert Kuhn	1,300,000	0
Pete Chen	520,000	480,000
Ismael Bojang	375,000	187,000

Michael Dyer shoved all-in for about 200,000 and Darius Narmontas called, slightly covering him.

Michael Dyer:   
Darius Narmontas:   

The board ran out       and Narmontas won with two pair, aces and sevens.

Darius Narmontas	420,000	420,000
Michael Dyer	0	0

There was a raise to 40,000 from under the gun and two players called before the action was on Adrian Wise in the big blind. Wise made it 200,000 to go and the initial raiser pushed all in for 480,000. The rest of the table folded and Wise snap-called.

Opponent:   
Adrian Wise:   

The flop of     gave Wise a small sweat but the   on the turn and the   on the river secured the pot for Wise. After the hand, his tablemates discussed whether he got the same aces back-to-back after just having them in the previous hand as well.

Mario De Souza Jr, Nikolay Yosifov and Robert Kuhn are among the top chip stacks left in the tournament.

Robert Kuhn	1,300,000	570,000
Mario De Souza Jr	1,000,000	1,000,000
Nikolay Yosifov	995,000	995,000

The players are going on their last 20-minute break of the night.

There was an all-in for 35,000 in early position and the action folded around to Kenny Hallaert in the small blind. Hallaert just called the 12,000, not realizing there was an all-in before him. Once clarified, Hallaert called the 35,000 and the big blind folded.

Hallaert showed    and was up against the    of his opponent. The flop came     and Hallaert fell behind to the two pair. The   on the turn changed nothing but the   on the river gave Hallaert a set of tens to score the knockout.

Kenny Hallaert

165,000

-25,500