Day 2 of the WPTDeepStacks event is now down to the final three tables. Here is the seating draw of the remaining 22 competitors battling it out for a share of the $998,130 in prize money.

Play is really tight at the WPTDeepStacks Day 2. As the final table, and the big prizes loom closer and closer, the players are being extremely cautious.

At table 24, Samuel Gagnon, from early position, raised preflop to 40,000.  Rodney Lawrence called.  When the flop came down , Samuel bet 30,000. Rodney called.

The dealer put out the turn – both players checked.

But when the river was revealed by the dealer, , Rodney bet 100,000. This gave Samuel pause for thought. After some reflection he pushed his cards back to the dealer and Rodney took the pot.

Players in the WPTDeepStacks event have returned from their 45 minute long dinner break and play has now resumed in level 23. There are just 34 players remaining in the tournament, meaning that the min-cash for remaining players is up to $4,815, and play is set to continue all the way until 9 players remain.

We surveyed the stacks during the break and found that there are now a few players that have built up stacks of over 1M in chips – these current leaders are listed in the table below.

The field of 37 players at the WCC Event #17 WPTDeepStacks Day 2 are now enjoying a much deserved dinner break. They’ve been competing for six hours, grinding it out for a share of the $998,130 in the prize pool.

Currently the average stack is 556,216 chips.

Here are a few pics of some of the players who remain in the hunt.

Due the the long period of hand-for-hand play, the tournament director adjusted the break schedule so that the dinner break tonight would not be put off too long – so they players took a 15 minute break following level 20 (not level 21) and will take their dinner break following level 22.

During this recent break we surveyed the remaining tables for chip leaders and found the following players all over 600K in chips.

The current leader at this point is Michael Khan, who now playing over 880K in chips.

Alexander Allison has just doubled through Karim-Olivier Kamal to bring his stack up over the 425K mark.

Michael Khan opened the action with a utg raise to 24K and found a call from Karim-Olivier in the cutoff. Alexander, on the button, raise all in for what we eventually found out to be 204K. Michael folded but Karim-Olivier made the call.

Alexander:
Karim-Olivier:

An Ace came on the flop and neither the or on the turn or river could bring Karim-Olivier from behind and Alex made a bit more than a full double-up.

Table 22 is the table where the player who went out on the bubble had been seated, but in addition to the small stack that she had been playing, there are also seated two of the top 4 stacks in the tournament at this time.

Matthew Wilkins is currently playing a stack of 765,000 while Kevin Cote has over 840,000 at the moment. What’s more, they’re directly across the table from one another – so there are no blind-on-blind clashes to come between them soon – if one is in a hand and the other chooses to play as well, it’s purely by choice, not “forced” by positional dynamics.

The other leaders in this post-bubble period are Michael Khan who now has over 700K and Kevin Rivest is approaching the 700K mark as well.