WPTDeepStacks Final Table Set with Aaron Frei Leading

Day 2 of the inaugural WPTDeepStacks Black Hawk $1,500 Main Event has come to a conclusion with the 251-entrant field reduced down to the final table of nine players.

Beginning the day with 47 survivors from the combined three day one flights, play began fast as players looked to jostle for position up the leaderboard. Following a rapid fire of eliminations, hand-for-hand play lasted for close to an hour before Svetlana Martie would commit the last of her chips holding against Danny Gonzales’ , and when the board ran out eight-high, she would be the bubble girl of the WPTDeepStacks Black Hawk Main Event.

Following Martie’s elimination, the likes of Austin Peck (32nd), Kyle Kitagawa (28th), Angel Vu (24th), Mike Itoafa (21st), Tyler Patterson (20th), Ben Keeline (15th), and Wendy Freedman (13th) all fell short of reaching the final table. With the final ten players re-drawing to the unofficial final table, it would be Day 1A chip leader and WPTDeepStacks San Diego Champion Maxwell Young eliminated on the final hand of the night when his went down to Faraz Jaka’s when the board ran out .

WPTDeepStacks Black Hawk Final Table
Seat 1: Zackery Whitney – 730,000
Seat 2: Faraz Jaka – 1,585,000
Seat 3: Krzysztof Stybaniewicz – 470,000
Seat 4: Aaron Frei – 1,965,000
Seat 5: Jeremy Wood – 605,000
Seat 6: Evan Shaughnessy – 365,000
Seat 7: Yang Ruan – 435,000
Seat 8: Ryan Remington – 945,000
Seat 9: William Mietz – 435,000
The button is on Krzysztof Stybaniewicz and there is 6:12 remaining in Level 25 (15,000-30,000 with a 30,000-big blind ante)

Leading the final nine players is Aaron Frei (pictured) who also finished as the Day 1B chip leader. Frei rocketed up the leaderboard after eliminating Freedman in a blind-on-blind confrontation, and from there kept his momentum on the top before bagging 1,965,000 in chips. On his heels is Season VIII WPT Player of the Year Faraz Jaka who ended with 1,585,000. Jaka has the opportunity to become the first WPT Player of the Year to also win a WPTDeepStacks Main Event if he can be the final player standing. Following Frei and Jaka, the remainder of the final table are closely grouped together and will be looking to ladder up the payouts with every elimination.

WPTDeepStacks Black Hawk Final Table Payouts
1st: $77,290*
2nd: $54,305
3rd: $34,475
4th: $20,970
5th: $16,195
6th: $13,420
7th: $11,265
8th: $9,420
9th: $7,730
* First-prize amount includes the winner’s $3,000 buy-in into the season-ending WPTDeepStacks Championship.

Each player is currently guaranteed $7,730, but all eyes will be set on the first-place prize of $77,290 that includes a $3,000 buy-in into the season-ending WPTDeepStacks Championship.

The WPTDeepStacks Black Hawk final table begins at 12 p.m. (MDT) on Monday, May 13, so stay tuned right here to WPT.com for the exclusive live coverage of the WPTDeepStacks Black Hawk final table, and see who will be crowned the inaugural Champion and win his way into the season-ending WPTDeepStacks Championship.

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