Event 35: $250 No-Limit Hold’em $250,000 Guarantee

Level 28
Blinds: 40,000/80,000 w/ 10,000 ante
Players Remaining: 9/1,438

Rodrigo Pessoa

Rodrigo Pessoa has been eliminated 10th for $3,832.

This year’s DeepStack Extravaganza III promised to be the largest in history with $21,000,000 in guarantees and it exceeded every expectation. A total of 142 events populated the schedule with buy-ins ranging from $200 all the way up to the first ever $10,000 High Roller, up from 135 in 2016. Tens of millions of dollars in prize money was awarded and below are some statistics that highlight just how big DSE III was in 2017.

• 37,712 total players (up 26% from 2016)
• 11,754 unique players
• $31,530,863 in total prize pools awarded

The series as a whole broke all records and there are a few specific events that stood out in making this series the best DSE III yet. Event #38 $1,100 MSPT $2,500,000 guaranteed drew a field of 3,273, creating a prize pool of over $3,200,000. The field set records for both MSPT and The Venetian. Also, Event #33 $10,000 High Roller $1,000,000 guaranteed brought in 107 entries and set a new bar for highest entry fee in DSE III history.

There was a total of seven events with 1,000+ entries and nine fields managed to create prize pools that topped $1,000,000. Not to be out done, there were four tournaments that reached the $3,000,000 prize money threshold capped off by Event #103 $5,000 Card Player Poker Tour $2,000,000 guaranteed event, which drew a record field of 688 runners.

Players were rewarded handsomely for great finishes this summer with 33 players earning at least $100,000 for a single cash with Javier Gomez’s $561,349 win in Event #103 topping them all.

Six Figure Winners

Buy-ins of all sizes did well this summer and the $600 SuperStack events were indicative of this trend. The multi-day events crushed all guarantees and the single-day tournaments drew 2,846 total entrants with over $1,470,000 awarded across 16 events. The largest payout in a single-day $600 event was to Andrea Iocco, who won $50,216 in Event #78. 

There are plenty more DeepStack series coming up with the August Extravaganza starting on August 10. The 2018 DSE III schedule will be made available in the early part of next year and we hope you will join us then for more action from the best place to play poker in Las Vegas.

Event 107: $600 No-Limit Hold’em SuperStack $250,000 Guarantee 

Level 30
Blinds: 50,000-100,000 w/10,000 ante
Total Entrants: 731
Players Remaining: 1
Chip Average: 14,620,000

DeepStack Extravaganza Event 107 Champion –
Qiao Chi

The final $600 SuperStack event of DSE III drew another huge field and Qiao Chi was among the chip leaders heading into Day 2’s action. Chi built his stack to over 3,000,000 heading into the final table and never looked back on his way to victory.

The combination of getting there when he didn’t have it and calling correctly when he did helped Chi achieve victory at his second DSE III final table of the summer. Chi finished seventh in Event #29 $600 $70,000 guaranteed and managed to get over the finish line on this occasion.

Chi earns his best live score with his win and caps off the DSE III series in style. This concludes Venetian Poker Room blog coverage of DSE III. A full recap of the record-breaking DeepStack Extravaganza series will be posted in the next few days.

Final Table Results

Event 107: $600 No-Limit Hold’em SuperStack $250,000 Guarantee 

Level 30
Blinds: 50,000-100,000 w/10,000 ante
Total Entrants: 731
Players Remaining: 1
Chip Average: 14,620,000

Dorian Rios

Dorian Rios did his part to avoid elimination at the Event 107 final table but faced a massive disadvantage upon facing Qiao Chi heads up. Rios didn’t go down without a fight but was on the bad end of a cooler and finishes second.

Rios was all-in 1,500,000 with J♥J♠ against the K♣K♥ of Chi and could only laugh at the situation he was in. The A♦2♣2♥4♥8♦ board brought Rios nothing and Chi earns the victory. A full winner’s recap will be posted shortly.

Event 107: $600 No-Limit Hold’em SuperStack $250,000 Guarantee 

Level 30
Blinds: 50,000-100,000 w/10,000 ante
Total Entrants: 731
Players Remaining: 2
Chip Average: 7,310,000

Alexander Fu

Qiao Chi has hit his fair share of hands at tonight’s final table but when it came time to call correctly, he did so and Alexander Fu’s tournament ended as a result.

Chi raised to 225,000 out of the small blind and Fu flatted the big blind. Chi continued for 225,000 on the 5♣5♠6♥ flop. Fu called and the Q♣ came on the turn. Chi bet 425,000 and Fu raised to 975,000. Chi thought for a moment and called leading to the Q♥ river.

Chi checked and Fu went all-in for 1,790,000. Chi thought it over for close to three minutes, verbally mulling over his options. Chi gathered chips and put them in the middle, leaving Fu to turn over 9♦6♣. Chi had that beat with A♦A♠ and Fu is out in third.

Chi comes into heads up play against Dorian Rios with 13,200,000 to Rios’s 1,445,000.

Event 107: $600 No-Limit Hold’em SuperStack $250,000 Guarantee 

Level 30
Blinds: 50,000-100,000 w/10,000 ante
Total Entrants: 731
Players Remaining: 3
Chip Average: 4,875,000

Xiu-Xian Deng

Within the same orbit of Paul Ahi’s elimination, Xiu-Xian Deng exited after grinding her short stack all the way to fourth place.

Deng moved all-in for 870,000 under the gun with A♠8♦ and Qiao Chi called on the button holding 4♦4♥. The blinds released and the flop came out K♥J♦5♥. The 6♠ did not nothing to improve Deng and she was officially out after the 2♥ fell on the river.

Deng takes home $25,088 and Chi improves to 9,250,000.

Event 107: $600 No-Limit Hold’em SuperStack $250,000 Guarantee 

Level 30
Blinds: 50,000-100,000 w/10,000 ante
Total Entrants: 731
Players Remaining: 4
Chip Average: 3,655,000

Paul Ahi

In one of the first hands off the deck in the new level, Paul Ahi fell to Alexander Fu and the field is now four-handed.

Ahi was all-in for 1,190,000 with Q♣Q♦ and Fu was in trouble with A♥6♦. The K♣Q♥10♥ flop gave Ahi a set with Fu live to hit a jack for broadway. The 5♦ missed Fu but the J♥ river was a bink and Ahi is out.

Fu chips up to 3,100,000 and Ahi earns $19,125.

Event 107: $600 No-Limit Hold’em SuperStack $250,000 Guarantee 

Level 29
Blinds: 40,000-80,000 w/10,000 ante
Total Entrants: 731
Players Remaining: 7
Chip Average: 2,090,000

Steve Foutty

In the most bizarre pot yet of the Event 107 final table, Steve Foutty was eliminated in a three-way all-in and Dorian Rios tripled up with Qiao Chi losing a small portion of his stack.

Foutty shoved for 835,000 in the cutoff and Rios called all-in with 560,000 on the button. Chi called in the big blind to put both players at risk with 5♣5♦ and was behind the 7♣7♠ of Rios but ahead of Foutty’s K♥10♥.

The A♠7♦3♠ flop gave Rios a set and Chi hit his own set on the 5♠ turn. Foutty was drawing dead and Chi missed his one-outer on the river and Rios survived.

Rios is playing 1,570,000 and Chi is holding down to 6,750,000, good for almost half of the chips in play. All players at the final table are below 20 big blinds with the exception of Chi.