Event 87: $600 No-Limit Hold’em Bounty $100,000 Guarantee 

Level 24
Blinds: 30,000/60,000/10,000
Entrants: 464
Players Remaining: 5
Average Stack: 1,395,000

DeepStack Extravaganza Event 87 Champion –
Don Landers

Shortly after the elimination of Steve Foster in sixth place, the five remaining players started discussing a deal. They counted their stacks and decided to take the chip-chop numbers given to them. Don Landers had the most chips and earns first place along with the most money. All five players earn at least $11,000, better than fourth place money. A look at the deal, chip counts, and original payouts are below.

1. Don Landers – $22,622 (2,250,000)
2. Albert Sapiano – $19,512 (1,770,000)
3. Ondrej Milabersky – $18,864 (1,660,000)
4. Veselin Petrov – $13,140 (780,000)
5. Tona Kouy – $11,370 (505,000)

1. $32,315
2. $19,589
3. $14,312
4. $10,824
5. $8,118

Final Table Results

Event 87: $600 No-Limit Hold’em Bounty $100,000 Guarantee 

Level 23
Blinds: 20,000/40,000/5,000
Entrants: 464
Players Remaining: 5
Average Stack: 1,395,000

Steve Foster

Steve Foster doubled up Ondrej Milabersky earlier in Level 24 and did so again, leading to his permanent demise.

Foster had about 850,000 behind and shoved from the small blind with Q♦Q♥ with Milabersky calling from the big blind with A♠9♣. The A♦7♠5♥ flop paired Milabersky and held through the last two cards to double up. Left with only 20,000, Foster was eliminated the next hand. He earns $6,164.

Event 87: $600 No-Limit Hold’em Bounty $100,000 Guarantee 

Level 23
Blinds: 20,000/40,000/5,000
Entrants: 464
Players Remaining: 6
Average Stack: 1,160,000

Don Landers

Don Landers picked up one bounty at the start of the Event 87 final table and now has two more following his eliminations of Vance Essak and Mikael Koistinen.

Essak shoved for 325,000 with 6♦6♥ in the cutoff and Landers woke up with J♦J♥ in the small blind. The Q♦4♥3♦8♥2♥ runout was no help to Essak and he earns $3,758.

Koistinen shoved for 465,000 with K♣Q♦ and Landers had the edge with A♥10♦. The board ran 6♠5♣3♦8♥3♣ and Landers collected another bounty. Koistinen takes home $4,811 for his efforts. Landers is playing 2,500,000, putting him in charge of over one-third of the chips in play.

Event 87: $600 No-Limit Hold’em Bounty $100,000 Guarantee 

Level 22
Blinds: 15,000/30,000/5,000
Entrants: 464
Players Remaining: 8
Average Stack: 870,000

The action continues to be fast-paced at the Event 87 final table with a number of all-ins and Steve Foster was recently in the middle of two of them.

On a board of Q♠10♣2♣9♥, Foster checked and Mikael Koistinen bet enough to put Foster all-in for his last 650,000, with about 300,000 in the pot. Foster thought for a moment and called with A♥K♥, which was ahead of the 8♣7♣ of Koistinen. The river held up and Foster took down the pot. Koistinen dropped down to 400,000.

A few hands later, Foster opened the cutoff to 60,000 and
Ondrej Milabersky shoved for 435,000 on the button. Foster’s K♦Q♥ trailed the A♣5♣ of Milabersky the clean board locked up the double.

Milabersky is playing 900,000 and with the two hands behind him, Foster is playing 950,000.

Event 87: $600 No-Limit Hold’em Bounty $100,000 Guarantee 

Level 22
Blinds: 15,000/30,000/5,000
Entrants: 464
Players Remaining: 8
Average Stack: 870,000

Scott Woods

Level 22 is full of action just one orbit as Albert Sapiano doubled up and then Scott Woods hit the rail.

Sapiano was all-in for 640,000 with A♦Q♣ against the Q♦Q♠ of Tona Kouy. The K♦4♣2♠ flop kept Kouy in the lead but the A♥ turn surged Sapiano ahead. There was no one outer on the river and Sapiano took in the double and the chip lead to 1,365,000. Kouy falls to 520,000

Woods got his last 465,000 on a Q♣10♠8♣ flop with Q♦J♦ but was a huge underdog against Don Landers’s 10♣10♦. There was no straight on the turn or river and Landers took the bounty of Woods. Landers is second in chips with 1,320,000. Woods takes home $2,856 for his ninth place finish.

Event 87: $600 No-Limit Hold’em Bounty $100,000 Guarantee 

Level 20
Blinds: 12,000/24,000/4,000
Entrants: 464
Players Remaining: 9
Average Stack: 773,000

Raymond Forsland

In the first hand of final table play, we have our first elimination with Raymond Forsland exiting.

Don Landers opened under the gun to 60,000 and Mikael Koistinen three-bet to 205,000 in the cutoff. Forsland shoved for 312,000 on the button and once Landers got out of the way, Koistinen called with A♥10♠. Forlsand led with J♣J♥ and maintained his lead through the K♦10♣6♣ flop. The 8♥ was a good card for him as well but the A♦ turn gave Koistinen two pair and the pot.

Koistinen increases his stack to 1,175,000.

Event 87: $600 No-Limit Hold’em Bounty $100,000 Guarantee 

Level 20
Blinds: 12,000/24,000/4,000
Entrants: 464
Players Remaining: 10
Average Stack: 696,000

1. Tona Kouy – 1,190,000
2. Steve Foster – 710,000
3. Ondrej Milabersky – 600,000
4. Albert Sapiano – 630,000
5. Mikael Koistinen – 650,000
6. Raymond Forsland – 350,000
7. Vance Essak – 525,000
8. Veselin Petrov – 825,000
9. Scott Woods – 705,000
10. Don Landers – 910,000

Event 88: $400 No-Limit Hold’em Bounty $30,000 Guarantee

Event: $400 No-Limit Hold’em Bounty
Guarantee: $30,000
Entries: 253
Total Prize Pool: $86,526
Bounties: $25,300
Places Paid: 27
1st Place: $15,004

Event 87: $600 No-Limit Hold’em Bounty $100,000 Guarantee 

Event: $600 No-Limit Hold’em Bounty
Guarantee: $100,000
Entries: 464
Total Prize Pool: $243,136
Bounties: $92,800
Places Paid: 54
1st Place: $32,315

Level 27
Blinds: 25,000/50,000/5,000
Entrants: 547
Players Remaining: 1
Average Stack: 10,940,000

DeepStack Extravaganza Event 84 Champion –
Raffaele Sorrentino

The DSE III Bounty events have attracted strong crowds filled with top players and the $1,600 buy-in $500,000 guaranteed edition did not disappoint. Raffaele Sorrentino held a sizable chip advantage coming into the final table and expanded it at every opportunity.

The 2017 PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo Main Event winner found new ways to put his opponents to the test and managed not to lose any critical all-ins as the field narrowed to four-handed play. Sorrentino maintained his lead for the entire final table and held roughly half of the chips in play when a deal was discussed.

As a result of his stack, Sorrentino wound up taking home over $84,000 for his efforts along with the multiple $500 bounties he collected throughout the two-day tournament. Sorrentino’s win in Event 84 is his first in a DSE event and hopefully not the last with a few more events on the schedule before the end of the summer schedule.

Final Table Results