Event #78's Chip Leader Has Zero Recorded Earnings

Min Kim has 1.83 million chips in the $600 Deepstack Championship and zero recorded lifetime earnings — and he's not even the only unknown leading this thing.

Event #78 is down to 87 players on Day 2 at the Horseshoe, and the top of the leaderboard reads like a first-time WSOP registration list. Kim, from South Korea, sits on the biggest stack. Behind him: Oleksandr But of Ukraine at 1.8 million, Alexander Beck at 1.4 million, and Killian Farrell of Ireland at 1.02 million. Combined recorded lifetime earnings across all five published chip leaders? $5,165.

That's not a typo.

Combined recorded lifetime earnings across all five published chip leaders: $5,165.

Why This Matters

The $600 buy-in is the price point where recreational players can realistically win gold. No six-figure satellite grind needed. No staking deal required. You drive to the Horseshoe, post $600, and if you run deep enough across two days, you walk out with a bracelet.

Right now, every player at the top of the counts has zero bracelets, zero rings, and — in most cases — zero database history at all. But has $3,055 in recorded earnings. Farrell has $2,110. Beck, Kim, and Canada's Peter Ball (720K) have nothing on file.

What to Watch

This is the part of the night where the field compresses fast. Eighty-seven players, blinds climbing, and a chip leader in Kim who has never appeared on a WSOP leaderboard before. The $600 Deepstack isn't a side event — it's a bracelet event with a full Day 2 structure, and someone at this final stretch is going to win their first piece of WSOP gold.

The stream is live now from the Horseshoe.