The $250 Seniors Deepstack Is Down to 18 Past Midnight

It's past midnight at the Horseshoe and the $250 Seniors Deepstack still has 18 players left — two tables from a final table, and the chip leader has seven career final tables and $192K in lifetime earnings.

Kenneth Taffaro sits on 960,000 chips at the top of WSOP Event #395, the only player left with a WSOPC ring on his résumé. Behind him, the leaderboard reads like a poker census of people you've never heard of.

The Stack Landscape

Giuseppe Galluzzo — a Canadian with $547,946 in lifetime earnings and four final tables — is second with 835,000. He's the most credentialed player remaining. Harri Karenius, from Finland, holds 750,000 with zero recorded lifetime earnings. Bruce Hoffman sits at 570,000, also with no recorded earnings. Daniel Stevens, who led the field earlier when 37 players remained at 850,000, has been ground down to 345,000.

Kenneth Taffaro sits on 960,000 chips at the top of WSOP Event #395, the only player left with a WSOPC ring on his résumé.

Why This Is Worth Watching

The field went from 54 to 37 to 21 to 18 over the last two hours. That's a player dropping roughly every four minutes. At this pace, the final table sets within the hour.

This is a $250 buy-in bracelet event restricted to players 50 and older. Nobody at these two tables is chasing a six-figure score for the money alone — they're chasing gold. And the two players with the most tournament experience in the field, Taffaro (seven final tables) and Galluzzo (four), are the ones with the chips to get there.

The rest of the 18? Mostly ghosts on the database. Hoffman, Karenius, Stevens — none of them have recorded lifetime earnings. This is a final table that's going to mint someone brand new.

Stream coverage continues through the final table formation at the Horseshoe.