Two Bracelets, 18 Players, Zero Prior Winners — All at Once

Two WSOP daily deepstack final tables are running simultaneously at the Horseshoe right now — one at $200, one at $250, 18 combined players, two bracelets on the line, and exactly zero bracelet holders among them.

This is the late-night WSOP grind distilled to its purest form.

Event #382: $250 Daily Deepstack

Eric Schutz leads with 2,100,000 chips. His total lifetime tournament earnings before this event: $3,596. A bracelet here would multiply his career bankroll many times over in a single hand.

A bracelet here would multiply his career bankroll many times over in a single hand.

Oliver Srienz (Switzerland, $9,181 lifetime) and Jeffrey Olsen (US, $19,847 lifetime) are knotted at 1,900,000 apiece, right behind him. Diego Cortazzo of Argentina sits fourth at 1,775,000. Alexandre Nguyen, visiting from France, rounds out the named stacks.

Nine players. No bracelets. No rings. The biggest résumé in the field belongs to Olsen — and it wouldn't cover three buy-ins at a $5K event.

Event #390: $200 Daily Deepstack

The $200 final table has the closest thing to a veteran in either room: Wadih Kaawar. Two WSOP Circuit rings. Fifteen career final tables. $304,449 in lifetime earnings. He's the only player across both events with a five-figure tournament résumé that stretches past $42K.

Kaawar is joined at the final table by Bahman Ataeianfar ($41,062 lifetime, one prior final table) and seven others — including Noe Acosta, Melissa Doucette, and Vasilios Hrisafinis — all chasing their first piece of WSOP hardware.

The Scene

Eighteen people in the Horseshoe past 4 AM on July 2, playing for two gold bracelets at buy-ins cheaper than a decent dinner on the Strip. Nobody here has sponsor patches. Nobody has a Wikipedia page. Somebody's walking out with a bracelet anyway.

Both final tables are nine-handed and playing down. No confirmed stream end time — they play until there's a winner.