$1,700 Deepest Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)$300,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure Level 7:  300/600 with a 600 ante Day 1A Entries:  32 191n3y

The $1,700 Deepest Stack recently returned from their first break with 32 entries in the field, a busy weekend on the horizon, and late registration available until Sunday at noon.

If you’d like to win your way into the tournament, we have a $200 satellite starting at 6 pm with four seats guaranteed.

Some friends in the field so far including Event 1 champ Alejandro Amador, Neil Blumenfield, Nadya Magnus, Scott Levitt, Scott Zakheim, Pual Domb, Greg Spinger, Haim Toorgeman, and James Calderaro.

2025 May Deep Stack Poker Series
Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Hollywood, Florida
Event 3
$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$150,000 Guaranteed
Entries:  339
Prize Pool:  $176,280
May 19 – 21, 2025

May Deep Stack Poker Series Event 3 was a $600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em tournament with a $600 buy-in and $150,000 guarantee plus two starting flights. Jorge Rivera dominated the final table and took the top spot along with $34,240 after a heads-up deal with Akeelo Rhoden.

Congrats Jorge!

$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $176,280  |  Payouts
Level 26:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante

After playing a few hands of heads up, Jorge Rivera and Akeelo Rhoden made a deal to divide up the remaining prize pool. Now they can enjoy their payout and take a shot at the $1,700 Deepest Stack.

1st: Jorge Rivera – $34,240 + DSPS Trophy
2nd: Akeelo Rhoden – $26,100

$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $176,280  |  Payouts
Level 26:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  2 of 339

The board was already out and reading when Greg Spinder got his last 1,350,000 in the middle against Akeelo Rhoden.

He was holding for flopped trip fours but Rhoden caught back up with his with his river boat.

Akeelo Rhoden – 5,110,000 (102 bb)
Jorge Rivera – 8,450,000 (169 bb)
Greg Spinder – Eliminated in 3rd Place ($17,900)

$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $176,280  |  Payouts
Level 26:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  3 of 339

Seat 1: Greg Spinder – 1,885,000 (38 bb)
Seat 2: Jorge Rivera – 7,875,000 (158 bb)
Seat 3: Akeelo Rhoden – 3,800,000 (76 bb)

1st: $36,240 + DSPS Trophy
2nd: $24,100
3rd: $17,900

$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $176,280  |  Payouts
Level 26:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante
Players Remaining:  3 of 339

With about one million in the pot already and the board reading , Akeelo Rhoden was all in and at risk for 1,620,000 against Jorge Rivera.

Rivera was ahead preflop with but Rhoden made trip queens with . The board finished with the turn and river to send Rhoden another double.

Akeelo Rhoden – 4,300,000 (86 bb)
Jorge Rivera – 5,900,000 (118 bb)

$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $176,280  |  Payouts
Level 25:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  3 of 339

TK Miles was all in for about 750,000 and Greg Spinder at him at risk.

Miles:
Spinder:

It was a coin flip and Miles needed to improve to double up. But it was Spinder getting better when he made a set on the flop. Miles was drawing dead to the turn and river and fourth place.

Greg Spinder – 4,100,000 (103 bb)
TK Miles – Eliminated in 4th Place ($13,400)

$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $176,280  |  Payouts
Level 25:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  4 of 339

Akeelo Rhoden was all in for 845,000 from under the gun and Jorge Rivera had him at risk.

Rhoden:
Rivera:

Rhoden was dominated and drawing thin against the queens. He picked up a backdoor flush draw on the flop, a regular heart draw on the turn and it filled on the river for the unlikely double.

Akeelo Rhoden – 1,750,000 (44 bb)
Jorge Rivera – 6,450,000 (161 bb)

$600 Deeper Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Prize Pool:  $176,280  |  Payouts
Level 25:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  4 of 339

Seat 1: Greg Spinder – 4,020,000 (101 bb)
Seat 2: TK Miles – 1,355,000 (34 bb)
Seat 3: Jorge Rivera – 7,085,000 (177 bb)
Seat 4: Akeelo Rhoden – 1,100,000 (28 bb)

1st: $36,240 + DSPS Trophy
2nd: $24,100
3rd: $17,900
4th: $13,400

$1,700 Deepest Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed  |  Structure
Level 1:  100/100

Cards are in the air for the $1,700 Deepest Stack No-Limit Hold’em tournament, the Main Event of the May Deep Stacks Poker Series. The tournament has a $300,000 guaranteed prize pool, three starting flights, and late registration available until 11 am on Sunday at the start of Day 2.