- Big Stax XXII 500 Main Event 8:30 PM
- Level 22 (10000/20000/3000)
- Total Entries: 1445
- Players Left: 61
- Average Stack: 947,000

David Zemel had ~1.3M during the dinner break and has increased his stack to ~2.2M over the first 40-minutes of play. Although he is on the next table to break, Zemel is sitting with Carlos Alvarado and Allyn Marshall who both hold 2M+ chip stacks making them the deepest table in the room.
Zemel is one of the more dangerous players in the field with ~$250k in career earnings and a ton of success here at the Big Stax. He has a Final Table in 300 (7th for $12,787), a win in the Purple Chip Bounty ($16,010), a 2nd in the $1k Turbo ($14,684), and a 12th in the WPTDeepstacks 1500 ($13,126).