Last Day 1 Flight (Day 1c) Kicks Off Soon!
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Day 1c of Event #38: $1,500 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold'em will be getting underway shortly at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.
Day 1b saw the field hit 5,235 entries. There are currently 1,684 players with a Day 2 bag so far, 947 of these players are survivors from yesterday's flight.
Changfeng Fan (1,403,500) �� who is both the Day 1b chip leader and overall chip leader �� has a comprehensive lead over the next biggest stack. This is held by Day 1a chip leader Ryan Sullivan who bagged a stack of 915,000 for Day 2.
Monster Stack Top Ten Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chips | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Changfeng Fan | United States | 1,403,500 | 468 |
| 2 | Ryan Sullivan | United States | 915,000 | 305 |
| 3 | Chih-Feng Li | Japan | 855,000 | 285 |
| 4 | Maxime Parys | France | 765,000 | 255 |
| 5 | Cristian Tuica | United States | 728,500 | 243 |
| 6 | Hung Nguyen | United States | 665,000 | 222 |
| 7 | John Oshea | Ireland | 609,500 | 203 |
| 8 | Joshua Heinzl | United States | 591,500 | 197 |
| 9 | Jackson Spencer | United States | 540,000 | 180 |
| 10 | Vinicius Lima | United States | 525,000 | 175 |
The last of the event's three starting flights will kick-off at 10 a.m. local time and will consist of the first 11 one-hour levels. There will be a 20-minute break after every two levels, with a dinner break of 75-minutes after Level 8 (about 7 p.m.).
Day 2 will start on June 17 at 11 a.m. and PokerNews' traditional coverage will begin then.
Last year's $1,500 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold'em was won by Braxton Dunaway, a Texan oil and gas worker. The event's field of 8,317 entries generated a massive $11,103,195 prize pool. Dunaway beat Colin Robinson heads up to win his first bracelet and earn himself a $1,162,681 payday.
Poker runs in the family as Dunaway explained to PokerNews after his win: ��[The family is] at the College World Series. My son is in a tournament during that, which is for teenage boys. He won his first two games today and he��s guaranteed like five more games.��
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