"mlf5135" Leads 37 Remaining Players After Day 1 of PACOOP 61: $300 NLHE [Main Event - Championship Trophy Event]
Day 1 of the PokerStars Championship of Online Poker (PACOOP) has completed!
A total of 851 entries were logged through the registration period which generated $238,280 prize pool and when the dust settled, only 37 players remained.
At the end of the night, only one players made it over the eight million mark with "mlf5135" bagging the biggest stack finishing the night with 8,230,296.
Following closely behind "mlf5135" was "and_porter" with 7,508,033, "Yuli215" (5,683,094) and "xSleek" (4,392,656), while "Hondoribbia" (4,170,082), "kdQuel" (3,465,177) and "thesickonee" (3,423,397) round out the top stacks.
The 37 surviving players will return to action tomorrow Monday, September 27th at 6:00 p.m. EST and will play down until the winner takes home the $40,131 first-place prize.
Action will pick-up in Level 28 (40,000/80,000/12,500) and here is what the remaining players are battling for:
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | $40,131 |
| 2 | $28,671 |
| 3 | $20,483 |
| 4 | $14,634 |
| 5 | $10,455 |
| 6 | $7,649 |
| 7 | $5,336 |
| 8 | $3,812 |
| 9 | $2,724 |
| 10-13 | $2,228 |
| 14-17 | $1,822 |
| 18-26 | $1,490 |
| 27-35 | $1,219 |
| 36-37 | $997 |
Follow along with the PokerNews live reporting team to see who will be crowned champion.