Maimone Leads Day 1b of Event #28: $1,500 Monster Stack

Day 1b of the popular $1,500 Monster Stack tournament attracted 4,165 players, which means with 3,027 players from Day 1a, the field stands at 7,192 players (down a bit from last year's 7,734 players) with a $9,709,200 prize pool up for grabs. Of that, $1,286,942 is reserved for the eventual winner, while 720 players will get paid a minimum of $2,815.

After 11 levels of play, just 1,235 players survived the Day 1b fracas, meaning with Day 1a's 825 survivors, 2,060 will return to action on Day 2.

Leading the way will be Day 1b chip leader Nick Maimone, who amassed a stack of 240,200, which is quite a bit more than Day 1a chip leader Chi Truong, who bagged 193,400. Others who bagged big were Rick Basham (206,400) and Gary Bolden (203,000).

Among those returning for Day 2 are Joseph Cheong (184,400), Martin Jacobson (116,600), JC Tran (99,700), Annette Obrestad (94,700), Alexander Allison (93,400), Will Molson (86,900), and Vanessa Selbst (81,000).

Of course not everyone was so lucky. Among the Day 1b fallen were Paul Darden, Andre Akkari, Max Silver, Eric Baldwin, Billy Pappas, Jackie Glazier, Michael Mizrachi, Jim McManus and James Bernard.

Day 2 will kick off at 11 a.m. on Sunday as the remaining players look to play 10 more levels.