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Event #37: $1,500 MONSTER STACK
Day 1b Completed
2025 World Series of Poker
Event #37: $1,500 MONSTER STACK
Day: 1b
Event Info
2025 World Series of Poker
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1b
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$13,168,800
Total Entries
9,920
Level
46
Blinds
4,000,000 / 8,000,000
Ante
8,000,000
Entries
2,010
Players Left
635
Players Left 1 / 9,920
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Day 1a of Event #37: $1,500 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold'em saw 476 players advance from a field of 1,872 players. There was an equally large field on Day 1b with over 2,000 entries.
Eventually, from the field of 2,010, just 636 players advanced and they are led by Caleb Larsen. Larsen, whose largest career cash with a 621st-place finish in last year's WSOP Main Event, was the only player to bag over 700,000 chips.
Closely behind him is Benjamin Leilous (582,500) and former bracelet-winner and Winamax Ambassador Romain Lewis (507,000). Lewis took down the $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold'em at the 2021 World Series of Poker, and is well-positioned for a deep run in the Monster Stack after bagging up over half a million chips.
Day 1b Top 10 Chip Counts
| 1 | Caleb Larsen | United States | 715,000 |
| 2 | Benjamin Leilous | United States | 582,500 |
| 3 | Romain Lewis | France | 507,000 |
| 4 | Yuya Kita | Japan | 495,500 |
| 5 | Rosen Apostolov | Bulgaria | 488,000 |
| 6 | Anders Karlsen | Norway | 479,000 |
| 7 | Shawn Stroke | United States | 462,500 |
| 8 | Seun Oluwole | United Kingdom | 456,000 |
| 9 | John Holley | United States | 454,500 |
| 10 | Abdullah Alshanti | United States | 453,000 |
Other big names and bracelet-winners through to Day 2 include Andrew Moreno (405,500), [Removed:532] (401,000), Jason Dewitt (400,000), Craig Varnell (376,500), Joe Cada (344,000), Brian Yoon (337,000), Shiina Okamoto (203,500), Matt Affleck (182,500), Robert Mizrachi (180,000), David "ODB" Baker (155,000), Brad Owen (153,500) and Ethan Yau (135,500).
Day 1c of the Monster Stack shuffles up and deals at 10 a.m. local time on June 13 with entrants tasked with surviving 11 hour-long levels. PokerNews traditional coverage of this event begins on Day 2 at 11 a.m. local time on Sunday, June 15. Stay tuned in to see who survives this monster field!
PokerNews' Brad Whitehouse captured a hand on Saturday that might end up being the rarest we'll see all summer at the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP). At the very least, the rarest chop pot.
Gus Hansen and Dzmitry Urbanovich battled for a hefty pot on Day 2 in Event #23: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship with 35 out of 127 players remaining. The pot ended in a chop, but it left future Poker Hall of Famer Nick Schulman in awe.
"I've never seen that before," Schulman, who has seen nearly everything at the poker table, was overheard saying as he glanced at the tabled cards. "Wow, that's an amazing one."
Phil Ivey's slow start to the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) appears to have ended.
The 11-time bracelet winner not only recorded his first cash of the summer. He's among the big stacks in Event #38: $100,000 High Roller with 15 players remaining. Thomas Boivin and Ben Heath are also at the top of the leaderboard, all battling to win the gold bracelet and the $2,649,158 first-place prize.
The Simpsons is widely regarded as one of the most successful and beloved television shows of all time. But actress and high-stakes poker player Jennifer Tilly, who was married to Simpsons co-creator Sam Simon, tried to stop her ex-husband from making the iconic show.
Tilly, the star of the Chucky franchise and a recent guest on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, revealed her skepticism about Simon pursuing the cartoon in a new episode of the PokerNews Life Outside Poker podcast.
"I remember us trying to keep Sam from doing it because he had been offered his own deal, multi-million-dollar deal, at Hollywood Pictures, which was at the time very trendy," Tilly told PokerNews. "And I said, 'Sam, don't you want to be your own person and do your own shows?'"
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