2026 World Series of Poker

Event #18: $1,500 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold'em
Event #18: $1,500 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold'em Event #19: $25,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold’em Event #20: $1,500 Dealers Choice Event #21: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Event #22: $1,500 Big O Event #23: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship Show All Events
Day: 2a
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Event Info
2026 World Series of Poker
Event Info
Buy-in
$1,500
Prize Pool
$2,526,232
Total Entries
3,710
Players Left
761
Average Chip Stack
243,758
Total Chips
185,500,000
Players Info - Day 2a
Entries
831
Players Left
94
Players Left 761 / 3,710
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Did You Know this About the WSOP Monster Stack?

Chad Holloway
Chad Holloway

Our local poker historian, Robert Jen, dove into the WSOP archives and came up with some interesting stats & figures for the WSOP Monster Stack, which we thought would be fun to share with you!

  • The $1,500 Monster Stack debuted in 2014 and fielded an impressive 7,862 entries and a still-record $1,327,083 first prize. The event has returned every year since then except for 2020, so this is the 12th running of the tournament.
  • Since an odd low of 3,520, the Monster Stack's growth has been impressive: 6,501 to 8,317 to 8,703 to 9,920 entries and 528 to 976 to 1,248 to 1,307 to 1,488 paid. Last year also had a record $13,148,390 prize pool.
  • Over $100 million has been paid out. [$104,586,825]
  • The event has minted nine millionaires: Hugo Pingray (2014), Perry Shiao (2015), Mitchell Towner (2016), Brian Yoon (2017), Tommy Nguyen (2018), Kainalu McCue-Unciano (2019), Braxton Dunaway (2023), Pedro Neves (2024), and Klemens Roiter (2025). [9 of the 11 winners]
  • Famous runners-up include Joe McKeehen (2014) and Ryan Leng (2021). One other Main Event champ reached the final table — Joe Cada finished 7th in 2023 ($186,149).
  • Jessical Teusl became the only female to reach the final table in 2022 (9th for $120,455).

Other festivals have held their own versions of the Monster Stack: WSOP Europe (5), GGPoker (7 general and 2 Ontario), and WSOP.com (16 for various combinations of states). They've all been much smaller events, with the biggest being the 2020 GGPoker $300 (most players at 3,491) and the 2024 GGPoker $1,500 (biggest first prize of $263,720 and biggest prize pool of $2,047,725).