button in SafariKathy Liebert Survives Last Day 1 Flight Of Monster Stack
Day 1d of Event #18: $1,500 Monster Stack put a lot of butts in seats with 3,887 entries and $5,159,993 added to the prize pool. This brings the total prize pool up to $14,951,633.
There will be one last round of late registration when the 1,460 survivors of Day 1d return for Day 2d on Sunday. Once late registration closes, we will know exactly how monstrous this year's Monster Stack is.
According to the WSOP LIVE App, the top chip stack for the day belonged to Linyang Song who bagged (1,215,000). They were followed by Aleksei Dronov (1,075,000) and Samoul Mang (915,000) in second and third place, respectively.
Day 1d Top 10 Chip Counts
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Linyang Song | Canada | 1,215,000 |
| 2 | Aleksei Dronov | Russia | 1,075,000 |
| 3 | Samoul Mang | United States | 915,000 |
| 4 | Davide Culotta | Italy | 895,000 |
| 5 | Michael Jukich | United States | 845,000 |
| 6 | Rehman Kassam | United Kingdom | 680,000 |
| 7 | Alexander Ivarsson | Sweden | 595,000 |
| 8 | Ian Modder | Canada | 582,500 |
| 9 | Jose Mas | United States | 555,500 |
| 10 | Ruben Correia | Portuguese | 527,000 |
Other notables who bought in and found a bag on Day 1d include Satoshi Tanaka (454,000), Scott Ball (408,000), Justin Fawcett (373,000), Upeshka Desilva (321,500), Andrew Moreno (267,000), Timur Margolin (266,500), Anthony Zinno (218,000), Bryan Schultz (217,000), Bradley Jansen (206,500), and poker legend Kathy Liebert (255,000).
Further down the table are players like Renji Mao (172,000), Julien Sitbon (163,500), Martin Zamani, Matt Glantz (140,000), Chris Moorman (132,500), Olga Iermolcheva (76,400), and poker hall of famer David Oppenheim (53,500).
These players will return at 11 a.m. local time on June 7 for Day 2d, the last separate flight of the event. The Day 2 survivors will all join one combined field on June 8 for Day 3 of the event.
The seat draw for Day 2d is available on the WSOP LIVE app from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store.