Event #38: $1,500 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold'em Day 1b | 2024 World Series of Poker

Event #38: $1,500 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold'em

Day 1b Completed

06-16-2024 02:30 UTC-8

Changfeng Fan Leads The Field After Day 1b of the Monster Stack

Jon Pill

Changfeng Fan has a commanding lead in Event #38: $1,500 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold'em after Day 1b saw them bag a chip stack of 1,403,500. Fan replaces Ryan Sullivan, the Day 1a chip leader at the top of the standings.

Day 1b of the $1,500 Monster Stack added another 2,876 players to the field, growing the total to 5,235 entries. The 947 Day 1b survivors will join the 737 from Day 1a for a Day 2 total of 1,684 players.

However, with Day 1c still to go, these numbers all have plenty of time to swell even further.

Monster Stack Top Ten Chip Counts

Rank	Player	Country	Chips	Big Blinds
1	Changfeng Fan	United States	1,403,500	468
2	Ryan Sullivan	United States	915,000	305
3	Chih-Feng Li	Japan	855,000	285
4	Maxime Parys	France	765,000	255
5	Cristian Tuica	United States	728,500	243
6	Hung Nguyen	United States	665,000	222
7	John Oshea	Ireland	609,500	203
8	Joshua Heinzl	United States	591,500	197
9	Jackson Spencer	United States	540,000	180
10	Vinicius Lima	United States	525,000	175

Several notable players bagged on Day 1b. These included Faraz Jaka (439,000), Ana Marquez (338,000), Brock Wilson (321,000), Kathy Liebert (315,500), Jake Schwartz (297,500), Pete Chen (284,000), Shannon Shorr (233,000), Nick Pupillo (188,000), Brent Hanks (126,500), Jack Sinclair (115,000), Ryan Laplante (84,000), Ryan Riess (69,000), Ebony Kenney (44,500), and Ali Imsirovic (18,500).

Day 1c kicks off at 10 a.m. local time on June 16 and will play for eleven 60-minute levels with a 20-minute break every two levels and a dinner break of 75-minutes after Level 8 (around 7 p.m.).

The field will then combine for Day 2 on June 17 at 11 a.m. when PokerNews' traditional coverage of this event will begin.

06-16-2024 02:03 UTC-8

Official Day 1b Chip Counts (full)

AaronMcBride

Player	Chips	Progress
Changfeng Fan	1,403,500 1,403,500	1,403,500

Chih-Feng Li	855,000 855,000	855,000
Maxime Parys	765,000 765,000	765,000
Hung Nguyen	665,000 665,000	665,000
Jackson Spencer	540,000 540,000	540,000
Huihan Wu	505,000 505,000	505,000
Domyo Aqmelli	492,000 492,000	492,000
Ronald Ibbetson	482,500 482,500	482,500
Ran Koller	454,000 454,000	454,000

Alexander Polinsky	448,500 448,500	448,500
Hersh Mahajan	440,000 440,000	440,000
Faraz Jaka	439,000 249,000	249,000

Lisa Schuessler	431,500 431,500	431,500
Yuhang Chen	428,500 428,500	428,500
Ka Chun Kan	423,000 423,000	423,000
Don Yucius	423,000 423,000	423,000
Jim Willerson	418,500 418,500	418,500

Kent Miller	418,500 418,500	418,500
Sean Ohara	412,500 412,500	412,500
Rogen Chhabra	410,000
Rahul Deevara	406,500 406,500	406,500
Charles Alex-Barton	405,000 405,000	405,000
David Rohm	396,500 396,500	396,500
Dimitrios Gkatzas	396,000
Jesse Cohen	392,000 392,000	392,000