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Travis MacMillan Wins Main Event for $312,965
Level: 33 (200000/400000/400000) Entries: 1/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) 
Travis MacMillan, with rail, after winning Main Event 
Victor Li After three days of play, the Main Event is now over, and Travis MacMillan is the latest owner of a WSOP-C Main Event ring from Calgary. He overcame Victor Li in a short but hard-fought HU battle.
Li was the leader when they started the day, and he was still the leader when they got to heads up. Li was able to hang onto the lead through most of the final table, but MacMillan was running hot heads up.
The action got going early in the day when Tommy Nguyen found himself in a cooler just a few minutes after play began. He raised under the gun, then called off a shove from Sheraz Nasir with pocket sevens, only to run into pocket aces for Nasir. He couldn’t ground the rockets, and he was the first out from the final table.
Clavin Chow was next to go, followed by Gabriel Vezina. Vezina hit the rail after Li made an unlikely call with just ace-high on a nine-high flop. Vezina was ahead after hitting the middle pair on the flp with a seven, along with backdoor straight outs. Li found a queen on the turn and held to send Vezina out in 8th.
Nasir was left short after he rivered a full house, but Li had already turned a bigger boat and took a huge pot. Nasir was able to ladder over Nicholas Lee (7th), Jun Huang (6th), and Kyle Change (5th), but he ended his run in 4th place when his ace-four ran into the ace-ten for MacMillan.
They played three-handed for almost 2 hours before Kwong Au couldn’t find a diamond to complete his flopped flush draw, and lost to the top pair for MacMillan.
That set up the HU between Li and MacMillan. The big change happened when MacMillan called off his tournament life with a heart draw against middle pair for Li with just one card to come. It was a good one for MacMillan, as the king of hearts on the river gave him the double and the lead.
In the final hand, MacMillan raised to 1 million, then called when Li made it 4 million. Li fired 2.5 million in J♦7♥K♣ flop, and Li check-called for 3 million on the Q♦ turn.
When Li checked the K♣ river, MacMillan shoved a covering stack and sent Li deep into the tank. The hand started with about 6 minutes to play in Level 33, but Li was still in the tank after there were already 10 minutes gone in the break following that level.
MacMillan finally called the clock about 10 minutes into the break, and Li put in the call with about 5 seconds remaining on his 30-second countdown. Li’s queen was no good against the trip kings for MacMillan, and the game was over. Li scored $208,615 for 2nd while MacMillan pocketed nearly $313k for first place.
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MacMillan To the Lead
Level: 33 (200000/400000/400000) Entries: 2/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Travis MacMillan just took the lead with a double, but he had to get there to survive. The money went in on the turn with the board reading 8♥J♥K♦4♠.
MacMillan shoved 7.825 million into a pot of about 8 million, and after some time in the tank, Li called it off. He had second pair with jack-nine, and was good against the 6♥4♥ for MacMillan, but MacMillan found the heart he needed with the K♥ river and doubled up. He is now up to about 23 million against 13 million for Li.
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Li Leads
Level: 33 (200000/400000/400000) Entries: 2/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Victor Li is up by about 2.5:1 now. Travis MacMillan has about 11 million in front of him, with Li playing about 25 million. There are a total of 91 big blinds in play in this level, with MacMillan playing about 28bb to Li’s 63bb.
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Kwong Au Out in 3rd Place for $146,349
Level: 33 (200000/400000/400000) Entries: 2/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) 
Kwong Au The Main Event is now heads up between Travis MacMillan and Victor Li. Kwong Au raised to 1 million, and MacMillan called to see 5♦Q♦J♠ on the flop.
Au shoved for 4.35 million, and, after a count, MacMillan called. He had top pair with Q♥6♥ while Au was drawing to diamonds with K♦7♦. The J♣J♥ runout didn’t help Au, and he was out in 3rd place tonight.
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MacMillan Chips Up
Level: 32 (150000/300000/300000) Entries: 3/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) The flop was out reading Q♦6♦5♣ and Kwong Au check-raised from 500k to 1.2 million. Travis MacMillan called to the 9♠ turn. Both players checked, but after a check from Au on the 10♠ river, MacMillan fired 1.7 million.
Au took some time but slid in the call. He was drawing to diamonds with ace-seven, but bricked. Despite that, he still called with ace-high, but MacMillan showed queen-jack for top pair and the win.
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Li Leads by 4 Million
Level: 32 (150000/300000/300000) Entries: 3/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Victor Li is in the lead, but Kwong Au’s double near the end of Level 31 made it a lot closer.
Seat Player Chips 07 Travis Macmillan 7,275,000 08 Victor Li 16,575,000 09 Kwong Au 12,550,000 -
Au Can Play Again
Level: 31 (150000/250000/250000) Entries: 3/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) I arrived to the table with the action on the turn and the board reading 4♦5♣Q♠3♣. After a check from Victor Li, Kwon Au shoved 6.625 million, sending Li into the tank.
While Li was thinking, Au said “If I win this I can play poker again.” Someone on the rail asked if he wasn’t playing now, and he replied “I’m playing like a donkey.”
As Li continued to think, he said “Only cash players know what I have. This is a cash game play, big overbet.” Li finally called it, and both players were on the queen for top pair, with Au on the better kicker. The river bricked, and Au got a double.
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Li Keeps Chipping Up
Level: 31 (150000/250000250000) Entries: 3/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Victor Li raised the small blind to 800k, and Kwong Au called from the big. They both checked the 7♠3♠4♣ flop, but Li fired 700k on the 10♠ turn.
Au called to the A♣ river, then called again when Li fired 1.2 million. Li showed 10♥5♥ and Au mucked his hand.
There is a break in about 7 minutes and I’ll get exact counts then, but Li has a big lead right now.
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Sheraz Nasir Out in 4th Place for $104,305
Level: 31 (150000/250000/250000) Entries: 3/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) 
Sheraz Nasir Sheraz Nasir got the first payout over $100k after he shoved his button with ace-four, and big blind Travis MacMillan called from the small blind with ace-ten. The 9♥J♦K♦10♦J♥ nearly chopped with a straight on board, but in the end, MacMillan’s kicker played, and Nasir was out in 4th place.
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Kyle Chang Out in 5th Place for $75,546
Level: 31 (150000/250000/250000) Entries: 4/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) 
Kyle Chang They are down to 4 left in the Main Event after Kyle Chang’s ace-ten couldn’t crack the queens of Kwong Au. The money was in preflop, and the jack-high board didn’t change anything.
All remaining players are now guaranteed 6-figure payouts.
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Li Leading
Level: 31 (150000/250000/250000) Entries: 5/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Victor Li raised the middle to 500k, and Sheraz Nasir called the big blind. Both players checked the [invalid notations] turn.
They both checked the K♣ river, and both players were on big draws. Li hit a seven on the flop with [invalid notations] for the diamond straight flush draw from the flop. Li’s seven was good, however, and he increased his lead. I’ll get another round of counts at the next break.
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Jun Yu Huang Out in 6th Place for $55,618
Level: 30 (100000/200000/200000) Entries: 5/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) 
Jun Huang In a hand that usually chops, Victor Li raised to 500k, then called off when Jun Huang shoved for a bit more. Huang had A♣3♥ against A♠4♠, but Li found his four on the flop, then turned the spade flush, on the 4♠9♠Q♦10♠10♣ runout for the win.
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Nasir Doubles with Freeroll
Level: 30 (100000/200000/200000) Entries: 6/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Sheraz Nasir was all in with ace-queen of clubs against the off-suit ace-queen, but managed to find running clubs on a board of 8♦8♣3♦K♣4♣ and got the double from a spot that is usually a chop.
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Nicholas Lee Out in 7th Place for $41,633
Level: 30 (100000/200000/200000) Entries: 6/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) 
Nicholas Lee Nicholas Lee and Kwong Au were all in, with Lee in trouble on king-queen against ace-queen for Au. Lee flopped his king, but Au flopped his ace as well, and took it down.
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Boat Over Boat Leaves Nasir Short
Level: 30 (100000/200000/200000) Entries: 7/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Sheraz Nasir raised to 400k from the button, and Victor Li called from the small blind. Li check-called for 300k on the 9♠A♠A♣ flop, and agains for 200k on the 7♠ turn.
When the river came 6♥ Li checked again, then raised Nasir’s 800k bet to 3.2 million. Nasir hit the tank for several minutes, apologizing to the table, saying he had a “big decision”.
When he called, it was easy to see why. He had pocket sixes for the riverboat, but Li was on pocket sevens for the bigger boat on the turn.
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Chang Holds for a Double
Level: 30 (100000/200000/200000) Entries: 7/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Kyle Chang raised to 1.875 million under the gun, leaving 25k behind. Sheraz Nasir called from his left, and they saw a flop of K♠J♦5♥. Change check-called all in for his last 25k.
Chang had pocket eights, with Nasir on ace-queen overs with a Broadway draw. 4♣6♥ on the runout left Chang good with his pair, and he doubled to around 4 million.
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MacMillan Leads at Break
Level: 30 (100000/200000/200000) Entries: 7/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Travis MacMillan is the leader right now with 8 million, but there isn’t much daylight between him and Victor Li with 7.55 million. See below for the stacks as counted on the break.
Seat Player Chips 01 Nicholas Lee 2,250,000 03 Kyle Chang 3,200,000 04 Jun-Yu Huang 1,900,000 06 Sheraz Nasir 6,650,000 07 Travis Macmillan 8,000,000 08 Victor Li 7,550,000 09 Kwong Au 6,625,000 -
Lee Doubles
Level: 29 (75000/150000/150000) Entries: 7/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Travis MacMillan raised to 300k before Victor Li reraised to 650k. It folded to Nicholas Lee on the button, and he shoved for less than Li’s reraise. MacMillan got out of the way, and it was kings for Lee versus A♠8♥ for Li. Li found an eight on the flop, but nothing else, so The Doctor’s kings held for a double. He was down to 630k, but is now up to around 1.5 million.
Exact counts coming in 6 minutes on the next break.
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MacMillan Chips Up
Level: 29 (75000/150000/150000) Entries: 7/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Travis MacMillan looks like the leader right now. I’ll grab exact counts at the break in about 15 minutes, but he just chipped up again through start-of-day leader Kwong Au.
Au raised the middle to 310k, and MacMillan called from the big blind. They both checked the 10♥4♠7♦ flop, and MacMillan check-called for 310k on the K♣ turn.
It was back to checks on the 2♣ river, and MacMillan showed K♠6♥ for the turned pair. Au mucked his hand, saying, “My pair no good.”
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Gabriel Vezina Out in 8th Place for $31,696
Level: 29 (75000/150000/150000) Entries: 7/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) 
Gabriel Vezina Victor Li made a bit of an unbelievable call on the flop to send Gabriel Vezina home in 8th place. It was blind on blind, and Li raised to 425k from the small, with Vezina calling from the big.
It all kicked off on the 2♦7♣9♠ flop. Li fired 275k, then tank-called when Vezina shoved for 2.74 million. That was most of the rest of Li’s stack after he recently doubled up Travis MacMillan, but after some thought, he called it off.
Li was behind with ace-queen against eight-seven, with Vezina on the pair of sevens with backdoor straight draws. Li took the lead on the Q♣ turn, and the [invalid notations] didn’t help Vezina.
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Calvin Chow Out in 9th Place for $24,549
Level: 29 (75000/150000/150000) Entries: 9/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) 
Calvin Chow I missed the action, but Calvin Chow was the 9th-place finisher today from the Main Event. He earned $24,549 for his efforts.
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MacMillan Doubles
Level: 29 (75000/150000/150000) Entries: 9/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Travis MacMillan was just at risk, all in for 3.37 million. His pocket jacks were in great shape, but Victor Li hit his seven kicker, then the board turned to a four-card straight that might have chopped it. The river was safe for the jacks, putting a pair of sixes out, and MacMillan got the double.
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Tommy Nguyen Out in 10th Place for $19,349
Level: 28 (60000/120000/120000) Entries: 9/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) 
Tommy Nguyen It was a bit of a setup for short-stack Tommy Nguyen today. With Nguyen under the gun, he put in a big raise to 900k, betting about half his stack. It folded to Sheraz Nasir in the middle, and he shoved a covering stack.
It folded around to Nicholas Lee in the big blind, and he looked like he had something he might have wanted to play under different circumstances, but then quickly mucked. Nguyen just as quickly put the rest of his chips in, only to run his sevens into the pocket aces of Nasir for an early cooler.
Nasir flopped a third ace for the set, leaving Nguyen drawing thin to quads, and he was dead on the turn.
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The Final Day of the Main is Underway
Level: 28 (60000/120000/120000) Entries: 10/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) The final 10 players in the Main Event are back in action for the final day of play. Everyone returning is guaranteed $19,349, but everyone will be looking up top to the four 6-digit prizes, and the nearly $313k up top for the winner.
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Victor Li Leads Final 10 into Day 3 of the Main Event

WSOP-C Oct 2025 Infocard 

Gabriel Vezina 
Kwong Au 
Victor Li 
Travis MacMillan 
Sheraz Nasir 
Calvin Chow 
Jun Huang 
Kyle Chang 
Tommy Nguyen 
Nicholas Lee Event #12: $2,300 NLH Main Event ($2050 + $250)
Date: Day 3: Oct 13, Noon Blinds: 60 Minutes Entries: 10/910 Prizes: $1,865,500 (1st Place: $312,965) Day 3 of the Main Event is set with 10 players returning. The action kicks off at noon in Sundance, and Victor Li is out in front with more than 9 million.
His closest competition is Kwong Au with 6.645 million, and after that, it’s Sheraz Nasir with 4.2 million and Travis MacMillan with 4.11 million.
Seat Player Chips 01 Nicholas Lee 2,155,000 (18 BB) 02 Tommy Nguyen 1,645,000 (14 BB) 03 Kyle Chang 1,620,000 (14 BB) 04 Jun-Yu Huang 1,895,000 (16 BB) 05 Calvin Chow 1,800,000 (15 BB) 06 Sheraz Nasir 4,200,000 (35 BB) 07 Travis Macmillan 4,110,000 (34 BB) 08 Victor Li 9,040,000 (75 BB) 09 Gabriel Vezina 3,160,000 (26 BB) 10 Kwong Au 6,645,000 (55 BB) Blinds stay at 60 minutes for the rest of the game, and they’ll award the Main Event ring before play ends on this one. Blinds start on Day 3 at 60k/120k/120k, putting the average stack to start the final day at just over 30 bigs.


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Final Table Faces
Level: 27 (50000/10000/100000) Entries: 10/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) 
Gabriel Vezina 
Kwong Au 
Victor Li 
Travis MacMillan 
Sheraz Nasir 
Calvin Chow 
Jun Huang 
Kyle Chang 
Tommy Nguyen 
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Final Table
Level: 27 (50000/100000/100000) Entries: 10/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) The Main Event is at the final table now, with 10 players left. James Cruickshank was the bubble after he suffered a bit of a bad beat that left him short. He raised the button, then called off the small stack shove from Gabriel Vezina, who had just lost a bunch of chips after folding a big river to Kwong Au.
Cruickshank was in good with ace-queen against a suited seven-six, but it was Vezina that hit the 6♥5♣2♦Q♦7♦ board hardest. That left Cruickshank short, and he was leaving the room shortly after.
Place Player Prize 11 James Cruickshank
$19,349 12 Rauno Tahvonen
$15,524 13 Jason Chan
$15,524 14 Andrew Macdonald
$12,683 15 Ruoxiao Shi
$12,683 16 Mingchen Zhang
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Three-Bets on Table 42
Level: 27 (50000/100000/100000) Entries: 14/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Table 42 seems to be fond of three-bets lately. The final level of the night has just begun, but over the last ~10 minutes of Level 26, I saw three different preflop three-bet situations. It started with the previous hand from Gabriel Vezina.
Shortly after that, Calvin Chow opened the middle to 160k, and Vezina once again found the three-bet, this time sizing up to 520k, prompting a fold from Chow.
A couple of hands later, Kyle Chang raised the cutoff to 160k, but Sheraz Nasir, in the small blind, had other ideas, repopping it to 465k, forcing the fold from Chang.
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Vezina Takes it on the Flop
Level: 26 (40000/80000/80000) Entries: 15/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Kyle Chang raised to 160k from the cutoff, and big blind Gabriel Vezina three-bet to 380k. Chang made the call to see 9♠K♣4♦ on the flop, then check-folded to a bet of 250k from Vezina.
Mingchen Zhang was the most recent exit to bring the game to 15 remaining.
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Final 16 Stacks in the Main
Level: 26 (40000/80000/80000) Entries: 16/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Kwong Au leads the final 16, with stacks counted at the recent break. He is the only player with more than 5 million, but Victor Lee and Sheraz Nasir are both playing about 4.7 million.
T-S Player Chips 41 – 1 Nicholas Lee 1,495,000 41 – 3 James Cruickshank 2,365,000 41 – 4 Ruoxiao Shi 605,000 41 – 6 Kwong Au 5,125,000 41 – 7 Jun-Yu Huang 1,430,000 41 – 9 Rauno Tahvonen 475,000 42 – 2 Andrew Macdonald 975,000 42 – 3 Jason Chan 1,375,000 42 – 6 Gabriel Vezina 2,550,000 42 – 7 Sheraz Nasir 4,755,000 42 – 9 Victor Li 4,775,000 43 – 2 Travis Macmillan 1,500,000 43 – 3 Calvin Chow 880,000 43 – 4 Tommy Nguyen 3,105,000 43 – 5 Kyle Chang 2,915,000 43 – 7 Mingchen Zhang 1,035,000 -
16 Left at Final Break of Day 2
Level: 26 (40000/80000/80000) Entries: 16/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) They are down to 16 remaining, with the players on the break following Level 25. This will be the final break of Day 2, with the bags set to come out at the end of Level 27. There are two levels of play left in the day when they return, and anyone remaining after the end of Level 27 will come back tomorrow to finish it out on Day 3.
Place Player Prize 17 Jeremy Herauf
$12,683 18 Trent Hopper
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Final Two Tables of the Main Event
Level: 25 (30000/60000/60000) Entries: 18/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Day 2 of the Main Event just broke down to the final two tables with 18 players left. Nicholas Teeuwen, the only previous winner of this event that I could see remaining in the field, was among the recent busts.
Place Player Prize 19 Hamish Tong
$10,556 20 Mehmet Siginc
$10,556 21 Kevin Javier
$10,556 22 Arya Ghai
$10,556 23 Richard Rex
$10,556 24 Zhi(George) Yang
$10,556 25 Nicholas Teeuwen
$10,556 26 Luteng Li
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Herauf Doubles to More than 1 Million
Level: 24 (25000/50000/50000) Entries: 24/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Jeremy Herauf shoved the cutoff for 585k, and Andrew MacDonald called from the button. It was a race between the A♦K♦ for MacDonald and pocket sixes for Herauf. The board of Q♠7♠Q♥8♦6♦ ran clean for the underpair, and Herauf hit the set on the river for overkill.
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Chips for Final 26
Level: 24 (25000/50000/50000) Entries: 26/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) The Day 2 players are on their dinner break now, with just under 20 minutes until they are back in action for Level 24. Below is a look at the final 26 stacks, counted on dinner by me. Victor Li is leading with 3.62 million, and Sheraz Nasir is the only other player with 3 million or more.
T-S Player Chips 41 – 1 Andrew Macdonald 960,000 41 – 2 Arya Ghai 785,000 41 – 3 CALVIN CHOW 1,015,000 41 – 4 Gabriel Vezina 1,435,000 41 – 5 Hamish Tong 2,730,000 41 – 6 James Cruickshank 1,640,000 41 – 7 Jason Chan 1,035,000 41 – 8 Jeremy Herauf 1,035,000 41 – 9 JUN YU HUANG 1,416,000 42 – 1 Kevin Javier 950,000 42 – 2 Kwong Au 1,375,000 42 – 3 Kyle Chang 755,000 42 – 4 Luteng Li 470,000 42 – 5 Mehmet Siginc 1,225,000 42 – 6 Mingchen Zhang 510,000 42 – 7 Nicholas Lee 2,950,000 42 – 8 Nicholas Teeuwen 1,150,000 42 – 9 Rauno Tahvonen 770,000 43 – 1 Richard Rex 680,000 43 – 2 Ruoxiao Shi 1,075,000 43 – 3 SHERAZ NASIR 3,250,000 43 – 4 Tommy L D Nguyen 2,075,000 43 – 5 Travis Macmillan 1,925,000 43 – 6 Trent Hopper 905,000 43 – 7 Victor Zhenyu Li 3,620,000 43 – 8 Zhi Yang 655,000 Recent Busts Before Dinner
Place Player Prize 27 Pavlo Vertiiko
$8,952 28 Ran Yi
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Ran Yi Bubbles Final Three Tables
Level: 23 (20000/40000/40000) Entries: 27/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) They are down to the final three tables now after Ran Yi’s pocket threes couldn’t crack the aces of Tommy Nguyen. About 6 minutes remain in Level 23, with a break to follow this level.
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Nearing the Final Three Tables
Level: 23 (20000/40000/40000) Entries: 29/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) They are down to 28 players remaining, on the bubble to the final three tables. Full prizes so far, as well as future payouts, are under the Payouts tab, with recent busts below.
Place Player Prize 29 Yan Lin
$8,952 30 Matthew Ouellette
$8,952 31 Jorge Pacheco
$8,952 32 Toan Tran
$8,952 33 Chris Hak
$8,952 34 Chad Winnick
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Final 34 Players
Level: 22 (15000/30000/30000) Entries: 34/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) I’m not 100% certain of the stacks, as these came from dealer counts (likely at the last break), but below is a look at the final 34 players in the Main, and their approximate stacks.
Player Chips Mingchen Zhang 2,585,000 Victor Zhenyu Li 2,450,000 Nicholas Lee 2,225,000 Sheraz Nasir 2,150,000 Arya Ghai 1,615,000 Gabriel Vezina 1,435,000 Nicholas Teeuwen 1,400,000 Jeremy Herauf 1,350,000 Trent Hopper 1,280,000 Kevin Javier 1,255,000 Pavlo Vertiiko 1,150,000 Kyle Chang 1,090,000 Toan Tran 1,075,000 Jorge Artiga Pacheco 995,000 Mehmet Siginc 975,000 Travis Macmillan 930,000 Ruoxiao Shi 875,000 Calvin Chow 740,000 Yan Lin 680,000 Zhi Yang 666,000 Kwong Au 625,000 Tommy L D Nguyen 600,000 Luteng Li 600,000 Ran Yi 545,000 Matthew Ouellette 530,000 Jason Chan 475,000 Rauno Tahvonen 465,000 James Larry Cruickshank 463,000 Andrew Macdonald 455,000 Richard Rex 415,000 Hamish Tong 385,000 Chris Hak 290,000 Chad Winnick 275,000 Jun Yu Huang 127,000 -
Down to 34 Remaining
Level: 22 (15000/30000/30000) Entries: 34/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Place Player Prize 35 Johnny Dalphond
$8,952 36 Jen Peters
$7,738 37 Dylan Payne
$7,738 38 Harman Jassal
$7,738 39 Jackson Oniske
$7,738 40 Ngoc Nguyen
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Some Big Stacks Before Break
Level: 21 (15000/25000/25000) Entries: 40/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) There are 40 players left with about 5 minutes to play until the end of Level 21. Mingchen Zhang looks to be leading right now with 2.7 million, but Mini Main Event winner Nicholas Lee is close behind with about 2.6 million, while Sheraz Nasir has about 2.5 million.
Nicholas Teeuwen has the chance to be the first player to win the WSOP-C Calgary Main Event twice, as he’s sitting with about 1.4 million right now.
Player Chips Mingchen Zhang 2,700,000 Nicholas Lee 2,600,000 Sheraz Nasir 2,500,000 Arya Ghai 1,900,000 Victor Zhenyu Li 1,400,000 Nicholas Teeuwen 1,400,000 Recent Payouts from Day 2
Place Player Prize 41 Alex Difelice
$7,738 42 David Burnard
$7,738 43 Duane Van-Leulen
$7,738 44 Kevin Rivest
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Final Five Tables
Level: 21 (15000/25000/25000) Entries: 44/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) They are down to 44 left in Day 2, with about 35 minutes to play in Level 21.
Place Player Prize 45 Vikram Gill
$6,821 46 Bradley Ellis
$6,821 47 Hari Aujla
$6,821 48 Tony Ma
$6,821 49 Xiu-Mei Song
$6,821 50 Wenhan Lu
$6,821 51 Rishi Makkar
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Huang Pips Tran
Level: 21 (15000/25000/25000) Entries: 46/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Jun Huang raised under the gun to 50k, and Toan Tran defended the big blind with a call. They both checked through the A♠K♠8♠K♥ flop and turn, but when the river brought the fourth spade with 6♠, Tran bet out 60k. After some time in the tank, Huang called it off, showing Q♥J♠ to pip Tran’s A♣10♠ for the flush.
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Nearing 50 Remaining
Level: 21 (15000/25000/25000) Entries: 51/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) The field is down to 51 players on the final 6 tables now in Day 2 of the Main Event. Full prizes are under the Payouts tab, with recent cahses below.
Place Player Prize 52 Matt Kwong
$6,821 53 Jodie Dunfield
$6,821 54 Julien Perouse
$6,134 55 Dabid Katzov
$6,134 56 Colin Jung
$6,134 57 Jay Glass
$6,134 58 Pietro Giudice
$6,134 59 Amarjot Brar
$6,134 60 Ramaz Haymour
$6,134 61 Alemu Makonen
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Down to 7 Tables
Level: 20 (10000/20000/20000) Entries: 61/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) They are down to 61 players left on the final 7 tables now, with about 40 minutes to play in Level 20.
Place Player Prize 62 Ali Razzaq
$6,134 63 Vincent Lam
$5,630 64 Chengdong Zhao
$5,630 65 Michael Li
$5,630 66 Clint Cockburn
$5,630 67 Umang Dattani
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Some Big Stacks from the Break
Level: 20 (10000/20000/20000) Entries: 67/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Player Chips Arya Ghai 1,405,000 Victor Zhenyu Li 1,265,000 Jun Yu Huang 1,080,000 Luteng Li 1,055,000 Jorge Artiga Pacheco 995,000 Kevin Rivest 995,000 Jason Chan 960,000 Sheraz Nasir 960,000 Clinton Cockburn 950,000 -
67 Remain at the Break
Level: 20 (10000/20000/20000) Entries: 67/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) They are down to 67 remaining in Day 2 of the Main Event Day 2. There is a small change to the order from my last post as well, as they adjusted the payout order in the backend.
Place Player Prize 68 Zackery Farthing
$5,630 69 Ryan Smith
$5,630 70 Joseph Roberts
$5,630 71 Yeping Shan
$5,630 72 Daniel Lefebvre
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Down to 70
Level: 19 (10000/15000/15000) Entries: 70/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Less than 10 minutes remain in Level 19, with the first break of Day 2 scheduled after this level. The field is now down to 70, with the action slowing a bit during this level. Full prizes from today’s action, including all the future prizes and past bustouts, are under the Payouts tab.
Place Player Prize 71 Joseph Roberts
$5,630 72 Daniel Lefebvre
$5,275 73 Shawn Buchanan
$5,275 74 Drew Ducsham
$5,275 75 Jack Dick
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Fewer than 75 Remain
Level: 19 (10000/15000/15000) Entries: 73/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) The field is dropping pretty fast here on Day 2, with the number down to 73 now. See below for the recent busts, and I should be paying closer attention to the action shortly.
Place Player Prize 76 Ashkan Razavi
$5,275 77 Wayne Goulet
$5,275 78 Chun-Kit Kwan
$5,275 79 Xiaoyi Wang
$5,275 80 Qi Luo
$5,275 81 Richard Wolfe
$5,024 82 Jared Kempf
$5,024 83 Derek Arnold
$5,024 84 Gaetano Buda
$5,024 85 David Quang
$5,024 86 Yue Yang
$5,024 87 Glenn Slater
$5,024 88 Tung Kwok
$5,024 89 Michael Farrow
$5,024 90 Jimmy Lee
$5,024 91 Sunny Lubana
$5,024 92 Zeyu Huang
$5,024 93 Hasanain Al-Ghunaim
$5,024 94 Shreesh Hebbar
$5,024 95 Jeff Eldred
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Under 100 Players Remain
Level: 18 (6000/12000/12000) Entries: 95/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) The Day 2 players have been at the felt for barely 30 minutes, and they are already down to 95 players remaining. The prizes are all loaded under the Payouts tab, and I’ll post recent busts on individual posts.
Early Busts on Day 2
Place Player Prize 96 Shane Brotherwood
$5,024 97 Dallas Larson
$5,024 98 Austin Hamer
$5,024 99 Neal Lamb
$5,024 100 Scott Stuve
$5,024 101 Ning Ma
$5,024 102 Matthew Obrien
$5,024 103 Adrian Chan
$5,024 104 Gordon Wong
$5,024 105 Cody Mckay
$5,024 106 Kevin Huang
$5,024 107 Eun Park
$5,024 108 Linyang Song
$5,024 109 Senthuran Vijayaratnam
$5,024 110 Kelvin Fu
$5,024 111 Yi Cheng
$5,024 112 John Holopainen
$5,024 113 Roman Gallivan
$5,024 114 Tyson Glass
$5,024 115 Allen Shen
$5,024 116 Matthew Osorio
$5,024 117 Kevin Kelso
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117 Players Returning for Day 2; Ash Razavi Leads

WSOP-C Oct 2025 Infocard 
Event #12: $2,300 NLH Main Event ($2050 + $250)
Date: Day 2: Oct 12: Noon
Day 3: Oct 13, NoonBlinds: 60 Minutes Entries: 117/910 Prizes: $1,865,500 (1st Place: $312,965) Day 2 of the Main Event is set, and despite a smaller-than-expected prize pool, Day 2 will be relatively big after Day 1c barely made it to the bubble. There were 70 paid spots on 1c, but no one got paid out as they didn’t get to 70 players until Level 18.
Ashkan Razavi is the overall leader, bagging 988k on 1b. Razavi is a familiar face at the deep end of the Main Event here. He’s final tabled the last two Mains, with a fourth place and a 3rd place to show for it.
His 1b compatriot, Victor Li, also bagged more than 900k, as did “The Doctor” Nicholas Lee. Ruoxiao Shi and Hamish Tong round out the top five stacks with more than 800k each. Full stacks with seats will be posted below.
The Day 2 action gets going at noon and they’ll play 10 Levels before they bag for the night to finish the game on Monday’s Day 3. Blinds are 60 minutes long for the rest of the game.
Day 2 Players, Sorted by Name
T-S Player Chips 30 – 4 Adrian Chan 49,000 35 – 3 Alemu Makonen 378,000 42 – 5 Alex Difelice 480,000 34 – 3 Ali Razzaq 301,000 37 – 9 Allen Li-Xin Shen 130,000 41 – 9 Amarjot Brar 402,000 37 – 7 Andrew Macdonald 718,000 40 – 6 Antonio Ma 130,000 31 – 8 Arya Ghai 542,000 29 – 8 Ashkan Razavi 988,000 34 – 5 Austin Felix Hamer 133,000 31 – 3 Bradley Ellis 368,000 30 – 3 Calvin Chow 62,000 32 – 3 Chad Winnick 454,000 36 – 8 Chengdong Zhao 87,000 30 – 6 Chris Hak 491,000 28 – 5 Chun Kit Kwan 234,000 40 – 8 Clinton Cockburn 92,000 32 – 5 Cody Mckay 62,000 44 – 4 Colin Jung 214,000 41 – 3 Dallas Larson 146,000 44 – 1 Daniel Lefebvre 280,000 35 – 4 David Burnard 307,000 42 – 8 David Katzov 245,000 43 – 1 David Quang 339,000 30 – 2 Derek Arnold 614,000 29 – 6 Drew Ducsharm 191,000 31 – 9 Duane Van Keulen 184,000 44 – 9 Dylan Stephen Payne 649,000 44 – 3 Eun Park 104,000 30 – 7 Gabriel Vezina 411,000 30 – 1 Gaetano Buda 421,000 36 – 9 Glenn Slater 191,000 29 – 4 Gordon Wong 185,000 29 – 1 Hamish Tong 806,000 40 – 7 Harman Jassal 392,000 42 – 3 Harminder Aujla 77,000 43 – 9 Hasanain Al Ghunaim 354,000 28 – 6 Jack Dick 143,000 40 – 9 Jackson Oniske 103,000 35 – 7 James Cruickshank 463,000 36 – 4 Jared Kempf 211,000 38 – 9 Jason Chan 188,000 35 – 6 Jay Glass 63,000 38 – 4 Jeffrey Eldred 208,000 40 – 5 Jennifer Peters 270,000 41 – 2 Jeremy Herauf 86,000 38 – 5 Jimmy Lee 172,000 40 – 1 Jodie Dunfield 405,000 43 – 6 Johnny Dalphond 287,000 38 – 6 John Holopainen 45,000 44 – 8 Jorge Artiga Pacheco 570,000 42 – 7 Joseph Matthew Roberts 386,000 35 – 9 Julien Perouse 362,000 32 – 1 Jun Yu Huang 127,000 38 – 3 Kelvin Fu 67,000 43 – 2 Kevin Javier 636,000 32 – 8 Kevin Huang 210,000 28 – 7 Kevin Kelso 11,000 41 – 6 Kevin Rivest 497,000 31 – 4 Kwong Au 508,000 30 – 5 Kyle Chang 308,000 28 – 9 Linyang Song 70,000 34 – 6 Luteng Li 113,000 42 – 1 Matthew Obrien 134,000 38 – 2 Matthew Kwong 167,000 44 – 6 Matthew Osorio 36,000 29 – 5 Matthew Ouellette 123,000 37 – 4 Mehmet Siginc 266,000 34 – 7 Michael Farrow 388,000 41 – 1 Michael Li 630,000 41 – 5 Mingchen Zhang 348,000 43 – 7 Neal Lamb 82,000 28 – 2 Ngok Nguyen 288,000 37 – 6 Nicholas Lee 941,000 40 – 4 Nicholas Teeuwen 780,000 43 – 3 Ning Ma 150,000 34 – 4 Pavlo Vertiiko 592,000 34 – 8 Pietro Lo Giudice 214,000 28 – 3 Qi Luo 57,000 37 – 2 Ramaz Haymour 358,000 40 – 2 Ran Yi 345,000 28 – 4 Rauno Tahvonen 150,000 31 – 1 Richard Rex 430,000 36 – 5 Richard Wolfe 361,000 44 – 2 Rishi Makkar 342,000 41 – 4 Roman Gallivan 71,000 31 – 2 Ruoxiao Shi 873,000 35 – 5 Ryan Smith 149,000 35 – 8 Scott Ernest Stuve 387,000 44 – 5 Senthuran Vijayaratnam 150,000 32 – 2 Shane Brotherwood 366,000 38 – 7 Shawn Buchanan 316,000 37 – 1 Sheraz Nasir 530,000 35 – 2 Shreesh Hebbar 84,000 28 – 1 Sunny Lubana 69,000 36 – 6 Toan Tran 741,000 36 – 1 Tommy Nguyen 540,000 32 – 7 Travis Macmillan 300,000 29 – 2 Trent Hopper 199,000 43 – 4 Tung Kwok 245,000 36 – 7 Tyson Glass 45,000 37 – 3 Umang Dattani 592,000 32 – 4 Victor Li 974,000 38 – 1 Vikram Gill 370,000 41 – 7 Vincent Lam 674,000 37 – 8 Wayne Goulet 109,000 31 – 6 Wenhan Lu 153,000 42 – 9 Xiaoyi Wang 288,000 29 – 9 Xiu Mei Song 76,000 34 – 9 Yan Lin 362,000 31 – 5 Yeping Shan 183,000 42 – 4 Yi Sheng Cheng 105,000 43 – 5 Yue Yang 124,000 36 – 3 Zackery Farthing 431,000 30 – 8 Zeyu Huang 197,000 34 – 2 Zhi Yang 419,000 Day 2 Players, Sorted by Table & Seat (T-S)
T-S Player Chips 28 – 1 Sunny Lubana 69,000 28 – 2 Ngok Nguyen 288,000 28 – 3 Qi Luo 57,000 28 – 4 Rauno Tahvonen 150,000 28 – 5 Chun Kit Kwan 234,000 28 – 6 Jack Benjamin Ashley Dick 143,000 28 – 7 Kevin Kelso 11,000 28 – 9 Linyang Song 70,000 29 – 1 Hamish Tong 806,000 29 – 2 Trent Hopper 199,000 29 – 4 Gordon Wong 185,000 29 – 5 Matthew Ouellette 123,000 29 – 6 Drew Ducsharm 191,000 29 – 8 Ashkan Razavi 988,000 29 – 9 Xiu Mei Song 76,000 30 – 1 Gaetano Buda 421,000 30 – 2 Derek Arnold 614,000 30 – 3 Calvin Chow 62,000 30 – 4 Adrian Chan 49,000 30 – 5 Kyle Chang 308,000 30 – 6 Chris Hak 491,000 30 – 7 Gabriel Vezina 411,000 30 – 8 Zeyu Huang 197,000 31 – 1 Richard Rex 430,000 31 – 2 Ruoxiao Shi 873,000 31 – 3 Bradley Ellis 368,000 31 – 4 Kwong Au 508,000 31 – 5 Yeping Shan 183,000 31 – 6 Wenhan Lu 153,000 31 – 8 Arya Ghai 542,000 31 – 9 Duane Van Keulen 184,000 32 – 1 Jun Yu Huang 127,000 32 – 2 Shane Lee Brotherwood 366,000 32 – 3 Chad Winnick 454,000 32 – 4 Victor Zhenyu Li 974,000 32 – 5 Cody Mckay 62,000 32 – 7 Travis Macmillan 300,000 32 – 8 Kevin Jeffrey Huang 210,000 34 – 2 Zhi Yang 419,000 34 – 3 Ali Razzaq 301,000 34 – 4 Pavlo Vertiiko 592,000 34 – 5 Austin Felix Hamer 133,000 34 – 6 Luteng Li 113,000 34 – 7 Michael Farrow 388,000 34 – 8 Pietro Lo Giudice 214,000 34 – 9 Yan Lin 362,000 35 – 2 Shreesh Hebbar 84,000 35 – 3 Alemu Makonen 378,000 35 – 4 David Burnard 307,000 35 – 5 Ryan Smith 149,000 35 – 6 Jay Glass 63,000 35 – 7 James Larry Cruickshank 463,000 35 – 8 Scott Ernest Stuve 387,000 35 – 9 Julien Perouse 362,000 36 – 1 Tommy L D Nguyen 540,000 36 – 3 Zackery Farthing 431,000 36 – 4 Jared Scott Kempf 211,000 36 – 5 Richard Wolfe 361,000 36 – 6 Toan Tran 741,000 36 – 7 Tyson Glass 45,000 36 – 8 Chengdong Zhao 87,000 36 – 9 Glenn Slater 191,000 37 – 1 Sheraz Nasir 530,000 37 – 2 Ramaz Haymour 358,000 37 – 3 Umang Dattani 592,000 37 – 4 Mehmet Siginc 266,000 37 – 6 Nicholas Lee 941,000 37 – 7 Andrew Macdonald 718,000 37 – 8 Wayne Goulet 109,000 37 – 9 Allen Li-Xin Shen 130,000 38 – 1 Vikram Gill 370,000 38 – 2 Matthew Kwong 167,000 38 – 3 Kelvin Fu 67,000 38 – 4 Jeffrey Eldred 208,000 38 – 5 Jimmy Lee 172,000 38 – 6 John Holopainen 45,000 38 – 7 Shawn Michael Buchanan 316,000 38 – 9 Jason Chan 188,000 40 – 1 Jodie Dunfield 405,000 40 – 2 Ran Yi 345,000 40 – 4 Nicholas Teeuwen 780,000 40 – 5 Jennifer Peters 270,000 40 – 6 Antonio Ma 130,000 40 – 7 Harman Jassal 392,000 40 – 8 Clinton Cockburn 92,000 40 – 9 Jackson Oniske 103,000 41 – 1 Michael Li 630,000 41 – 2 Jeremy Herauf 86,000 41 – 3 Dallas Larson 146,000 41 – 4 Roman Gallivan 71,000 41 – 5 Mingchen Zhang 348,000 41 – 6 Kevin Rivest 497,000 41 – 7 Vincent Lam 674,000 41 – 9 Amarjot Brar 402,000 42 – 1 Matthew Donald Obrien 134,000 42 – 3 Harminder Aujla 77,000 42 – 4 Yi Sheng Cheng 105,000 42 – 5 Alex Difelice 480,000 42 – 7 Joseph Matthew Roberts 386,000 42 – 8 David Katzov 245,000 42 – 9 Xiaoyi Wang 288,000 43 – 1 David Quang 339,000 43 – 2 Kevin Javier 636,000 43 – 3 Ning Ma 150,000 43 – 4 Tung Kwok 245,000 43 – 5 Yue Yang 124,000 43 – 6 John Dalphond 287,000 43 – 7 Neal Lamb 82,000 43 – 9 Hasanain Al Ghunaim 354,000 44 – 1 Daniel Lefebvre 280,000 44 – 2 Rishi Makkar 342,000 44 – 3 Eun Park 104,000 44 – 4 Colin Jung 214,000 44 – 5 Senthuran Vijayaratnam 150,000 44 – 6 Matthew Osorio 36,000 44 – 8 Jorge Artiga Pacheco 570,000 44 – 9 Dylan Stephen Payne 649,000 Top Ten Payouts for Day 2
See the Payouts tab for the full Day 2 prizes.
Place Prize 1 $312,965 2 $208,615 3 $146,349 4 $104,305 5 $75,546 6 $55,618 7 $41,633 8 $31,696 9 $24,549 10 $19,349 

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70 Bags for 1c
Level: 18 (6000/12000/12000) Entries: 70/465 (117/910) Prizes: $953,250 ($1,865,500 total) They went into bubble play with 72 left in Level 16, then they played hand-for-hand until they got into Level 18, finally ending the night with 57:48 remaining in Level 18. That means there were no Day 1c payouts, and 70 players bagged chips for Day 2. See below for a look at the Day 1c stacks, and stay tuned for the Day 2 preview with a full player list, seat assignments, and payouts for the Main Event.
Day 1c Stacks
Player Chips Andrew Macdonald 718,000 Vincent Lam 674,000 Kevin Javier 636,000 Michael Li 630,000 Derek Arnold 614,000 Pavlo Vertiiko 592,000 Umang Dattani 592,000 Arya Ghai 542,000 Tommy Nguyen 540,000 Sheraz Nasir 530,000 Kwong Au 508,000 Chris Hak 491,000 Alex Difelice 480,000 Chad Winnick 454,000 Richard Rex 430,000 Jodie Dunfield 405,000 Amarjot Brar 402,000 Harman Jassal 392,000 Alemu Makonen 378,000 Vikram Gill 370,000 Yan Lin 362,000 Richard Wolfe 361,000 Ramaz Haymour 358,000 Hasanain Al Ghunaim 354,000 David Burnard 307,000 Ali Razzaq 301,000 Travis Macmillan 300,000 John Dalphond 287,000 Daniel Lefebvre 280,000 Tung Kwok 245,000 David Katzov 245,000 Pietro Lo Giudice 214,000 Colin Jung 214000 Kevin Huang 210000 Trent Hopper 199,000 Zeyu Huang 197,000 Drew Ducsharm 191,000 Jason Chan 188,000 Gordon Wong 185,000 Duane Van Keulen 184,000 Matthew Kwong 167,000 Wenhan Lu 153,000 Rauno Tahvonen 150,000 Senthuran Vijayaratnam 150,000 Ryan Smith 149,000 Jack Dick 143,000 Matthew Obrien 134,000 Antonio Ma 130,000 Luteng Li 113,000 Wayne Goulet 109,000 Jackson Oniske 103,000 Clinton Cockburn 92,000 Chengdong Zhao 87,000 Jeremy Herauf 86,000 Shreesh Hebbar 84,000 Neal Lamb 82,000 Harminder Aujla 77,000 Xiu Song 76,000 Roman Gallivan 71,000 Linyang Song 70,000 Gurpreet Lubana 69,000 Kelvin Fu 67,000 Jay Glass 63,000 Cody Mckay 62,000 Calvin Chow 62,000 Adrian Chan 49,000 John Holopainen 45,000 Tyson Glass 45,000 Matthew Osorio 36,000 Kevin Kelso 11,000 -
Hard Bubble in 1c
Level: 17 (5000/10000/10000) Entries: 71/465 (118/910) Prizes: $953,250 ($1,865,500 total) They are now on the hard bubble to the money in Day 1c with 71 players left. I’m not watching this action right now as I’m over in Chrome watching the end of the Ladies game.
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1c is on the Bubble
Level: 17 (5000/10000/10000) Entries: 72/465 (119/910) Prizes: $953,250 ($1,865,500 total) Day 1c is on the bubble with 72 players left. The clock is now paused and they are playing hand-for-hand until the next two eliminations put them in the money. It looks like they went hand-for-hand one player early tonight, probably because last night they lost two in a single hand and ended with less than 10% of the field remaining.
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11 Off the Money
Level: 16 (4000/8000/8000) Entries: 81/465 (128/910) Prizes: $953,250 ($1,865,500 total) They are 11 off the money in 1c of the Main Event, with about 10 minutes to play in Level 16. They need to make it to 70 left, at least, before the end of the night.
If they hit 70 before the end of Level 17, then they’ll bag for the night after the end of that level. If tere are more than 70 players remaining at the end of Level 17, they’ll keep playing until the hit the money, no matter how long it takes.
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465 Entries for 1c Confirmed
Level: 13 (2000/4000/4000) Entries: 140/465 (187/910) Prizes: $953,250 ($1,865,500 total) The prizes have been posted and the field for 1c is confirmed at 465 entries. That puts 910 entries into the pool for all three flights, for prizes of $1,865,500, though some of that will be handed out during the various Day 1 flights.
There are 70 paid spots tonight, with at least 47 bags at the end. If they hit 47 players before the end of Level 17, they’ll bag up early, otherwise, they’ll bag up at the end of Level 17. However, players should be aware that this flight MUST play into the money, at least, so if there are still more than 70 players alive at the end of Level 17, they’ll keep playing until they get to the money no matter how long that takes.
Day 1c Prizes
Place Prize 1 $192,979 2 $128,627 3 $87,803 4 $61,194 5 $43,563 6 $31,692 7 $23,573 8 $17,935 9 $13,966 10-11 $11,136 12-13 $9,099 14-17 $7,622 18-26 $6,549 27-35 $5,788 36-44 $5,236 45-53 $4,879 54-70 $4,646 -
465 Entries for 1c
Level: 13 (2000/4000/4000) Entries: 157/465 (204/910) Prizes: $953,250 ($1,865,500 total) Entries for the Main Event are now closed, and the final unofficial number on the board is 465 for 1c, and 910 total across all three flights. If confirmed, that will mean there are more than $953k in prizes for today’s flight alone, and $1,865,500 for the whole event.
That should also mean a total of 70 paid spots for today’s field, with at least 47 bags at the end of the night. I’ll confirm all the numbers shortly when the 1c prizes are posted – bear in mind there won’t be a Day 2 prize pool available until the end of today’s flight.
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Final Break for Entries in the Main Event
Level: 12 (1500/3000/3000) Entries: 156/458 (203/903) Prizes: $938,900 ($1,851,150 total) There are less than 15 minutes left to get into this Main Event, as the players have just gone for their break following Level 12. When they return to the felt for Level 13 with blinds at 2k/4k/4k, entries will be closed.
They are currently just shy of 460 entries for today’s flight, with 903 overall. The prizes just pushed above $1.85 million.
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More than 450 Entries with 30 Minutes to Go
Level: 12 (1500/3000/3000) Entries: 167/452 (214/897) Prizes: $926,600 ($1,838,850 total) The 1c field is now up to 452, with the combined field just shy of 900 total entries. 30 minutes still remain in entries, so it seems likely they’ll get a bit more than 900 for the whole game.
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More than $1.8 Million
Level: 11 (1500/2500/2500) Entries: 198/442 (245/887) Prizes: $906,100 ($1,818,350 total) The 1c prizes are just a couple fo entries away from equalling 1a & 1b combined. 1c now has $906k in prizes, for a total of $1,818,350 across all three flights.
There are now 90 minutes left to get into this Main Event.
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4th Biggest Prize Pool on Record for WSOP-C Calgary
Level: 10 (1000/2000/2000) Entries: 220/431 (267/876) Prizes: $883,550 ($1,795,800 total) There is still more than 2 hours left to get into this final flight to the Main Event, but the prizes just capped January 2022 for the 4th biggest game ever at WSOP-C Calgary. With 431 entries on the board now, the prizes are $1,795,800, about $10k higher than the first Main Event run under the WSOP-C banner here.
I still expect to see at least 20-30 more entries before the registration desk closes for good on the Main, and if today’s field hits 450 entries, that would be prizes of almost $1.835 million.
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425 Entries on the 3rd Break
Level: 10 (1000/2000/2000) Entries: 225/426 (272/871) Prizes: $873,300 ($1,785,550 total) The 1c field is now one entry away from making this the 4th-biggest prize pool in the history of WSOP-C Calgary. The current 1c field is 426, for 871 total, and one more entry will push it to $1,787,600 in prizes. That caps the opening Main Ev ent back in 2022, which had $1,786,362 in total prizes.
The players are now on the dinner break following Level 9, and they’ll be back in action in about 30 minutes for the final three levels of open entry for this Main Event.
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Nearing $1.75 Million in Prizes
Level: 8 (600/1200/1200) Entries: 243/408 (290/853) Prizes: $836,400 ($1,748,650 total) The numbers for this Main Event are a little lower than I’d initially guessed, given the size of the early fields in this series, but it’s still far and away the biggest game of the series. With more than 850 entries across all the starting days so far, the prize pool is just shy of $1.75 million in total, with the expectation of more coming before entries close.
For this prize pool to cap $2 million, they’d need to get 531 entries today, which seems a bit out of reach at this point, but this is already the fifth biggest prize pool ever amassed here at Deerfoot Inn & Casino, and there’s every chance it will push into position #4 well before entries close.
Today’s flight only needs 427 entries to push the prize pool higher than the January 2022 Main Event, which is currently the 4th biggest pool in the series with $1.786 million in prizes. Hitting 427 for today would put this game at $1,787,600 to take over 4th spot.
3rd spot is a bit more of a stretch, as they need to get $2.077 million to beat this year’s January Main. For this game to beat that number, we’d need to see 569 for 1c, and that seems unlikely given the current numbers.
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Nearing 400 Entries for 1c
Level: 7 (500/1000/1000) Entries: 255/392 (302/837) Prizes: $803,600 ($1,715,850 total) The 1c field is closing in on 400 entries with Level 7 ticking down to the end. There are now 837 entries across all starting flights, for combined prizes of $1.715 million.
Entries are still open for more than 4 hours, and I expect the number to grow fairly briskly through the rest of the entry period, with players recognizing this is their last chance to get into Day 2 of the Main, but it seems like a final 1c field of around 500 might be our top end today.
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Final Flight to the Main Event Runs Saturday

WSOP-C Oct 2025 Infocard 
Event #12: $2,300 NLH Main Event ($2050 + $250)
Date: Day 1a: Oct 9, 11 AM
Day 1b: Oct 10, 11 AM
Day 1c: Oct 11, 11 AM
Day 2: Oct 12: Noon
Day 3: Oct 13, NoonBlinds: 40 Minutes Starting Stack: 40k Late Entry: 12 Levels (~8:30 PM) Day 1 Ends: 17 Levels or 10% of the Field Entries: 47/445 Prizes: $912,250 The first two flights to the Main Event are complete, but they’ve had some empty seats. After two starting days, there are 445 entries with 47 players bagging stacks for Day 2, and $912,250 in total prizes, including the money already handed out on 1a and 1b.
Day 1c gets going at 11 AM, and players start with 40k in chips. Day 1 levels are 40 minutes long, and entries are open for 12 levels. That should put the last chance to get into this Main Event at about 8:30 PM Saturday evening.
Once entries close, they play to 10% of the field, or the end of Level 12. Day 1a still had a few extra players alive when the end of the level came around, but 1b looks to have finished a couple of minutes before the end of Level 17, with a double knockout that meant one fewer bag than expected from 1b.
1b leader Ashkan Razavi also has the overall lead, about 100k ahead of 1a leader Ruoxiao Shi, with Victor Li, and Mini Main Winner Nicholas Lee also bagging more than 900k and coming in ahead of Shi. Hamish Tong from 1b looks to be in 5th place overall, while former Main Event winner Nicholas Teeuwen has the chance to become the first double winner of a Calgary Main, bagging the 6th best stack overall. It’s worth adding that the leader Razavi, has a lot of experience going deep in the Calgary Main Event. He was 3rd in January’s Big Show and 4th in the Main last August, so he’ll be one to watch on Day 2 as well.
Full stacks and cashes from each of the two starting days can be found as the most recent post under the Day 1a & Day 1b tabs. No prizes will be under the Payouts tab until Day 2.
I should be watching this one pretty closely in the early part of the day, though I’ll likely be late to the floor as Friday night’s PLO Bounty looks to be a long one. Once the entries close for this game at 8:30, I will likely move over to cover the Ladies game, and then update the final results from the Main once they bag the final flight.


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Day 1b of the Main Event is Done
Level: 17 (5000/10000/10000) Entries: 25/257 (47/445) Prizes: $526,850 ($912,250 total) Day 1b is now complete with 25 players remaining at the end of 17 levels of play. There was supposed to be 26 bags at the end of today’s flight, but they lost an extra person on the final hand, so only 25 players will advance from Day 1b.
Ashkan Razavi is the 1b leader with 988k and, so far, that puts him in the overall lead for both days with about 100k more than 1a leader Ruoxiao Shi. Razavi has been deep in the Main Event here a few times, including 3rd in January of this year, as well as 4th in August of 2024, so he’s a good bet to figure in the Monday endgame.
Ontario’s Victor Li bagged the second stack for 1b, while Nicholas Lee, who won the Mini Main Event earlier in the series, is third. All three of the top players have more than 900k.
Players started getting paid on 1b at 39th place with a min-cash of $4,661. See below for the stacks moving forward from 1b, as well as the prizes awarded before they bagged.
Day 1b Stacks
Player Chips Ashkan Razavi 988,000 Victor Li 974,000 Nicholas Lee 941,000 Hamish Tong 806,000 Toan Tran 741,000 Dylan Payne 649,000 Kevin Rivest 497,000 Michael Farrow 388,000 Scott Stuve 387,000 Joseph Roberts 386,000 Julien Perouse 362,000 Mingchen Zhang 348,000 Ran Yi 345,000 Shawn Buchanan 316,000 Kyle Chang 308,000 Ngok Nguyen 288,000 Jennifer Peters 270,000 Mehmet Siginc 266,000 Jared Kempf 211,000 Yeping Shan 183,000 Jimmy Lee 172,000 Jun Huang 127,000 Yue Yang 124,000 Eun Park 104,000 Qi Luo 57,000 Day 1b Payouts
Place Player Prize 26 Francis Iron
$4,894 27 Gordon Konkin
$4,661 28 Wayne Hoffert
$4,661 29 Ka Yeung
$4,661 30 Kyle Ho
$4,661 31 Paul Brar
$4,661 32 Mohsen Shafizadeh
$4,661 33 Rajan Nagra
$4,661 34 Garett Maybery
$4,661 35 Eric Wasylenko
$4,661 36 Cameron Stewart
$4,661 37 Stephen Lee
$4,661 38 Travis Williams
$4,661 39 Gilbert Anderson
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More than $900k
Level: 11 (1500/2500/2500) Entries: 97/252 (119/440) Prizes: $516,600 ($902,000 total) About an hour and 20 minutes remain for entries into Day 1b of the Main, with the field now above 250. The 1b prizes are more than $515k, putting the combined prizes at just over $900k. I expect entries to slow from here through the end of the night as the starting stack is down to less than 20 big blinds now.
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235 Entries Just Before Dinner
Level: 9 (1000/1500/1500) Entries: 113/235 (135/423) Prizes: $481,750 ($867,150 total) The Main Event players in Day 1b are moments away from their dinner break, with 3 more levels of open registration following dinner. There are now about 3 hours left to get into the second flight to the Main Event.
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More than $800k in Prizes
Level: 6 (400/800/800) Entries: 149/212 (171/400) Prizes: $434,600 ($820,000 total) Day 1b of the Main Event is running in the Sindance room now with 212 entries on the board as Level 6 comes to a close. There are still more than 5 hours left to enter today’s flight, plus the final flight tomorrow.
So far, the numbers for the opening two flights have been a little lower than expected. 1b has already surpassed the 1a total halfway through registration, but it still feels like a bit of a low number for this point on a Day 1b, but I still expect to see the total prizes pass $1 million today.
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Second Flight to the Main Starts Boarding at 11 AM Friday

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Event #12: $2,300 NLH Main Event ($2050 + $250)
Date: Day 1a: Oct 9, 11 AM
Day 1b: Oct 10, 11 AM
Day 1c: Oct 11, 11 AM
Day 2: Oct 12: Noon
Day 3: Oct 13, NoonBlinds: 40/60 Minutes Starting Stack: 40k Late Entry: 12 Levels (~8:30 PM) Day 1 Ends: 17 Levels or 10% of the Field Entries: 22/188 Prizes: $385,400 (7 Players Cashed Out of Day 1a for $4,631 before the end of the Day) The first flight to the Main Event has landed with 22 players still on board, from a starting field of 188. There were 29 paid spots today, and they might have bagged early if they got to 19 players, but they went the distance and bagged up more than 10% of the field after 17 levels.
Day 1b starts at 11 AM on Friday, and everyone will be looking to beat Ruoxiao Shi, who bagged the 1a lead with 873k. Previous winner of the Main here in Calgary, Nicholas Teeuwen, has stack #2 from the 1a players, so there’s a solid chance for our first repeat Main Event winner at WSOP-C Calgary.
1b is, of course, a redo of 1a with a bigger field. The 1a field was a bit smaller than expected, but that isn’t unusual for a 1a. They got 188 entries on 1a for more than $385k in prizes, and I think it’s still a decent bet for this to be the biggest prize pool ever, though my optimism is somewhat tempered by the 1a result.
Players get 40k to start their day, and entries are open for 12 levels. For players who max-late reg during the break after Level 12 (~8:30), they’ll sit down with 10 bigs for Level 13. Players getting in at 11 AM will have 40 minutes of 200bb play, in theory.
Once entries are closed, they’ll play to 10% or the end of Level 17, whichever comes first. However, since 1a played into the money, players in 1b & 1c should be aware that those flights MUST at least play into the money. That means if the field is still higher than 15% at the end of Level 17, they’ll keep playing until they hit that 15% cashing mark, no matter how long it takes.
Once again, I have other priorities first on Friday. Day 2 of the Flip & Go runs, so I’ll be watching that one most closely. After that, my focus should be on the one-day PLO Bounty starting at 6 PM, and that one could go quite late, so it seems unlikely I’ll get to watch much of 1b of the Main. I will try to keep up with numbers and prizes, and I fully expect Friday’s flight to put this game over $1 million.
Day 1a Stacks
Player Chips Ruoxiao Shi 873,000 Nicholas Teeuwen 780,000 Jorge Artiga Pacheco 570,000 James Cruickshank 463,000 Zackery Farthing 431,000 Gaetano Buda 421,000 Zhi Yang 419,000 Gabriel Vezina 411,000 Bradley Ellis 368,000 Shane Brotherwood 366,000 Rishi Makkar 342,000 David Quang 339,000 Xiaoyi Wang 288,000 Chun Kwan 234,000 Jeffrey Eldred 208,000 Glenn Slater 191,000 Ning Ma 150,000 Dallas Larson 146,000 Austin Hamer 133,000 Allen Shen 130,000 Matthew Ouellette 123,000 Yi Cheng 105,000 

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188 Entries for Day 1a of the Main; 22 Bags
Level: 17 (5000/10000/10000) Entries: 22/188 Prizes: $385,400 Day 1a of the Main Event is done, but with the very long Day 2 in the Monster stack, I wasn’t able to watch any of this one. The opening flight got 188 entries, which is a bit lower than I’d expected based on recent entries.
That still put more than $385k into the prize pool after one flight, however, which makes Day 1a of the Main the second biggest prize pool so far this series. The only game that’s been bigger was the Mini Main Event, which had more than $500k in prizes, but that also took four flights to build.
There are still two more flights to the Main Event, on Friday and Saturday, before Day 2 on Sunday. I’m expecting about 50% more for Friday’s field, putting my guess for that one at about 300 entries, while I think Saturday could easily see more than 500.
There were 29 paid spots tonight, and seven players cashed out for $4,631 on Day 1a, with another 22 players finding bags at the end of 17 levels.
See below for the Day 1a stacks, with Ruoxiao Shi leading, and potential repeat winner Nicholas Teeuwen in second place. Jorge Pacheco, James Cruickshank, and Zachary Farthing round out the top five stacks from 1a
Day 1a Stacks
Player Chips Ruoxiao Shi 873,000 Nicholas Teeuwen 780,000 Jorge Artiga Pacheco 570,000 James Cruickshank 463,000 Zackery Farthing 431,000 Gaetano Buda 421,000 Zhi Yang 419,000 Gabriel Vezina 411,000 Bradley Ellis 368,000 Shane Brotherwood 366,000 Rishi Makkar 342,000 David Quang 339,000 Xiaoyi Wang 288,000 Chun Kwan 234,000 Jeffrey Eldred 208,000 Glenn Slater 191,000 Ning Ma 150,000 Dallas Larson 146,000 Austin Hamer 133,000 Allen Shen 130,000 Matthew Ouellette 123,000 Yi Cheng 105,000 Day 1a Prizes
Place Player Prize 23 Ning Wang
$4,631 24 Ran Yi
$4,631 25 Alex Difelice
$4,631 26 Garett Maybery
$4,631 27 Tommy Nguyen
$4,631 28 Jimmy Lee
$4,631 29 Joshua Myers
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More than $313k in the Main So Far
Level: 7 (500/1000/1000) Entries: 113/153 Prizes: $313,650 The Main Event is on the second break of Day 1a, with the field at 153 entries. That puts $313,650 in prizes into the pool so far, and my guess is today’s flight will get more than $400k in total prizes before entries shut down in about 5 hours.
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1a of the Main is Over $260k
Level: 5 (300/600/600) Entries: 105/128 Prizes: $262,400 There are still more than 6 hours left to enter this opening flight to the Main Event, and the prizes are now over $262k. There are 128 entries on the board so far, and I expect that to at least double before the end of entries around 8:30 tonight, while Day 1b tomorrow, and Day 1c on Saturday promise to be much bigger fields.
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100 Entries on First Break
Level: 4 (300/500/500) Entries: 93/100 Prizes: $205,000 The Main Event Day 1a is over $200k in prizes with 100 entries on the board in the first break of the day. That puts the prizes at $205k, and it’s looking very good for today’s flight to easily cap 200 entries and possibly go beyond 300.
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Nearing $200k in Prizes
Level: 3 (200/400/400) Entries: 88/93 Prizes: $190,650 The prizes are already more than $190k, with half of Level 3 yet to play. The field is at 93, and I’m expecting something like 200+ for today’s flight. If they hit 200, that would mean Day 1a prizes of $410k.
In January, Day 1a of the Main got 319 entries, and given that they are nearly at 100 already before the first break, it’s not out of the question that this Day 1a will meet or beat that number later today. The final number for January was 1,371, for $2.077 million in prizes. If this beefed-up Main gets the same number, the prizes this time around would be more than $2.8 million. The game only needs 1,220 entries overall to cap $2.5 million.
January 2024 was the biggest prize pool yet here ar Deerfoot WSOP-C, with 1,475 entries for prizes of $2,234,625. With the beefed-up buy-in this time around, a field of just 1,090 overall will turn this into the biggest prize pool ever for a WSOP-C Calgary event.
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70 Entries Early in Main Event 1a
Level: 2 (200/300/300) Entries: 67/70 Prizes: $143,500 The Main Event is starting out reasonably well for early on Day 1a. Level 2 has about 5 minutes remaining and the field is up to 70 entries for more than $140k in prizes. I’d expect that number to at least triple before the end of entries in a bit more than 8 hours.
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It’s Main Event Time!

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Event #12: $2,300 NLH Main Event ($2050 + $250)
Date: Day 1a: Oct 9, 11 AM
Day 1b: Oct 10, 11 AM
Day 1c: Oct 11, 11 AM
Day 2: Oct 12: Noon
Day 3: Oct 13, NoonBlinds: 40/60 Minutes Starting Stack: 40k Late Entry: 12 Levels (~8:30 PM) Day 1 Ends: 17 Levels or 10% of the Field It’s time for the Main Event! The biggest game of the series kicks off its opening flight Thursday morning at 11 AM. This is a beefed-up version of the Main from previous series, with a $2,300 buy-in, as well as a 40k stack.
That extra juice in the prize should almost certainly guarantee that this game hits $2.5 million for the first time. The total is in the cards even if this game gets less than January’s total, since the buy-in is basically 33% bigger.
Blinds on Day 1 will be 40 minutes long, and entries are open for 12 levels. That means the desk closes on Day 1 at about 8:30 PM, after which, they’ll play 17 levels, or until only 10% of the field remains.
The opening flight runs on Thursday, with Day 1b on Friday, and Day 1c on Saturday. All Day 1 flights start at 11 AM, while Day 2 and 3 start at noon.

Manish “Bubs” Ralh shows off the WSOP-C bling after winning the Main In January, Manish “Bubs” Ralh took down the Main Event ring over 1,371 entries. His $312,624 prize was the biggest share of $2,077,065 in total prizes. Ralh took the game down after an entertaining battle with Angelo Jopek.


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188 Entries for Day 1a of the Main; 22 Bags
Level: 17 (5000/10000/10000) Entries: 22/188 Prizes: $385,400 Day 1a of the Main Event is done, but with the very long Day 2 in the Monster stack, I wasn’t able to watch any of this one. The opening flight got 188 entries, which is a bit lower than I’d expected based on recent entries.
That still put more than $385k into the prize pool after one flight, however, which makes Day 1a of the Main the second biggest prize pool so far this series. The only game that’s been bigger was the Mini Main Event, which had more than $500k in prizes, but that also took four flights to build.
There are still two more flights to the Main Event, on Friday and Saturday, before Day 2 on Sunday. I’m expecting about 50% more for Friday’s field, putting my guess for that one at about 300 entries, while I think Saturday could easily see more than 500.
There were 29 paid spots tonight, and seven players cashed out for $4,631 on Day 1a, with another 22 players finding bags at the end of 17 levels.
See below for the Day 1a stacks, with Ruoxiao Shi leading, and potential repeat winner Nicholas Teeuwen in second place. Jorge Pacheco, James Cruickshank, and Zachary Farthing round out the top five stacks from 1a
Day 1a Stacks
Player Chips Ruoxiao Shi 873,000 Nicholas Teeuwen 780,000 Jorge Artiga Pacheco 570,000 James Cruickshank 463,000 Zackery Farthing 431,000 Gaetano Buda 421,000 Zhi Yang 419,000 Gabriel Vezina 411,000 Bradley Ellis 368,000 Shane Brotherwood 366,000 Rishi Makkar 342,000 David Quang 339,000 Xiaoyi Wang 288,000 Chun Kwan 234,000 Jeffrey Eldred 208,000 Glenn Slater 191,000 Ning Ma 150,000 Dallas Larson 146,000 Austin Hamer 133,000 Allen Shen 130,000 Matthew Ouellette 123,000 Yi Cheng 105,000 Day 1a Prizes
Place Player Prize 23 Ning Wang
$4,631 24 Ran Yi
$4,631 25 Alex Difelice
$4,631 26 Garett Maybery
$4,631 27 Tommy Nguyen
$4,631 28 Jimmy Lee
$4,631 29 Joshua Myers
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More than $313k in the Main So Far
Level: 7 (500/1000/1000) Entries: 113/153 Prizes: $313,650 The Main Event is on the second break of Day 1a, with the field at 153 entries. That puts $313,650 in prizes into the pool so far, and my guess is today’s flight will get more than $400k in total prizes before entries shut down in about 5 hours.
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1a of the Main is Over $260k
Level: 5 (300/600/600) Entries: 105/128 Prizes: $262,400 There are still more than 6 hours left to enter this opening flight to the Main Event, and the prizes are now over $262k. There are 128 entries on the board so far, and I expect that to at least double before the end of entries around 8:30 tonight, while Day 1b tomorrow, and Day 1c on Saturday promise to be much bigger fields.
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100 Entries on First Break
Level: 4 (300/500/500) Entries: 93/100 Prizes: $205,000 The Main Event Day 1a is over $200k in prizes with 100 entries on the board in the first break of the day. That puts the prizes at $205k, and it’s looking very good for today’s flight to easily cap 200 entries and possibly go beyond 300.
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Nearing $200k in Prizes
Level: 3 (200/400/400) Entries: 88/93 Prizes: $190,650 The prizes are already more than $190k, with half of Level 3 yet to play. The field is at 93, and I’m expecting something like 200+ for today’s flight. If they hit 200, that would mean Day 1a prizes of $410k.
In January, Day 1a of the Main got 319 entries, and given that they are nearly at 100 already before the first break, it’s not out of the question that this Day 1a will meet or beat that number later today. The final number for January was 1,371, for $2.077 million in prizes. If this beefed-up Main gets the same number, the prizes this time around would be more than $2.8 million. The game only needs 1,220 entries overall to cap $2.5 million.
January 2024 was the biggest prize pool yet here ar Deerfoot WSOP-C, with 1,475 entries for prizes of $2,234,625. With the beefed-up buy-in this time around, a field of just 1,090 overall will turn this into the biggest prize pool ever for a WSOP-C Calgary event.
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70 Entries Early in Main Event 1a
Level: 2 (200/300/300) Entries: 67/70 Prizes: $143,500 The Main Event is starting out reasonably well for early on Day 1a. Level 2 has about 5 minutes remaining and the field is up to 70 entries for more than $140k in prizes. I’d expect that number to at least triple before the end of entries in a bit more than 8 hours.
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It’s Main Event Time!

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Event #12: $2,300 NLH Main Event ($2050 + $250)
Date: Day 1a: Oct 9, 11 AM
Day 1b: Oct 10, 11 AM
Day 1c: Oct 11, 11 AM
Day 2: Oct 12: Noon
Day 3: Oct 13, NoonBlinds: 40/60 Minutes Starting Stack: 40k Late Entry: 12 Levels (~8:30 PM) Day 1 Ends: 17 Levels or 10% of the Field It’s time for the Main Event! The biggest game of the series kicks off its opening flight Thursday morning at 11 AM. This is a beefed-up version of the Main from previous series, with a $2,300 buy-in, as well as a 40k stack.
That extra juice in the prize should almost certainly guarantee that this game hits $2.5 million for the first time. The total is in the cards even if this game gets less than January’s total, since the buy-in is basically 33% bigger.
Blinds on Day 1 will be 40 minutes long, and entries are open for 12 levels. That means the desk closes on Day 1 at about 8:30 PM, after which, they’ll play 17 levels, or until only 10% of the field remains.
The opening flight runs on Thursday, with Day 1b on Friday, and Day 1c on Saturday. All Day 1 flights start at 11 AM, while Day 2 and 3 start at noon.

Manish “Bubs” Ralh shows off the WSOP-C bling after winning the Main In January, Manish “Bubs” Ralh took down the Main Event ring over 1,371 entries. His $312,624 prize was the biggest share of $2,077,065 in total prizes. Ralh took the game down after an entertaining battle with Angelo Jopek.


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Day 1b of the Main Event is Done
Level: 17 (5000/10000/10000) Entries: 25/257 (47/445) Prizes: $526,850 ($912,250 total) Day 1b is now complete with 25 players remaining at the end of 17 levels of play. There was supposed to be 26 bags at the end of today’s flight, but they lost an extra person on the final hand, so only 25 players will advance from Day 1b.
Ashkan Razavi is the 1b leader with 988k and, so far, that puts him in the overall lead for both days with about 100k more than 1a leader Ruoxiao Shi. Razavi has been deep in the Main Event here a few times, including 3rd in January of this year, as well as 4th in August of 2024, so he’s a good bet to figure in the Monday endgame.
Ontario’s Victor Li bagged the second stack for 1b, while Nicholas Lee, who won the Mini Main Event earlier in the series, is third. All three of the top players have more than 900k.
Players started getting paid on 1b at 39th place with a min-cash of $4,661. See below for the stacks moving forward from 1b, as well as the prizes awarded before they bagged.
Day 1b Stacks
Player Chips Ashkan Razavi 988,000 Victor Li 974,000 Nicholas Lee 941,000 Hamish Tong 806,000 Toan Tran 741,000 Dylan Payne 649,000 Kevin Rivest 497,000 Michael Farrow 388,000 Scott Stuve 387,000 Joseph Roberts 386,000 Julien Perouse 362,000 Mingchen Zhang 348,000 Ran Yi 345,000 Shawn Buchanan 316,000 Kyle Chang 308,000 Ngok Nguyen 288,000 Jennifer Peters 270,000 Mehmet Siginc 266,000 Jared Kempf 211,000 Yeping Shan 183,000 Jimmy Lee 172,000 Jun Huang 127,000 Yue Yang 124,000 Eun Park 104,000 Qi Luo 57,000 Day 1b Payouts
Place Player Prize 26 Francis Iron
$4,894 27 Gordon Konkin
$4,661 28 Wayne Hoffert
$4,661 29 Ka Yeung
$4,661 30 Kyle Ho
$4,661 31 Paul Brar
$4,661 32 Mohsen Shafizadeh
$4,661 33 Rajan Nagra
$4,661 34 Garett Maybery
$4,661 35 Eric Wasylenko
$4,661 36 Cameron Stewart
$4,661 37 Stephen Lee
$4,661 38 Travis Williams
$4,661 39 Gilbert Anderson
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More than $900k
Level: 11 (1500/2500/2500) Entries: 97/252 (119/440) Prizes: $516,600 ($902,000 total) About an hour and 20 minutes remain for entries into Day 1b of the Main, with the field now above 250. The 1b prizes are more than $515k, putting the combined prizes at just over $900k. I expect entries to slow from here through the end of the night as the starting stack is down to less than 20 big blinds now.
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235 Entries Just Before Dinner
Level: 9 (1000/1500/1500) Entries: 113/235 (135/423) Prizes: $481,750 ($867,150 total) The Main Event players in Day 1b are moments away from their dinner break, with 3 more levels of open registration following dinner. There are now about 3 hours left to get into the second flight to the Main Event.
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More than $800k in Prizes
Level: 6 (400/800/800) Entries: 149/212 (171/400) Prizes: $434,600 ($820,000 total) Day 1b of the Main Event is running in the Sindance room now with 212 entries on the board as Level 6 comes to a close. There are still more than 5 hours left to enter today’s flight, plus the final flight tomorrow.
So far, the numbers for the opening two flights have been a little lower than expected. 1b has already surpassed the 1a total halfway through registration, but it still feels like a bit of a low number for this point on a Day 1b, but I still expect to see the total prizes pass $1 million today.
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Second Flight to the Main Starts Boarding at 11 AM Friday

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Event #12: $2,300 NLH Main Event ($2050 + $250)
Date: Day 1a: Oct 9, 11 AM
Day 1b: Oct 10, 11 AM
Day 1c: Oct 11, 11 AM
Day 2: Oct 12: Noon
Day 3: Oct 13, NoonBlinds: 40/60 Minutes Starting Stack: 40k Late Entry: 12 Levels (~8:30 PM) Day 1 Ends: 17 Levels or 10% of the Field Entries: 22/188 Prizes: $385,400 (7 Players Cashed Out of Day 1a for $4,631 before the end of the Day) The first flight to the Main Event has landed with 22 players still on board, from a starting field of 188. There were 29 paid spots today, and they might have bagged early if they got to 19 players, but they went the distance and bagged up more than 10% of the field after 17 levels.
Day 1b starts at 11 AM on Friday, and everyone will be looking to beat Ruoxiao Shi, who bagged the 1a lead with 873k. Previous winner of the Main here in Calgary, Nicholas Teeuwen, has stack #2 from the 1a players, so there’s a solid chance for our first repeat Main Event winner at WSOP-C Calgary.
1b is, of course, a redo of 1a with a bigger field. The 1a field was a bit smaller than expected, but that isn’t unusual for a 1a. They got 188 entries on 1a for more than $385k in prizes, and I think it’s still a decent bet for this to be the biggest prize pool ever, though my optimism is somewhat tempered by the 1a result.
Players get 40k to start their day, and entries are open for 12 levels. For players who max-late reg during the break after Level 12 (~8:30), they’ll sit down with 10 bigs for Level 13. Players getting in at 11 AM will have 40 minutes of 200bb play, in theory.
Once entries are closed, they’ll play to 10% or the end of Level 17, whichever comes first. However, since 1a played into the money, players in 1b & 1c should be aware that those flights MUST at least play into the money. That means if the field is still higher than 15% at the end of Level 17, they’ll keep playing until they hit that 15% cashing mark, no matter how long it takes.
Once again, I have other priorities first on Friday. Day 2 of the Flip & Go runs, so I’ll be watching that one most closely. After that, my focus should be on the one-day PLO Bounty starting at 6 PM, and that one could go quite late, so it seems unlikely I’ll get to watch much of 1b of the Main. I will try to keep up with numbers and prizes, and I fully expect Friday’s flight to put this game over $1 million.
Day 1a Stacks
Player Chips Ruoxiao Shi 873,000 Nicholas Teeuwen 780,000 Jorge Artiga Pacheco 570,000 James Cruickshank 463,000 Zackery Farthing 431,000 Gaetano Buda 421,000 Zhi Yang 419,000 Gabriel Vezina 411,000 Bradley Ellis 368,000 Shane Brotherwood 366,000 Rishi Makkar 342,000 David Quang 339,000 Xiaoyi Wang 288,000 Chun Kwan 234,000 Jeffrey Eldred 208,000 Glenn Slater 191,000 Ning Ma 150,000 Dallas Larson 146,000 Austin Hamer 133,000 Allen Shen 130,000 Matthew Ouellette 123,000 Yi Cheng 105,000 

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70 Bags for 1c
Level: 18 (6000/12000/12000) Entries: 70/465 (117/910) Prizes: $953,250 ($1,865,500 total) They went into bubble play with 72 left in Level 16, then they played hand-for-hand until they got into Level 18, finally ending the night with 57:48 remaining in Level 18. That means there were no Day 1c payouts, and 70 players bagged chips for Day 2. See below for a look at the Day 1c stacks, and stay tuned for the Day 2 preview with a full player list, seat assignments, and payouts for the Main Event.
Day 1c Stacks
Player Chips Andrew Macdonald 718,000 Vincent Lam 674,000 Kevin Javier 636,000 Michael Li 630,000 Derek Arnold 614,000 Pavlo Vertiiko 592,000 Umang Dattani 592,000 Arya Ghai 542,000 Tommy Nguyen 540,000 Sheraz Nasir 530,000 Kwong Au 508,000 Chris Hak 491,000 Alex Difelice 480,000 Chad Winnick 454,000 Richard Rex 430,000 Jodie Dunfield 405,000 Amarjot Brar 402,000 Harman Jassal 392,000 Alemu Makonen 378,000 Vikram Gill 370,000 Yan Lin 362,000 Richard Wolfe 361,000 Ramaz Haymour 358,000 Hasanain Al Ghunaim 354,000 David Burnard 307,000 Ali Razzaq 301,000 Travis Macmillan 300,000 John Dalphond 287,000 Daniel Lefebvre 280,000 Tung Kwok 245,000 David Katzov 245,000 Pietro Lo Giudice 214,000 Colin Jung 214000 Kevin Huang 210000 Trent Hopper 199,000 Zeyu Huang 197,000 Drew Ducsharm 191,000 Jason Chan 188,000 Gordon Wong 185,000 Duane Van Keulen 184,000 Matthew Kwong 167,000 Wenhan Lu 153,000 Rauno Tahvonen 150,000 Senthuran Vijayaratnam 150,000 Ryan Smith 149,000 Jack Dick 143,000 Matthew Obrien 134,000 Antonio Ma 130,000 Luteng Li 113,000 Wayne Goulet 109,000 Jackson Oniske 103,000 Clinton Cockburn 92,000 Chengdong Zhao 87,000 Jeremy Herauf 86,000 Shreesh Hebbar 84,000 Neal Lamb 82,000 Harminder Aujla 77,000 Xiu Song 76,000 Roman Gallivan 71,000 Linyang Song 70,000 Gurpreet Lubana 69,000 Kelvin Fu 67,000 Jay Glass 63,000 Cody Mckay 62,000 Calvin Chow 62,000 Adrian Chan 49,000 John Holopainen 45,000 Tyson Glass 45,000 Matthew Osorio 36,000 Kevin Kelso 11,000 -
Hard Bubble in 1c
Level: 17 (5000/10000/10000) Entries: 71/465 (118/910) Prizes: $953,250 ($1,865,500 total) They are now on the hard bubble to the money in Day 1c with 71 players left. I’m not watching this action right now as I’m over in Chrome watching the end of the Ladies game.
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1c is on the Bubble
Level: 17 (5000/10000/10000) Entries: 72/465 (119/910) Prizes: $953,250 ($1,865,500 total) Day 1c is on the bubble with 72 players left. The clock is now paused and they are playing hand-for-hand until the next two eliminations put them in the money. It looks like they went hand-for-hand one player early tonight, probably because last night they lost two in a single hand and ended with less than 10% of the field remaining.
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11 Off the Money
Level: 16 (4000/8000/8000) Entries: 81/465 (128/910) Prizes: $953,250 ($1,865,500 total) They are 11 off the money in 1c of the Main Event, with about 10 minutes to play in Level 16. They need to make it to 70 left, at least, before the end of the night.
If they hit 70 before the end of Level 17, then they’ll bag for the night after the end of that level. If tere are more than 70 players remaining at the end of Level 17, they’ll keep playing until the hit the money, no matter how long it takes.
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465 Entries for 1c Confirmed
Level: 13 (2000/4000/4000) Entries: 140/465 (187/910) Prizes: $953,250 ($1,865,500 total) The prizes have been posted and the field for 1c is confirmed at 465 entries. That puts 910 entries into the pool for all three flights, for prizes of $1,865,500, though some of that will be handed out during the various Day 1 flights.
There are 70 paid spots tonight, with at least 47 bags at the end. If they hit 47 players before the end of Level 17, they’ll bag up early, otherwise, they’ll bag up at the end of Level 17. However, players should be aware that this flight MUST play into the money, at least, so if there are still more than 70 players alive at the end of Level 17, they’ll keep playing until they get to the money no matter how long that takes.
Day 1c Prizes
Place Prize 1 $192,979 2 $128,627 3 $87,803 4 $61,194 5 $43,563 6 $31,692 7 $23,573 8 $17,935 9 $13,966 10-11 $11,136 12-13 $9,099 14-17 $7,622 18-26 $6,549 27-35 $5,788 36-44 $5,236 45-53 $4,879 54-70 $4,646 -
465 Entries for 1c
Level: 13 (2000/4000/4000) Entries: 157/465 (204/910) Prizes: $953,250 ($1,865,500 total) Entries for the Main Event are now closed, and the final unofficial number on the board is 465 for 1c, and 910 total across all three flights. If confirmed, that will mean there are more than $953k in prizes for today’s flight alone, and $1,865,500 for the whole event.
That should also mean a total of 70 paid spots for today’s field, with at least 47 bags at the end of the night. I’ll confirm all the numbers shortly when the 1c prizes are posted – bear in mind there won’t be a Day 2 prize pool available until the end of today’s flight.
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Final Break for Entries in the Main Event
Level: 12 (1500/3000/3000) Entries: 156/458 (203/903) Prizes: $938,900 ($1,851,150 total) There are less than 15 minutes left to get into this Main Event, as the players have just gone for their break following Level 12. When they return to the felt for Level 13 with blinds at 2k/4k/4k, entries will be closed.
They are currently just shy of 460 entries for today’s flight, with 903 overall. The prizes just pushed above $1.85 million.
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More than 450 Entries with 30 Minutes to Go
Level: 12 (1500/3000/3000) Entries: 167/452 (214/897) Prizes: $926,600 ($1,838,850 total) The 1c field is now up to 452, with the combined field just shy of 900 total entries. 30 minutes still remain in entries, so it seems likely they’ll get a bit more than 900 for the whole game.
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More than $1.8 Million
Level: 11 (1500/2500/2500) Entries: 198/442 (245/887) Prizes: $906,100 ($1,818,350 total) The 1c prizes are just a couple fo entries away from equalling 1a & 1b combined. 1c now has $906k in prizes, for a total of $1,818,350 across all three flights.
There are now 90 minutes left to get into this Main Event.
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4th Biggest Prize Pool on Record for WSOP-C Calgary
Level: 10 (1000/2000/2000) Entries: 220/431 (267/876) Prizes: $883,550 ($1,795,800 total) There is still more than 2 hours left to get into this final flight to the Main Event, but the prizes just capped January 2022 for the 4th biggest game ever at WSOP-C Calgary. With 431 entries on the board now, the prizes are $1,795,800, about $10k higher than the first Main Event run under the WSOP-C banner here.
I still expect to see at least 20-30 more entries before the registration desk closes for good on the Main, and if today’s field hits 450 entries, that would be prizes of almost $1.835 million.
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425 Entries on the 3rd Break
Level: 10 (1000/2000/2000) Entries: 225/426 (272/871) Prizes: $873,300 ($1,785,550 total) The 1c field is now one entry away from making this the 4th-biggest prize pool in the history of WSOP-C Calgary. The current 1c field is 426, for 871 total, and one more entry will push it to $1,787,600 in prizes. That caps the opening Main Ev ent back in 2022, which had $1,786,362 in total prizes.
The players are now on the dinner break following Level 9, and they’ll be back in action in about 30 minutes for the final three levels of open entry for this Main Event.
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Nearing $1.75 Million in Prizes
Level: 8 (600/1200/1200) Entries: 243/408 (290/853) Prizes: $836,400 ($1,748,650 total) The numbers for this Main Event are a little lower than I’d initially guessed, given the size of the early fields in this series, but it’s still far and away the biggest game of the series. With more than 850 entries across all the starting days so far, the prize pool is just shy of $1.75 million in total, with the expectation of more coming before entries close.
For this prize pool to cap $2 million, they’d need to get 531 entries today, which seems a bit out of reach at this point, but this is already the fifth biggest prize pool ever amassed here at Deerfoot Inn & Casino, and there’s every chance it will push into position #4 well before entries close.
Today’s flight only needs 427 entries to push the prize pool higher than the January 2022 Main Event, which is currently the 4th biggest pool in the series with $1.786 million in prizes. Hitting 427 for today would put this game at $1,787,600 to take over 4th spot.
3rd spot is a bit more of a stretch, as they need to get $2.077 million to beat this year’s January Main. For this game to beat that number, we’d need to see 569 for 1c, and that seems unlikely given the current numbers.
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Nearing 400 Entries for 1c
Level: 7 (500/1000/1000) Entries: 255/392 (302/837) Prizes: $803,600 ($1,715,850 total) The 1c field is closing in on 400 entries with Level 7 ticking down to the end. There are now 837 entries across all starting flights, for combined prizes of $1.715 million.
Entries are still open for more than 4 hours, and I expect the number to grow fairly briskly through the rest of the entry period, with players recognizing this is their last chance to get into Day 2 of the Main, but it seems like a final 1c field of around 500 might be our top end today.
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Final Flight to the Main Event Runs Saturday

WSOP-C Oct 2025 Infocard 
Event #12: $2,300 NLH Main Event ($2050 + $250)
Date: Day 1a: Oct 9, 11 AM
Day 1b: Oct 10, 11 AM
Day 1c: Oct 11, 11 AM
Day 2: Oct 12: Noon
Day 3: Oct 13, NoonBlinds: 40 Minutes Starting Stack: 40k Late Entry: 12 Levels (~8:30 PM) Day 1 Ends: 17 Levels or 10% of the Field Entries: 47/445 Prizes: $912,250 The first two flights to the Main Event are complete, but they’ve had some empty seats. After two starting days, there are 445 entries with 47 players bagging stacks for Day 2, and $912,250 in total prizes, including the money already handed out on 1a and 1b.
Day 1c gets going at 11 AM, and players start with 40k in chips. Day 1 levels are 40 minutes long, and entries are open for 12 levels. That should put the last chance to get into this Main Event at about 8:30 PM Saturday evening.
Once entries close, they play to 10% of the field, or the end of Level 12. Day 1a still had a few extra players alive when the end of the level came around, but 1b looks to have finished a couple of minutes before the end of Level 17, with a double knockout that meant one fewer bag than expected from 1b.
1b leader Ashkan Razavi also has the overall lead, about 100k ahead of 1a leader Ruoxiao Shi, with Victor Li, and Mini Main Winner Nicholas Lee also bagging more than 900k and coming in ahead of Shi. Hamish Tong from 1b looks to be in 5th place overall, while former Main Event winner Nicholas Teeuwen has the chance to become the first double winner of a Calgary Main, bagging the 6th best stack overall. It’s worth adding that the leader Razavi, has a lot of experience going deep in the Calgary Main Event. He was 3rd in January’s Big Show and 4th in the Main last August, so he’ll be one to watch on Day 2 as well.
Full stacks and cashes from each of the two starting days can be found as the most recent post under the Day 1a & Day 1b tabs. No prizes will be under the Payouts tab until Day 2.
I should be watching this one pretty closely in the early part of the day, though I’ll likely be late to the floor as Friday night’s PLO Bounty looks to be a long one. Once the entries close for this game at 8:30, I will likely move over to cover the Ladies game, and then update the final results from the Main once they bag the final flight.


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Final Table Faces
Level: 27 (50000/10000/100000) Entries: 10/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) 
Gabriel Vezina 
Kwong Au 
Victor Li 
Travis MacMillan 
Sheraz Nasir 
Calvin Chow 
Jun Huang 
Kyle Chang 
Tommy Nguyen 
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Final Table
Level: 27 (50000/100000/100000) Entries: 10/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) The Main Event is at the final table now, with 10 players left. James Cruickshank was the bubble after he suffered a bit of a bad beat that left him short. He raised the button, then called off the small stack shove from Gabriel Vezina, who had just lost a bunch of chips after folding a big river to Kwong Au.
Cruickshank was in good with ace-queen against a suited seven-six, but it was Vezina that hit the 6♥5♣2♦Q♦7♦ board hardest. That left Cruickshank short, and he was leaving the room shortly after.
Place Player Prize 11 James Cruickshank
$19,349 12 Rauno Tahvonen
$15,524 13 Jason Chan
$15,524 14 Andrew Macdonald
$12,683 15 Ruoxiao Shi
$12,683 16 Mingchen Zhang
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Three-Bets on Table 42
Level: 27 (50000/100000/100000) Entries: 14/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Table 42 seems to be fond of three-bets lately. The final level of the night has just begun, but over the last ~10 minutes of Level 26, I saw three different preflop three-bet situations. It started with the previous hand from Gabriel Vezina.
Shortly after that, Calvin Chow opened the middle to 160k, and Vezina once again found the three-bet, this time sizing up to 520k, prompting a fold from Chow.
A couple of hands later, Kyle Chang raised the cutoff to 160k, but Sheraz Nasir, in the small blind, had other ideas, repopping it to 465k, forcing the fold from Chang.
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Vezina Takes it on the Flop
Level: 26 (40000/80000/80000) Entries: 15/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Kyle Chang raised to 160k from the cutoff, and big blind Gabriel Vezina three-bet to 380k. Chang made the call to see 9♠K♣4♦ on the flop, then check-folded to a bet of 250k from Vezina.
Mingchen Zhang was the most recent exit to bring the game to 15 remaining.
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Final 16 Stacks in the Main
Level: 26 (40000/80000/80000) Entries: 16/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Kwong Au leads the final 16, with stacks counted at the recent break. He is the only player with more than 5 million, but Victor Lee and Sheraz Nasir are both playing about 4.7 million.
T-S Player Chips 41 – 1 Nicholas Lee 1,495,000 41 – 3 James Cruickshank 2,365,000 41 – 4 Ruoxiao Shi 605,000 41 – 6 Kwong Au 5,125,000 41 – 7 Jun-Yu Huang 1,430,000 41 – 9 Rauno Tahvonen 475,000 42 – 2 Andrew Macdonald 975,000 42 – 3 Jason Chan 1,375,000 42 – 6 Gabriel Vezina 2,550,000 42 – 7 Sheraz Nasir 4,755,000 42 – 9 Victor Li 4,775,000 43 – 2 Travis Macmillan 1,500,000 43 – 3 Calvin Chow 880,000 43 – 4 Tommy Nguyen 3,105,000 43 – 5 Kyle Chang 2,915,000 43 – 7 Mingchen Zhang 1,035,000 -
16 Left at Final Break of Day 2
Level: 26 (40000/80000/80000) Entries: 16/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) They are down to 16 remaining, with the players on the break following Level 25. This will be the final break of Day 2, with the bags set to come out at the end of Level 27. There are two levels of play left in the day when they return, and anyone remaining after the end of Level 27 will come back tomorrow to finish it out on Day 3.
Place Player Prize 17 Jeremy Herauf
$12,683 18 Trent Hopper
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Final Two Tables of the Main Event
Level: 25 (30000/60000/60000) Entries: 18/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Day 2 of the Main Event just broke down to the final two tables with 18 players left. Nicholas Teeuwen, the only previous winner of this event that I could see remaining in the field, was among the recent busts.
Place Player Prize 19 Hamish Tong
$10,556 20 Mehmet Siginc
$10,556 21 Kevin Javier
$10,556 22 Arya Ghai
$10,556 23 Richard Rex
$10,556 24 Zhi(George) Yang
$10,556 25 Nicholas Teeuwen
$10,556 26 Luteng Li
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Herauf Doubles to More than 1 Million
Level: 24 (25000/50000/50000) Entries: 24/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Jeremy Herauf shoved the cutoff for 585k, and Andrew MacDonald called from the button. It was a race between the A♦K♦ for MacDonald and pocket sixes for Herauf. The board of Q♠7♠Q♥8♦6♦ ran clean for the underpair, and Herauf hit the set on the river for overkill.
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Chips for Final 26
Level: 24 (25000/50000/50000) Entries: 26/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) The Day 2 players are on their dinner break now, with just under 20 minutes until they are back in action for Level 24. Below is a look at the final 26 stacks, counted on dinner by me. Victor Li is leading with 3.62 million, and Sheraz Nasir is the only other player with 3 million or more.
T-S Player Chips 41 – 1 Andrew Macdonald 960,000 41 – 2 Arya Ghai 785,000 41 – 3 CALVIN CHOW 1,015,000 41 – 4 Gabriel Vezina 1,435,000 41 – 5 Hamish Tong 2,730,000 41 – 6 James Cruickshank 1,640,000 41 – 7 Jason Chan 1,035,000 41 – 8 Jeremy Herauf 1,035,000 41 – 9 JUN YU HUANG 1,416,000 42 – 1 Kevin Javier 950,000 42 – 2 Kwong Au 1,375,000 42 – 3 Kyle Chang 755,000 42 – 4 Luteng Li 470,000 42 – 5 Mehmet Siginc 1,225,000 42 – 6 Mingchen Zhang 510,000 42 – 7 Nicholas Lee 2,950,000 42 – 8 Nicholas Teeuwen 1,150,000 42 – 9 Rauno Tahvonen 770,000 43 – 1 Richard Rex 680,000 43 – 2 Ruoxiao Shi 1,075,000 43 – 3 SHERAZ NASIR 3,250,000 43 – 4 Tommy L D Nguyen 2,075,000 43 – 5 Travis Macmillan 1,925,000 43 – 6 Trent Hopper 905,000 43 – 7 Victor Zhenyu Li 3,620,000 43 – 8 Zhi Yang 655,000 Recent Busts Before Dinner
Place Player Prize 27 Pavlo Vertiiko
$8,952 28 Ran Yi
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Ran Yi Bubbles Final Three Tables
Level: 23 (20000/40000/40000) Entries: 27/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) They are down to the final three tables now after Ran Yi’s pocket threes couldn’t crack the aces of Tommy Nguyen. About 6 minutes remain in Level 23, with a break to follow this level.
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Nearing the Final Three Tables
Level: 23 (20000/40000/40000) Entries: 29/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) They are down to 28 players remaining, on the bubble to the final three tables. Full prizes so far, as well as future payouts, are under the Payouts tab, with recent busts below.
Place Player Prize 29 Yan Lin
$8,952 30 Matthew Ouellette
$8,952 31 Jorge Pacheco
$8,952 32 Toan Tran
$8,952 33 Chris Hak
$8,952 34 Chad Winnick
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Final 34 Players
Level: 22 (15000/30000/30000) Entries: 34/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) I’m not 100% certain of the stacks, as these came from dealer counts (likely at the last break), but below is a look at the final 34 players in the Main, and their approximate stacks.
Player Chips Mingchen Zhang 2,585,000 Victor Zhenyu Li 2,450,000 Nicholas Lee 2,225,000 Sheraz Nasir 2,150,000 Arya Ghai 1,615,000 Gabriel Vezina 1,435,000 Nicholas Teeuwen 1,400,000 Jeremy Herauf 1,350,000 Trent Hopper 1,280,000 Kevin Javier 1,255,000 Pavlo Vertiiko 1,150,000 Kyle Chang 1,090,000 Toan Tran 1,075,000 Jorge Artiga Pacheco 995,000 Mehmet Siginc 975,000 Travis Macmillan 930,000 Ruoxiao Shi 875,000 Calvin Chow 740,000 Yan Lin 680,000 Zhi Yang 666,000 Kwong Au 625,000 Tommy L D Nguyen 600,000 Luteng Li 600,000 Ran Yi 545,000 Matthew Ouellette 530,000 Jason Chan 475,000 Rauno Tahvonen 465,000 James Larry Cruickshank 463,000 Andrew Macdonald 455,000 Richard Rex 415,000 Hamish Tong 385,000 Chris Hak 290,000 Chad Winnick 275,000 Jun Yu Huang 127,000 -
Down to 34 Remaining
Level: 22 (15000/30000/30000) Entries: 34/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Place Player Prize 35 Johnny Dalphond
$8,952 36 Jen Peters
$7,738 37 Dylan Payne
$7,738 38 Harman Jassal
$7,738 39 Jackson Oniske
$7,738 40 Ngoc Nguyen
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Some Big Stacks Before Break
Level: 21 (15000/25000/25000) Entries: 40/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) There are 40 players left with about 5 minutes to play until the end of Level 21. Mingchen Zhang looks to be leading right now with 2.7 million, but Mini Main Event winner Nicholas Lee is close behind with about 2.6 million, while Sheraz Nasir has about 2.5 million.
Nicholas Teeuwen has the chance to be the first player to win the WSOP-C Calgary Main Event twice, as he’s sitting with about 1.4 million right now.
Player Chips Mingchen Zhang 2,700,000 Nicholas Lee 2,600,000 Sheraz Nasir 2,500,000 Arya Ghai 1,900,000 Victor Zhenyu Li 1,400,000 Nicholas Teeuwen 1,400,000 Recent Payouts from Day 2
Place Player Prize 41 Alex Difelice
$7,738 42 David Burnard
$7,738 43 Duane Van-Leulen
$7,738 44 Kevin Rivest
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Final Five Tables
Level: 21 (15000/25000/25000) Entries: 44/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) They are down to 44 left in Day 2, with about 35 minutes to play in Level 21.
Place Player Prize 45 Vikram Gill
$6,821 46 Bradley Ellis
$6,821 47 Hari Aujla
$6,821 48 Tony Ma
$6,821 49 Xiu-Mei Song
$6,821 50 Wenhan Lu
$6,821 51 Rishi Makkar
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Huang Pips Tran
Level: 21 (15000/25000/25000) Entries: 46/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Jun Huang raised under the gun to 50k, and Toan Tran defended the big blind with a call. They both checked through the A♠K♠8♠K♥ flop and turn, but when the river brought the fourth spade with 6♠, Tran bet out 60k. After some time in the tank, Huang called it off, showing Q♥J♠ to pip Tran’s A♣10♠ for the flush.
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Nearing 50 Remaining
Level: 21 (15000/25000/25000) Entries: 51/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) The field is down to 51 players on the final 6 tables now in Day 2 of the Main Event. Full prizes are under the Payouts tab, with recent cahses below.
Place Player Prize 52 Matt Kwong
$6,821 53 Jodie Dunfield
$6,821 54 Julien Perouse
$6,134 55 Dabid Katzov
$6,134 56 Colin Jung
$6,134 57 Jay Glass
$6,134 58 Pietro Giudice
$6,134 59 Amarjot Brar
$6,134 60 Ramaz Haymour
$6,134 61 Alemu Makonen
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Down to 7 Tables
Level: 20 (10000/20000/20000) Entries: 61/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) They are down to 61 players left on the final 7 tables now, with about 40 minutes to play in Level 20.
Place Player Prize 62 Ali Razzaq
$6,134 63 Vincent Lam
$5,630 64 Chengdong Zhao
$5,630 65 Michael Li
$5,630 66 Clint Cockburn
$5,630 67 Umang Dattani
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Some Big Stacks from the Break
Level: 20 (10000/20000/20000) Entries: 67/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Player Chips Arya Ghai 1,405,000 Victor Zhenyu Li 1,265,000 Jun Yu Huang 1,080,000 Luteng Li 1,055,000 Jorge Artiga Pacheco 995,000 Kevin Rivest 995,000 Jason Chan 960,000 Sheraz Nasir 960,000 Clinton Cockburn 950,000 -
67 Remain at the Break
Level: 20 (10000/20000/20000) Entries: 67/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) They are down to 67 remaining in Day 2 of the Main Event Day 2. There is a small change to the order from my last post as well, as they adjusted the payout order in the backend.
Place Player Prize 68 Zackery Farthing
$5,630 69 Ryan Smith
$5,630 70 Joseph Roberts
$5,630 71 Yeping Shan
$5,630 72 Daniel Lefebvre
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Down to 70
Level: 19 (10000/15000/15000) Entries: 70/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Less than 10 minutes remain in Level 19, with the first break of Day 2 scheduled after this level. The field is now down to 70, with the action slowing a bit during this level. Full prizes from today’s action, including all the future prizes and past bustouts, are under the Payouts tab.
Place Player Prize 71 Joseph Roberts
$5,630 72 Daniel Lefebvre
$5,275 73 Shawn Buchanan
$5,275 74 Drew Ducsham
$5,275 75 Jack Dick
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Fewer than 75 Remain
Level: 19 (10000/15000/15000) Entries: 73/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) The field is dropping pretty fast here on Day 2, with the number down to 73 now. See below for the recent busts, and I should be paying closer attention to the action shortly.
Place Player Prize 76 Ashkan Razavi
$5,275 77 Wayne Goulet
$5,275 78 Chun-Kit Kwan
$5,275 79 Xiaoyi Wang
$5,275 80 Qi Luo
$5,275 81 Richard Wolfe
$5,024 82 Jared Kempf
$5,024 83 Derek Arnold
$5,024 84 Gaetano Buda
$5,024 85 David Quang
$5,024 86 Yue Yang
$5,024 87 Glenn Slater
$5,024 88 Tung Kwok
$5,024 89 Michael Farrow
$5,024 90 Jimmy Lee
$5,024 91 Sunny Lubana
$5,024 92 Zeyu Huang
$5,024 93 Hasanain Al-Ghunaim
$5,024 94 Shreesh Hebbar
$5,024 95 Jeff Eldred
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Under 100 Players Remain
Level: 18 (6000/12000/12000) Entries: 95/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) The Day 2 players have been at the felt for barely 30 minutes, and they are already down to 95 players remaining. The prizes are all loaded under the Payouts tab, and I’ll post recent busts on individual posts.
Early Busts on Day 2
Place Player Prize 96 Shane Brotherwood
$5,024 97 Dallas Larson
$5,024 98 Austin Hamer
$5,024 99 Neal Lamb
$5,024 100 Scott Stuve
$5,024 101 Ning Ma
$5,024 102 Matthew Obrien
$5,024 103 Adrian Chan
$5,024 104 Gordon Wong
$5,024 105 Cody Mckay
$5,024 106 Kevin Huang
$5,024 107 Eun Park
$5,024 108 Linyang Song
$5,024 109 Senthuran Vijayaratnam
$5,024 110 Kelvin Fu
$5,024 111 Yi Cheng
$5,024 112 John Holopainen
$5,024 113 Roman Gallivan
$5,024 114 Tyson Glass
$5,024 115 Allen Shen
$5,024 116 Matthew Osorio
$5,024 117 Kevin Kelso
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117 Players Returning for Day 2; Ash Razavi Leads

WSOP-C Oct 2025 Infocard 
Event #12: $2,300 NLH Main Event ($2050 + $250)
Date: Day 2: Oct 12: Noon
Day 3: Oct 13, NoonBlinds: 60 Minutes Entries: 117/910 Prizes: $1,865,500 (1st Place: $312,965) Day 2 of the Main Event is set, and despite a smaller-than-expected prize pool, Day 2 will be relatively big after Day 1c barely made it to the bubble. There were 70 paid spots on 1c, but no one got paid out as they didn’t get to 70 players until Level 18.
Ashkan Razavi is the overall leader, bagging 988k on 1b. Razavi is a familiar face at the deep end of the Main Event here. He’s final tabled the last two Mains, with a fourth place and a 3rd place to show for it.
His 1b compatriot, Victor Li, also bagged more than 900k, as did “The Doctor” Nicholas Lee. Ruoxiao Shi and Hamish Tong round out the top five stacks with more than 800k each. Full stacks with seats will be posted below.
The Day 2 action gets going at noon and they’ll play 10 Levels before they bag for the night to finish the game on Monday’s Day 3. Blinds are 60 minutes long for the rest of the game.
Day 2 Players, Sorted by Name
T-S Player Chips 30 – 4 Adrian Chan 49,000 35 – 3 Alemu Makonen 378,000 42 – 5 Alex Difelice 480,000 34 – 3 Ali Razzaq 301,000 37 – 9 Allen Li-Xin Shen 130,000 41 – 9 Amarjot Brar 402,000 37 – 7 Andrew Macdonald 718,000 40 – 6 Antonio Ma 130,000 31 – 8 Arya Ghai 542,000 29 – 8 Ashkan Razavi 988,000 34 – 5 Austin Felix Hamer 133,000 31 – 3 Bradley Ellis 368,000 30 – 3 Calvin Chow 62,000 32 – 3 Chad Winnick 454,000 36 – 8 Chengdong Zhao 87,000 30 – 6 Chris Hak 491,000 28 – 5 Chun Kit Kwan 234,000 40 – 8 Clinton Cockburn 92,000 32 – 5 Cody Mckay 62,000 44 – 4 Colin Jung 214,000 41 – 3 Dallas Larson 146,000 44 – 1 Daniel Lefebvre 280,000 35 – 4 David Burnard 307,000 42 – 8 David Katzov 245,000 43 – 1 David Quang 339,000 30 – 2 Derek Arnold 614,000 29 – 6 Drew Ducsharm 191,000 31 – 9 Duane Van Keulen 184,000 44 – 9 Dylan Stephen Payne 649,000 44 – 3 Eun Park 104,000 30 – 7 Gabriel Vezina 411,000 30 – 1 Gaetano Buda 421,000 36 – 9 Glenn Slater 191,000 29 – 4 Gordon Wong 185,000 29 – 1 Hamish Tong 806,000 40 – 7 Harman Jassal 392,000 42 – 3 Harminder Aujla 77,000 43 – 9 Hasanain Al Ghunaim 354,000 28 – 6 Jack Dick 143,000 40 – 9 Jackson Oniske 103,000 35 – 7 James Cruickshank 463,000 36 – 4 Jared Kempf 211,000 38 – 9 Jason Chan 188,000 35 – 6 Jay Glass 63,000 38 – 4 Jeffrey Eldred 208,000 40 – 5 Jennifer Peters 270,000 41 – 2 Jeremy Herauf 86,000 38 – 5 Jimmy Lee 172,000 40 – 1 Jodie Dunfield 405,000 43 – 6 Johnny Dalphond 287,000 38 – 6 John Holopainen 45,000 44 – 8 Jorge Artiga Pacheco 570,000 42 – 7 Joseph Matthew Roberts 386,000 35 – 9 Julien Perouse 362,000 32 – 1 Jun Yu Huang 127,000 38 – 3 Kelvin Fu 67,000 43 – 2 Kevin Javier 636,000 32 – 8 Kevin Huang 210,000 28 – 7 Kevin Kelso 11,000 41 – 6 Kevin Rivest 497,000 31 – 4 Kwong Au 508,000 30 – 5 Kyle Chang 308,000 28 – 9 Linyang Song 70,000 34 – 6 Luteng Li 113,000 42 – 1 Matthew Obrien 134,000 38 – 2 Matthew Kwong 167,000 44 – 6 Matthew Osorio 36,000 29 – 5 Matthew Ouellette 123,000 37 – 4 Mehmet Siginc 266,000 34 – 7 Michael Farrow 388,000 41 – 1 Michael Li 630,000 41 – 5 Mingchen Zhang 348,000 43 – 7 Neal Lamb 82,000 28 – 2 Ngok Nguyen 288,000 37 – 6 Nicholas Lee 941,000 40 – 4 Nicholas Teeuwen 780,000 43 – 3 Ning Ma 150,000 34 – 4 Pavlo Vertiiko 592,000 34 – 8 Pietro Lo Giudice 214,000 28 – 3 Qi Luo 57,000 37 – 2 Ramaz Haymour 358,000 40 – 2 Ran Yi 345,000 28 – 4 Rauno Tahvonen 150,000 31 – 1 Richard Rex 430,000 36 – 5 Richard Wolfe 361,000 44 – 2 Rishi Makkar 342,000 41 – 4 Roman Gallivan 71,000 31 – 2 Ruoxiao Shi 873,000 35 – 5 Ryan Smith 149,000 35 – 8 Scott Ernest Stuve 387,000 44 – 5 Senthuran Vijayaratnam 150,000 32 – 2 Shane Brotherwood 366,000 38 – 7 Shawn Buchanan 316,000 37 – 1 Sheraz Nasir 530,000 35 – 2 Shreesh Hebbar 84,000 28 – 1 Sunny Lubana 69,000 36 – 6 Toan Tran 741,000 36 – 1 Tommy Nguyen 540,000 32 – 7 Travis Macmillan 300,000 29 – 2 Trent Hopper 199,000 43 – 4 Tung Kwok 245,000 36 – 7 Tyson Glass 45,000 37 – 3 Umang Dattani 592,000 32 – 4 Victor Li 974,000 38 – 1 Vikram Gill 370,000 41 – 7 Vincent Lam 674,000 37 – 8 Wayne Goulet 109,000 31 – 6 Wenhan Lu 153,000 42 – 9 Xiaoyi Wang 288,000 29 – 9 Xiu Mei Song 76,000 34 – 9 Yan Lin 362,000 31 – 5 Yeping Shan 183,000 42 – 4 Yi Sheng Cheng 105,000 43 – 5 Yue Yang 124,000 36 – 3 Zackery Farthing 431,000 30 – 8 Zeyu Huang 197,000 34 – 2 Zhi Yang 419,000 Day 2 Players, Sorted by Table & Seat (T-S)
T-S Player Chips 28 – 1 Sunny Lubana 69,000 28 – 2 Ngok Nguyen 288,000 28 – 3 Qi Luo 57,000 28 – 4 Rauno Tahvonen 150,000 28 – 5 Chun Kit Kwan 234,000 28 – 6 Jack Benjamin Ashley Dick 143,000 28 – 7 Kevin Kelso 11,000 28 – 9 Linyang Song 70,000 29 – 1 Hamish Tong 806,000 29 – 2 Trent Hopper 199,000 29 – 4 Gordon Wong 185,000 29 – 5 Matthew Ouellette 123,000 29 – 6 Drew Ducsharm 191,000 29 – 8 Ashkan Razavi 988,000 29 – 9 Xiu Mei Song 76,000 30 – 1 Gaetano Buda 421,000 30 – 2 Derek Arnold 614,000 30 – 3 Calvin Chow 62,000 30 – 4 Adrian Chan 49,000 30 – 5 Kyle Chang 308,000 30 – 6 Chris Hak 491,000 30 – 7 Gabriel Vezina 411,000 30 – 8 Zeyu Huang 197,000 31 – 1 Richard Rex 430,000 31 – 2 Ruoxiao Shi 873,000 31 – 3 Bradley Ellis 368,000 31 – 4 Kwong Au 508,000 31 – 5 Yeping Shan 183,000 31 – 6 Wenhan Lu 153,000 31 – 8 Arya Ghai 542,000 31 – 9 Duane Van Keulen 184,000 32 – 1 Jun Yu Huang 127,000 32 – 2 Shane Lee Brotherwood 366,000 32 – 3 Chad Winnick 454,000 32 – 4 Victor Zhenyu Li 974,000 32 – 5 Cody Mckay 62,000 32 – 7 Travis Macmillan 300,000 32 – 8 Kevin Jeffrey Huang 210,000 34 – 2 Zhi Yang 419,000 34 – 3 Ali Razzaq 301,000 34 – 4 Pavlo Vertiiko 592,000 34 – 5 Austin Felix Hamer 133,000 34 – 6 Luteng Li 113,000 34 – 7 Michael Farrow 388,000 34 – 8 Pietro Lo Giudice 214,000 34 – 9 Yan Lin 362,000 35 – 2 Shreesh Hebbar 84,000 35 – 3 Alemu Makonen 378,000 35 – 4 David Burnard 307,000 35 – 5 Ryan Smith 149,000 35 – 6 Jay Glass 63,000 35 – 7 James Larry Cruickshank 463,000 35 – 8 Scott Ernest Stuve 387,000 35 – 9 Julien Perouse 362,000 36 – 1 Tommy L D Nguyen 540,000 36 – 3 Zackery Farthing 431,000 36 – 4 Jared Scott Kempf 211,000 36 – 5 Richard Wolfe 361,000 36 – 6 Toan Tran 741,000 36 – 7 Tyson Glass 45,000 36 – 8 Chengdong Zhao 87,000 36 – 9 Glenn Slater 191,000 37 – 1 Sheraz Nasir 530,000 37 – 2 Ramaz Haymour 358,000 37 – 3 Umang Dattani 592,000 37 – 4 Mehmet Siginc 266,000 37 – 6 Nicholas Lee 941,000 37 – 7 Andrew Macdonald 718,000 37 – 8 Wayne Goulet 109,000 37 – 9 Allen Li-Xin Shen 130,000 38 – 1 Vikram Gill 370,000 38 – 2 Matthew Kwong 167,000 38 – 3 Kelvin Fu 67,000 38 – 4 Jeffrey Eldred 208,000 38 – 5 Jimmy Lee 172,000 38 – 6 John Holopainen 45,000 38 – 7 Shawn Michael Buchanan 316,000 38 – 9 Jason Chan 188,000 40 – 1 Jodie Dunfield 405,000 40 – 2 Ran Yi 345,000 40 – 4 Nicholas Teeuwen 780,000 40 – 5 Jennifer Peters 270,000 40 – 6 Antonio Ma 130,000 40 – 7 Harman Jassal 392,000 40 – 8 Clinton Cockburn 92,000 40 – 9 Jackson Oniske 103,000 41 – 1 Michael Li 630,000 41 – 2 Jeremy Herauf 86,000 41 – 3 Dallas Larson 146,000 41 – 4 Roman Gallivan 71,000 41 – 5 Mingchen Zhang 348,000 41 – 6 Kevin Rivest 497,000 41 – 7 Vincent Lam 674,000 41 – 9 Amarjot Brar 402,000 42 – 1 Matthew Donald Obrien 134,000 42 – 3 Harminder Aujla 77,000 42 – 4 Yi Sheng Cheng 105,000 42 – 5 Alex Difelice 480,000 42 – 7 Joseph Matthew Roberts 386,000 42 – 8 David Katzov 245,000 42 – 9 Xiaoyi Wang 288,000 43 – 1 David Quang 339,000 43 – 2 Kevin Javier 636,000 43 – 3 Ning Ma 150,000 43 – 4 Tung Kwok 245,000 43 – 5 Yue Yang 124,000 43 – 6 John Dalphond 287,000 43 – 7 Neal Lamb 82,000 43 – 9 Hasanain Al Ghunaim 354,000 44 – 1 Daniel Lefebvre 280,000 44 – 2 Rishi Makkar 342,000 44 – 3 Eun Park 104,000 44 – 4 Colin Jung 214,000 44 – 5 Senthuran Vijayaratnam 150,000 44 – 6 Matthew Osorio 36,000 44 – 8 Jorge Artiga Pacheco 570,000 44 – 9 Dylan Stephen Payne 649,000 Top Ten Payouts for Day 2
See the Payouts tab for the full Day 2 prizes.
Place Prize 1 $312,965 2 $208,615 3 $146,349 4 $104,305 5 $75,546 6 $55,618 7 $41,633 8 $31,696 9 $24,549 10 $19,349 

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Travis MacMillan Wins Main Event for $312,965
Level: 33 (200000/400000/400000) Entries: 1/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) 
Travis MacMillan, with rail, after winning Main Event 
Victor Li After three days of play, the Main Event is now over, and Travis MacMillan is the latest owner of a WSOP-C Main Event ring from Calgary. He overcame Victor Li in a short but hard-fought HU battle.
Li was the leader when they started the day, and he was still the leader when they got to heads up. Li was able to hang onto the lead through most of the final table, but MacMillan was running hot heads up.
The action got going early in the day when Tommy Nguyen found himself in a cooler just a few minutes after play began. He raised under the gun, then called off a shove from Sheraz Nasir with pocket sevens, only to run into pocket aces for Nasir. He couldn’t ground the rockets, and he was the first out from the final table.
Clavin Chow was next to go, followed by Gabriel Vezina. Vezina hit the rail after Li made an unlikely call with just ace-high on a nine-high flop. Vezina was ahead after hitting the middle pair on the flp with a seven, along with backdoor straight outs. Li found a queen on the turn and held to send Vezina out in 8th.
Nasir was left short after he rivered a full house, but Li had already turned a bigger boat and took a huge pot. Nasir was able to ladder over Nicholas Lee (7th), Jun Huang (6th), and Kyle Change (5th), but he ended his run in 4th place when his ace-four ran into the ace-ten for MacMillan.
They played three-handed for almost 2 hours before Kwong Au couldn’t find a diamond to complete his flopped flush draw, and lost to the top pair for MacMillan.
That set up the HU between Li and MacMillan. The big change happened when MacMillan called off his tournament life with a heart draw against middle pair for Li with just one card to come. It was a good one for MacMillan, as the king of hearts on the river gave him the double and the lead.
In the final hand, MacMillan raised to 1 million, then called when Li made it 4 million. Li fired 2.5 million in J♦7♥K♣ flop, and Li check-called for 3 million on the Q♦ turn.
When Li checked the K♣ river, MacMillan shoved a covering stack and sent Li deep into the tank. The hand started with about 6 minutes to play in Level 33, but Li was still in the tank after there were already 10 minutes gone in the break following that level.
MacMillan finally called the clock about 10 minutes into the break, and Li put in the call with about 5 seconds remaining on his 30-second countdown. Li’s queen was no good against the trip kings for MacMillan, and the game was over. Li scored $208,615 for 2nd while MacMillan pocketed nearly $313k for first place.
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MacMillan To the Lead
Level: 33 (200000/400000/400000) Entries: 2/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Travis MacMillan just took the lead with a double, but he had to get there to survive. The money went in on the turn with the board reading 8♥J♥K♦4♠.
MacMillan shoved 7.825 million into a pot of about 8 million, and after some time in the tank, Li called it off. He had second pair with jack-nine, and was good against the 6♥4♥ for MacMillan, but MacMillan found the heart he needed with the K♥ river and doubled up. He is now up to about 23 million against 13 million for Li.
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Li Leads
Level: 33 (200000/400000/400000) Entries: 2/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Victor Li is up by about 2.5:1 now. Travis MacMillan has about 11 million in front of him, with Li playing about 25 million. There are a total of 91 big blinds in play in this level, with MacMillan playing about 28bb to Li’s 63bb.
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Kwong Au Out in 3rd Place for $146,349
Level: 33 (200000/400000/400000) Entries: 2/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) 
Kwong Au The Main Event is now heads up between Travis MacMillan and Victor Li. Kwong Au raised to 1 million, and MacMillan called to see 5♦Q♦J♠ on the flop.
Au shoved for 4.35 million, and, after a count, MacMillan called. He had top pair with Q♥6♥ while Au was drawing to diamonds with K♦7♦. The J♣J♥ runout didn’t help Au, and he was out in 3rd place tonight.
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MacMillan Chips Up
Level: 32 (150000/300000/300000) Entries: 3/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) The flop was out reading Q♦6♦5♣ and Kwong Au check-raised from 500k to 1.2 million. Travis MacMillan called to the 9♠ turn. Both players checked, but after a check from Au on the 10♠ river, MacMillan fired 1.7 million.
Au took some time but slid in the call. He was drawing to diamonds with ace-seven, but bricked. Despite that, he still called with ace-high, but MacMillan showed queen-jack for top pair and the win.
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Li Leads by 4 Million
Level: 32 (150000/300000/300000) Entries: 3/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Victor Li is in the lead, but Kwong Au’s double near the end of Level 31 made it a lot closer.
Seat Player Chips 07 Travis Macmillan 7,275,000 08 Victor Li 16,575,000 09 Kwong Au 12,550,000 -
Au Can Play Again
Level: 31 (150000/250000/250000) Entries: 3/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) I arrived to the table with the action on the turn and the board reading 4♦5♣Q♠3♣. After a check from Victor Li, Kwon Au shoved 6.625 million, sending Li into the tank.
While Li was thinking, Au said “If I win this I can play poker again.” Someone on the rail asked if he wasn’t playing now, and he replied “I’m playing like a donkey.”
As Li continued to think, he said “Only cash players know what I have. This is a cash game play, big overbet.” Li finally called it, and both players were on the queen for top pair, with Au on the better kicker. The river bricked, and Au got a double.
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Li Keeps Chipping Up
Level: 31 (150000/250000250000) Entries: 3/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Victor Li raised the small blind to 800k, and Kwong Au called from the big. They both checked the 7♠3♠4♣ flop, but Li fired 700k on the 10♠ turn.
Au called to the A♣ river, then called again when Li fired 1.2 million. Li showed 10♥5♥ and Au mucked his hand.
There is a break in about 7 minutes and I’ll get exact counts then, but Li has a big lead right now.
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Sheraz Nasir Out in 4th Place for $104,305
Level: 31 (150000/250000/250000) Entries: 3/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) 
Sheraz Nasir Sheraz Nasir got the first payout over $100k after he shoved his button with ace-four, and big blind Travis MacMillan called from the small blind with ace-ten. The 9♥J♦K♦10♦J♥ nearly chopped with a straight on board, but in the end, MacMillan’s kicker played, and Nasir was out in 4th place.
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Kyle Chang Out in 5th Place for $75,546
Level: 31 (150000/250000/250000) Entries: 4/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) 
Kyle Chang They are down to 4 left in the Main Event after Kyle Chang’s ace-ten couldn’t crack the queens of Kwong Au. The money was in preflop, and the jack-high board didn’t change anything.
All remaining players are now guaranteed 6-figure payouts.
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Li Leading
Level: 31 (150000/250000/250000) Entries: 5/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Victor Li raised the middle to 500k, and Sheraz Nasir called the big blind. Both players checked the [invalid notations] turn.
They both checked the K♣ river, and both players were on big draws. Li hit a seven on the flop with [invalid notations] for the diamond straight flush draw from the flop. Li’s seven was good, however, and he increased his lead. I’ll get another round of counts at the next break.
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Jun Yu Huang Out in 6th Place for $55,618
Level: 30 (100000/200000/200000) Entries: 5/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) 
Jun Huang In a hand that usually chops, Victor Li raised to 500k, then called off when Jun Huang shoved for a bit more. Huang had A♣3♥ against A♠4♠, but Li found his four on the flop, then turned the spade flush, on the 4♠9♠Q♦10♠10♣ runout for the win.
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Nasir Doubles with Freeroll
Level: 30 (100000/200000/200000) Entries: 6/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Sheraz Nasir was all in with ace-queen of clubs against the off-suit ace-queen, but managed to find running clubs on a board of 8♦8♣3♦K♣4♣ and got the double from a spot that is usually a chop.
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Nicholas Lee Out in 7th Place for $41,633
Level: 30 (100000/200000/200000) Entries: 6/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) 
Nicholas Lee Nicholas Lee and Kwong Au were all in, with Lee in trouble on king-queen against ace-queen for Au. Lee flopped his king, but Au flopped his ace as well, and took it down.
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Boat Over Boat Leaves Nasir Short
Level: 30 (100000/200000/200000) Entries: 7/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Sheraz Nasir raised to 400k from the button, and Victor Li called from the small blind. Li check-called for 300k on the 9♠A♠A♣ flop, and agains for 200k on the 7♠ turn.
When the river came 6♥ Li checked again, then raised Nasir’s 800k bet to 3.2 million. Nasir hit the tank for several minutes, apologizing to the table, saying he had a “big decision”.
When he called, it was easy to see why. He had pocket sixes for the riverboat, but Li was on pocket sevens for the bigger boat on the turn.
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Chang Holds for a Double
Level: 30 (100000/200000/200000) Entries: 7/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Kyle Chang raised to 1.875 million under the gun, leaving 25k behind. Sheraz Nasir called from his left, and they saw a flop of K♠J♦5♥. Change check-called all in for his last 25k.
Chang had pocket eights, with Nasir on ace-queen overs with a Broadway draw. 4♣6♥ on the runout left Chang good with his pair, and he doubled to around 4 million.
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MacMillan Leads at Break
Level: 30 (100000/200000/200000) Entries: 7/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Travis MacMillan is the leader right now with 8 million, but there isn’t much daylight between him and Victor Li with 7.55 million. See below for the stacks as counted on the break.
Seat Player Chips 01 Nicholas Lee 2,250,000 03 Kyle Chang 3,200,000 04 Jun-Yu Huang 1,900,000 06 Sheraz Nasir 6,650,000 07 Travis Macmillan 8,000,000 08 Victor Li 7,550,000 09 Kwong Au 6,625,000 -
Lee Doubles
Level: 29 (75000/150000/150000) Entries: 7/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Travis MacMillan raised to 300k before Victor Li reraised to 650k. It folded to Nicholas Lee on the button, and he shoved for less than Li’s reraise. MacMillan got out of the way, and it was kings for Lee versus A♠8♥ for Li. Li found an eight on the flop, but nothing else, so The Doctor’s kings held for a double. He was down to 630k, but is now up to around 1.5 million.
Exact counts coming in 6 minutes on the next break.
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MacMillan Chips Up
Level: 29 (75000/150000/150000) Entries: 7/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Travis MacMillan looks like the leader right now. I’ll grab exact counts at the break in about 15 minutes, but he just chipped up again through start-of-day leader Kwong Au.
Au raised the middle to 310k, and MacMillan called from the big blind. They both checked the 10♥4♠7♦ flop, and MacMillan check-called for 310k on the K♣ turn.
It was back to checks on the 2♣ river, and MacMillan showed K♠6♥ for the turned pair. Au mucked his hand, saying, “My pair no good.”
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Gabriel Vezina Out in 8th Place for $31,696
Level: 29 (75000/150000/150000) Entries: 7/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) 
Gabriel Vezina Victor Li made a bit of an unbelievable call on the flop to send Gabriel Vezina home in 8th place. It was blind on blind, and Li raised to 425k from the small, with Vezina calling from the big.
It all kicked off on the 2♦7♣9♠ flop. Li fired 275k, then tank-called when Vezina shoved for 2.74 million. That was most of the rest of Li’s stack after he recently doubled up Travis MacMillan, but after some thought, he called it off.
Li was behind with ace-queen against eight-seven, with Vezina on the pair of sevens with backdoor straight draws. Li took the lead on the Q♣ turn, and the [invalid notations] didn’t help Vezina.
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Calvin Chow Out in 9th Place for $24,549
Level: 29 (75000/150000/150000) Entries: 9/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) 
Calvin Chow I missed the action, but Calvin Chow was the 9th-place finisher today from the Main Event. He earned $24,549 for his efforts.
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MacMillan Doubles
Level: 29 (75000/150000/150000) Entries: 9/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) Travis MacMillan was just at risk, all in for 3.37 million. His pocket jacks were in great shape, but Victor Li hit his seven kicker, then the board turned to a four-card straight that might have chopped it. The river was safe for the jacks, putting a pair of sixes out, and MacMillan got the double.
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Tommy Nguyen Out in 10th Place for $19,349
Level: 28 (60000/120000/120000) Entries: 9/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) 
Tommy Nguyen It was a bit of a setup for short-stack Tommy Nguyen today. With Nguyen under the gun, he put in a big raise to 900k, betting about half his stack. It folded to Sheraz Nasir in the middle, and he shoved a covering stack.
It folded around to Nicholas Lee in the big blind, and he looked like he had something he might have wanted to play under different circumstances, but then quickly mucked. Nguyen just as quickly put the rest of his chips in, only to run his sevens into the pocket aces of Nasir for an early cooler.
Nasir flopped a third ace for the set, leaving Nguyen drawing thin to quads, and he was dead on the turn.
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The Final Day of the Main is Underway
Level: 28 (60000/120000/120000) Entries: 10/910 Prizes: $1,767,596 ($1,865,500 Total incl Day 1 Pay) The final 10 players in the Main Event are back in action for the final day of play. Everyone returning is guaranteed $19,349, but everyone will be looking up top to the four 6-digit prizes, and the nearly $313k up top for the winner.
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Victor Li Leads Final 10 into Day 3 of the Main Event

WSOP-C Oct 2025 Infocard 

Gabriel Vezina 
Kwong Au 
Victor Li 
Travis MacMillan 
Sheraz Nasir 
Calvin Chow 
Jun Huang 
Kyle Chang 
Tommy Nguyen 
Nicholas Lee Event #12: $2,300 NLH Main Event ($2050 + $250)
Date: Day 3: Oct 13, Noon Blinds: 60 Minutes Entries: 10/910 Prizes: $1,865,500 (1st Place: $312,965) Day 3 of the Main Event is set with 10 players returning. The action kicks off at noon in Sundance, and Victor Li is out in front with more than 9 million.
His closest competition is Kwong Au with 6.645 million, and after that, it’s Sheraz Nasir with 4.2 million and Travis MacMillan with 4.11 million.
Seat Player Chips 01 Nicholas Lee 2,155,000 (18 BB) 02 Tommy Nguyen 1,645,000 (14 BB) 03 Kyle Chang 1,620,000 (14 BB) 04 Jun-Yu Huang 1,895,000 (16 BB) 05 Calvin Chow 1,800,000 (15 BB) 06 Sheraz Nasir 4,200,000 (35 BB) 07 Travis Macmillan 4,110,000 (34 BB) 08 Victor Li 9,040,000 (75 BB) 09 Gabriel Vezina 3,160,000 (26 BB) 10 Kwong Au 6,645,000 (55 BB) Blinds stay at 60 minutes for the rest of the game, and they’ll award the Main Event ring before play ends on this one. Blinds start on Day 3 at 60k/120k/120k, putting the average stack to start the final day at just over 30 bigs.



| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $312,965 | |
| 2 | $208,615 | |
| 3 | $146,349 | |
| 4 | $104,305 | |
| 5 | $75,546 | |
| 6 | $55,618 | |
| 7 | $41,633 | |
| 8 | $31,696 | |
| 9 | $24,549 | |
| 10 | $19,349 | |
| 11 | $19,349 | |
| 12 | $15,524 | |
| 13 | $15,524 | |
| 14 | $12,683 | |
| 15 | $12,683 | |
| 16 | $12,683 | |
| 17 | $12,683 | |
| 18 | $10,556 | |
| 19 | $10,556 | |
| 20 | $10,556 | |
| 21 | $10,556 | |
| 22 | $10,556 | |
| 23 | $10,556 | |
| 24 | $10,556 | |
| 25 | $10,556 | |
| 26 | $10,556 | |
| 27 | $8,952 | |
| 28 | $8,952 | |
| 29 | $8,952 | |
| 30 | $8,952 | |
| 31 | $8,952 | |
| 32 | $8,952 | |
| 33 | $8,952 | |
| 34 | $8,952 | |
| 35 | $8,952 | |
| 36 | $7,738 | |
| 37 | $7,738 | |
| 38 | $7,738 | |
| 39 | $7,738 | |
| 40 | $7,738 | |
| 41 | $7,738 | |
| 42 | $7,738 | |
| 43 | $7,738 | |
| 44 | $7,738 | |
| 45 | $6,821 | |
| 46 | $6,821 | |
| 47 | $6,821 | |
| 48 | $6,821 | |
| 49 | $6,821 | |
| 50 | $6,821 | |
| 51 | $6,821 | |
| 52 | $6,821 | |
| 53 | $6,821 | |
| 54 | $6,134 | |
| 55 | $6,134 | |
| 56 | $6,134 | |
| 57 | $6,134 | |
| 58 | $6,134 | |
| 59 | $6,134 | |
| 60 | $6,134 | |
| 61 | $6,134 | |
| 62 | $6,134 | |
| 63 | $5,630 | |
| 64 | $5,630 | |
| 65 | $5,630 | |
| 66 | $5,630 | |
| 67 | $5,630 | |
| 68 | $5,630 | |
| 69 | $5,630 | |
| 70 | $5,630 | |
| 71 | $5,630 | |
| 72 | $5,275 | |
| 73 | $5,275 | |
| 74 | $5,275 | |
| 75 | $5,275 | |
| 76 | $5,275 | |
| 77 | $5,275 | |
| 78 | $5,275 | |
| 79 | $5,275 | |
| 80 | $5,275 | |
| 81 | $5,024 | |
| 82 | $5,024 | |
| 83 | $5,024 | |
| 84 | $5,024 | |
| 85 | $5,024 | |
| 86 | $5,024 | |
| 87 | $5,024 | |
| 88 | $5,024 | |
| 89 | $5,024 | |
| 90 | $5,024 | |
| 91 | $5,024 | |
| 92 | $5,024 | |
| 93 | $5,024 | |
| 94 | $5,024 | |
| 95 | $5,024 | |
| 96 | $5,024 | |
| 97 | $5,024 | |
| 98 | $5,024 | |
| 99 | $5,024 | |
| 100 | $5,024 | |
| 101 | $5,024 | |
| 102 | $5,024 | |
| 103 | $5,024 | |
| 104 | $5,024 | |
| 105 | $5,024 | |
| 106 | $5,024 | |
| 107 | $5,024 | |
| 108 | $5,024 | |
| 109 | $5,024 | |
| 110 | $5,024 | |
| 111 | $5,024 | |
| 112 | $5,024 | |
| 113 | $5,024 | |
| 114 | $5,024 | |
| 115 | $5,024 | |
| 116 | $5,024 | |
| 117 | $5,024 |


