188 Entries for Day 1a of the Main; 22 Bags

October 10, 2025

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