| 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 | $4,661 |
