Event #12: $2,200 NLH Main Event Day 2
Date: Jan 18, noon Blinds: 60 Minutes Entries: 180/1,321 Prizes (1st Place): $2,562,602 ($396,556)
Day 2 of the Main Event is set, and it’s a huge one. 180 players are coming back for Day 2 play, with two millionaires at the top of the counts. Mehmet Siginc, who won Event #2 and was runner-up in the Monster stack, bagged biggest with 1.1 million, while Jo Teliani is close behind with 1.06 million. Dylan Payne and Pav Braich are both in the 900k range, while Oleksii Mezhenkov has 829k for Day 2. Full stacks and seats will be below.
Day 2 gets going at noon with the start of Level 18, and they’ll play until the end of Level 27. With 180 players coming back, expect Day 3 to have more than one table returning on Monday. Blinds are 60 minutes for the rest of the game.
This Main Event turned out to be the biggest prize pool ever, wth more than $2.5 million. That’s around $200k more than the previous record, set in January 2024 with $2.34 million.
Top Ten Day 2 Stacks
Player Chips Mehmet Siginc 1,100,000 Jo Teliani 1,060,000 Dylan Payne 990,000 Pav Braich 923,000 Oleksii Mezhenkov 829,000 Aleksei Ponomarev 777,000 Nicholas Mcewen 760,500 Jatinder Brar 747,000 David Quang 727,000 Joel Kogan 725,000
Day 2 Stacks, Sorted by Table & Seat (T-S)
T-S Player Chips 21 – 1 Antonio Ma 375,000 21 – 2 Gordon Wong 186,000 21 – 3 Patrick Tardif 282,000 21 – 4 Afshin Majidi 160,000 21 – 5 Weston Pring 317,000 21 – 6 Eric Wallace 155,000 21 – 7 Prabakaran Sivabalasundaram 260,000 21 – 8 Vincent Lam 250,000 21 – 9 Joshua James 287,000 22 – 1 John Hewgill 84,000 22 – 2 Chase Bonertz 105,000 22 – 3 Ryan Jensen 16,000 22 – 4 Seseung Oh 193,000 22 – 5 Gilbert Charles 56,000 22 – 6 Varanpreet Sidhu 53,000 22 – 7 Parth Mansukh 133,000 22 – 8 Ryan Andrade 100,000 22 – 9 Scott Carragher 220,000 23 – 1 Clayton Gaudry 605,000 23 – 2 Steve Lukic 262,000 23 – 3 Cody Cloutier 221,000 23 – 4 Ta-Yu Shih 73,000 23 – 5 Michael Li 422,000 23 – 6 Jatinder Brar 747,000 23 – 7 Nickolaos Simeonidis 80,000 23 – 8 Jiajie Sheng 123,000 23 – 9 Ari Benarroch 63,000 24 – 1 Richard Gilliard 191,000 24 – 2 Adrian Gouveia 211,000 24 – 3 Zhun Chen 218,000 24 – 4 Aaron La 195,000 24 – 5 Mehmet Siginc 1,100,000 24 – 6 Jo Teliani 1,060,000 24 – 7 Wille Scott 358,000 24 – 8 Zhixiang Li 183,000 24 – 9 Xiao Yu Hu 258,000 25 – 1 Callum Roque 178,000 25 – 2 Aaron Duczak 182,000 25 – 3 Giuseppe Galluzzo 133,000 25 – 4 Ryan Smith 383,000 25 – 5 Randy Audette 136,000 25 – 6 Jacob Anderson 289,000 25 – 7 Tyler Fish 115,000 25 – 8 Lanze Chevillard 236,000 25 – 9 Christopher Alcindor 382,000 28 – 1 Kyle Ho 425,000 28 – 2 Perry Rouzes 105,000 28 – 3 Drew Buchner 191,000 28 – 4 Yong Yuan Lu 523,000 28 – 5 Chaudhary Faisal 225,000 28 – 6 Malachy Hagan 80,000 28 – 7 Luteng Li 214,000 28 – 8 Adam Balog 212,000 28 – 9 Cliff Green 158,000 29 – 1 Fenghua Cai 13,000 29 – 2 Annee Ngo 183,000 29 – 3 Ihor Popyk 298,000 29 – 4 Seong Hoon Choi 291,000 29 – 5 George Caragiorgas 76,000 29 – 6 Derek Dufour 60,000 29 – 7 Sami Al-Serri 486,000 29 – 8 Gennady Klimenko 399,000 29 – 9 Graham Lupton 301,000 30 – 1 Jeffrey Reardon 412,000 30 – 2 Christopher Bailey 255,000 30 – 3 Norman Shapiro 247,000 30 – 4 Adrian Baran 281,000 30 – 5 Daniel Paul Stetski 482,000 30 – 6 Lucas Dantas 316,000 30 – 7 Nizar Tajdin 199,000 30 – 8 Tyler Panas 400,000 30 – 9 Deven Lane 301,000 31 – 1 Nohad Teliani 186,000 31 – 2 William Doherty 479,000 31 – 3 Roger Grosset 171,000 31 – 4 Aleksei Ponomarev 777,000 31 – 5 John Macarthur 240,000 31 – 6 Christopher Potter 447,000 31 – 7 Ze Yu Li 142,000 31 – 8 Sheraz Nasir 247,000 31 – 9 Dennis Beebe 102,000 32 – 1 Reginaid Lepine 142,000 32 – 2 David Quang 727,000 32 – 3 Ashkan Razavi 288,000 32 – 4 Senthuran Vijayaratnam 166,000 32 – 5 Michael Hooper 301,000 32 – 6 Romualdo Cusano 153,000 32 – 7 Osbert Liu 396,000 32 – 8 Richard Bewski 176,000 32 – 9 Ryan Simmonds 420,000 34 – 1 Amichai Barer 191,000 34 – 2 Malcolm Bolger 321,000 34 – 3 Stephen Dauphinais 309,000 34 – 4 Fat Cheong Wong 89,000 34 – 5 Omid Mojaverian 255,000 34 – 6 Clayton Mozdzen 198,000 34 – 7 Hassan Issa 109,000 34 – 8 Tony Le 319,000 34 – 9 Raymond Lamy 418,000 35 – 1 Zhiyu Chen 65,000 35 – 2 Carter Mccauley 275,000 35 – 3 Joshua W Hopkins 414,000 35 – 4 Travis Macmillan 470,000 35 – 5 Arya Ghai 164,000 35 – 6 Brett Worton 67,700 35 – 7 Mathew Maddalo 118,000 35 – 8 David Anderson 254,000 35 – 9 Dallas Larson 280,000 36 – 1 Jeff Charlebois 30,000 36 – 2 Marc Lavergne 156,000 36 – 3 Tommy Nguyen 48,000 36 – 4 Donald Cowie 314,000 36 – 5 Shane Patacsil 50,000 36 – 6 Fredrick Mowatt 89,000 36 – 7 Bradley Davidson 310,000 36 – 8 Robin Bergren 207,000 36 – 9 Kwong Lam 528,000 37 – 1 Paul Waring 476,000 37 – 2 Oleksii Mezhenkov 829,000 37 – 3 Dylan Payne 990,000 37 – 4 Aaron Lam 272,000 37 – 5 Hugo Soares 366,000 37 – 6 Charles Shapiro 210,000 37 – 7 Ankhbayar Bayar 135,000 37 – 8 Eun Park 218,000 37 – 9 Daniel A Wojcik 179,000 38 – 1 Alexander Bylicki 438,000 38 – 2 Garett Maybery 699,000 38 – 3 Edward Sorensen 94,000 38 – 4 Jonathan Newman 336,000 38 – 5 Krys Alipio 106,000 38 – 6 Phong Truong 240,000 38 – 7 Joe Basaraba 157,000 38 – 8 Christopher Klementis 362,000 38 – 9 Rishi Makkar 446,000 40 – 1 Rahul Sharma 542,000 40 – 2 Nicholas Mcewen 760,500 40 – 3 Vivek Sharma 472,000 40 – 4 Michael Baldwin 119,000 40 – 5 Kris Steinbach 321,000 40 – 6 Dustin Melanson 255,000 40 – 7 Curtis Singleton 158,000 40 – 8 Anthony Hughes 265,000 40 – 9 Trent Hopper 565,000 41 – 1 Elizabeth Boles 145,000 41 – 2 Kyle Chang 170,000 41 – 3 Toan Tran 550,000 41 – 4 Youssef Hmama 175,000 41 – 5 Michael Leah 108,000 41 – 6 Dawson Chen 400,000 41 – 7 Pav Braich 923,000 41 – 8 Anthony James Williams 154,000 41 – 9 Tam Ho 417,000 42 – 1 DJ Sharma 242,000 42 – 2 Chen Chen 218,000 42 – 3 Dylan Boyer 236,000 42 – 4 Craig Patrick Caldwell 126,000 42 – 5 Vo Nguyen 236,000 42 – 6 Regan Duong 83,000 42 – 7 Alen Bakovic 432,000 42 – 8 Wing Yeung 240,000 42 – 9 Anthony Smith 400,000 43 – 1 Rene Schmidt 278,000 43 – 2 Joel Kogan 725,000 43 – 3 Kayvan Payman 242,000 43 – 4 Ruoxiao Shi 338,000 43 – 5 Mehdi Saeed 197,000 43 – 6 Juan Lamprea 191,000 43 – 7 Claude Gaudet 134,000 43 – 8 Van Quoc Vo 360,000 43 – 9 Michael Khan 288,000 44 – 1 Calvin Chow 409,000 44 – 2 Paul Jeyaraj 157,000 44 – 3 Hien Vo 404,000 44 – 4 Mishel Nguyen 125,000 44 – 5 Pamela Macnaughton 210,000 44 – 6 Aaron Lam 124,000 44 – 7 Keera Lee Grabbe 130,000 44 – 8 Maksim Kniter 234,000 44 – 9 Angelo Jopek 463,000
Day 2 Stacks, Sorted by Name
T-S Player Chips 25 – 2 Aaron Duczak 182,000 24 – 4 Aaron La 195,000 37 – 4 Aaron Lam 272,000 44 – 6 Aaron Lam 124,000 28 – 8 Adam Balog 212,000 30 – 4 Adrian Baran 281,000 24 – 2 Adrian Gouveia 211,000 21 – 4 Afshin Majidi 160,000 31 – 4 Aleksei Ponomarev 777,000 42 – 7 Alen Bakovic 432,000 38 – 1 Alexander Bylicki 438,000 34 – 1 Amichai Barer 191,000 44 – 9 Angelo Jopek 463,000 37 – 7 Ankhbayar Bayar 135,000 29 – 2 Annee Ngo 183,000 40 – 8 Anthony Hughes 265,000 41 – 8 Anthony James Williams 154,000 42 – 9 Anthony Smith 400,000 21 – 1 Antonio Ma 375,000 23 – 9 Ari Benarroch 63,000 35 – 5 Arya Ghai 164,000 32 – 3 Ashkan Razavi 288,000 36 – 7 Bradley Davidson 310,000 35 – 6 Brett Worton 67,700 25 – 1 Callum Roque 178,000 44 – 1 Calvin Chow 409,000 35 – 2 Carter Mccauley 275,000 37 – 6 Charles Shapiro 210,000 22 – 2 Chase Bonertz 105,000 28 – 5 Chaudhary Faisal 225,000 42 – 2 Chen Chen 218,000 25 – 9 Christopher Alcindor 382,000 30 – 2 Christopher Bailey 255,000 38 – 8 Christopher Klementis 362,000 31 – 6 Christopher Potter 447,000 43 – 7 Claude Gaudet 134,000 23 – 1 Clayton Gaudry 605,000 34 – 6 Clayton Mozdzen 198,000 28 – 9 Cliff Green 158,000 23 – 3 Cody Cloutier 221,000 42 – 4 Craig Patrick Caldwell 126,000 40 – 7 Curtis Singleton 158,000 35 – 9 Dallas Larson 280,000 37 – 9 Daniel A Wojcik 179,000 30 – 5 Daniel Paul Stetski 482,000 35 – 8 David Anderson 254,000 32 – 2 David Quang 727,000 41 – 6 Dawson Chen 400,000 31 – 9 Dennis Beebe 102,000 29 – 6 Derek Dufour 60,000 30 – 9 Deven Lane 301,000 42 – 1 DJ Sharma 242,000 36 – 4 Donald Cowie 314,000 28 – 3 Drew Buchner 191,000 40 – 6 Dustin Melanson 255,000 42 – 3 Dylan Boyer 236,000 37 – 3 Dylan Payne 990,000 38 – 3 Edward Sorensen 94,000 41 – 1 Elizabeth Boles 145,000 21 – 6 Eric Wallace 155,000 37 – 8 Eun Park 218,000 34 – 4 Fat Cheong Wong 89,000 29 – 1 Fenghua Cai 13,000 36 – 6 Fredrick Mowatt 89,000 38 – 2 Garett Maybery 699,000 29 – 8 Gennady Klimenko 399,000 29 – 5 George Caragiorgas 76,000 22 – 5 Gilbert Charles 56,000 25 – 3 Giuseppe Galluzzo 133,000 21 – 2 Gordon Wong 186,000 29 – 9 Graham Lupton 301,000 34 – 7 Hassan Issa 109,000 44 – 3 Hien Vo 404,000 37 – 5 Hugo Soares 366,000 29 – 3 Ihor Popyk 298,000 25 – 6 Jacob Anderson 289,000 23 – 6 Jatinder Brar 747,000 36 – 1 Jeff Charlebois 30,000 30 – 1 Jeffrey Reardon 412,000 23 – 8 Jiajie Sheng 123,000 24 – 6 Jo Teliani 1,060,000 38 – 7 Joe Basaraba 157,000 43 – 2 Joel Kogan 725,000 22 – 1 John Hewgill 84,000 31 – 5 John Macarthur 240,000 38 – 4 Jonathan Newman 336,000 21 – 9 Joshua James 287,000 35 – 3 Joshua W Hopkins 414,000 43 – 6 Juan Lamprea 191,000 43 – 3 Kayvan Payman 242,000 44 – 7 Keera Lee Grabbe 130,000 40 – 5 Kris Steinbach 321,000 38 – 5 Krys Alipio 106,000 36 – 9 Kwong Lam 528,000 41 – 2 Kyle Chang 170,000 28 – 1 Kyle Ho 425,000 25 – 8 Lanze Chevillard 236,000 30 – 6 Lucas Dantas 316,000 28 – 7 Luteng Li 214,000 44 – 8 Maksim Kniter 234,000 28 – 6 Malachy Hagan 80,000 34 – 2 Malcolm Bolger 321,000 36 – 2 Marc Lavergne 156,000 35 – 7 Mathew Maddalo 118,000 43 – 5 Mehdi Saeed 197,000 24 – 5 Mehmet Siginc 1,100,000 40 – 4 Michael Baldwin 119,000 32 – 5 Michael Hooper 301,000 43 – 9 Michael Khan 288,000 41 – 5 Michael Leah 108,000 23 – 5 Michael Li 422,000 44 – 4 Mishel Nguyen 125,000 40 – 2 Nicholas Mcewen 760,500 23 – 7 Nickolaos Simeonidis 80,000 30 – 7 Nizar Tajdin 199,000 31 – 1 Nohad Teliani 186,000 30 – 3 Norman Shapiro 247,000 37 – 2 Oleksii Mezhenkov 829,000 34 – 5 Omid Mojaverian 255,000 32 – 7 Osbert Liu 396,000 44 – 5 Pamela Macnaughton 210,000 22 – 7 Parth Mansukh 133,000 21 – 3 Patrick Tardif 282,000 44 – 2 Paul Jeyaraj 157,000 37 – 1 Paul Waring 476,000 41 – 7 Pav Braich 923,000 28 – 2 Perry Rouzes 105,000 38 – 6 Phong Truong 240,000 21 – 7 Prabakaran Sivabalasundaram 260,000 40 – 1 Rahul Sharma 542,000 25 – 5 Randy Audette 136,000 34 – 9 Raymond Lamy 418,000 42 – 6 Regan Duong 83,000 32 – 1 Reginaid Lepine 142,000 43 – 1 Rene Schmidt 278,000 32 – 8 Richard Bewski 176,000 24 – 1 Richard Gilliard 191,000 38 – 9 Rishi Makkar 446,000 36 – 8 Robin Bergren 207,000 31 – 3 Roger Grosset 171,000 32 – 6 Romualdo Cusano 153,000 43 – 4 Ruoxiao Shi 338,000 22 – 8 Ryan Andrade 100,000 22 – 3 Ryan Jensen 16,000 32 – 9 Ryan Simmonds 420,000 25 – 4 Ryan Smith 383,000 29 – 7 Sami Al-Serri 486,000 22 – 9 Scott Carragher 220,000 32 – 4 Senthuran Vijayaratnam 166,000 29 – 4 Seong Hoon Choi 291,000 22 – 4 Seseung Oh 193,000 36 – 5 Shane Patacsil 50,000 31 – 8 Sheraz Nasir 247,000 34 – 3 Stephen Dauphinais 309,000 23 – 2 Steve Lukic 262,000 23 – 4 Ta-Yu Shih 73,000 41 – 9 Tam Ho 417,000 41 – 3 Toan Tran 550,000 36 – 3 Tommy Nguyen 48,000 34 – 8 Tony Le 319,000 35 – 4 Travis Macmillan 470,000 40 – 9 Trent Hopper 565,000 25 – 7 Tyler Fish 115,000 30 – 8 Tyler Panas 400,000 43 – 8 Van Quoc Vo 360,000 22 – 6 Varanpreet Sidhu 53,000 21 – 8 Vincent Lam 250,000 40 – 3 Vivek Sharma 472,000 42 – 5 Vo Nguyen 236,000 21 – 5 Weston Pring 317,000 24 – 7 Wille Scott 358,000 31 – 2 William Doherty 479,000 42 – 8 Wing Yeung 240,000 24 – 9 Xiao Yu Hu 258,000 28 – 4 Yong Yuan Lu 523,000 41 – 4 Youssef Hmama 175,000 31 – 7 Ze Yu Li 142,000 24 – 8 Zhixiang Li 183,000 35 – 1 Zhiyu Chen 65,000 24 – 3 Zhun Chen 218,000