They played until 25:08 remaining in Level 23 before they got to the final 5% of the field. 2024 Alberta Poker Index Player of the Year Mike Malm is leading the Day 1a stacks with 1.685 million. Malm leads 9 millionaire stacks, including second-place Michael Cartwright.
It was a pretty big field for a Day 1a, with 487 entries for $152,675 in prizes today. $120,956 of that is moving to Day 2, but the rest was handed out to players who finished from 74th to 26th place.
With nearly 500 entries in for 1a, the Monster Stack 1b looks like it should easily blow past 600 entries, with 700 not out of the question. 600 on 1b would put the combined prizes at $340k, while 700 would make it almost $375k. It remains to be seen how big this Monster will grow, but in January, this game saw 1,536 entries over two days for more than $505k in prizes. That seems a bit out of reach, given it would require more than 1,000 entries on 1b of this one, but prizes above $450k are well within sight.
Day 2 Stacks from 1a
| Player | Chips |
|---|---|
| Michael Malm | 1,685,000 |
| Michael Cartwright | 1,400,000 |
| James Taksas | 1,380,000 |
| Ernest Durack | 1,170,000 |
| Chengdong Zhao | 1,135,000 |
| Nicholas Nowak | 1,100,000 |
| Brian Rockvam | 1,070,000 |
| Romualdo Cusano | 1,070,000 |
| Brayden Brown | 1,020,000 |
| Luteng Li | 995,000 |
| Nicola Tassone | 935,000 |
| Rauno Tahvonen | 700,000 |
| Kyle Dery | 665,000 |
| Daniel Mayo | 600,000 |
| Brian Bond | 585,000 |
| Eun Park | 565,000 |
| Robert Limpert | 550,000 |
| Michael Mogan | 525,000 |
| Joshua Cameron Wallace | 460,000 |
| Jacqueline Ray | 420,000 |
| Corey Williams | 380,000 |
| Anthony Casten | 375,000 |
| Ran Yi | 345,000 |
| Tyler Panas | 240,000 |
| Chris Gibson | 210,000 |
Day 1a Payouts
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 26 |  Colin Burton | $1,081 |
| 27 | Matthew Osorio | $944 |
| 28 | Jason Chan | $944 |
| 29 | Remy Bhend | $944 |
| 30 | Calvin Godart | $944 |
| 31 |  Van-Bau Ta | $944 |
| 32 | Zhi Yang | $944 |
| 33 | Brett Worton | $944 |
| 34 | Wayne Scott | $944 |
| 35 | William Stewart | $944 |
| 36 | Perry Coates | $846 |
| 37 |  Ben Field | $846 |
| 38 | Tim Chen | $846 |
| 39 | Ragnar Parn | $846 |
| 40 |  James Biers | $846 |
| 41 | Melody Osgood | $846 |
| 42 | Teo Sanchez | $846 |
| 43 | Dominick French | $846 |
| 44 |  Ruoxiao Shi | $846 |
| 45 | Qi Luo | $778 |
| 46 | Adrian Chan | $778 |
| 47 | Ali Razzaq | $778 |
| 48 | Logan Lee | $778 |
| 49 | Connor Daynard | $778 |
| 50 | Shenhong Yang | $778 |
| 51 | Grant Frulling | $778 |
| 52 | Nader Panahi | $778 |
| 53 | Katherine Quinn | $778 |
| 54 | Rhonda Shepek | $741 |
| 55 | Richard Enright | $741 |
| 56 | Mohsen Shafizadeh | $741 |
| 57 | Anthony Read | $741 |
| 58 | Jared Scott Kempf | $741 |
| 59 | Alan Schmelzel | $741 |
| 60 | Norapat Arunyakanon | $741 |
| 61 | Stephen Horak | $741 |
| 62 | Ivanna Yatsiuk | $741 |
| 63 | Blane Noksana | $741 |
| 64 | Lee Clark | $741 |
| 65 | Jimmy Lee | $741 |
| 66 | David Macneil | $741 |
| 67 | Bryan Wutke | $741 |
| 68 | Peter Barzilay | $741 |
| 69 | Ben Locker | $741 |
| 70 | Heidi Zekl | $741 |
| 71 | Leslie Sam | $741 |
| 72 | Sandy Lam | $741 |
| 73 | Jacob Todd Parent | $741 |
| 74 | Phillip Wright | $741 |
