Day 1b went the distance with 17 full levels of play. They made it into the money but fell 8 players short of hitting the 10% early cutoff point.
Pascal Gregoire bagged the big stack on 1b, but he’s still looking up at the 1a bag of Sunny Lubana. Gregoire bagged 886k for what will be the second best stack so far on Day 2 after Lubana’s 1.1 million. Ashkan Razavi, who was at the final table of the Main in August and finished 4th after a short-stack comeback, Nicholas Lee (2 rings), Romualdo Cusano, and Chun Kit Kwan (2 rings and a WPT title) round out the 1b top five.
Full payouts for 1b as well as the 49 stacks are below — seat assignments won’t be posted until the end of day 1c.
Day 1b Payouts
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 50 |  Holly Lingel | $3,421 |
| 51 | Dj Sharma | $3,421 |
| 52 | Jeffrey Eldred | $3,421 |
| 53 | Daniel Martel | $3,421 |
| 54 | Anthony Mar | $3,421 |
| 55 | Anthony Williams | $3,421 |
| 56 | Ian Monahoyios | $3,421 |
| 57 | D. Nguyen | $3,421 |
| 58 | Conner Daynard | $3,421 |
| 59 | Mahar Al-Mouselly | $3,421 |
| 60 | Ryan Johal | $3,421 |
| 61 | Serge Noel | $3,421 |
Day 1b Bags
| Player | Chips |
|---|---|
| Pascal Gregoire | 886,000 |
| Ashkan Razavi | 765,000 |
| Nicholas Lee | 692,000 |
| Romualdo Cusano | 606,000 |
| Chun Kit Kwan | 579,000 |
| Corey Chan | 571,000 |
| Aleksei Ponomarev | 566,000 |
| Giulio Rosati | 561,000 |
| Yong Lu | 499,000 |
| Kevin Jeffrey Huang | 480,000 |
| Hassan Issa | 480,000 |
| John Dalphond | 435,000 |
| Greg Taylor | 433,000 |
| Alex Liu | 425,000 |
| David Swaim | 413,000 |
| Terry Goode | 409,000 |
| Rafael Stern | 404,000 |
| Failsal Al Qutub | 380,000 |
| Tianshu Liu | 379,000 |
| Teo Sanchez | 359,000 |
| Weston Pring | 358,000 |
| Ma Ning | 319000 |
| David Quang | 308,000 |
| Dylan Payne | 306,000 |
| Alemu Makonen | 297000 |
| Roger Grosset | 282,000 |
| Rob Lothian | 282,000 |
| Jeet Shergill | 279,000 |
| Richard Mullen | 279,000 |
| Jeff “Ironman” Charlebois | 274,000 |
| Zofimo Xavier | 259,000 |
| Trent Hopper | 240,000 |
| Manish Rach | 220,000 |
| Giuseppe Galluzzo | 215,000 |
| Marc-Andre Yelle | 185,000 |
| Saeed Ganji | 185000 |
| Andy Truong | 177,000 |
| Sean O’Reilly | 161,000 |
| Marco Carreira | 142,000 |
| Mal Hagan | 137,000 |
| Dylan Boyer | 133,000 |
| Yiming Nie | 132,000 |
| Luteng Li | 123,000 |
| Ryan Parungao | 120,000 |
| Greg Liow | 87,000 |
| Aidan Klingbeil | 86,000 |
| Julius Roque | 79,000 |
| Zhi Xiang Li | 70,000 |
| Clint Cockburn | 66,000 |
