Curtis SIngleton picked up his first Circuit ring in his very first live win. He previously had a few final table finishes around Alberta events, but his best score prior to tonight was 3rd place in a PPT game in Nov of 2023 and his total lifetime cashes before today were less than $20k USD.
Now, with this win in the Monster, he’ll more than double his lifetime earnings and record his first win with the ring. He had to overcome a chip deficit heads up, and he was short-stacking for much of the final table.
A close look at the winners photo will reveal his rubber duck card capper, and the ducks were working for him tonight. He won several pots with a deuce in his hand including a four-card club flush with the deuce of clubs. The biggest one came when both players had a duck in the hand and two more came on the board. All the money went in with Singleton at risk, but he was boated up against the bare trips for runner-up Kalyan Cheekuri.
That gave Singleton a big lead and the game ended shortly after when the money went in preflop with Singleton on king-ten against queen-ten for Cheekuri. The king-ten held despite Cheekuri turning open-ended and the ring went to Singleton.
Final Results from Day 2 of the Monster Stack
| Place | Player | Prize |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Curtis Singleton | $68,505 |
| 2 | Kalyan Cheekuri | $45,670 |
| 3 | Calvin Lake | $32,025 |
| 4 | Korey Dadgar | $22,861 |
| 5 | Johnny Yu | $16,618 |
| 6 | Hoangwei Liu | $12,306 |
| 7 | Michael Malm | $9,286 |
| 8 | Kuan-Yu Tsai | $7,143 |
| 9 | Evan Casey | $5,604 |
| 10 | Gregory Taylor | $4,484 |
| 11 | Giulio Piredda | $4,484 |
| 12 | Don Mccall | $3,663 |
| 13 | Terrill Coughlin | $3,663 |
| 14 | Jeffory Saunders | $3,055 |
| 15 | Marc- Andre Kudjick- Paquin | $3,055 |
| 16 | Pete Fylyma | $3,055 |
| 17 | Raymond New | $3,055 |
| 18 | Clair Ramsay | $2,602 |
| 19 | Raymond Trieu | $2,602 |
| 20 | Marco Di-Nardo | $2,602 |
| 21 | Michael Noor | $2,602 |
| 22 | Pawan(Pav) Braich | $2,602 |
| 23 | Thomas Sloan | $2,602 |
| 24 | Michael St. Pierre-Porter | $2,602 |
| 25 | Sam Raz | $2,602 |
| 26 | Graham Lupton | $2,602 |
| 27 | Craig Caldwell | $2,265 |
| 28 | Ghislaine Johnson | $2,265 |
| 29 | Haochen Zhou | $2,265 |
| 30 | George Jurovich | $2,265 |
| 31 | Karen Dodd | $2,265 |
| 32 | Ryan Permis | $2,265 |
| 33 | Raymond Cawaling | $2,265 |
| 34 | Joshua Frazer-James | $2,265 |
| 35 | Lisa Powell | $2,265 |
| 36 | Dale Foyle | $2,016 |
| 37 | John Scalise | $2,016 |
| 38 | Faisel Al-Qutub | $2,016 |
| 39 | Ross Henderson | $2,016 |
| 40 | Laurence Louie | $2,016 |
| 41 | David Tran | $2,016 |
| 42 | Jim Zanidean | $2,016 |
| 43 | Zhi Yang | $2,016 |
| 44 | Rishilal Makkar | $2,016 |
| 45 | Jay Glass | $1,836 |
| 46 | Rauno Tahvonen | $1,836 |
| 47 | Brett Worton | $1,836 |
| 48 | Seseung Oh | $1,836 |
| 49 | Zhiyu Chen | $1,836 |
| 50 | Lorne Voth | $1,836 |
| 51 | Maciej Baumgart | $1,836 |
| 52 | Christian Wallmuth | $1,836 |
| 53 | Uldis Sokolovskis | $1,836 |
| 54 | Aaron Quon | $1,748 |
| 55 | Ronald Simon | $1,748 |
| 56 | Shawn Lange | $1,748 |
| 57 | Ravdeep Brar | $1,748 |
| 58 | Eric Davis | $1,748 |
| 59 | Alexander Byliccki | $1,748 |
| 60 | Srinivas Gottiparthi | $1,748 |
| 61 | Aaron Froese | $1,748 |
| 62 | Hassan Issa | $1,748 |
| 63 | David Van-Der-Torre | $1,748 |
| 64 | Jeffrey Cormier | $1,748 |
| 65 | Malcolm Bolger | $1,748 |
| 66 | Jason Hayashi | $1,748 |
| 67 | David Swirski | $1,748 |
| 68 | Jinrong Zhang | $1,748 |
| 69 | Allan Mckinnon | $1,748 |
| 70 | Michael Cartwright | $1,748 |
| 71 | Antoine Saddleback | $1,748 |
| 72 | Duff Charette | $1,748 |
| 73 | Kelly Dalke | $1,748 |
| 74 | Zoran Pribilovic | $1,748 |
| 75 | Jayvee Lumahan | $1,748 |
| 76 | Yvan Gravel | $1,748 |
| 77 | Glenn Slater | $1,748 |
| 78 | Sevon Zargarian | $1,748 |
