The atmosphere inside the Rio was absolutely electric on Thursday. With well over 3,000 players coming back to play the Monster Stack, the Ladies event kicking off later today and a few other WSOP events still ongoing, Friday very well may be another crazy day at the Rio.
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All players payed $1,500 to enter the event. The winner will take home $1,327,083, not a bad few days work!
They say poker is dead … THEY need to head to the Las Vegas desert to see that they’re wrong.
45th WORLD SERIES OF POKER EVENT #51: WSOP MONSTER STACK NO-LIMIT HOLD’EM$1,500 buy-in | 7,862 Entries | $10,613,770 Prize Pool Unofficial End of Day 1 Top 10 Chip Counts
Pierre Calamusa (FRA) 243,000 Arnie Friedman (USA) 164,000 Matthew Haugen (USA) 157,300 John Monnette (USA) 156,500 Tim Davie (UK) 143,700 Alexander Ziskin (USA) 139,800 Evan Yanoshik (USA) 136,600 Matthew Weber (USA) 136,300 Uri Nir (USA) 131,700 William Tzotzolis (CAN) 130,200
