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Event #18: $1,500 Monster Stack No-Limit Hold'em
Day 1c Completed
Day 1c of Event #18: $1,500 Monster Stack added another 2,896 entries to the field and another $3,844,440 to the prize pool after 10 levels of action at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. This brings the prize pool up to $9,734,557.
This event has multiple Day 2 flights. A total of 1,002 of today's entries found a bag. They will compete tomorrow as part of Day 2c.
Sandro Carucci leads the day's field with 740,000 in chips. He has a lead of less than two yellow chips over Pierre De Berry (738,500) in second.
Michael Arellano is in third for the day with 665,000 in chips.
| Rank | Player | Country | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sandro Carucci | Switzerland | 687,000 |
| 2 | Pierre De Berry | - | 738,500 |
| 3 | Michael Arellano | United States | 665,000 |
| 4 | Carlos Pomales | Puerto Rico | 610,000 |
| 5 | Caden Coleman | United States | 569,500 |
| 6 | Giuseppe Iadisernia | Venezuela | 547,000 |
| 7 | Tsolmon Jargalsaikhan | United States | 538,500 |
| 8 | Darrell Haywood | United States | 519,000 |
| 9 | Mauro Raimondo | Argentina | 519,000 |
| 10 | Vamerdino Magsakay | Philippines | 517,000 |
Some other notables to make it to Day 2c included two time bracelet winner Yuliyan Kolev (365,500), Dong Chen (281,500), Thomas Taylor (262,000), Renan Bruschi (235,500), Freddy Deeb (207,000), David Peters (203,500), Brek Schutten (180,500), Anastasiia Knapp (145,500), Alex Foxen (128,000), Matt Glantz (121,000), Shiina Okamoto (120,000), Nick Pupillo (77,000), and poker author Maria Konnikova (215,000).
There were also three past Main Event winners in the pack of survivors — Michael Mizrachi (126,000), Ryan Riess (122,500), and Jonathan Tamayo (56,000).
Day 2c will start at 11:00 a.m. local time on June 5, when the 1,002 survivors will return. They will be joined by new players for the first level, during which registration remains open.
The seat draw for Day 2c, is available on the WSOP LIVE app from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store.
Here are the Day 1c end-of-day chip counts, according to the WSOP LIVE app.
The third starting flight attracted a total of 2,896 entries and has concluded the final hands of the night. Upon completion of level ten, some 1,002 players have advanced and the full chip counts will be published later tonight.
Changes to television and livestream coverage have been made for the 2026 World Series of Poker (WSOP). Major changes.
But fear not, the biggest event of the year in poker will be easily accessible to fans around the world, for free (well, most of it).
ESPN returns to cover the Main Event this year, but the rest of the 2026 WSOP will be available for livestreaming on the WSOP's official social media channels.
With flight 1c players slated to return from dinner break at approximately 8:17 p.m. local time, these are the players returning with the biggest stacks, according to the WSOP LIVE app.
The poker world moves fast and during massive events, it’s nearly impossible to keep track of everyone. Whether you’re following a high-stakes pro, a local hero from your home game, or a family member chasing a bracelet, PokerNews makes it even easier with the new MyPlayers feed — your personalized updates feed for tracking the players you care about in one place.
Build your custom watchlist by clicking the star icon next to a player in the live reporting feed, and they’ll be pinned to the top of chip counts and tracked in a single, real-time feed as the action unfolds.
The world of poker strategy has become increasingly solver-driven over the last decade, with players obsessing over balanced ranges, GTO outputs, and technical perfection.
But according to Nacho Cuesta, creator of Master Poker Tells, there’s still a huge part of the game many players are completely overlooking: human behavior.
Cuesta has spent the last five years building what he describes as a structured system for reading live poker tells, breaking down unconscious behaviors into categories including eye movement, betting patterns, verbal cues, and body language. In the process, he says he identified something missing from almost all traditional tells content - structure.
According to the WSOP LIVE app.
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