Shaun Deeb and Chris Moorman were just two of the 4000+ players who showed up for Day 1C of the 2017 WSOP Main Event.

While a number of the bigger names were expected to make it to the Rio Monday for Day 1C of the 2017 World Series of Poker Main Event, most people were simply watching to see how many players were going to play.

In the end, Day 1C turned out to be a record-setting-day with 4,262 players registering, pushing the total field size to 7,221 – the third largest Main Event field of all time.$67,877,400 prize pool means the eventual champion is walking away with $8,150,000 while a min-cash is worth $15,000. A total of 1,084 players will finish in the money.

The biggest stack from the Day 1C crowd belongs to Jerome Brion. The Frenchman finished with 247,900. Right behind him is Rudolphk Sawa with 2388,600 while Carl Carodenuto rounds out the top three with 237,800.

Some of the notables moving on to Day 2C action on Wednesday include Andre Akkari (189,900), Bryce Yockey (178,700), Jason Koon (166,600) and Aditya Agarwal (150,900).

John Monnette, the current leader in the WSOP Player of the Year race, finished with 123,800.

Team PokerStars Pros Jason Mercier and Daniel Negreanu spent their entire Day 1C playing at the same table. Mercier finished with 28,500 while Negreanu finished with 26,200.

Mercier’s wife Natasha finished with 218,400 – good enough for a top 10 stack.

To the surprise of nobody, Phil Hellmuth was one of the last players to make it into the Main Event, registering just after dinner break. His table draw was anything but soft.

Hellmuth finished play on Monday with 85,000. Another Phil, 10-time WSOP bracelet winner Phil Ivey, was a notable who did not enter the 2017 WSOP Main Event.

There was a number of players that did enter but won’t be coming back to the Main Event at all, unless it’s watch from the rail. Blair Hinkle, Ari Engel, John Juanda, Mark Newhouse, Russell Thomas and POY contender John Racener were all unable to make it through all five levels on Monday.

Day 2A/B, which keeps the players from Day 1A and 1B separate, resumes at 11 AM PT with ESPN airing play live from 4:30 – 8 pm PT.

Top 10 Chip Counts

  1. Jerome Brion – 247,900
  2. Rudolphk Sawa – 238,600
  3. Carl Carodenuto – 237,800
  4. Eric Nathan – US 228,500
  5. David Mock – 228,500
  6. Daniel Barry – 224,500
  7. Jason Mann – 223,600
  8. David Toneman – 221,300
  9. Adam Levy – 220,700
  10. Natasha Mercier – 218,400