The World Series of Poker Monster Stack held its second of two starting days on Saturday. While the attendance figure of 7,192 entrants was down about 8% from last year, it’s still the third straight weekend of massive crowds at poker’s most prestigious tournament series. Prior weekends have featured the Millionaire Maker($1,500 buy-in, 7,275 entrants) and Colossus ($565, 22,374 entrants).

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Day 2 of the $1,500 buy-in Monster Stack on Sunday began at 11:00am PT with 2,060 players. Ten levels, each lasting an hour, will take place on Day 2, and the winner will bag $1.2 million. PocketFiver Nick fu_15 Maimone led the way at the start of Day 2 with a stack of 240,200 in chips and was one of only two players to pass 200,000.

According to coverage on WSOP.com, “Maimone said he late registered for the event around 4:30pm and was down to around 5,000 relatively early before chipping up throughout the day and adding about 60,000 over the last 15 minutes through a series of knockouts.”

Among those doubling up late on Day 1B of the tournament was former World Champion Scotty Nguyen, who ran pocket eights into pocket kings, but hit an eight on the flop to pull ahead for good and stave off elimination. He’s still quite short on chips at 13,100, but nevertheless made it to the second day of play.

Not as fortunate was Dan djk123Kelly. He took third in the $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship on Saturday and then registered for the Monster Stack, where he busted on Day 1B after his Q-10 of diamonds could not overcome A-4 of diamonds pre-flop.

The most successful PocketFiver in history, Chris moorman1 Moorman (pictured), is still alive in the Monster Stack. The Brit Tweeted, “Bagged 65.2k in the Monster Stack at 1200bb tomorrow. Long, long way to go.” Moorman was at 575th on the leaderboard when play resumed on Sunday.

Here’s how the final nine players in the Monster Stack will cash out:

1st Place: $1,286,942
2nd Place: $796,834
3rd Place: $594,397
4th Place: $445,166
5th Place: $335,938
6th Place: $255,351
7th Place: $195,543
8th Place: $150,783
9th Place: $117,092

At the time, last year’s Monster Stack had the largest field of any tournament not named the Main Event. This year, the Colossus became the largest live event ever held at 22,374 entrants. Stay tuned to PocketFives for the latest WSOP coverage, brought to you by Tournament Poker Edge.

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