2024 Fall Super Stack – Event #9: $560 Megastack NLH

They are down to 35 left in Day 1b now with about 15 minutes to play in Level 12. There is a final break following this level with three more levels of poker on the schedule when they return. After last night, I’m not going to try to make predictions about when tonight might end.

They are down to 39 players left in 1b with about 5 minutes to play in Level 11. DJ Sharma is sitting with about 130k in front of him now, about twice what he had ~30 minutes ago, but he’s actually multi-tabling tonight. He also has a (somewhat) live stack in the NLH/PLO Mix game across the Chrome Room. He’s mostly been focussing on the Mega and letting his Mix stack blind down, but he’s looking for a double Sharma Time tonight.

The payouts are confirmed with the winner tomorrow set to pocket $25,536. There are 22 paid spots so it looks like there will be at least three players on Day 2 not in the money. The prizes will be loaded into the Payouts tab shortly.

Day 2 Prizes

There are quite a few familiar faces still out there today including DJ Sharma, Shne Chief, Zishan Kassam, Ali Razzaq, Leo Zhang, Rob Lothian, Juss Viet, Jon Jacquard, Michael Malm, Weston Pring, Ed Zurawell, Caleb Simmons, John Foley, Tyler Panas, Nicholas Teeuwen, Shane Brotherwood, Julius Roque, and Calyton Litke.

There are about five minutes to play in Level 10 and the 1b field is now confirmed at 147. That means the total field for this one is 224 and an expected 23 paid spots on Day 2. I’m still waiting to see the official payouts, but I’ll get those updated as soon as I can.

Entries are now closed for he Megastack event with 147 on the board when they sat down for Level 10. That number is still to be confirmed, but if it holds, it will mean that the total field is 224 for $106,400 in total prizes for Day 2. At least 15 players will be advancing to to day 2 from 1b at the end of the night, which will come at the end of Level 15, or when they hit 15 players, whichever comes first.

It looks like Day 2 will have 23 paid spots and, unless something very unusual happens at the end of tonight with multiple busts on the final hand, it’s almost certain that they will be at least two off the money when Day 2 begins.

There are just under 10 minutes to play in Level 9 with the dinner break scheduled following this level. The 1b field is up to 142 for a combined total of 219 and prizes of $104,025. There is just under an hour left in the entry period for the Megastack now.

There are about 5 minutes to play in Level 8 and the combined prizes just capped $100k with 135 entries for today’s flight and 212 across both starting days. Players still have about an hour and a half to enter or rebuy.

The combined field is now up to 200 entries with 123 on the board for today. There are about 30 minutes to play in Level 7, and the total field is now 11 entries away from $100k in prizes with about 2.5 hours left to enter.

The 1b players are on their second break of the day with 120 entries on the board so far and about 2 hours and 45 minutes left to enter this final flight. The combined field is now at 197 for total prizes of $93.5k, but there’s a good chance that will hit $100k before everything closes later tonight. They need another 14 entries today to crack the $100k mark, so that seems very doable at this point.

The combined prizes are now over $85k with 103 entries on the board for Day 1b. That puts the two day field at 180 and counting with about 4 hours left to enter the game. There are just over 15 minutes to play in Level 5 with entries open until the start of Level 10.

There are about 5 minutes to play in Level 4 with the 1b field at 97 entries now. That puts the combined prizes over $82.5k and climbing. There are still about 4.5 hours left to get into the game with entries set to close at about 7:15 PM tonight.

The 1b players are now back from their first break of the day with action in Level 4. There are about 30 minutes to play in the level and just under 5 hours left to enter this event.

There are quite a few familiar faces in the crowd today, including Sean O’Reilly, Tyler Panas, Shane Chief, Scott Calvank, Mal Hagan Rob Lothian, Willie Hernandez, DJ Sharma, Michael Malm, Francis Krulicki, Caleb Simmons, Lapchi Duong, Shane Brotherwood, Jon Jacquard, Weston Pring,, Don Fujita, Derek Letourneau, John Foley, Giulio Rosati, Andy Truong, Ben Locker, Julius Roque, Stephen Dauphinais, Ed Zurawell, Shannon Lazorko, Pete Fylyma, Paul Sokoloff, and the winner of the Heads Up game, Nicholas Teeuwen.

The 1b field has already surpassed 1a and they haven’t even hit the first break yet. The field is now at 82 entries for combined prizes of just over $75k. It’s still looking good for ~120+ entries today which would mean prizes of more than $90k and $100k+ is within sight.

Level 3 has just begun and there are almost 70 entries on the board fro 1b already. They are just 10 entries away from the 1a end-of-day total, so today looks like it it will be significantly bigger than yesterday’s flight.

There are already 10 players waiting in line for Day 2 on Thursday, but before that, there is another flight to play in the Megastack. It gets going at noon on Wednesday as a repeat of the opening day.

The 1a stack to beat belongs to Michael St. Pierre-Porter with 369k in his bag. He’s having a decent week so far here at the Fall Super Stack with a small cash in Event #1 before chopping for second place in Event #5. He has a partner in the 300k club from 1a in Zeyu “Skytrain” Huang. Huang put 309k into his bag as the only other player with 300k or more. Kali Shuali, who cashed the Heads Up game, and Ben Cooper are the 200k club for 3rd and 4th place from 1a.

As with the first flight, Wednesday’s players sit down with 25k in chips to play 40-minute levels. There are 9 levels of late entry available on Day 1, which means entries should close around 7:15 PM on each Day 1.

There are 15 levels on the schedule for Day 1, but they’ll end early if the field hits 10% before then. Day 1a was not able o play down to the 10% number before the end of Level 15, despite being down to 10 in Level 13, so no matter what happens on 1b, there will be at least two players who don’t make money on Day 2. TD Landon Lacroix changed the structure this week to the 10% figure in an effort to ensure players were all in the money for Day 2, but, ya know, poker gonna poker.

Day 1a Qualifying Stacks