2015 WSOP Main Event Day 1c: David Ormsby Bags Biggest Canadian Stack

Tuesday was the big day for the 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. The third and final entry day saw 3,963 players drop $10,000 at registration and take their seat in the prestigious tournament, making it the largest entry flight in Main Event history.

Days 1a and 1b (you can read about them here and here), were much smaller. Combined, the first two days didn’t even total Day 1c’s field. This puts the official Main Event total at 6,420 players for 2015, which is down a slight four percent from last year’s 6,683.

For 2015, the WSOP is guaranteeing that 1,000 players will be paid, flattening the payout structure a bit. That min-cash will be worth an even $15,000.

There was also a guarantee that all nine of the final-tablists will receive at least $1 million each, but only if the number of registrants met or exceeded last year’s number (the condition can be found on the structure sheet). This year’s field is a bit short, but it appears the numbers have been worked to allow the $1 million guarantee anyway. Ninth place will earn $1,001,020 and the eventual World Champion is going to earn $7,680,021.

When the long day of five 120-minute levels concluded, 2,765 players still had chips to carry forward, making Day 2's field a total of 4,389 players.

At the end of the night, Floridian John Gorsuch had the most chips to seal in his bag with 198,100, while only 90 players passed the 100,000 mark.

With such a huge field of players, there were, obviously, countless notable professionals in the mix, including one table that saw two of poker’s most famous Phil’s sharing the same felt. Phil Ivey and Phil Hellmuth on one table made it a table everyone wanted to watch. Phil Laak was seated at a different table.

The top Canadian stack of the day belonged to David Ormsby or Ottawa, Ontario with 124,475, locking him in as the 32nd-best overall, but he’s behind the best Canadians of both Day 1a and 1b. Yong Lu will have the most chips of anyone from Canada when Day 2 resumes with 141,750.

Special mention goes to Kostantinos Segounis who is making good use of the Main Event entry he won in the PlayNow last-longer contest from the Monster Stack event earlier in the series — an event he played by winning a package through PlayNow. Segounis starts Day 2 playing more than twice his starting stack at 68,275.

Every Canadian to make it through Day 1c is below.

Player	Chips	Player	Chips	Player	Chips	Player	Chips
David Ormsby	124,475	Owen Crowe	117,000	Ricky Chow	115,150	Viktor Berg	91,475
Cory Parent	85,400	Max Greenwood	84,450	Sam Chartier	81,900	Sean Giesbrecht	81,100
Eric Cloutier	80,400	Arman Soltani	80,325	Doug Lee	79,150	David Quang	78,000
Tyler Ow	77,975	Jonathan Driscoll	77,450	Jean-Philippe Piquette	76,400	Jason Duval	74,975
Thomas Taylor	74,925	Louis Boutin	74,500	Daniel Negreanu	73,825	Jeanmanuel Estrela	73,500
Jean-Pascal Savard	71,825	Hamza Firdawcy	70,950	Andre Barrett	69,825	Matt Jarvis	69,775
Terence Menezes	69,000	Michael Tieu	68,925	Tyler Bonkowski	68,700	Kostantinos Segounis	68,275
Dov Markowich	67,675	Ali Rabah	66,575	Thomas Popov	65,875	Evan Jarvis	64,175
Matt Marafioti	63,900	Marc-Etienne McLaughlin	62,250	Bill Germanis	60,200	Adam Hui	59,875
Danny Boyaci	59,400	Mike McDonald	59,375	Scott Osborne	59,350	Noah Vaillancourt	58,625
John Frampton	57,650	Tammy Wing	57,225	Ryan Rivers	56,175	Simon Charette	55,500
Sorel Mizzi	55,350	Curtis Crouse	55,325	Griffin Benger	54,250	Lonnie Hallett	54,025
Scott Hill	52,900	Darcy Christensen	52,525	Miguel Proulx	52,025	Kyle Ho	50,500
Jonathan Roy	49,500	Rameez Shahid	48,800	Loreto Perruzza	48,550	Robert Patton	47,150
Jeff Hakim	47,025	Armando Pagliari	46,000	Justin Trivisano	45,450	Steven Parkin	45,425
Anthony Mar	45,000	Yann Dion	44,950	Laurence Grondin	44,900	R. Smith	43,775
Melvin Podaima	43,600	Brent Senko	43,175	Edward Arnold	42,025	Christopher Lastiwka	41,975
Jonathan Plens	41,800	Francis Fan	40,300	Gianluca Cedolia	39,825	David Cairns	39,675
Phillip Dagger	39,450	Michael Forycki	39,150	Richard Guttman	37,125	Ryan Biermann	37,075
Adam Tuk	37,025	Phillip Couture	36,600	Dustin Centanni	35,600	Nicholas Verkaik	35,400
Ping Lin	34,750	Robert Johnson	34,525	Dean Pitcher	34,375	David Cowling	33,950
Michael Smith	31,450	Joshua Platz	31,200	Glen Chorny	30,525	George Petten	30,325
Ratharam Sivagnanam	30,200	Michal Wywrot	29,800	Rock Cloutier	29,550	Sonu Sharma	28,150
Ryan Smith	27,875	Jody Howe	27,150	Jamil Wakil	27,100	Raphael Bernard	27,075
Vincent Jacques	27,050	Nicholas Ehret	26,925	Scott Lim	25,825	Calen McNeil	25,675
Yan Neiman	25,575	Sinan Tawfik	25,500	Ioannis Pentefountas	24,850	Robin Bergren	24,700
Brant Taylor	24,700	Samuel Coen	24,500	Viken Artinian	24,500	Armin Ojani	24,175
Satnam Nijjar	24,150	Ryan Cairns	23,800	Jonas Mackoff	23,475	Adrian Kuan	23,250
Justin Oliver	23,225	Omri Moga	23,025	Michael Noor	22,975	Cindy Kerslake	22,700
Anthony Diotte	22,675	Gareth Struivig De Groot	22,650	Jiri Horak	22,650	Ian Modder	22,625
Kyle Johnson	22,600	Chad Siu	22,300	Peter Jetten	22,075	Dmitry Vitkind	22,000
Mark Hughes	21,300	Jordan Knackstedt	21,000	Darrin Oremba	20,675	Bashar Ramahi	20,375
Valerie Ross	20,150	Paul Pritchett	20,150	Doris Charlebois	20,150	Benjamin Wilinofsky	19,775
Sebastian Sambor	17,975	Jody Evans	17,675	Bryce Pasechnik	17,225	Chris Bowers	17,100
Malachy Hagan	16,450	Marc Carpentier-Perrault	16,125	Jason Lavallee	15,550	Mike Leah	15,000
Clint Christianson	14,800	Derek Gibb	14,525	Gylbert Drolet	14,000	Patrick Braga	13,475
Demosthenes Kiriopoulos	12,750	Gerald Fehr	12,725	Ami Barer	11,975	Timothy Vukson	11,850
Greg Mueller	11,750	Chris Back	11,000	Mike Watson	10,850	Sol Bergren	10,775
Meaghan Whitney	9,775	Rolan Sokolovski	9,750	Jaroslaw Jaskiewicz	8,650	Noeung Troeung	7,600
Shane T Svoboda	6,350	Brandon Gale	4,725	Elliot Smith	2,275

Cards are in the air for Day 2a/b of the Main Event at noon. Check back here at PokerNews Canada for daily updates on all the Canadian action and more.

_{Details courtesy of the WSOP Live Blog.}

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