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

• July 08 2015
• Lyle BatemanLane Anderson

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.

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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