Joe Lu Bags Huge Stack on Day 1b of Summer Super Stack Main Event

The Summer Super Stack Main Event has concluded the second of three start days, and they’re already only one player away from beating the $200,000 guarantee.

There were 85 entries to the $1,500 Main Event at Deerfoot Inn & Casino in Calgary, Alberta on Saturday. Added to the 65 from Friday’s Day 1a, the total field numbers 150. One more player will tip the prize pool over the $200,000 guarantee with the largest starting field yet expected on Sunday’s Day 1c.

By the end of 10 one-hour levels, nobody had nearly as many chips as Joe Lu. Bagging 356,000, his closest competitor was Cole Gauthier who was miles behind with 239,100. No other player passed the 200,000 mark. Lu also far surpasses Richard Mullen who bagged the most on Day 1a with 285,300.

Here are the 23 players who bagged chips for Monday’s Day 2:

Player	Chips	Player	Chips
Joe Lu	356,000	Ravinder Bedi	67,700
Cole Gauthier	239,100	Vince Chahly	67,400
Fraser Short	187,200	John Wilson	64,100
Sam Tong	183,600	Umang Dattani	60,500
Josh Wallace	182,600	Troy O’Neill	59,600
Matthew Wilson	170,800	Don Fujita	42,000
Homan Mohammadi	144,500	Jimmy Lee	40,300
Alison Senycz	142,000	Tsunehisa Nishi	38,400
John Lavorato	132,900	Tammy Wing	28,900
Arvhin Malinab	131,000	Jorge Chae	25,800
Robert Babb	77,200	Kyle Crego	16,800
Sheila Schmidt	72,000

Among those who did not survive the day were B.C.’s Vanessa Kade, Winter Super Stack Main Event final-tablist Malcolm Bolger, and World Series of Poker bracelet winner Tyler Bonkowski.

Day 1c will likely be the largest field yet, and play begins at noon on Sunday in the 17-table tournament hall. For $1,500, entrants get 30,000 chips and one-hour levels to try to bag a Day 2 stack, and registration will remain open until the end of Level 6.

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