Monster stack

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The Monster Stack is a poker tournament that is played once a year at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas .

structure

The tournament was first offered at the 2014 WSOP . Played the variant No-Limit Texas Hold'em , the buy-in is 1500 US dollars . The players start with a stack of 50,000 chips and thus have more chips available at the start of the game than in similarly expensive events in the tournament series. Registration is spread over two days; re-entry is not permitted. In the World Series of Poker Europe tournament was in 2015 in Berlin , and in 2017 and 2018 in Rozvadov also played. While the entry fee in Berlin was 1650 euros , each in Rozvadov was asked for a buy-in of 1100 euros. At the end of February 2015, the event in Las Vegas in June 2014 was named Poker Tournament of the Year 2014 at the American Poker Awards in Beverly Hills with a buy-in of less than $ 2000.

Previous events

year Attendees winner origin Prize money
2014 E. 7862 Hugo Pingray FranceFrance $ 1,327,083
2015 E. 7192 Perry Shiao United StatesUnited States $ 1,286,942
2015 E. 0580 Ryan stapler United StatesUnited States 0.176,205
2016 E. 6927 Mitchell Towner United StatesUnited States $ 1,120,196
2017 E. 6716 Brian Yoon United StatesUnited States $ 1,094,349
2017 E 0561 Olexander Shcherbak UkraineUkraine 0.€ 117,708
2018 E. 6260 Tommy Nguyen CanadaCanada $ 1,037,451
2018 E 0666 Timur Margolin IsraelIsrael 0.€ 134,407
2019 E. 6035 Kainalu McCue-Unciano United StatesUnited States $ 1,008,850
2020 E. because COVID-19 pandemic postponed

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Structure Sheet on the World Series of Poker website, accessed October 31, 2019.
  2. Snapshots from the American Poker Awards on pokernews.com on March 4, 2015, accessed October 31, 2019.