A record 1,560 players entered the Main Event at the PCA creating a massive $15,132,000 prize pool. That’s 31 more players than last year shelling out a hefty $10,000 buy-in or qualifying online where the top 232 places will get paid and $2.3 million will go to first place.
The event is now commencing Day 2 with 643 players having advanced and the chip leader is Pieter de Korver of the Netherlands who is a Team PokerStars Pro with a chip count of 245,000 chips.
Some notable names still in the event are Phil Ivey, Chris Moneymaker, Hoyt Corkins, David Benyamine, Joe Cada, Andrew Robl, Luca Pagano, ElkY, Jeff Madsen, and Viktor Blom who confirmed that he was the infamous high stakes player ‘Isildur1’.
There are about 161 Canadians who registered for the main event. The following 70 Canadians survived Day 1 to move onto Day 2:
| Spot | Name | CHIPS |
| 8 | Guillaume Gignac | 219,600 |
| 10 | Owen Crowe | 213,000 |
| 16 | Mathieu Martin | 199,500 |
| 25 | Bruno Francesco | 178,600 |
| 36 | Nathan Schoo | 158,300 |
| 38 | Casey Jarzabek | 154,300 |
| 48 | Benoit Pesant | 147,500 |
| 51 | Pietro Valente | 142,900 |
| 60 | Mike Chappus | 138,400 |
| 69 | Gregory Baksic | 131,500 |
| 70 | Clark Hamagami | 131,000 |
| 88 | Louis-Samuel Pouliot | 119,100 |
| 90 | Maxwell Greenwood | 119,000 |
| 105 | Evan Parkes | 111,900 |
| 121 | Glen Cymbaluk | 107,200 |
| 128 | Raffi Don Dayian | 105,600 |
| 149 | Matthew Wood | 100,000 |
| 194 | Bryce Coates | 87,600 |
| 213 | Horatio Kemeny | 82,700 |
| 212 | Simon Charette | 82,700 |
| 216 | John Vlassis | 82,300 |
| 232 | Mike Leah | 78,900 |
| 259 | Benjamin Leblond | 72,000 |
| 277 | David Cairns | 68,100 |
| 291 | Shayne Khanna | 66,000 |
| 294 | Philippe Plouffe | 65,800 |
| 304 | Nenad Medic | 63,300 |
| 306 | Darren Keyes | 63,200 |
| 309 | Jeff Chu | 62,500 |
| 310 | Noeung Troeung | 62,400 |
| 327 | Greg Debora | 60,400 |
| 335 | Elliot Smith | 58,900 |
| 343 | Philip Sousa | 57,800 |
| 362 | Dominique Dupuis | 55,000 |
| 380 | Brad Marsh | 52,900 |
| 388 | Michael MacHugh | 51,700 |
| 400 | Benoit Galland | 49,800 |
| 418 | Samir Hadad | 47,200 |
| 419 | Aaron McCready | 47,100 |
| 420 | Luc Lafontaine | 47,000 |
| 425 | Raffi Nahabedian | 45,500 |
| 431 | Mark Napier | 44,800 |
| 435 | Brent Bibby | 44,000 |
| 439 | Shawn Buchanan | 43,200 |
| 442 | Sean Lefort | 42,400 |
| 451 | Regent Lacroix | 40,600 |
| 456 | Amichai Barer | 39,600 |
| 459 | Silviu Pitis | 39,500 |
| 460 | Richard Mask | 39,200 |
| 466 | Mark Radoja | 38,400 |
| 467 | John Zioulas | 38,300 |
| 481 | Darren Kennedy | 36,500 |
| 488 | Scott Desveaux | 35,700 |
| 500 | Tomislav Radisic | 34,100 |
| 506 | Anh Van Nguyen | 33,400 |
| 512 | Kristen Bicknell | 32,400 |
| 518 | Michael Risman | 31,800 |
| 527 | Poorya Nazari | 30,700 |
| 544 | Marc-Andre Ladouceur | 28,000 |
| 554 | Mark Meloche | 27,100 |
| 555 | Sam Greenwood | 26,800 |
| 573 | Jeff Galati | 24,800 |
| 574 | Andrew Chen | 24,700 |
| 584 | Scott Wilson | 23,100 |
| 585 | Joe Le | 23,000 |
| 605 | David Bokor | 20,600 |
| 607 | Brian Van Bart | 20,400 |
| 621 | Gary Bain | 15,900 |
| 628 | Jeanrene Plante | 13,000 |
| 630 | Alexandru Baron | 12,400 |
