Here is how the chips are spread out amongst the final 24 players in Day 2 of Event 1 (counts are approximate):

Table 53

• Chad Beecraft – 520K
• Andrew Lalonde – 1.49M
• Tony Stratopoulos – 2.00M
• Raffi Garabetian – 1.20M
• Jeffrey Bartlett – 875K
• Mathieu Fournier Gamelin – 620K
• Steve Pouliot – 3.36M

Table 54

• Ramzi Karam – 1.40M
• Jian-Xin Ma – 440K
• Daniel Charette – 55K
• Genevieve Champagne – 280K
• Yannick Lamarre-Delooz – 870K
• Shawn Martell – 2.85M
• Michael Malm – 1.35M
• Stephan Belisle – 1.85M

Table 60

• George Karoubalis – 1.1M
• Kevin Blais – 2.2M
• Gaston Dumas – 430K
• Chulsoo Park – 1.8M
• Mathieu Boucher – 1.4M
• Aladin Reskallah – 350K
• Derek Boucher – 825K
• Niolas Malo Majeau – 800K
• Byron Doyle – 1.6M

There will be a seating redraw at 18 players, and Day 2 will end either at the end of level 29, or when a final table of 9 is reached, whichever comes first.

We are on a short break here in Event 1, and here are the estimated chip counts of the remaining players:

Table 53

• Chad Beecraft – 580K
• Dany Hamel Boulay – 300K
• Dale Chalifoux – 625k
• Tony Stratopoulos – 1.25M
• Armry Senat – 1.15M
• Mark Fitzpatrick – 520K
• Yves Bohemier – 200K
• Steve Pouliot – 800K

Table 54

• Ramzi Karam – 1.25M
• Mathieu Fournier Gamelin – 480K
• Daniel Charette – 1M
• Genevieve Champagne – 120K
• Diana Ferreira- 255k
• Shawn Martell – 305K
• John Clarke – 465K
• Maxime Labrecque – 1.15M
• Stephan Belisle – 1.6M

Table 57

• Eric Thibodeau – 180K
• Andrew Lalonde – 315K
• Derek Boucher – 435k
• Stylianos Stafylakis – 520K
• Colin Scheckman- 280K
• Jean-Guy Roy – 320K
• Georges Hallak – 950K
• Felix Brochu – 360K

Table 60

• George Karoubalis – 1M
• Gaston Dumas – 500K
• Chulsoo Park – 575K
• Mathieu Boucher – 2.4M
• Lance Perkins – 925K
• Nicolas Malo Majeau – 1.15M
• Byron Doyle – 850K

Table 61

• Kevin Blais – 600K
• Raffi Garabetian – 900K
• Eddie Daldalian – 80K
• Jian-Xin Ma – 640K
• Yannick Lamarre-Delooz – 1.6M
• Jeffrey Bartlett – 920K
• Michael Malm – 1.6M
• Aladin Reskallah – 605K

We’ve just begun level 24 here in Day 2 of Event 1, and the field has dropped down to 59 players. There are 5 levels of 40 minutes left to play today, after which the remaining players will bag and tag their chip onto Day 3.

Here are a few photos taken during level 23:

We are back from another short break, and play is resuming in level 22 with 91 players remaining. We took a walk around the room, and here are the biggest stacks we came across:

1. Nicolas Malo Majeau – 1.1M
2. Luigi Fantigrossi – 725K
3. Byron Doyle – 715K
4. Michael Malm – 675K
5. Maxime Labrecque- 650K
6. Stephan Belisle – 630K
7. Mathieu Boucher – 625K

Once the bubble burst, we saw a number of players quickly make their way to the cashier, as many of the players that fell short stacked before the bubble burst were left with little room to manoeuvre.

Here is a gallery of photos taken a little before and after the bubble: