Michel Plourde: 
Pierre-Marc Chadi: 
Board: 
Plourde doubles up and breaks the average.
Jasar Elarar: 
Genia Frenkel: 
Board: 
Jasar’s last 25K went in on the turn. He was taken out, failing to improve to a straight flush.
The average stack is now at 92K, and 68 players remain.
The 2nd break is now behind us, and with it 8 of the 14 levels that will be played today. Michel Lacasse, Denis Cyr, Thomas Lefort and Pascal Monarque have breached the 200K mark, and are now in a good spot to play all 14 levels today.
The final number of entries for Day 1A is 128, made up of 108 single players and 20 re-entries, some of which appear on our actual top ten:
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|
| Michel | Lacasse | 337,900 |
| Denis | Cyr | 283,400 |
| Thomas | Lefort | 240,500 |
| Pascal | Monarque | 214,600 |
| Hugo | Dumoulin | 190,500 |
| Michael | Malm | 187,300 |
| Jacques | Iza | 134,800 |
| Todd | Desbiens | 133,200 |
| Rong | Xu | 130,300 |
| Sylvain | Lessard | 123,500 |
A raising war got Hugo Dumoulin and Louis Boutin all-in before the flop.
Hugo Dumoulin: 
Louis Boutin: 
Board: 
With Boutin’s 50K stack, Dumoulin now has over 160K to work with.
There is 1 more level to play before the second break and the end of the registration period. 85 players are still in the field, from 118 entries so far.
Cristian Muset got himself a nice 100K stack, and was using those chips merrily. He put a lot of pressure on Martin Dej in hand that saw Cristian put Martin all-in on the river. Martin thought for a while, and decided to commit his remaining 25K chip to the pot.
Cristian Muset: 
Martin Dej:
Board: 
Martin made the right call, not an easy one with just a top pair, and survives to see another hand.
Players in Day 1A of the PG500 just took a short break, during which we scouted the room for the good looking stacks. Here is the top of the leaderboard:
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|
| Walter | Asatoorian | 111,500 |
| Brian | Massender | 109,500 |
| Mitchael | Ferguson | 106,300 |
| Pierre-Olivier | Guay | 105,200 |
| Kevin | Macdonald | 92,300 |
| Michel | Lacasse | 92,000 |
| Karim | Abdelhamid | 91,900 |
Michel Lacasse, who was in the lead 1 level ago, is still healthy, but dropped a few positions. Kevin Macdonald took out Todd Desbiens in the last few hands, zooming to the top positions in the process.
Kevin Macdonald:
Todd Desbiens: 
Board: 
Macdonald made a tough call on the turn, after Desbiens went all-in for 35K into a pot less than half that size.
Michel Lacasse has been doing well in the first segment of Day 1A, and he just added to his holdings by taking out the Grey Wolfe. The latter had shoved his short stacked on one of the previous hands, and did it again after Lacasse made it 1,500 to go on a 500 blind. Lacasse called.
Michel Lacasse:
Grey Wolfe:
Board: 