Jour 1a: Décompte de jetons

Prénom Nom Tapis
Alan James Percal 73,100
Amirmasoud Babakhani 185,100
Badri Abboud 114,400
Blake Bohn 72,800
Brandon David Shane 52,200
Brandon Steven 76,600
Brian Yoon 75,600
Calvin Anderson 86,400
Carl DiVeglia III 99,500
Chanracy Khun 49,600
Charles Villeneuve 48,800
Chi Tsun Chan 77,900
Christopher Dixon Bell 64,400
Daniel Colman 51,800
Daniel Dvoress 148,400
Daniel Ghionoiu 112,700
Daniel Jason Strelitz 110,800
Danny Lauzon 32,200
Danny Nguyen 112,400
David Bokor 48,600
David Peters 25,300
Eric Haber 31,000
Eric Place 23,100
Erik Augustson 50,900
Erik Cajelais 73,200
Etienne Leduc 17,300
Eugene Katchelov 119,700
Fuad Shehab Nasser 26,200
Georges Anthony Dunst 35,900
Griffin Benger 115,500
Harvey Richard Larocque 62,200
Helio Liberman 86,400
Istvan Nagy 50,900
Jason Bokor 151,300
Jason Duval 56,900
Jason James 74,600
Jean-Pascal Savard 45,500
Jeffrey Dale Gross 37,200
Jerry Lee Cooper 29,000
Jiachen Gong 21,600
Joe Godbout 12,600
Jonathan Duhamel 40,400
Jonathan Little 74,600
Jonathan Roy 43,100
Jordan Cristos 51,900
Jordan Martin 32,500
Joshua Keith Tucker 42,700
Josue Sauvageau 128,800
Kevin Saul 46,200
Kyle Myers 60,900
Kyle Wilson 67,900
Ludovic Lacay 129,800
Maciek Gracz 78,200
Marc Etienne Mclaughlin 39,700
Marc-Olivier Carpentier-Perrault 132,000
Marco Lang 24,600
Marko XXX 59,400
Matthew Lapossie 85,300
Michael Watson 29,100
Mike McDonald 47,600
Mohsim Charania 186,300
Nicky Evans 28,500
Nicolas Aubin 35,800
Norman Henry Overdijk 7,700
Paul Arthur 73,200
Phil Laak 109,900
Philip Couture 23,300
Robert Logan Dunn 66,300
Robert Petronio 111,000
Roland Isaelashvili 65,300
Roman Gallivan 91,800
Ronald Lauzon 54,000
Ryan Hall 24,700
Ryan Nelson Franklin 155,000
Scott Jeremy Clements 67,400
Scott Montgomery 22,600
Sebastien Drolet-Poitras 270,800
Sorel Mizzi 39,500
Stephane Blouin 68,400
Thomas Lefort 80,000
Timothy McDermott 36,800
Todd Sislev 50,800
Tri Ba Huynh 80,400
Tyler Reiman 36,200
Vanessa Selbst 127,500
Wassim Boutros 40,800
William Maderos-Treaster 64,700
William Molson 40,400
Yannick Gauthier 136,500
Yong Guo 51,400
Youssef Bejjani 20,800
Yung Hao O 119,900

MVP Standings updated!

With the final results for Event 7 now in, we have updated the Fall Classic MVP Standings.

Check out the updated standings here.

Huge hand

  • Level: 28
  • Small Blind: 30K
  • Big Blind: 60K
  • Ante: 10K
  • Chip Average: 3.9M
  • Remaining: 2
  • Entries: 314


  • The action was pretty calm all the way down to the river on a 7 of Diamonds 7 of Clubs Queen of Clubs 3 of Spades 4 of Diamonds board, but river betting was extremely quick and cost Ricky most of his stack. Ricky (first to act) bet 350K and Benoit insta-shoved his shorter (but still healthy) stack. Ricky didn’t think twice before calling and tabling 7 of Spades 2 of Spades for flopped trip 7s… unfortunately for him, Benoit tabled his 6 of Clubs 5 of Clubs for a runner-runner straight to the 7.

    Ricky went from chip leader down to just about 1.6M chips, and Benoit is the massive chip leader.

    Heads Up!

  • Level: 28
  • Small Blind: 30K
  • Big Blind: 60K
  • Ante: 10K
  • Chip Average: 3.9M
  • Remaining: 2
  • Entries: 314


  • With the eliminations of Jean-Pierre Hetu and Michael Neuber after a long period of 4-handed play, the tournament has reached the final showdown between two players playing heads up poker.

    The two players remaining are Ricky Tang (4M chips) and Benoit Pesant (3.9M chips) and they are playing for $67,335 for 1st place and $47,205 for 2nd place.

    Good luck to both of the players remaining!

    Ricky Tang

    Benoit Pesant

    Back from dinner

  • Level: 7
  • Small Blind: 250
  • Big Blind: 500
  • Ante: 75
  • Chip Average: 39K
  • Remaining: 163
  • Entries: 215


  • The players are back from their dinner break and with last-minute registrations from Faraz Jaka and Daniel Cates, the final tally of players for Day 1a is 215.

    FYI there are over 110 players in tonight’s satellite for the WPT as well…

    Dinner break!

  • Level: 7
  • Small Blind: 250
  • Big Blind: 500
  • Ante: 75
  • Chip Average: 39K
  • Remaining: 163
  • Entries: 212


  • The players are now on a 45-minute long dinner break. While the players are enjoying a nice buffet there are sure to be a few racing from the airport to try and make the end of late registration, which closes at the end of this break (in 35 minutes).

    There are a large number of household names (at least household names in poker-playing houses) in the event but some of the biggest names have already busted from Day 1a. Some of the eliminations so far include: Scott Siever, Antonio Esfandiari, Peter Jetten, Marvin Rettenmaier, and Chris Moorman.

    After the break, players will play another 4 levels with one 15-minute break after level 8. To qualify for Day 2, players will be at the tables until just before midnight.

    Remember – for players who don’t yet have a ticket for tomorrow, there is a $330 satellite that starts in 50 minutes (8pm).

    Second break of Day 1a

  • Level: 5
  • Small Blind: 150
  • Big Blind: 300
  • Ante: 50
  • Chip Average: 33.4K
  • Remaining: 187
  • Entries: 208


  • Day 1a of the WPT Montreal has reached its second break of the day and during the break we went searching for the chip leaders at this point.

    The top three that we found:

    • Marco Lang – 90K
    • Badri Aboud – 90K
    • Sebastien Drolet-Poitras – 80K

    Dean Murphy is not among the chip leaders, but he has rebuilt his stack to just under what he started with – at the break he had 28.3K, up from his low of 2.1K when his quads were beaten by a straight flush in level 1.

    8th place: Chris Back

  • Level: 24
  • Small Blind: 12K
  • Big Blind: 24K
  • Ante: 4K
  • Chip Average: 1.1M
  • Remaining: 7
  • Entries: 314


  • Jean-Pierre opened UTG+1 for 50K and Chris went all in with his remaining 54K. Ricky flatted from the button, and Jean-Pierre called the extra 4K. The flop was 6 of Clubs 7 of Spades 8 of Spades. Jean-Pierre led out 5oK which encouraged Ricky to fold. Jean-Pierre turned over Ace of Hearts King of Clubs while Chris held Ace of Spades Jack of Diamonds. The turn was Queen of Hearts and the 3 of Hearts on the river kept Jean-Pierre in the lead and Chris was given his cash coupon for a trip to the cage.

    8th place: Chris Back, $8,985

    Chris Back

    9th place: Tanveer Dhanjal

  • Level: 24
  • Small Blind: 12K
  • Big Blind: 24K
  • Ante: 4K
  • Chip Average: 981.3K
  • Remaining: 8
  • Entries: 314


  • Tanveer was the chip leader for much of the tournament, but chipped down quite a bit towards the end of Day 2 and couldn’t make a comeback today. Just a few minutes after his neighbour in Seat 10 was eliminated, Tanveer followed him to the cashier to get paid.

    Tanveer’s final hand:

    Benoit raised to 51K from middle position, and Tanveer reraised to 113K. Benoit responded by shoving and Tanveer called for his tournament life.

    The cards – Tanveer: Ace of Diamonds Queen of Diamonds Benoit: Jack of Diamonds Jack of Spades

    The board ran out 9 of Clubs Jack of Hearts 10 of Spades 4 of Clubs 3 of Spades and Benoit’s Jacks (barely) held on.

    9th place: Tanveer Dhanjal, $6,730

    9th place: Tanveer Dhanjal

    First blood

  • Level: 25
  • Small Blind: 12K
  • Big Blind: 24K
  • Ante: 4K
  • Chip Average: 872.2K
  • Remaining: 9
  • Entries: 314


  • Ricky Tang finally arrived and just a few minutes later eliminated Terence Lai in 10th place.

    Ricky open raised to 55K in the hijack. It folded to Terence in the SB who shoved his short stack. The BB folded and Ricky quickly called, showing 10 of Hearts 10 of Spades. Terence was playing Ace of Diamonds Queen of Hearts.

    The flop of :9 of Hearts Ace of Spades 4 of Diamonds put Terence in the lead but the 10 of Diamonds on the turn moved Ricky far into the lead and the 6 of Clubs on the river spelled the end of Terence’s day.

    10th place: Terence Lai, $4,900

    10th place: Terence Lai