Day 1a had 215 total entries and of those who started, 92 are left in the action in the event and will return on Monday for Day 2. The players who were unable to survive all 10 levels today may re-enter in Day 1b tomorrow or Day 1c on Sunday.

Here are some tweets posted by players at the end of Day 1a of the PartyPoker WPT Montreal Main Event.

Got through to day 2 on 1 bullet in #WPTMontreal …finished with 120k, avg is 66k, 2 days off now while I wait for 1b and 1c to finish

— Eugene Katchalov (@EugeneKatchalov) November 30, 2013

Busted WPT Montréal day 1a. Will play day 1c tomorrow.

— Pascal Lefrancois (@Pass_Lefrancois) November 30, 2013

Ended day 1A of #WPTMontreal with 127,500. I didn’t really play too many huge pots, just chipped up all day. Back at it Monday for day 2.

— Vanessa Selbst (@VanessaSelbst) November 30, 2013

Ended day 1A with 186k grinding online all weekend weeeee

— Mohsin Charania (@chicagocards1) November 30, 2013

Made day 2 of @WPT @PLAYGROUNDPOKER with 57k!!

— Jason Duval (@bebe_chien) November 30, 2013

Made day two of @WPT Montreal with 35k.

— Tony Dunst (@Bond_18) November 30, 2013

Day over with 40k. Lets run this monday on day 2

— Marc.E McLaughlin (@Go_Irish_Go) November 30, 2013

Ended day 1 of @WPT Montreal with 43k. Coming back monday for day 2!!

— Jonathan Roy (@jonathanroy70) November 30, 2013

The last 2 hours were uneventful. Ended at 74600 at 600/1200-200. The next 2 days will be spent on the virtual felt of @PokerStars

— Jonathan Little (@JonathanLittle) November 30, 2013

Busto @WPT Monteal the late reg run it up was no good. Will try again on day 1b tomorrow as it’s a re entry.

— Faraz Jaka (@FarazJaka) November 30, 2013

Boat over boat, snap busted the wpt main. Poker gods let me cash one time plzzzz?

— Daniel Cates (@junglemandan) November 30, 2013

Made it thru day 1a with just below starting stack in #WPTMontreal so I get to watch Habs-Leafs at bell centre tonight!

— Mike Watson (@SirWatts) November 30, 2013

Ended Day 1 of WPT Montreal with 115.5k. Average is 66k. Looking forward to a few days off and Habs/Leafs tomorrow!!!

— Griffin Benger (@GriffinBenger) November 30, 2013

After a walk around the tournament room, we found a few players who have separated themselves from the field and grown some already impressive stacks.

The five biggest ones we came across are the following:

1. Amirmasoud Babakhani – 175K
2. Sebastien Drolet-Poitras – 165K
3. Daniel Dvoress – 145K
4. Ludovic Lacay – 135K
5. Ryan Nelson Franklin – 135K

Here are a few of the notable players still in the field today.

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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…

Just flew from SF to Montreal direct from 8am landed at 5pm and str8 to the cardroom w/ my luggage to late register @WPT Main Event. #letsgo

— Faraz Jaka (@FarazJaka) November 30, 2013

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).

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.

Players have just returned from their first break of the day, and are playing in level 3 at the moment. Here are some photos taken during level 2 of today’s PartyPoker WPT Montreal Main Event:

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Players are taking their first 15-minute break of the day after two levels of play. There have only been 8 players to bust so far, but unfortunately three well-known Canadian players are among them: Shawn Buchanan from BC, and from Toronto, Michael Wywrot and Nicholas Verkaik.

A story we’re going to follow today involves one of the Playground regs in the event, Dean Murphy, who lost a hand early in level 1 holding quads and surrendered over 90% of his starting stack. It’s amazing enough that he didn’t go broke – but even better for him is that he has managed to rebuild his stack to over 15.5K going into level 3. We’ll follow his progress today to see if he’s able to overcome that beat and at least go deep today – or even qualify for Day 2.