First break of Day 1c

2013/12/01 2:15pm by
  • Level: 3
  • Small Blind: 75
  • Big Blind: 150
  • Ante: 25
  • Chip Average: 31.2K
  • Remaining: 295
  • Entries: 307


    • Players are on their first 15-minute break of the day. Registration is up to 307 players – effectively equalling the total number from yesterday, with 4 hours plus a dinner break left to late reg.

    Some notable players to have been seated in the past few minutes include Liv Boeree, Gavin Smith, Marc-André Ladouceur, and Giacomo Fundaro.

    Filed Under: Event 9 - Day 1c

    Level 2 has begun

    2013/12/01 1:32pm by
  • Level: 2
  • Small Blind: 75
  • Big Blind: 150
  • Ante: 0
  • Chip Average: 30.7K
  • Remaining: 285
  • Entries: 293


    • The players are already in level 2 of Day 1c – all 293 of them who have been seated so far.

    One of the interesting parts of running a poker tournament on a Sunday during the NFL season is TV situation – we have TVs all around the room and we’re doing our best to balance everyone’s requests and get as many games as possible on for the players!

    Sunday is also the day for online majors, and there are a few players around the room also playing on their laptops or iPads, giving a new definition to multi-tabling. As we mentioned earlier, the WiFi has been upgraded so we don’t anticipate any problems for online players. Players should be aware, though, that standard rules against being active on electronic devices with cards in front of you apply even on Sundays.

    Filed Under: Event 9 - Day 1c

    Level 1 in Photos

    2013/12/01 1:18pm by
  • Level: 2
  • Small Blind: 75
  • Big Blind: 150
  • Ante: 0
  • Chip Average: 30.4K
  • Remaining: 287
  • Entries: 291


    • Day 1c of the PartyPoker WPT Montreal Main Event is underway, and the first level of play has already passed us. Here are a few photos taken during this first hour of the day:

    Filed Under: Event 9 - Day 1c

    Only 10 minutes to go!

    2013/12/01 11:58am by

    The PartyPoker WPT Main Event continues today at Playground Poker Club, with Day 1c set to start in around 10 minutes. This is the last of the Day 1s, and therefore the last chance for players to qualify for Day 2, which will be played tomorrow at noon. So far there are 224 entries today, but registration will be open for the first 6 one hour levels plus the dinner break, which will give the players until around 7:30pm to enter. The total entries for Day 1a and 1b combined is of 523, and we’re expecting at least another 300 or more to play today.

    From what we’ve gathered, there are around 60-70 satellite tickets that haven’t been used yet in the first two days, and therefore will be used today. That’s nearly half of our satellite winners!

    We would also like to make a note than in the past week or so, we have done some major upgrades to our WiFi,  and can now hold thousands of simultaneous users on a high-speed connection.

    Good luck to all the players in today’s final Day 1 of the Main Event!

    WPT Main Event - Day 1c

    Filed Under: Event 9 - Day 1c

    Day 1b: End of Day Chip Counts

    2013/12/01 12:55am by

    Day 1b is complete and 128 players of the 308 who began the day have survived to Day 2, which will start on Monday, December 2 at 12pm.

    First Name Last Name Chip Count
    Donald Abdelhay 96,900
    Stephane Anderson 34,600
    James Andrade 46,900
    John Andress 69,500
    Jamie Armstrong 92,000
    Chris Back 95,600
    Michael Bartholomew 73,200
    Sol Bergren 49,100
    George Biliouras 89,900
    Patrick Blye 48,400
    Jean Francois Bouchard 41,500
    Shawn Buchanan 34,900
    Allen Butkovic 48,500
    Daniel Buzgon 81,100
    Matt Campbell 37,500
    Marco Cannizzaro 58,200
    Serge Cantin 49,200
    Marco Caza 75,500
    Stewart Chandler 58,300
    Samuel Chartier 19,000
    Andrew Cole 35,300
    Zack Cooke 18,200
    Guillaume Darcourt 82,200
    Kevin Dawe 39,300
    Joseph De Mers 60,900
    Michael Dentale 57,000
    Micheal Dietrich 63,000
    Yann Dion 173,200
    Chris Dombroski 183,300
    Shane Donnelly 16,600
    Jay Michael Dragland 82,000
    Hugo Dumoulin 53,100
    Marshall Dutcher 46,000
    Michael Dybnis 110,500
    Darren Elias 126,000
    Antonio Esfandiari 113,300
    Patrick Eskandar 119,500
    Ivan Fazal Karim 33,100
    Hauke Gerde 92,200
    Roger Geremia 97,500
    James Gibson 117,900
    John Gordon 91,200
    Andrew Graham 71,400
    Lucas Greenwood 195,100
    Samuel Greenwood 61,500
    Max Greewood 30,700
    Vincen Grenon 81,300
    Nicholas P Grippo 157,300
    Laurence Grondin 67,900
    Jeffery Hagen 30,200
    Lonnie Hallett 27,400
    Silvio Harrison 24,300
    Kyle Hartree 51,900
    Loni Harwood 83,300
    Michael Hunter 25,200
    Per Martin Jacobson 111,200
    Kyle Johnson 85,800
    Micheal Jones 21,600
    James Joyner 69,800
    Ramzi Karam 83,100
    Byron Kaverman 156,300
    Daniel Kelly 18,900
    Adam Kornuth 184,700
    John Krpan 71,000
    Christopher Kruk 46,300
    Joseph Kueter 92,000
    Maxime Laberge 60,900
    Christina Marie Linderman 21,500
    Xuan Liu 82,800
    Jonas Mackoff 121,900
    Kevin Macphee 134,100
    Jeffrey Peter Madsen 35,100
    Afshin Majidi 102,400
    Matt Marafioti 119,300
    Gregory Marcus 75,700
    Mackenzie McDonald 92,500
    Isabelle Mercier 55,200
    Robert Miller 24,800
    Adrian Milroy 39,300
    Robert Morena 71,200
    Ryan Moriarty 48,100
    Eleftherios Moukas 41,600
    Chopra Naveen 64,200
    John Nelson 31,200
    Carlo Nini 71,600
    Stephen O'Dwyer 36,200
    Greg Ostrander 134,000
    Nektarios Papadedes 28,800
    Matthew Parry 76,100
    Nicholas Petrangelo 140,000
    Zennawi Petros 75,500
    Jean-Philippe Piquette 56,400
    Jonathan Plens 49,200
    Darren Rabinowitz 119,400
    Ravi K Raghavan 67,900
    Grayson Ramage 179,500
    Victor Ramdin 44,000
    David Randall 45,000
    Micah Raskin 132,500
    Martin Rauss 28,500
    Derek Raymond 80,200
    Guillaume Rivet 77,800
    Derrick Rosenbarger 211,200
    Valerie Ross 49,300
    Matthew Salsberg 43,200
    Jake Schwartz 92,300
    Nikolai Sears 117,700
    Scott Seiver 15,900
    Maurice Simard 59,000
    Gjergj Sinishtaj 73,300
    Spencer Stacey 33,600
    Keven Michael Stammen 104,800
    Sasa Stancic 57,600
    Stephen Standen 37,500
    Carter Swidler 62,400
    Ricky Tang 118,200
    Irina Tchakarova 73,500
    Travell Tomas 21,400
    Samuel Bisrat Tsehai 92,000
    Mike Vaynshteyn 51,100
    Gordon Vayo 21,900
    Ryan Weber 18,700
    Dylan Wilkerson 42,400
    Sean Winter 22,200
    Jerry Wong 145,000
    Macradij Yacoubian 25,800
    Jesse Yaginuma 110,100
    Anthony Zinno 19,200
    Filed Under: Event 9 - Day 1b

    The now-traditional “chip-bagging” tweets…

    2013/12/01 12:36am by
  • Level: 10
  • Small Blind: 500
  • Big Blind: 1K
  • Ante: 100
  • Chip Average: 72.2K
  • Remaining: 128
  • Entries: 308


    • Some of the action on Twitter as Day 1b comes to a close…

     

     

     

     

     

    Filed Under: Event 9 - Day 1b

    Level 9 update

    2013/11/30 10:01pm by
  • Level: 9
  • Small Blind: 400
  • Big Blind: 800
  • Ante: 100
  • Chip Average: 53.1K
  • Remaining: 174
  • Entries: 308


    • The players are back from their last break of the day and will now play the final two levels before bagging chips for tomorrow – or going to the cage to buy their bullet for Day 1c.

    During the break we found these to be the big stacks in the room:

    • 196K – Adam Kornuth
    • 178K – Yann Dion
    • 172K – Derrick Rosenbarger
    • 154K – Micah Raskin
    • 140K – Jeff Madsen
    Filed Under: Event 9 - Day 1b

    Some More Tweets Leading Up to the Dinner Break

    2013/11/30 7:44pm by
  • Level: 7
  • Small Blind: 250
  • Big Blind: 500
  • Ante: 75
  • Chip Average: 40.3K
  • Remaining: 229
  • Entries: 308


    • Our Twitter feed has been active all day with players posting updates about their Day 1b experience. Here are a few that were posted leading up to the dinner break:

    Filed Under: Event 9 - Day 1b

    Dinnertime stack check

    2013/11/30 7:30pm by
  • Level: 7
  • Small Blind: 250
  • Big Blind: 500
  • Ante: 75
  • Chip Average: 40.8K
  • Remaining: 223
  • Entries: 303


    • At the dinner break there are quite a few players breaking the 100K mark and the following 4 big stacks in Day 2.

    • 135K – Christopher Kruk
    • 127K – Yann Dion
    • 127K – David Randall
    • 124K – Jeffery Hagen

    The break is set to end in just over 5 minutes and at that point the tournament will continue for the final four levels of the day.

    Filed Under: Event 9 - Day 1b

    Photo Update!

    2013/11/30 7:16pm by
  • Level: 7
  • Small Blind: 250
  • Big Blind: 500
  • Ante: 75
  • Chip Average: 40.8K
  • Remaining: 223
  • Entries: 303


    • Here are a few photos taken before the players went on their dinner break:

    Filed Under: Event 9 - Day 1b