Here are the final 18 players of the 2014 WPT Montreal, who will be back tomorrow at 12pm for Day 4 to continue their journey to the final table. Play will continue tomorrow until an official final table of 6 players has been reached.
Meet the final 18
2014/11/24 6:12pm by
- Level: 23
- Small Blind: 10K
- Big Blind: 20K
- Ante: 3K
- Chip Average: 1.2M
- Remaining: 18
- Entries: 732
Early leaders
2014/11/24 5:20pm by
- Level: 3
- Small Blind: 75
- Big Blind: 150
- Ante: 25
- Chip Average: 30K
- Remaining: 55
- Entries: 55
After 2 hours of play, the following players have managed to already separate themselves from the field:
- Stephen Celluci – 75,800
- Shaan Siddiqui – 55,375
- Mike Leah – 55,100
- Yann Dion – 42,675
Registration is up to 55 players, with still 4 levels left to enter. There have been no eliminations yet, but a few players are down to under 10,000.
Some of our High-Rollers
2014/11/24 5:04pm by
- Level: 2
- Small Blind: 75
- Big Blind: 150
- Ante: 0
- Chip Average: 30K
- Remaining: 54
- Entries: 54
Here are some of the players participating in Event 9 – $10,000 + $400 No Limit Hold’em High Roller, the biggest buy-in of this Playground Poker Fall Classic.
Update on chip counts
2014/11/24 3:51pm by
- Level: 23
- Small Blind: 10K
- Big Blind: 20K
- Ante: 3K
- Chip Average: 813.3K
- Remaining: 27
- Entries: 732
The players are now back from break, and Mukul Pahuja (2,601,000) is currently leading the field. He is followed closely by Ratharam Sivagnanam (2,037,000) and Maduka Meragal (1,826,000), but with the average stack sitting on more than 40 big blinds, and levels up to one hour and a half, it’s still anyones game. Here are the chip counts entering level 23:
Table 56
- Maurice Hawkins – 801,000
- Sheraz Nasir – 1,573,000
- Maduka Meragal – 1,826,000
- Phong Truong – 591,000
- Kevin Macphee – 260,000
- Jie Gao – 633,000
- Daniel Suied – 392,000
- Gianluca Cedolia – 264,000
- Jonathan Jaffe – 706,000
Table 63
- Alexandre Blanc – 543,000
- Ryan Fee – 339,000
- Jeremie Damret – 364,000
- Guillaume Nolet – 655,000
- Samuel Chartier – 591,000
- Tim Ulmer – 477,000
- Nenad Sizgoric – 612,000
- Philippe Plouffe – 205,000
- Jeffrey Mulder – 400,000
Table 64
- Marc-André Ladouceur – 1,831,000
- Ratharam Sivagnanam – 2,037,000
- Edward Arnold – 565,000
- Philip Hui – 537,000
- Lonnie Hallett – 861,000
- Antonio Esfandiari – 491,000
- Edward Hislop – 637,000
- Mukul Pahuja – 2,601,000
- François Billard – 637,000
The Survivors!
2014/11/24 2:48am by
With 32,000 left, and the blinds just around the corner, Patrick David Hu-A-Kam moved in with 
, and was called by Sammy Chao with 
. The 
board was not what Patrick was hoping for, and he was eliminated in 14th place.
On the very next hand, Manfred Gunther was eliminated in 13th, good for $1,552, and with that, the tournament was over!
Here are our 12 survivors, who each earned a $1,940 prize for their finish!
- Armen Afarian
- Terry Forestell
- Frederic Mercier
- Mihai Christian Prisecaru
- Maxime Robidoux Labelle
- Stephane Houle
- Alexander Riedl
- Miguel Goncalo
- Sammy Chao
- Dan Hugues
- Corey Walker
- Danny Mccarthy
Congratulations!
The Survivors of Event 8
Hand-for-hand
2014/11/24 2:35am by
- Level: 19
- Small Blind: 8K
- Big Blind: 16K
- Ante: 2K
- Chip Average: 182.9K
- Remaining: 14
- Entries: 128
We are now hand-for-hand in Event 8. The next player eliminated will walk out of here empty-handed, and the next elimination after will receive a $1,552 prize. The other 12 players, our survivors, will earn $1,940 for their win.
Photos from level 18
Reverse-leaderboard heading into level 15
2014/11/24 12:59am by
- Level: 15
- Small Blind: 3K
- Big Blind: 6K
- Ante: 500
- Chip Average: 80K
- Remaining: 32
- Entries: 128
Level 15 is about to start here in Event 8 – Survivor, and we are getting close to the money. Once the field drops to it’s final 12 players, the tournament will end, and 1st through 12th place will all receive a prize of $1,940 regardless of stack sizes. The player who finishes in 13th will receive the remaining funds, equal to $1,552, while the rest will go home empty handed.
Normally at this stage of the tournament, we would bring you an update on the top stacks. However, given the formula of this event, we thought it would be interested to publish a ‘reverse leaderboard’. Here are the players who are most at risk of not surviving until the money, currently holding 10 big blinds or less:
32. Pierre Provost – 27,000
31. Jim Loyens – 29,500
30. Fabio Cuneo – 33,000
29. Ara Kataroyan – 35,000
28. Elizabeth Bennett-Martin – 37,000
27. Shawn Sperber – 38,500
26. Frederic Mercier – 42,500
25. Manfred Gunther – 44,000
24. Alstair Melville – 50,000
23. Stephane Houle – 52,500
22. Thomas Wintermans – 54,000
21. Craig Einarson – 57,000
Photographs from levels 13 and 14
Day 2 is complete
2014/11/24 12:00am by
- Level: 21
- Small Blind: 6K
- Big Blind: 12K
- Ante: 2K
- Chip Average: 448.2K
- Remaining: 49
- Entries: 732
The WPT Montreal Day 2 is now over, and of a starting field of 732 entries, 49 players have made it through to Day 3. Maduka Meragal is the chip leader, and will come back with 1,423,000 chips tomorrow.
Full player reported chip counts and seating assignments will be made available shortly.
Day 3 will begin at 12pm tomorrow.
Chip leader Maduka Meragal (1,423,000)
Photographs from the last level of play in Day 2
Leaders at the second break
2014/11/23 11:02pm by
- Level: 10
- Small Blind: 800
- Big Blind: 1.6K
- Ante: 200
- Chip Average: 42K
- Remaining: 61
- Entries: 128
High-Roller satellite attracts 63 players
2014/11/23 10:05pm by
The $1,040 + $100 High-Roller satellite is well underway here at Playground Poker Club, and 63 players have registered to try and win their seat into tomorrow’s Event 9 – $10,000 + $400 High-Roller. This means 6 seats will be awarded, as well as a cash prize for 7th.
Given the amount of big names in poker present at this Playground Poker Fall Classic, we can expect to see a very interesting field in tomorrow’s event. The tournament will begin at 3pm, and late registration will remain open until the end of the break following level 6.
