Eric Aucoin was the clear chip leader at the break – the next stack following his was just 116K. After the player in 2nd place, though, there were quite a few players running close behind.
The chip leader at the dinner break of each Day 1 had an extra bonus in this year’s WPT Montreal – they received a pair of Partypoker branded Monster DNA Headphones!
The winner for Day 1c, with 177,800 in chips at the break, was Eric Aucoin!
Congratulations Eric!
Arguably the biggest hero of the past few World Series’ of Poker in Las Vegas was not known for his skills at the table, but for putting food on the table. All-American Dave, as David Swanson is known, offered fresh, healthy food delivery to WSOP players, helping them to avoid fried other junk food – which is pretty important in an endurance event like any poker tournament.
Well, Dave may turn the tables this week and show the poker world that not only can he feed them well, he can hold his own with them at the tables as well. Dave took his seat earlier in Day 1c and so far has been accumulating a healthy stack.
First break after 20 minutes of play. 65k blinds going to 150/300 50 ante. #EATTRAINrunBetter
— David Swanson (@AllAmericanDave) November 22, 2014
Play has begun in level 5 and during the last 15-minute break we found the chip leaders in today’s starting flight to this point.
Daniel “Miami Boss” Suied looks to be the first player in today’s starting flight to hit the 100K mark. We’ll put together a new list of Day 1c leaders during the next break, in about 10 minutes.
There are no formal feature tables in the starting flights of the WPT Montreal, but one table in particular grabbed our interest during the first few levels today. Table 33 doesn’t have any big-name stars on it, but it is filled with solid players with strong poker resumes.
It’s probably lucky for some of these players that their table is 2nd on the current breaking order!
A few well-known players have joined the tables in the past level or so: Past champion Jonathan Roy, Eric Afriat, Will Failla, Pascal LeFrancois, Chanracy Khun, and Tim Reilly have all joined the event. In addition, several of the final table participants in the $1000 + $100 WPT Warm-up event have also joined: Graham Lupton, Faisal Khan (who won), Daniel Strelitz (2nd), and Vlad Faubert.
Players in the WPT Montreal’s Day 1c starting flight have just completed their first break of the day. Two levels is too quick for very many players to have built up large stacks, but there was one player – Eric Aucoin – who has managed to accumulate over 82K already. We’ll be updating the leaderboard at each break today so we’ll see if Eric is able to keep accumulating today.
