After 10 levels of play, Day 1b in the partypoker.net WPT Montreal has ended. There were 213 entries in this 2nd of three starting flights, and when play stopped for the night there were 88 players remaining, all of whom have qualified for Day 2.

Any player may choose to enter the event on Day 1c. In the event that a player qualifies for Day 2 twice, the smaller of their two finishing stacks will be removed from play and the player will begin Day 2 with only their largest finishing stack from a Day 1.

The following table lists the player-generated chip counts following the end of level 10 tonight. All of these chips have been sealed in bags to return to play on Day 2, which will begin on Monday November 14th at 12:00pm.

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Level 10 has just started in Day 1b of the WPT Montreal, and this will be the last level of play for players in this flight. Not much has changed in the leaderboard in the last level of play – Senthuran Vijayaratnam still holds the top spot, while the other top 6 stacks from last level continue to maintain healthy chip counts.

Anyone who has not made a seat for Day 2 will have one more chance to do so, as Day 1c is on the schedule for tomorrow. Historically speaking, the third flight has always seen the largest turn-out, and with today’s sit n go satellites and nightly satellite, which added over 20 seats into the mix, we can expect a healthy number of registrants.

Casualties in today’s flight include the likes of Alex Keating, Ankush Mandavia, Anthony Zinno, Ari Engel, Darren Elias, Griffin Benger, Mike McDonald, Mike Leah, Sylvain Siebert, Will Faila and Will Molson, amongst many others. Some are likely to fire one last bullet tomorrow.

Once the flight has been completed, we will publish the full list of player-reported chip counts.

The dinner break is underway in Day 1b of the partypoker.net WPT Montreal and the players are enjoying a complimentary buffet that has been set out for them – or for those have already eaten, using the 45 minute break for other productive purposes.

During the extended break we got chip counts for the current leaders, who are still led by Michael Dentale. It should be noted that there are a significant number of players that made it in just below the 75K cutoff to make this leaderboard – it’s still anyone’s game.

Charles La Boissonnière is a professional player originally from the Quebec City area, but who now resides in the area and plays frequently here at Playground Poker Club. In the recent World Cup of Cards he had a spectacular run, winning the overall WCC Leaderboard, for which he was awarded a package to the upcoming Caribbean Poker Party in Punta Cana.

La Boissonnière also won one of the weekly leaderboard races, but since the prize for that win was a satellite entry for an event for which he had already won a buy-in, he asked to switch that satellite seat for an equal-value satellite seat for the WPT Montreal. The Leaderboard prize sponsor, partypoker, very generously made the swap… and then he won the online satellite… and that’s the seat he’s playing today!

Update: As we were writing this post, La Boissonnière busted from the tournament, so the journey has come to an end…

Day 1b of the WPT Montreal is off a short break following level 4, and Michael Dentale has taken the early lead in this flight. He is the only player to have breached the 6-figures so far, as he returns to level 5 with 116,500 in chips. He is followed by a handful of players who near the 100K mark, including Matt Salsberg and Ryan Rivers. Below are the top stacks at this the second break of the day.

So far this flight is up to 202 runners, and late registration is still open until the end of the dinner break, which will begin after level 6.

Recent registrations include Caitlin Hall, Aaron Mermelstein, Alexander Keating and Samuel Bisrat Tsehai, while the list of eliminations for this flight now include Ari Engel and Lu Zhang.