Photo break!

The players in Event 1 are on a break while tournament staff races off the black (100) chips. At the break there were 249 players left, so they’re not at the bubble yet but it’s on the horizon.

Here are some photos from Event 1 Day 2:

Moving along quickly

They have only played two full levels today in Event 1, but of the 368 players who started today, almost 100 have already busted. The tournament now is in the middle of level 16 and blinds are 2,000/4,000/a500 and 276 players remain. The average chip stack is just over 116K.

10 Minutes to Go

Day 2 of Event 1 of the Full Tilt Poker Montreal Festival is about to get underway. Players are arriving in the tournament hall and unbagging their chips – which for some players, a longer process than for others!

Good luck to the 368 players left in the tournament!

Event 1 Prize Pool Info

The prize pool for Event 1 of the Full Tilt Poker Montreal Festival is $210,175 which will be distributed according to the following payout table.

Finish Prize
1 $35,035 plus the Full Tilt Poker Montreal Festival Trophy
2 $21,580
3 $16,620
4 $12,925
5 $10,065
6 $7,835
7 $6,095
8 $4,770
9 $3,720
10-12 $2,815
13-15 $2,245
16-18 $1,785
19-21 $1,365
22-24 $1,110
25-27 $880
28-36 $710
37-45 $650
46-54 $605
55-63 $565
64-72 $525
73-81 $480
82-90 $460
91-99 $420
100-108 $395
109-117 $355
118-126 $335
127-135 $315
136-144 $290
145-153 $270
154-162 $250
163-171 $230

Day 2 Seating Assignments

The following table lists the final combined chip counts and the Day 2 seating assignments for Event 1. A total of 368 players have survived the three Day 1s to qualify for Day 2 of the event. The chip average following all three Day 1s is 87,800.

Day 2 will begin promptly at 7:30pm this evening (Tuesday, September 24).

Please note that due to the huge turnout for Event 1, the Tournament Director has modified the structure of the event. Day 2 will now feature 30-minute blind levels.

Click on headings to sort this table using a particular column.

Pos First Name Last Name Seat Chip Count
1 Randy Khalil Table 49 – Seat 4 362100
2 Diana Shamshoum Table 32 – Seat 7 354000
3 Remy Scalabrini Table 62 – Seat 3 286300
4 Francois Cardinal Table 26 – Seat 7 264500
5 Ahman Baalbaki Table 53 – Seat 5 246200
6 Carole Bastien Table 59 – Seat 2 239500
7 G Man Table 32 – Seat 3 228600
8 Pier-Alexandre Marquette Table 23 – Seat 10 227400
9 Danick Landriault Table 54 – Seat 8 225100
10 Arturas Lescinskas Table 50 – Seat 9 222000
11 Marc-Antoine Cloutier Table 62 – Seat 9 207400
12 Alex Martin Table 35 – Seat 4 205800
13 Ryan Garonce Table 31 – Seat 10 200700
14 Josh Kimmel Table 24 – Seat 9 199700
15 Stephane Arbour Table 61 – Seat 2 198100
16 Peter Koumoutsidis Table 58 – Seat 9 196900
17 Marc-Andre Racine Table 36 – Seat 1 192900
18 Andre St-Jean Table 22 – Seat 1 191900
19 Fazeel Munawar Table 56 – Seat 4 191100
20 Patrick Renaud Table 31 – Seat 7 188500
21 Mohamad Mahbouba Table 56 – Seat 3 187600
22 Terence Hobbs Table 64 – Seat 6 184800
23 Joakim Beaupre Table 56 – Seat 7 183700
24 Alexandre Bonneville Allard Table 29 – Seat 8 183300
25 Ron Farber Table 22 – Seat 6 182300
26 Dan Wells Table 61 – Seat 3 182100
27 Jean-Pierre Angelil Table 58 – Seat 5 178400
28 Lesley Amos Table 33 – Seat 8 174500
29 Alberto Melendez Table 61 – Seat 8 174000
30 Prosper Azoulay Table 61 – Seat 7 173600
31 Robert Aho Table 53 – Seat 3 172700
32 Oscar Gustavo Lindo Table 34 – Seat 9 170300
33 Sid Michaels Table 25 – Seat 10 170000
34 Angela Luong Table 67 – Seat 3 169900
35 Alexandre Dupont Table 49 – Seat 7 169000
36 Gabriel Jureidini Table 51 – Seat 5 168100
37 Jonathan Johnston Table 24 – Seat 7 165100
38 Costa Papadakis Table 30 – Seat 6 164900
39 Olivier Fournier Table 26 – Seat 9 156100
40 Ashley Noganosh Table 63 – Seat 8 155500
41 Maher El-Azzi Table 65 – Seat 2 155500
42 Philippe Plouffe Table 59 – Seat 4 155200
43 Francesco Buffone Table 66 – Seat 8 154100
44 Georges Hallak Table 57 – Seat 2 153700
45 Levon Dedeyan Table 63 – Seat 3 153400
46 Nicolas Sheehy Table 29 – Seat 2 152700
47 Nazmul Huda Table 68 – Seat 6 151000
48 Alexandre Patoprsty Table 35 – Seat 1 150700
49 Rostand Asselin Table 29 – Seat 4 145800
50 Jason Nguyen Table 23 – Seat 4 143600
51 Nick Petsas Table 70 – Seat 10 140800
52 Denis Simard Table 26 – Seat 8 140800
53 Phil Breault Table 51 – Seat 10 139300
54 Guillaume Srtafile Table 61 – Seat 6 138400
55 Steve Gadoury Table 26 – Seat 1 137700
56 Mike Garoufalis Table 70 – Seat 2 137100
57 Arrmry Senat Table 55 – Seat 5 137100
58 Nicolas Aubin Table 33 – Seat 9 136300
59 Sebastien Laviolette Table 66 – Seat 9 134600
60 Jonathan G Table 50 – Seat 7 134500
61 Nicholas Soller Table 53 – Seat 1 133800
62 Nassim Kabbara Table 52 – Seat 5 133100
63 Daniel Thibodeau Table 24 – Seat 8 132800
64 Mitchell Tkatch Table 50 – Seat 10 132100
65 Brian Morgan Table 25 – Seat 1 131700
66 Mathieu Boulanger-Vaugeois Table 56 – Seat 8 131000
67 Raphael Simoneau Table 57 – Seat 1 130900
68 Michael Korovine Table 56 – Seat 9 130900
69 Cheng Bun Table 54 – Seat 5 130000
70 Sterling Mallette Table 69 – Seat 8 129900
71 Jano Salbzian Table 26 – Seat 3 127900
72 David Vaillancourt Table 67 – Seat 4 127800
73 Eric Benhamron Table 34 – Seat 8 127500
74 Yannick Labattaglia Table 58 – Seat 7 127200
75 Jason Colantonio Table 65 – Seat 4 126000
76 Charles – Eric Benoit Table 67 – Seat 6 125600
77 Stephane Leblanc Table 68 – Seat 3 125300
78 Donald Somers Table 36 – Seat 4 123800
79 Yohann Wagner Table 29 – Seat 10 123700
80 Jerry F Table 28 – Seat 9 123300
81 Richard Gagne Table 34 – Seat 5 122900
82 Ray Mahomed Table 57 – Seat 3 122600
83 Marie-Claude Grondin Table 21 – Seat 1 121200
84 Richard Desmarais Table 49 – Seat 6 119300
85 Qiang Dong Table 62 – Seat 2 118100
86 Obaidullah Habibi Table 68 – Seat 2 117800
87 N/A Table 69 – Seat 4 116300
88 Isham Yamani Table 57 – Seat 9 116200
89 Steve Baker Table 29 – Seat 9 116100
90 Isabelle Morin Table 57 – Seat 6 116000
91 Marcello Simonetti Table 26 – Seat 4 114500
92 Jean Sebastien Dore Table 28 – Seat 7 114400
93 Douglas Sheehan Table 36 – Seat 7 113700
94 Mathieu Duranleau Table 69 – Seat 5 113500
95 Nick Nickoletopoulos Table 59 – Seat 10 113000
96 Richard Chabot Table 57 – Seat 4 112800
97 Bentino Salemi Table 65 – Seat 8 111400
98 Danny Pacitti Table 60 – Seat 2 111000
99 Eric Theroux Table 65 – Seat 3 110900
100 Eric Richer Table 66 – Seat 5 110800
101 Richard Johansen Table 63 – Seat 7 110800
102 Denis Robidoux Table 31 – Seat 2 110200
103 Stephane Faucher Table 60 – Seat 6 110000
104 Yan Primeau Table 66 – Seat 4 109000
105 Che Zhao Table 28 – Seat 3 109000
106 Kevin Bijian Table 54 – Seat 6 108000
107 Edgar Lucas Table 23 – Seat 5 107800
108 Tanvir Ahmed Table 61 – Seat 5 106700
109 Josh Brueckner Table 61 – Seat 9 106600
110 Jean-Francois Morin Table 69 – Seat 7 105100
111 Gerry Lye Table 56 – Seat 6 104000
112 Raphael Ohayon Table 26 – Seat 6 103900
113 Daniel Turner Table 65 – Seat 1 103100
114 Sebastien Nuckle Table 32 – Seat 6 102900
115 Danny Caprara Table 51 – Seat 2 102000
116 Minh Luu Table 64 – Seat 5 101500
117 Dean Murphy Table 57 – Seat 7 101200
118 Nathan Mondoux Table 35 – Seat 2 101100
119 Philippe Danylo-Lemay Table 28 – Seat 2 100300
120 Karl Laliberte Table 23 – Seat 6 99600
121 Dominique Morin Table 63 – Seat 4 99500
122 Sourasay Souvanh Table 51 – Seat 7 99300
123 Sylvain Leblanc Table 29 – Seat 6 99200
124 Razvan Pitic Table 59 – Seat 9 98500
125 Stephane Lalancette Table 54 – Seat 2 97500
126 Denise Berkowitz Table 67 – Seat 7 97000
127 Sylvain Blais Table 53 – Seat 6 96000
128 Mina Mourad Table 69 – Seat 1 95600
129 Larry M Table 55 – Seat 8 95100
130 Alex Fiorani Table 32 – Seat 4 93800
131 Francois Cote Table 31 – Seat 1 93800
132 Richard Samyn Table 33 – Seat 4 93200
133 Sylvain Bellemare Table 70 – Seat 5 93000
134 Remi Rondeau Table 25 – Seat 3 92100
135 Etienne Leduc Table 31 – Seat 8 91900
136 Ian Joannette Table 62 – Seat 5 91900
137 Ganita Tchakarova Table 51 – Seat 1 91100
138 Yves Cadorette Table 58 – Seat 2 91000
139 Patrick Mailloux Table 54 – Seat 7 90000
140 Martin Welch Table 63 – Seat 10 89900
141 Eric Descostes Table 31 – Seat 9 89500
142 Jacques Gélinas Table 55 – Seat 1 89300
143 Francois Allard Table 35 – Seat 9 88200
144 Andre Hernandez Table 59 – Seat 1 87800
145 Jean-Francois Courteau Table 60 – Seat 7 87800
146 Xavier Bolduc Table 34 – Seat 6 87400
147 Regent Lacroix Table 53 – Seat 4 87200
148 Kayden Stacey Table 52 – Seat 2 86900
149 Do Lien Phong Table 36 – Seat 6 86700
150 Benoit Pesant Table 52 – Seat 3 86500
151 Miguel Cambronne Table 49 – Seat 5 86200
152 Mathieu Legault Table 53 – Seat 9 86000
153 Olivier Brunelle Table 24 – Seat 4 85800
154 Phllippe Dubois Table 50 – Seat 4 85500
155 Kassandra Dawn Cox Table 23 – Seat 1 84900
156 Fu Quiang San Table 28 – Seat 10 84500
157 Gaetano Labasso Table 60 – Seat 4 84400
158 Alexandre Rochette Table 55 – Seat 6 83200
159 Jessica Vierling Table 66 – Seat 3 83100
160 Craig Hyde Table 66 – Seat 2 83000
161 Christian Dube Table 59 – Seat 7 82500
162 Claude Begin Table 62 – Seat 8 81900
163 Henrik Michaelsen Table 34 – Seat 4 81800
164 Shadierjiang Doulikun Table 23 – Seat 9 81500
165 Vipul Grover Table 25 – Seat 9 81200
166 Saad Lakhsassi Table 66 – Seat 7 80500
167 Alexandre Morel Table 28 – Seat 1 80500
168 Maxime Theroux Table 21 – Seat 9 80400
169 Jacques Mc Laughlin Table 70 – Seat 7 80400
170 Marc Landry Table 33 – Seat 1 79400
171 Simon Tang Table 65 – Seat 5 78900
172 Nicolas Berube Table 61 – Seat 4 78400
173 Steve Daraiche Table 68 – Seat 7 77900
174 Linda Huard Table 58 – Seat 3 77800
175 Enrico Boily Table 36 – Seat 9 77700
176 Richard Lafrance Table 59 – Seat 3 77600
177 Charlie Miceli Table 57 – Seat 5 77600
178 Vasilios Sklavounos Table 62 – Seat 10 77600
179 Norman Gauthier Table 32 – Seat 10 77200
180 Francois Bergeron Table 63 – Seat 2 77200
181 Steven Harrington Table 29 – Seat 7 76500
182 Bilal Bessaoud Table 57 – Seat 10 76100
183 Patrick Hamelin Table 23 – Seat 8 76000
184 Denis Caron Table 57 – Seat 8 75200
185 Presten Cloutier Table 34 – Seat 1 74900
186 Ruben Perceval Table 63 – Seat 6 74100
187 Marc Andre Beaudoin Table 59 – Seat 5 73300
188 Alain Blais Table 55 – Seat 3 73200
189 Georgios Pololos Table 65 – Seat 10 73100
190 Steven Nguyen-Pham Table 70 – Seat 8 72900
191 Jesse Shea Table 67 – Seat 2 72500
192 Matin Boies Table 35 – Seat 10 72400
193 Jean-rene Lafleur Table 22 – Seat 5 72000
194 Patrick Blais Table 24 – Seat 2 71900
195 Gary Yeghiayan Table 21 – Seat 2 71500
196 Josee Trembay Table 53 – Seat 2 71400
197 Bruno Ranger Table 22 – Seat 3 71100
198 Michel Decarie Table 62 – Seat 1 71000
199 Alexandre Daou Table 68 – Seat 8 70500
200 James Jackson Table 26 – Seat 5 70400
201 Daniel Munson Table 49 – Seat 10 70000
202 Tim Bittner Table 36 – Seat 5 69900
203 Jessie Wheatley Table 63 – Seat 1 69900
204 Frederick Charland Table 50 – Seat 3 69700
205 Giovanni Di Cosmo Table 64 – Seat 3 69700
206 Meir Table 25 – Seat 8 68700
207 Yi Fan Dong Table 28 – Seat 4 68600
208 Donald Chapin Table 34 – Seat 3 68400
209 Patrick Longpre Table 54 – Seat 4 67600
210 Marc Castonguay Table 70 – Seat 3 67200
211 Richard Myron Table 50 – Seat 6 67100
212 Claude Dufresne Table 53 – Seat 7 66300
213 Vincent Fortin Table 64 – Seat 10 65600
214 Sandra Dube Table 50 – Seat 1 65500
215 Patrick Azevedo Table 60 – Seat 5 65000
216 Gregory Katayama Table 23 – Seat 3 65000
217 Kevin Roy Table 61 – Seat 1 65000
218 Jay Dubeau Table 60 – Seat 9 64400
219 Mario Brouillard Table 21 – Seat 4 64200
220 Jason Comtois Table 36 – Seat 2 63500
221 Jason Guiley Table 30 – Seat 3 63300
222 Patrick Folino Table 25 – Seat 4 63300
223 Faisal Khan Table 29 – Seat 3 63100
224 Francois Tarrab Table 24 – Seat 6 63000
225 Anish Kumar Sood Table 65 – Seat 6 62750
226 Dan Knobovitch Table 58 – Seat 8 62400
227 Pascal Brisson Table 21 – Seat 5 62400
228 Colin Piche Table 62 – Seat 7 62400
229 Stephane Racine Table 32 – Seat 2 62300
230 Krystal Richard Table 50 – Seat 5 61800
231 Mathias Estrade Table 35 – Seat 8 61700
232 Jay Srinivasan Table 33 – Seat 7 61600
233 Daniell Nicholls Table 67 – Seat 5 61600
234 Simon Marciano Table 52 – Seat 8 61600
235 Alexandre Renaud Table 28 – Seat 8 61000
236 Thomas Cohen Table 33 – Seat 5 60400
237 Nicolas Angers Table 22 – Seat 9 59000
238 Jasmine Lajoie Table 69 – Seat 3 58800
239 Zachary Citrom Table 54 – Seat 10 58700
240 Hans Numme Table 55 – Seat 7 58600
241 Trevor Zinck Table 52 – Seat 4 58600
242 Tony Farcy Table 60 – Seat 8 57800
243 Benoit Mathieu Table 23 – Seat 2 56400
244 Jean-Francois Lescadres Table 21 – Seat 6 56300
245 Aerial Noseworthy Table 54 – Seat 1 55900
246 Alexandre Perrault Table 30 – Seat 9 55500
247 Alexandre Roberge Table 22 – Seat 7 55500
248 Matthew Bracanovic Table 21 – Seat 8 55200
249 Bianca Perron Table 21 – Seat 3 54100
250 Wayne Mcdonald Table 32 – Seat 5 53900
251 Alim Perales Table 25 – Seat 6 53600
252 Samuel Valois Table 63 – Seat 5 53600
253 Dino Cicora Table 51 – Seat 3 53400
254 Manny Mendes Table 31 – Seat 3 53300
255 Brent F Mccue Table 51 – Seat 4 52800
256 Michel Morin Table 29 – Seat 5 52700
257 Henry Chow Table 55 – Seat 4 52000
258 Daniel Germain Table 67 – Seat 8 51900
259 Wes McCallum Table 70 – Seat 4 51700
260 Kristopher Sand Table 22 – Seat 4 51600
261 Robert Amireault Table 59 – Seat 6 51500
262 Real Villeneuve Table 36 – Seat 8 51200
263 Jason Mottershead Table 66 – Seat 1 50800
264 Sacha Vidal Table 53 – Seat 10 50800
265 Denis Asselin Table 31 – Seat 4 50700
266 Lloyd Henchey Table 50 – Seat 2 50300
267 Vincent Laverdiere Table 54 – Seat 3 50200
268 Yves Plante Table 56 – Seat 5 50000
269 Robert Czesak Table 65 – Seat 7 49900
270 Christien Beaudoin Table 52 – Seat 6 49500
271 Dan Vigderhous Table 35 – Seat 7 49500
272 Christian Lizotte Table 52 – Seat 10 49400
273 Sebastien Morin Table 69 – Seat 6 48900
274 Jole Simard Table 49 – Seat 1 48800
275 Stephane Lono Table 52 – Seat 1 48700
276 Christian Demers Table 60 – Seat 3 48500
277 Martin Nguyen Table 67 – Seat 1 47800
278 Ariel Dab-Hilke Table 35 – Seat 3 47300
279 Michael Baker Table 55 – Seat 10 46900
280 Mark Wilson Table 55 – Seat 2 46500
281 Sebastien Beland Table 30 – Seat 7 46400
282 Hope Stacey Table 33 – Seat 3 46000
283 Julien Lemay Table 30 – Seat 10 45900
284 Cole Skye Table 58 – Seat 6 45800
285 Alex Chiasson Table 29 – Seat 1 45500
286 Jian-Xin Ma Table 30 – Seat 2 45400
287 Luc Robichaud Table 70 – Seat 6 45300
288 Luciano Iacovella Table 49 – Seat 3 45300
289 Nick King-Edwards Table 24 – Seat 5 45200
290 Roxan Joyal Table 58 – Seat 1 45000
291 Marcin Chyc Table 63 – Seat 9 45000
292 Pascal Gregoire Table 68 – Seat 4 44700
293 Jean-Marc Doucet Table 70 – Seat 1 44600
294 Simon Luquette Table 33 – Seat 10 44400
295 Elias Spiropoulos Table 31 – Seat 6 44400
296 Yann Beauchamp Table 58 – Seat 10 44200
297 Iluz Elias Table 22 – Seat 8 44200
298 Jerome Leclerc Table 50 – Seat 8 43500
299 James Flowers Table 64 – Seat 8 42600
300 Vanessa DSouza Table 49 – Seat 9 42100
301 Marc Touloute Table 62 – Seat 6 42000
302 Andrej Bachynsky Table 26 – Seat 2 41500
303 Jean-Hugo Robitaille Table 33 – Seat 2 41500
304 Ismail Kacem Table 23 – Seat 7 41400
305 David Kozak Table 58 – Seat 4 41200
306 Patrick Champagne Table 24 – Seat 1 40900
307 Shaun Racine Table 62 – Seat 4 40600
308 Luigi Petrella Table 51 – Seat 9 40500
309 Carole Gareau Table 26 – Seat 10 40200
310 David Royea Table 60 – Seat 10 40100
311 Claude Leclair Table 69 – Seat 9 40000
312 Matthieu Boisvert Table 35 – Seat 6 39600
313 Olivier Brodeur Table 60 – Seat 1 39400
314 Steven St-Jacques Table 66 – Seat 6 39000
315 Reno Vaccaro Table 68 – Seat 9 39000
316 Francis Couvier Table 35 – Seat 5 38300
317 Constantinos Psallidas Table 28 – Seat 5 38100
318 Sophie Bourassa Table 25 – Seat 2 38100
319 Maxime Doyon Table 64 – Seat 1 37500
320 Jef Roy Table 30 – Seat 5 36700
321 Lascelles Roper Table 34 – Seat 7 36200
322 Daniel Fortier Table 67 – Seat 10 36200
323 Veronique Menard Table 66 – Seat 10 35800
324 Robert Lalonde Table 70 – Seat 9 35300
325 Matthew Parker Table 32 – Seat 9 35000
326 Domenic Durante Table 24 – Seat 3 34300
327 Scott Aitchison Table 51 – Seat 6 34300
328 Jack MacDonald Table 53 – Seat 8 33800
329 John Clarke Table 22 – Seat 2 33700
330 Evan Yoffe Table 30 – Seat 8 33600
331 Marc Champagne Table 36 – Seat 3 33300
332 Benoit Vaillancourt Table 52 – Seat 9 33200
333 Melanie Viens Table 24 – Seat 10 33000
334 Joey Silver Table 64 – Seat 2 32800
335 Mike Saragossi Table 56 – Seat 10 32800
336 Nicolas Majdalani Table 52 – Seat 7 32200
337 June Roberts Table 34 – Seat 10 31400
338 Benoit Desmarais Table 64 – Seat 9 31200
339 Stephane Alarie Table 56 – Seat 2 30600
340 Christopher Saliba Table 65 – Seat 9 29900
341 Marlene Giguere Table 31 – Seat 5 29700
342 Jennifer Brooks Table 49 – Seat 8 29700
343 Domenico Vettese Table 32 – Seat 8 29300
344 Miguel Piette Table 25 – Seat 7 29100
345 Teddy Sara Table 64 – Seat 7 28900
346 Anthony Carbery Table 30 – Seat 1 28800
347 Marc-Andre Yelle Table 67 – Seat 9 28700
348 Genevieve Champagne Table 69 – Seat 2 28500
349 Kathy Sawers Table 33 – Seat 6 28500
350 Mathieu Laurent Table 55 – Seat 9 27900
351 Costa Tricoulis Table 34 – Seat 2 27500
352 L.P Pharand Table 36 – Seat 10 27200
353 Robert Blais Table 61 – Seat 10 27200
354 Alexandre Lauziere Table 54 – Seat 9 27200
355 Hagop Keverian Table 68 – Seat 5 27000
356 David Ittah Table 28 – Seat 6 26000
357 Galvin Van brussel Table 56 – Seat 1 25200
358 Thomas Fortin Table 59 – Seat 8 23800
359 Terence Lai Table 68 – Seat 1 23400
360 Richard Lavoie Table 25 – Seat 5 23000
361 Frederick Bouari Table 51 – Seat 8 22400
362 Lorne Wechsler Table 32 – Seat 1 21000
363 Yoan Poulin Table 69 – Seat 10 20800
364 David Martin Table 49 – Seat 2 16000
365 Erichsen Bailey Table 30 – Seat 4 14900
366 Jean Sebastien Picard Table 68 – Seat 10 12000
367 Ali Alaoui Moustain Table 64 – Seat 4 11800
368 Jean Pierre Hetu Table 21 – Seat 7 10700

Focus on the numbers

There was a little advance notice that this weekend’s Event 1 of the Full Tilt Poker Montreal Festival was going to be something special when, on Friday by noon, there were already about 10 cash games running including a big $5-$10 game.

Nevertheless, a lot of people were (pleasantly) surprised when 527 players entered Day 1a of the event. When 513 came to play yesterday it made it obvious – something big was underway.

Tonight’s Day 1c was expected to be another well-attended starting day… but even the most optimistic prognosticators didn’t expect the waves of poker players who started arriving in force by mid-afternoon.

The total number of players seated in Day 1c blew Days 1a and 1b out of the water: 565 players ended up taking their spot at the table, for a total of 1605 total entries and a massive prize pool.

And so Event 1 is already one for the history books – one of the largest tournaments ever held in Canada. And, most importantly for most players, what may be the largest prize pool ever for a $150 (total) poker tournament.

Good luck – and thank you – to all of the players who have joined us at Playground for this amazing event.

Day 1c Photos

Day 1c is underway

Cards are in the air and players are already into the second level of play in Day 1c of Event 1 of the Full Tilt Poker Montreal Festival.

The event “sold out” over an hour before the event began and we began accepting alternates – and increasing the capacity as the 7:30 start time approached. These efforts have so far been a big success, as there have already been 558 players seated.

More updates coming soon…

Gearing up for Day 1c

We’re just over an hour away from the beginning of Day 1c in Event 1 of the Full Tilt Poker Montreal Festival. The capacity for each Day 1 of this $135 + $15 No Limit Hold’em Re-entry was 400 players and all 400 seats have already been sold – but if you get to the club soon there’s still a very good chance you’ll be able to play in this huge event. In each of the other two Day 1s (Saturday and Sunday) we were able to seat over 100 alternates.

We’ll confirm the numbers when late registration closes, but this is shaping up to be the largest tournament in Playground Poker Club history in terms of the total number of players.

Combined Counts – Days 1a and 1b

This table lists the combined counts of players in Event 1 who have made it through Days 1a and 1b. Note that there were some errors in the original list published for Day 1a; these errors have been corrected in this list.

Pos First Name Last Name Chip Count
1 Diana Shamshoum 354000
2 Remy Scalabrini 286300
3 Francois Cardinal 264500
4 Ahman Baalbaki 246200
5 Carole Bastien 239500
6 G Man 228600
7 Pier-Alexandre Marquette 227400
8 Danick Landriault 225100
9 Marc-Antoine Cloutier 207400
10 Alex Martin 205800
11 Ryan Garonce 200700
12 Josh Kimmel 199700
13 Stephane Arbour 198100
14 Peter Koumoutsidis 196900
15 Marc-Andre Racine 192900
16 Andre St-Jean 191900
17 Fazeel Munawar 191100
18 Lesley Amos 174500
19 Oscar Gustavo Lindo 170300
20 Sid Michaels 170000
21 Gabriel Jureidini 168100
22 Costa Papadakis 164900
23 Olivier Fournier 156100
24 Maher El-Azzi 155500
25 Francesco Buffone 154100
26 Levon Dedeyan 153400
27 Nicolas Sheehy 152700
28 Asm Nazmul Huda 151000
29 Alexandre Patoprsty 150700
30 Jason Nguyen 143600
31 Nick Petsas 140800
32 Phil Breault 139300
33 Mike Garoufalis 137100
34 Arrmry Senat 137100
35 Nicolas Aubin 136300
36 Jonathan G 134500
37 Nassim Kabbara 133100
38 Daniel Thibodeau 132800
39 Michael Korovine 130900
40 Chheng Bun 130000
41 Sterling Mallette 129900
42 Jano Salbzian 127900
43 David Vaillancourt 127800
44 Jason Colantonio 126000
45 Stephane Leblanc 125300
46 Donald Somers 123800
47 Jerry F 123300
48 Marie-Claude Grondin 121200
49 Richard Desmarais 119300
50 Qiang Dong 118100
51 Obaidullah Habibi 117800
52 N/A N/A 116300
53 Isham Yamani 116200
54 Steve Baker 116100
55 Isabelle Morin 116000
56 Marcello Simonetti 114500
57 Jean Sebastien Dore 114400
58 Douglas Sheehan 113700
59 Richard Chabot 112800
60 Bentino Salemi 111400
61 Eric Theroux 110900
62 Eric Richer 110800
63 Richard Johansen 110800
64 Denis Robidoux 110200
65 Stephane Faucher 110000
66 Yan Primeau 109000
67 Che Zhao 109000
68 Kevin Bijian 108000
69 Tanvir Ahmed 106700
70 Josh Brueckner 106600
71 Jean-Francois Morin 105100
72 Gerry Lye 104000
73 Raphael Ohayon 103900
74 Daniel Turner 103100
75 Sebastien Nuckle 102900
76 Danny Caprara 102000
77 Minh Luu 101500
78 Dean Murphy 101200
79 Nathan Mondoux 101100
80 Karl Laliberte 99600
81 Dominique Morin 99500
82 Sourasay Souvanh 99300
83 Sylvain Leblanc 99200
84 Sylvain Blais 96000
85 Larry M 95100
86 Alex Fiorani 93800
87 Francois Cote 93800
88 Richard Samyn 93200
89 Sylvain Bellemare 93000
90 Remi Rondeau 92100
91 Etienne Leduc 91900
92 Yves Cadorette 91000
93 Patrick Mailloux 90000
94 Martin Welch 89900
95 Eric Descostes 89500
96 Jacques Gélinas 89300
97 Andre Hernandez 87800
98 Kayden Stacey 86900
99 Benoit Pesant 86500
100 Miguel Cambronne 86200
101 Phllippe Dubois 85500
102 Fu Quiang San 84500
103 Gaetano Labasso 84400
104 Alexandre Rochette 83200
105 Craig Hyde 83000
106 Christian Dube 82500
107 Claude Begin 81900
108 Henrik Michaelsen 81800
109 Shadierjiang Doulikun 81500
110 Vipul Grover 81200
111 Alexandre Morel 80500
112 Saad Lakhsassi 80500
113 Jacques Mc Laughlin 80400
114 Marc Landry 79400
115 Nicolas Berube 78400
116 Steve Daraiche 77900
117 Linda Huard 77800
118 Vasilios Sklavounos 77600
119 Patrick Hamelin 76000
120 Presten Cloutier 74900
121 Marc Andre Beaudoin 73300
122 Alain Blais 73200
123 Steven Nguyen-Pham 72900
124 Matin Boies 72400
125 Jean-rene Lafleur 72000
126 Patrick Blais 71900
127 Gary Yeghiayan 71500
128 Josee Tremblay 71400
129 Michel Decarie 71000
130 Alexandre Daou 70500
131 James Jackson 70400
132 Daniel Munson 70000
133 Tim Bittner 69900
134 Giovanni Di Cosmo 69700
135 Frederick Charland 69700
136 Meir 68700
137 Donald Chapin 68400
138 Patrick Longpre 67600
139 Claude Dufresne 66300
140 Sandra Dube 65500
141 Patrick Azevedo 65000
142 Gregory Katayama 65000
143 Kevin Roy 65000
144 Jay Dubeau 64400
145 Mario Brouillard 64200
146 Jason Comtois 63500
147 Jason Guiley 63300
148 Francois Tarrab 63000
149 Anish Kumar Sood 62750
150 Dan Knobovitch 62400
151 Stephane Racine 62300
152 Mathias Estrade 61700
153 Simon Marciano 61600
154 Jay Srinivasan 61600
155 Daniell Nicholls 61600
156 Alexandre Renaud 61000
157 Thomas Cohen 60400
158 Jasmine Lajoie 58800
159 Zachary Citrom 58700
160 Trevor Zinck 58600
161 Hans Numme 58600
162 Tony Farcy 57800
163 Benoit Mathieu 56400
164 Bianca Perron 54100
165 Wayne Mcdonald 53900
166 Samuel Valois 53600
167 Alim Perales 53600
168 Manny Mendes 53300
169 Brent F Mccue 52800
170 Michel Morin 52700
171 Philippe Plouffe 52500
172 Henry Chow 52000
173 Daniel Germain 51900
174 Robert Amireault 51500
175 Jason Mottershead 50800
176 Denis Asselin 50700
177 Yves Plante 50000
178 Robert Czesak 49900
179 Christien Beaudoin 49500
180 Sebastien Morin 48900
181 Jole Simard 48800
182 Stephane Lono 48700
183 Christian Demers 48500
184 Martin Nguyen 47800
185 Michael Baker 46900
186 Mark Wilson 46500
187 Sebastien Beland 46400
188 Hope Stacey 46000
189 Julien Lemay 45900
190 Cole Skye 45800
191 Luc Robichaud 45300
192 Nick King-Edwards 45200
193 Roxan Joyal 45000
194 Simon Luquette 44400
195 Jerome Leclerc 43500
196 James Flowers 42600
197 Vanessa D'souza 42100
198 Marc Touloute 42000
199 Andrej Bachynsky 41500
200 Ismail Kacem 41400
201 David Kozak 41200
202 Edgar Lucas 41100
203 Patrick Champagne 40900
204 Luigi Petrella 40500
205 Carole Gareau 40200
206 David Royea 40100
207 Olivier Brodeur 39400
208 Reno Vaccaro 39000
209 Sophie Bourassa 38100
210 Maxime Doyon 37500
211 Jef Roy 36700
212 Lascelles Roper 36200
213 Veronique Menard 35800
214 Robert Lalonde 35300
215 John Clarke 33700
216 Marc Champagne 33300
217 Benoit Vaillancourt 33200
218 Melanie Viens 33000
219 Mike Saragossi 32800
220 Nicolas Majdalani 32200
221 Benoit Desmarais 31200
222 Stephane Alarie 30600
223 Christian Lizotte 30100
224 Domenico Vettese 29300
225 Miguel Piette 29100
226 Teddy Sara 28900
227 Marc-Andre Yelle 28700
228 Kathy Sawers 28500
229 Genevieve Champagne 28500
230 Mathieu Laurent 27900
231 Costa Tricoulis 27500
232 Robert Blais 27200
233 Alexandre Lauziere 27200
234 Hagop Keverian 27000
235 Francois Bergeron 26500
236 Raphael Simoneau 26100
237 Thomas Fortin 23800
238 Terence Lai 23400
239 Ali Alaoui Moustain 11800