Event 8 – Day 1b

First Name	Last Name	Chip Count
Guillaume	Rivet	377,900
Sylvain	Siebert	358,900
Kevin	Dawe	297,800
Frederic	Larose	296,200
Craig	Hyde	264,100
Theodore	Dimitroulas	252,800
Sin	Melin	249,800
Mehran	Shahabi	232,000
Samuel	Chartier	230,100
Mike	Vesia	225,000
Richard	tarbell	210,500
Patrick	Blais	203,900
Pierre	Routhier	198,200
James	Petrillo	191,800
Carter	Swidler	187,400
Eric	Desjardins	179,200
Michael	Bailey	175,100
Demo	Kiriopoulos	174,500
Josh	Kimmel	173,000
Blake	Tarbell	169,000
Odette	Tremblay	164,600
Ryan	Lambert	159,100
Julien	Sanscartier	157,700
Andre	Boyer	155,500
Mathieu	Legault	155,000
Dermot	Blain	154,000
Charles – Eric	Benoit	153,100
Obaidullah	Habibi	152,200
Michael	Linster	151,500
Robert	Elliot	151,400
Walt	Asatoorian	149,600
Grigory	Livshits	148,800
Benoit	Levesque	146,200
Travis	Darroch	143,000
Sharma	Ashutosh	143,000
Patrick	Braga	143,000
Eric	Thibodeau	137,400
Daniel	Johnston	137,100
Jean Louis	Arseanue	136,100
Gilles	Mignault	135,600
Colin	Whitehead	132,900
Gil	Simpritol	131,100
Hana Zola	Zoljan	127,700
Patrick	Mailloux	127,400
Luc	Robillard	127,000
Philippe	Plouffe	126,100
Wei	Xu	120,800
Renmei	Liu	119,500
Marco	Romozzi	118,800
Shawn	Blair	116,600
Michael	Tremblay	116,300
Van Cong	Nguyen	116,000
Michael	Lo	114,300
Chrishan	Sivasundaram	113,300
Gabriel	Frank	112,300
Ngoc My	Nguyen	111,700
Neil	Creighton	111,400
Pierre Marc	Chadi	110,700
Gavin	Smith	110,300
Constantinos	Psallidas	109,700
Benoit	Perras	107,600
Gabrielle	Pop-Lazic	106,600
Erik	Cajelais	106,200
Francesco	Giordano	103,300
Corey	Walker	101,600
Douglas	Mcginnis	101,500
Jean-Pascal	Savard	100,400
Jonathan	Joanisse	100,100
Tyler	Melski	98,600
Danielle	Andersen	97,500
Marc	Karam	97,200
Francesco	Buffone	97,200
Micah	Johnson	96,800
Antonio	Esfandiari	95,900
Rodrigo	Milo Scartezini	95,100
Armand	King	95,000
Rodi	Dinkha	94,400
Zeng	Yi Xie	90,500
Frederick	Laurin Fortin	88,200
Aladin	Reskallah	88,000
Jean	Anfossi	87,000
Richard	Mallow	85,900
Eric	Despres	84,500
Elias	Spiropoulos	83,900
Jay	Srinivasan	83,700
Ronnie	Miodrag	83,500
Chris	Doheney	80,300
Dilovan	Hussein	80,000
Patrick	St.Onge	78,500
Yann	Duchesneau	78,400
Joao	Fernandes	77,500
Stephane	Kerhuel	76,900
Francesco	Maltese	76,700
Sebastien	Marion	72,400
Vincent	Mailhot	70,800
Patrick	Piche	70,600
William	Farrell	68,900
Gregory	Feuz	67,700
David	Barabe	66,900
Tony	DiMaria	66,500
Georges	Hallak	66,500
Valerie	Ross	61,100
Arjade	Gregorio	60,700
David	Bolduc Hamel	57,300
Eric	Benhamron	57,100
Steven	Saab	57,000
Kenny	Bogart	56,600
Eddie	Bangash	56,600
Arun	Malhotra	55,700
Alexandre	Hartung	55,300
Samuel Louis	Gagnon	54,500
Mike	Wolowicz	54,000
Elenu	Sirbu	54,000
Lesley	Amos	53,900
Raphael	Simoneau	52,300
Viken	Artinian	51,300
Bao	Luu	49,600
Presten	Cloutier	48,900
Awid	Amerey	48,400
Philip	Boulais	48,300
Dalton	Dawkins	48,000
Paul	Gravel	47,700
Francois	Gobeil	47,700
Irene	Tzanetopoulos	47,600
Sylvain	Roland	46,900
Maxime	Asselin	46,100
Patrick	Beswick	45,500
Alain	Corriveau	44,000
John	Mcleod	43,500
Nicolas	Bernatchez	42,100
Donald	Cunningham	41,500
Marc	Charbonneau	40,100
Michael	Zenetzis	39,600
Jason	Sagle	39,000
Israel	Pantaleon	39,000
Mark	Fitzpatrick	38,400
Eric	Osman	38,300
Mathieu	Blain	38,100
John	Athanasiou	37,700
Gregory	Walsh	37,100
Giuseppe	Galluzzo	36,800
Vincen	Grenon	36,400
Maxime	Laberge	35,600
François	Bernier	34,400
Marvin	Boychuk	33,000
Pascal	Sirois	32,700
Pierre-Luc	Gaudreau	32,600
Younan	Beddaoui	32,100
Mihail	Sheiman	30,200
Donald	Robert	29,200
Jesse	Dee	29,100
Julie	Payette	21,900
Jf	Saumure	20,400
Geoffrey	Beale	20,000
Cory	Smith	19,800
Jean Francois	Gariepy	16,500
Rong	Fang	16,300
Peter	Beshay	14,600
Justin	Litwin	14,600

The chips are all nestled safely in their bags under lock and key and the counts are being consolidated to be posted later tonight. The players are either a) resting or more likely b) enjoying the Event Player’s party tonight at the Rail!s

The chip leader to end Day 1b was Quebec’s own Guillaume Rivet, with over 370K in his bag.

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Those huge stacks?

2013/09/28 10:55pm by Michael Boyle

They’re really starting to grow. Both Craig Hyde and Carter Swidler have built up stacks of around 275K and there are at least 5 other players with stacks north of 200K.

There are 10 minutes left in level 12, the second-last level to be played tonight. Blinds are 800/1,600/a200. There are 200 players still in the event.

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Level Eleven

2013/09/28 9:54pm by Michael Boyle

Say that ten times, fast!

There is still one break and two levels to play after this one – which is about half way finished – and Day 1b will be in the books. At this point in a Day 1 some people are really just hoping to find a spot to double – and then double again – while others are working hard to chip up and build one of the massive stacks that you always see at the end of a Day 1.

Blinds are currently 600/1,200/a200 and the jumps from level to level start to seem more significant – and so do pot sizes in general. The chip average at the moment is just under the 65K mark – but by the end of these upcoming two levels it will have jumped to over 100K. So things are going to start to move quickly.

Before the end of the night we’re going to get some photos of the more massive stacks in the room and then, about an hour after the action closes tonight we’ll post full chip counts for Day 1b.

And then it all starts again tomorrow at noon!

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Dinner break!

2013/09/28 7:20pm by Michael Boyle

The end of level 8 means it’s time for a 45-minute long dinner break. The final number of entries today crept up to 524 and of that number, 349 remain alive in Day 1b.

When players return from break, they’ll be playing level 9 and the blinds will be 400/800/a100. The average stack is up to 45 K though there are quite a few very large stacks being built throughout the room.

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Notable players’ stacks

2013/09/28 5:40pm by Michael Boyle

Players are on break so we have gone to assess the stack size of some of the more notable players in the field today.

Gavin Smith – 60K
Antonio Esfandiari – 33K
Guy Carbonneau – 11K
Samuel Chartier – 46K
Marc-Etienne McLaughlin – 28K
Chanracy Khun – 41K

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Some big stacks!

2013/09/28 5:18pm by Michael Boyle

After a quick tour we have found some of the bigger stacks in the room.

Michael Malouin – 118K
Justin Litwin – 105K
Jean-Philippe Piquette – 92K
Erik Cajelais – 85K
Van Cong Nguyen – 85K
Armenak Kizirian – 82K

Remember you can look up players’ chip count here.

Michael Malouin

Justin Litwin

Erik Cajelais

Armenak Kizirian

Van Cong Nguyen

Jean-Philippe Piquette

Players go on break in about one minute!

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Lots of photos!

2013/09/28 4:47pm by Michael Boyle

Here are a lot more photos of today’s Day 1b of the Main Event of the Full Tilt Poker Montreal Festival. Enjoy!

Johnathan Duhamel

Michael Doyle

Jean-Philippe Piquette

Neil Creighton

Gavin Smith

Charles-Eric Benoit

Marc-Andre Ladouceur

Lynn Phan

Erik Cajelais

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Update at Level 5

2013/09/28 4:04pm by Michael Boyle

Day 1b has reached the middle of level 5, and so far 519 players have taken there seats of whom 475 are still playing. Blinds are currently 150/300/a50.

Registration closes at the end of the next level (level 6) so there’s still a little time to jump in today if you want!

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Early photos

2013/09/28 2:41pm by Michael Boyle

To kick off the photos we’re sharing today, we got some shots of a variety of the local regular tournament players. But these aren’t just “locals” – there are some very talented, experienced players among this group.