Day 1a of the Strike Out Cancer event in the Montréal Poker Expo attracted a huge field of 238 entries – a very strong number for the first of four starting flights. After 13 levels of play, just 59 players remained. Those players have all qualified for Day 2, which is to begin on Sunday August 23rd at 12pm.
Note that any player who played in Day 1a, whether they qualified or not, may play in one or more additional starting flights. In the event that a player qualifies in two or more Day 1s, only their largest stack will move forward to Day 2. We will provide detailed records of any such activity when the official seating draw for Day 2 is released on Saturday night.
Note that these are unverified player-counted chip counts. All chips have been sealed in bags until they return to play on Day 2.
| First Name | Last Name | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|
| Gianfranco | Giordano | 222,300 |
| Pierre Marc | Chadi | 178,000 |
| Alain | Couture | 153,000 |
| Louis-Oliver | Gauthier | 143,000 |
| Olivier | Lamarre | 142,700 |
| John | Toth | 138,400 |
| Jason | Mottershead | 138,000 |
| David | Janes | 132,700 |
| Said | Michailidis | 131,100 |
| Leo | Hackenbroch | 126,300 |
| Min | Qiu | 126,100 |
| Guillaume | Cote | 124,800 |
| Vicenzo | Delia | 124,500 |
| Mikael | Abittan | 123,000 |
| Isham | Yamani | 121,400 |
| Neal | Freeman | 116,000 |
| Bharat | Shetty | 110,600 |
| Michel | Gagne | 110,600 |
| Yvon Robert | Blais | 102,800 |
| Edouard | Dupuis | 95,000 |
| Kiril Martinov | Gelev | 93,400 |
| Kendrick | Banks | 83,200 |
| Marcel | Deschamps | 83,000 |
| Daniel | Dasgostino | 82,800 |
| Russel | Turner | 81,000 |
| Francois | Maurice | 80,600 |
| Karl | Bergeron | 76,100 |
| Sylvain | Aziz | 72,000 |
| Hope | Stacey | 71,600 |
| Hezkiel | Menache | 70,000 |
| Alexandre | Rouleau-Ouellet | 69,600 |
| Felix | Sides | 69,200 |
| Kenneth | Ransom | 64,000 |
| Francois | Cholette | 62,400 |
| Celine | Robert | 61,000 |
| Ioannis | Pentefountas | 60,400 |
| Michael | Mellor | 59,000 |
| Georges | Hallak | 58,000 |
| Michel | Jalbert | 57,700 |
| Sylvie | Pelletier | 52,700 |
| Jean-Philippe | Leclerc | 50,500 |
| Anthony D | Meli | 46,200 |
| Alexandre | Ricard | 45,700 |
| Debra Ann | Holman | 44,200 |
| Christian | Ricard | 42,000 |
| Martin | Archambault | 42,000 |
| Tony | Farcy | 39,800 |
| Navid | Khosravi | 37,400 |
| Denis | Levesque | 37,000 |
| Daniel | Thibodeau | 36,500 |
| Lydwinda | John | 34,500 |
| Igor | Gamayunov | 33,000 |
| Giovanni | Di Cosmo | 31,300 |
| Guillaume | Massicotte | 31,100 |
| Alain | Binette | 29,700 |
| Stephane | Sevigny | 28,300 |
| Domenico | Gentile | 28,200 |
| Kerwin | Carallo | 27,700 |
| David Elliott | Marrache | 25,000 |
