Montréal Poker Expo

Event 1 Day 1c – final chip counts

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There were 311 entries in today’s Day 1c of the Strike Out Cancer Charity Event, part of the Montréal Poker Expo. Added to the 578 entries from Days 1a and 1b, that means that there are a total of 889 total entries in the tournament. The final starting flight is set to begin at 7:30pm tonight.

Of these 311 entries, 74 players qualified for Day 2, which will begin at 12pm on Sunday, August 23rd.

Note that any player who played any of the starting flights so far, whether they qualified or not, may play in one tonight’s final starting flight. In the event that a player qualifies through 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 NameLast NameChip Count
GaetanPerreault268,700
ScottWoodard198,000
CoreyJackson169,100
DianaShamshoum168,100
PatrickNolan166,000
AnthonyMeli158,700
MaximeLefebvre156,600
MichaelHunter156,500
Daniel JamesD'Ilario155,000
DongkyoKim153,100
BenjaminBracken150,200
MarcDoyer-St-Jean145,900
RichardAgnew143,900
RyanGaronce137,800
StephaneArbour133,400
RichardJohansen124,800
StephaneFaucher115,600
MathewWilson100,300
GeorgeKazarian97,900
Mark ThomasWells97,100
Adeel AmanBangash92,900
RamseyBelmaaza92,300
SimonMarciano88,900
TanvirAhmed87,700
LazarosPapadopoulos87,400
ChristianDube86,500
SamuelBoissonneault85,500
JessieWheatley84,400
RodneyHarris84,200
SylvainLessard81,600
Jean-ClaudeSalame78,600
Michelle LReyes78,400
KevinYee76,900
IanArmorer76,200
DanyJebrini76,000
HarryNg75,800
RobertRiopel74,200
SandyLam74,200
DavisMcIntyre73,000
NicholasSt-Laurent72,100
PatriciaLefebvre69,600
DawnCook69,100
HugoRacette67,900
WalterHrelja67,500
EricToutant65,700
Pierre-LucGaudreau60,900
DenisGodin60,800
KevinLee60,200
GabrielFrenette59,200
AndreDries59,000
DarioSvekric55,400
BrianMclean54,800
BenMenache54,600
MelanieAres51,600
PaulBrisson50,800
JasonConforti50,400
EricBoire46,600
JerrySpenard45,500
Rodney PRussell45,100
HaralambosMargaritis43,400
StephaneGauthier43,200
JonathanDelisle41,600
MauroTroisi41,200
DanielCharette40,600
NormandBrien39,100
Jean-PhillipeGrenier36,600
VladimirDavydov35,400
RaphaelClayette35,200
HugoDumoulin33,900
GuillaumeTremblay31,100
AlimPerales28,300
AndreVezina26,800
FelixGaudreau19,000
GarrettFarmer18,400

Last level of play

  • Level: 13
  • Small Blind: 1K
  • Big Blind: 2K
  • Ante: 300
  • Chip Average: 65.5K
  • Remaining: 95
  • Entries: 311


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    There are 95 players still in the action in Day 1c of Event 1 of the Montréal Poker Expo, and these players have just begun the final level of play for today. At the end of this level the players remaining will count and bag their chips and get ready to return for Day 2, tomorrow.

    Players that were not able to qualify have one more chance to do so in Day 1d, tonight at 7:30pm.

    Leaders at the 2nd break

  • Level: 9
  • Small Blind: 400
  • Big Blind: 800
  • Ante: 100
  • Chip Average: 37K
  • Remaining: 168
  • Entries: 311


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    The players in today’s Day 1c of the Strike Out Cancer event have just returned from their second break of the day as tournament staff has removed the green T25 chips from play. During the break we found the top 5 chip leaders in the tournament to this point.

    Two interesting notes about this leaderboard. First, Diana Shamshoum is among the leaders – and at the first break was the runaway leader in the tourney – but between then and now she dropped to just 18K in chips (most of those went to Dawn Cook), but then she managed to build her stack back up to third place overall.

    The second interesting point to note is that the player in 5th place, Alim Perales, is a past champion of this event.

    NameChip Count
    Alexandre Belanger121,000
    Gaetan Perreault105,000
    Diana Shamshoum102,000
    Dawn Cook100,000
    Alim Perales91,000
    Alim Perales

    Alim Perales

    Shots from level 8

  • Level: 8
  • Small Blind: 300
  • Big Blind: 600
  • Ante: 75
  • Chip Average: 35.1K
  • Remaining: 177
  • Entries: 311


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    Haris Adjulovic (all in) & Ramsey Belmaaza

    Here are some photos taken during level 8 of today’s third of four starting flights in the Strike Out Cancer Charity Event in the Montréal Poker Expo. We’ll put together a leaderboard of the current chip leaders during the break, which is coming in just a few minutes.

    Back from the first break

  • Level: 5
  • Small Blind: 150
  • Big Blind: 300
  • Ante: 50
  • Chip Average: 23.8K
  • Remaining: 261
  • Entries: 311


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    Players in Day 1c of the Strike Out Cancer event have returned from their first break of the day. The end of the first break represents the end of the late registration period, and the total figure for today’s third of four starting flights in the event is 311 entries – adding up to 889 entries total.

    During the break we did a survey of the remaining 264 stacks in play and found two players have taken a significant early lead in the tourney: Diana Shamshoum has over 85K in chips, and Vladimir Davydov is playing around 75K in chips.

    With 13 full levels being played today, there’s still a long time for anyone to build their chip stacks, and everyone is a long way from the 250K+ of the first two flights’ chip leaders.

    Photos of early Day 1c

  • Level: 3
  • Small Blind: 75
  • Big Blind: 150
  • Ante: 25
  • Chip Average: 21.8K
  • Remaining: 273
  • Entries: 297


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    Here are some additional photos of the action during level 2 of today’s tournament.

    A great start to the day

  • Level: 3
  • Small Blind: 75
  • Big Blind: 150
  • Ante: 25
  • Chip Average: 21K
  • Remaining: 271
  • Entries: 290


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    After the great attendance for Days 1a and 1b, it’s hardly a surprise that Day 1c has attracted a lot of entries as well. With just over 45 minutes left for late registration, there are already 290 entries in today’s flight. The field has thus passed the number needed for the prize pool guarantee, and every additional entry means the prize pool is growing that much more!

    The special guests in attendance for today’s starting flight are Guy Carbonneau and legendary coach and analyst Jacques Demers. Both are currently seated in the tournament and have great hopes to qualify for Day 2!

    Jacques Demers

    Jacques Demers

    Day 1c is set to begin

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    Today is Day 1c of the Strike Out Cancer Charity event, Event #1 of the Montréal Poker Expo. There were a total of 578 entries in the first two starting flights of this event yesterday, and we expect that today will be even busier than yesterday, so it’s shaping up to be a massive prize pool!

    This is a charity event, which means that the whole $25 tournament fee will be considered a charitable donation. After 2 starting flights, this already adds up to more than $14,000 – an amazing amount of money for a fantastic charity, the Jodi Taiger Lazarus Fund for Hereditary Breast Cancer Research.

    Play will continue for 13 levels today and everyone that has chips at the end of the day will qualify for Day 2, to be held tomorrow (Sunday August 23rd) at 12pm.

    Good luck!

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