With the tournament on break, we took this time to update the current leaderboard. Player’s Club Member Chanracy Khun, who has just returned from the EPT in Barcelona, is now the chip leader entering level 10 of the final flight of the Main Event.

Here is a look at the other big stacks. It is worth noting that chipleader Chanracy and third in chips Sylvain Siebert are side-by-side, which could lead to some interesting scenarios!

Late registration is now closed in the final starting flight of the $1,000 + $100 Main Event of the Montréal Poker Expo and today there are 303 entries in the tournament, for a total of 647 entries across the three starting flights.

Sylvain Siebert has taken a wide lead on the field through the first 6 levels of play today, accumulating over 166K and Pierre-Paul Paulin – among the leaders all day, is keeping pace with 140K. There’s still more than half of the day to go, though, so there’s lots of time left for big stacks to grow or to fade as the case may be.

We just witnessed a hand on table 54 that ran the entire gamut of emotions at the poker table. Both Gary Lucci and Tomislav Pavkovic were relatively short-stacked and both were all-in.

Gary:
Tomislav:

Gary went way out in front on the flop: – Gary flopped his set! But then came the turn and Tomislav let out a whoop as he hit his two-outer to re-take the lead… until the came on the river.

At first neither Gary nor Tomislav noticed that Gary had made a flush to win the hand and double up… But that didn’t last long, and Gary only got one step away from the table before he was informed of his victory in the hand and returned to stack the chips.

Two players have made it to the 100K mark in tournament chips in level 5 – Sylvain Siebert is now playing around 120K and Pierre-Paul Paulin has increased his total to over 100K.

They are certain to be joined by many more at that watermark near the next break!

Players are on their first break of the day and we were able to find 4 “rabbits” who have quickly moved to the front of the pack. Chief among these is Pierre-Paul Paulin, who has just a hair under 3x the starting stack after just 3 levels of play.

Players keep on joining the action in Day 1c of the Main Event – with another 3 hours and 30 minutes left to register, there are already 254 players seated! We’ll capture another round of photos of the early action shortly.

With 208 players seated today, the Main Event has officially surpassed the number of players to meet the $500,000 guarantee that Playground Poker Club placed on this event – but with each additional player, even more value is added to the prize pool.

We’re quite honoured to note that several local players have flown back home from Barcelona, where a record-breaking EPT event is wrapping up, just to make sure they have a chance to play in the Montréal Poker Expo. Marco Caza, Chanracy Khun are two players who have made the effort to get here on time, and if there are others we will try and identify them during the day.