The following table lists the final chip counts for Day 1c of Event 1 of the Playground Poker Montreal Festival. There were a total of 374 entrants in this, the 3rd of 4 starting flights in Event 1, which adds up to 1,029 total entries so far in the tournament. Of the 374 players who started, 94 have qualified for Day 2 on Sunday, August 24th at 12pm.

The overall chip average of all 245 Day 2 qualifiers so far is 83,900 tournament chips.

Note that these are unverified player-counted chip counts. All chips have been sealed in bags until they return to play on Day 2.

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Rank,First Name,Last Name,Chip Count [attr sort=”desc”]
1,Michael,Pulikunnel,”325,800″
2,Ettehadi,Seyedrohollah,”265,600″
3,Maurice,Devereaux,”238,900″
4,Catherine,Graves,”200,200″
5,Joshua,Caballero-Kowarsky,”198,000″
6,Richard,Catellier,”171,600″
7,Dejan,Kovinic,”163,500″
8,Terry,Nother,”145,900″
9,Alexandre,Guindon,”139,300″
10,Kevin,Yee,”138,600″
11,Saad,Lakhsassi,”131,000″
12,Robert,Di Trapani,”130,300″
13,Robert,Piche,”128,500″
14,Benoit,Pesant,”128,400″
15,Dave,Kauffeldt,”127,700″
16,Mario,Bourassa,”121,500″
17,Edouard,Dupuis,”114,300″
18,Sebastien,St-Onge,”108,100″
19,Stuart,Taylor,”106,200″
20,Richard,Sysko,”104,800″
21,Constantinos,Psallidas,”99,600″
22,Alex,Baril-Bisson,”97,200″
23,Simon,Bissonnette-Du-Cap,”97,000″
24,Francois,Gauthier,”96,400″
25,Felice,Cristiano,”95,700″
26,James,Payne,”95,300″
27,Jean Louis,Forino,”94,100″
28,William,Sonier,”94,100″
29,Alexander,Hannay,”93,800″
30,Micheal,Selliah,”93,800″
31,Kerwin,Bentley,”92,000″
32,Benjamin,Pepin Marcoux,”91,900″
33,Julien,Catellier,”90,400″
34,Mathieu,Pare,”86,200″
35,Byron,Doyle,”82,700″
36,Brian,Bond,”82,000″
37,Vasco,Morgado,”81,000″
38,Pierre,Daigle,”78,100″
39,Denis,Thibert,”77,400″
40,Steven,Duguay,”77,400″
41,Douglas,Mackie,”76,700″
42,Kethees,Thanabalasingham,”75,500″
43,Nicholas,Soller,”74,600″
44,Christian,Ricard,”71,700″
45,Eddie,Bangash,”71,700″
46,Mathieu,Jawirnyck,”65,600″
47,Travis,Robertson,”65,400″
48,Andrew,Hum,”65,200″
49,Frederic,Normand,”65,200″
50,Mike,McCarthy,”63,200″
51,Vincent,Houle,”62,400″
52,Paul,Gravel,”61,200″
53,Scott,Woodard,”60,700″
54,Danick,Landriault,”57,500″
55,Jason,Mottershead,”57,000″
56,Ricky,Campanelli,”57,000″
57,Jean-Marc,Doucet,”55,700″
58,Kevin,Messaoud,”55,500″
59,Guillaume,Bibeau,”55,400″
60,Colin,Horner,”54,300″
61,Remy,Poulin,”54,100″
62,Jean Pierre,Cloutier,”52,700″
63,David,Nguyen,”51,200″
64,Michael,Zajac,”51,000″
65,Richard,Kinsella,”51,000″
66,Francois,Blais,”48,200″
67,Jerome,Dechamboux,”47,500″
68,Marilyn,Joanette,”44,900″
69,Robin,Leacock,”43,800″
70,Eric,Ranger,”43,100″
71,Robert,Massoom,”41,600″
72,Xuan,Nguyen,”41,100″
73,Francois,Guerin,”40,700″
74,Josh,Kruger,”40,700″
75,Michel,Gelinas,”39,900″
76,Kirk,Sorensen,”39,400″
77,Alan,Fung,”39,200″
78,Nicholas,Ruggles,”38,500″
79,Mark,Mountain,”38,000″
80,Wayne,Litherland,”37,300″
81,Ryan,Tanner,”35,800″
82,Stephen,Nemeth,”31,900″
83,Marzan,May,”30,300″
84,Bianca,Perron,”28,500″
85,Guillaume,Comtois,”27,000″
86,Jay,Srinivasan,”27,000″
87,Maxime,Asselin Blain,”25,900″
88,Christopher,Ulch,”25,600″
89,Francis,Huot-Chantal,”24,100″
90,Minh,Pham,”21,200″
91,David,Chong,”21,000″
92,Samuel,Barre,”20,300″
93,Jason,Ross Carby,”18,200″
94,Michael,Trickey,”12,600″
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The Tournament Director just announced over the PA that there were 5 more hands to be dealt in this third flight of Event 1 in the Playground Poker Montreal Festival. Currently there are 98 players remaining though several more are sure to fall before these last 5 hands finish up.

We’ll post full chip counts and an average for the tournament so far in about an hour.

The players have returned from their second and final break of the day as tournament staff removed the green T25 chips from play. This middle session proved to be extremely fruitful for a few players as they were able to build up the stacks they’ll use to get them to the end of level 13.

The top 4 by chip count at the break:

1. Kevin Yee – 165K
2. Pierre-Paul Gervais – 160K
3. Ettahadi Seyedrohollah – 160K
4. Joshua Caballero-Kowarsky – 150K

Ettehadi Seyedrohollah

Joshua Caballero Kowarsky

Kevin Yee

Pierre-Paul Gervais

Players in Day 1c in Event 1 have just returned from their first break of the day. The end of the break was also the end of late registration in today’s flight and the total number of entries for Day 1c climbed to 374 this afternoon.

This figure means that there have been a total of 1,039 entries so far in Event 1, which surpasses the number of buy-ins required to meet the guarantee – which means that every single player in tonight’s final Day 1d will be adding even more to the prize pool!

In terms of the performance of players in the flight today, no one managed to build a huge 160K stack before the break like yesterday, but there are quite a few large stacks spread around the room. Here are the top 5 so far:

1. Tina Sigalos – 80K
2. Richard Catellier – 75K
3. Pierre-Paul Gervais – 65K
4. Michel Lavoie – 60K
5. Marilyn Joanette – 60K

Players are just one level away from their first break of the day – and the end of late registration. The number of entries has jumped to 356 so far, which means that the event has officially passed the number of buy-ins required to meet the $100K guarantee. Every entry from here on out will grow the total prize pool past that number – how high, no one knows.

Here are some photos from the early action this morning.

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Play has begun in level 2 of the 13 to be played today, and the number of entries in today’s Day 1c has passed the 300 player mark with still more players joining all the time. Amazingly enough, the flight made it through the first round with no players eliminated – a surprisingly rare occurrence.

You still have about 100 minutes to join in this afternoon!

Cards are in the air for Day 1c of Event 1 in the Playground Poker Montreal Festival. There are 232 players seated as the clock begins its countdown of the 13 levels to be played today, but players will continue to join all the way until the end of late registration (at the end of the break following level 4). Which means that you still have about 2 hours to come and jump in the event.

We’ll see you here at Playground!