Today’s second flight in the Main Event of the Playground Poker Montreal Festival had 305 entries, adding up to 523 total entries in the tournament so far with just Day 1c to go tomorrow. Of those who started, 69 players survived the 13 levels today to qualify for Day 2 on Monday, September 1st at 12pm.

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Rank,First Name,Last Name,Chip Count [attr sort=”desc”]
1,Alain,Jobin,”394,000″
2,Philippe,Landy,”323,000″
3,Denis,Cyr,”291,600″
4,Francois,Semaan,”267,700″
5,Kamal,Hamai,”262,700″
6,Serge,Pouliot,”246,500″
7,Renmei,Liu,”237,900″
8,Gabriel,Vezina,”221,300″
9,Patrick,Braga,”217,800″
10,Gaetano,Di Maria,”217,300″
11,Alex,Fortin Demers,”205,500″
12,Senthuran,Vijayaratnam,”202,000″
13,Tyler,Petri,”194,400″
14,Nimer,Ltaif,”187,800″
15,Rodney,Lawrence,”183,500″
16,Presten,Cloutier,”169,800″
17,Vinh,Lieu,”169,000″
18,Gabriel,Alarie,”168,000″
19,Christine,Do,”167,000″
20,Yannick,Lamarre-Delooz,”163,400″
21,Hong Wei,Jin,”157,400″
22,Jonathan,Bussieres,”157,000″
23,Mark,Dietrich,”150,100″
24,Amirmasoud,Babakhani,”149,900″
25,Daniel,Gagne,”146,400″
26,Bradley,Tuck,”143,000″
27,Yannick,Harvey,”136,000″
28,Tian Lin,Liao,”135,000″
29,Theodore,Doukas,”129,000″
30,Shawn,Sperber,”127,200″
31,Jeff,Cote,”127,200″
32,James,Gibson,”126,900″
33,Stuart,Taylor,”124,300″
34,Edward,Hislop,”120,800″
35,Michael,Wolowicz,”119,400″
36,Domenic,Vannelli,”119,400″
37,Frederik,Simoneau,”118,600″
38,Dario,Diplacido,”115,000″
39,Vlad,Faubert,”112,500″
40,Richard,Figiel,”110,700″
41,Joseph,Abou Khalil,”109,500″
42,Tom,Kim Tien,”108,000″
43,Chris,Doheney,”98,500″
44,Faizel,Satchu,”97,600″
45,Nektarios,Papadedes,”94,900″
46,Amer,Sulaiman,”94,500″
47,William,Blais,”90,600″
48,Kevin,Rivest,”89,000″
49,Tim,O’Grady,”88,100″
50,Marc Etienne,Mclaughlin,”82,900″
51,Danick,Landriault,”78,800″
52,Kalpesh,Raichura,”78,500″
53,Geri,Casey,”71,800″
54,Jesse,Dee,”71,200″
55,John,Toth,”66,300″
56,Michael,Mellor,”65,400″
57,Eric,Ranger,”60,200″
58,Rong,Xu,”52,400″
59,Jason,Mottershead,”51,000″
60,Eddie,Daldalian,”48,300″
61,Kevin,Baulne,”47,200″
62,Louis-Philippe,Carpentier-Perrault,”45,100″
63,John,Blaha,”44,800″
64,Ghislain,Bolduc,”41,500″
65,Buu,Nguyen,”39,800″
66,Panagiotis,Klaoudatos,”36,400″
67,Alexandre,Nadeau-Levesque,”35,200″
68,Dino,Dalpra,”34,900″
69,Mark,Defaria,”31,600″
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Day 1b has come to a close, and 72 players have bagged and tagged their chips onto Day 2. The chip average of the day was slightly higher than yesterday’s, sitting at 127.1K.

Full player reported chip counts will be made available shortly. In the mean time, here are some photos from the last level of play:

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The tournament has just hit level 13, which is the last level of scheduled play for Day 1b. The players who remain will bag and tag their chips onto Day 2, set for Monday at 12:00pm.

Tomorrow is the last chance to participate in this Main Event of the Playground Poker Montreal Festival, with Day 1c at 11:00am.

Here are the players that lead the field after 11 levels:

1. Alain Jobin – 342K
2. Theodore Doukas – 280K
3. Vlad Faubert – 198K

Other notable stacks:

• Ami Alibay – 144K
• Patrick Braga – 123K
• Marc Etienne Mclaughlin – 131K
• Amir Babakhani – 80K

Alain Jobin

Vlad Faubert

Theodore Doukas

Here are a few photographs taken during level 10:

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Registration is now closed for Day 1b, and a total of 305 players have bought in to this second flight of the Main Event of the Playground Poker Montreal Festival. With yesterday’s 218 entries, the total for the Main Event is up to 523 entries!

Now that the players have taken a rest to fill their bellies with the provided buffet, we are back in action here in Day 1b. With only 3 hours left of play, we can expect to see a lot of movement amongst the stacks. Those who fail to qualify on to Day 2 will have a last chance to do so tomorrow, with Day 1c at 11:00am.

While the players are enjoying a 45-minute break, we went ahead and found the top stacks of the tournament. Here is a list of players who have already climbed into the 6-figures:

1. Theodore Doukas – 223K
2. Alain Jobin – 210K
3. Gaetano DiMaria – 182K
4. Senthuran Vijayaratnam – 159K
5. Kamal Hamai – 147K
6. Kevin Rivest – 146K
7. Michael Mellor – 143K
8. Vinh Lieu – 136K
9. Vlad Faubert – 132K
10. Denis Cyr – 131K
11. John Portelance – 129K
12. Philippe Landy – 123K
13. Gabriel Alarie – 122K
14. Tim O’Grady – 116K
15. Richard Bourgeois – 114K
16. Staurt Taylor – 110K
17. Domenic Vannelli – 103K
18. Jonathan Bussieres – 104K

Some notables include:

• Samuel Chartier – 48K
• Marc Etienne Mclaughlin – 88K
• Amir Babakhani – 99K
• Patrick Braga – 74K
• Ami Alibay – 25K

There are 4 more levels to play before the end of the day.

With less than 25 minutes left on the clock for level 9, the dinner break is fast approaching. Players will have 45 minutes to relax, eat and prepare themselves for the final 4 levels of play for Day 1b. During that time, we will bring you some updates on chip counts, but for now, we’ve prepared a small album of photos from the last hour or so:

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Tony Di Maria is a regular Playground big event visitor and well-known in many circles of the Montreal poker community, having been one of the finalists in the last Montreal Open held a couple of years ago.

Well, Tony has had a great run of cards (and play) and is, for the moment, the chip leader by a long way, with well over 200K in his stack.

Players are on their second break of the day – which also marks the end of the late registration period for today – and while they were away from the tables we surveyed the room for the chip leaders in today’s Day 1b flight.

1. Alain Jobin – 122K
2. Nektarios Papadedes – 99K
3. Gary Lucci – 95K
4. Peter Koumoutsidis – 91K
5. Theodor Dokas & Benoit Desmarais – 88K

The next break will be the 45-minute long dinner break, when we’ll be able to get some more exhaustive counts.