The players featured in the leaderboard from last break have managed to maintain their head starts, and maybe even extend them a little, however two new players have emerged to join them amongst the chip leaders. Eric Afriat has accumulated somewhere around 300,000 chips since sitting down a few hours ago, and rivals Andrew Knowles for the chip lead. Ron G has also had a very good last level, and sprung himself up well over the 200,000 mark to put himself in a good spot to make a deep run in this Main Event.

Only a few hands remain before the end of the day, and once all the players have bagged their chips, we will be publishing the player-reported stacks, along with the seating assignments for tomorrow.

The tournament direction has just announced level 13, which is the last level of play for today. Upon the completion of this round, the players who still have a seat will bag their chips onto Day 2.

Just as a reminder, Day 2 of the Main Event will be held tomorrow, Sunday March 8th, at 12pm. You can follow live updates and view photos by staying connected with our blog, as we will bring you up to date coverage through until the end of the tournament.

Players are on their last break of the night, and will play through two more 45-minute levels before bagging and tagging their chips onto Day 2, which will be held tomorrow at noon. Here is a look at the current leaderboard:

1. Andrew Knowles – 271,000
2. Daniel Charette – 258,000
3. Jonathan Meyer – 255,000
4. Ron Shephard – 243,000
5. Michael Antimisiaris – 223,000
6. George Hallak – 211,000

Recent eliminations: Yann Dion, Vlad Faubert, Rayan Chamas, Philippe Plouffe, amongst others.

Day 1B of the Main Event is in it’s 11th level of the day, which means only 2 more levels remain once the clock has run out in this round. With more entries in this flight versus yesterday’s, and therefore more chips in play, this generally means that players atop the leaderboard accumulate bigger stacks than when there are less entries. We are seeing many players breaching the 6-figure mark, with some even reaching much higher than that. Jonathan Meyer is still leading the field,  sitting on just shy of 300,000 and still stacking chips.

Photographs from level 10:

The players went on a short break after level 9, during which the tournament staff raced off the T25 chips, and we took this opportunity to create a leaderboard of the top chip stacks. At the moment, it’s Jonathan Meyer who leads the way, and he is over 100,000 chips richer than any other player in this room.

1. Jonathan Meyer – 283,000
2. Ron Shephard – 182,000
3. Shakeeb Kazempur – 150,000
4. Vartan Azoumanian – 134,000
5. Faisal Khan – 132,000
6. Denis Quirion – 127,000
7. George Halak – 123,000
8. Ricky Shamshoum – 120,000
   

   Jonathan Meyer

Over a third of the field has already been eliminated through the first 9 levels of this flight of the Main Event, and some notable eliminations include: Patrick Braga, Josue Sauvageau, Ami Alibay, Carla Sabini, Daniel Gagnon and Alexandre Lavigne.

The tournament changed to a 9-handed format during this past level, and will remain that way until we have our unofficial final table of 10 players.

Photographs taken during levels 8 and 9:

At this stage of the tournament, the chip lead will often shift from one hand to another. We just arrived at the end hand on table 54 which seems to have created our new tournament chip leader. Apparently all the chips went in the middle between Noy and Shakeeb Kazempur on a flop of , where Noy was holding a pair of , and was far behind the of Shakeeb. With no help on the turn and river ( ), Noy saw almost all of his chips slide over to his right, in a pot of close to 200,000.

Noy was eliminated in the next hand, while Shakeeb seems to have taken over the chip lead of Day 1B.