Day 1a of the Main Event of the PokerStars Canada Cup started at 11am on May 22 and played through 10 hour-long levels before the remaining players bagged their chips to take to Day 2, on Sunday. Of the 129 players who started today, 47 remained at the end of the day.
Players who did not manage to qualify for Day 2 today may re-enter the tournament either (or both) tomorrow and/or Saturday.
| Rank | First Name | Last Name | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeremy | Thompson | 260,000 |
| 2 | Marco | Caza | 191,400 |
| 3 | Marc Andre | Ladouceur | 174,400 |
| 4 | Steven | Silverman | 163,200 |
| 5 | Amer | Sulaiman | 158,800 |
| 6 | Gary | Lucci | 154,300 |
| 7 | William | Molson | 152,200 |
| 8 | Lucas | Greenwood | 150,000 |
| 9 | Pierre | Guenette | 149,000 |
| 10 | Danny | Boyaci | 135,200 |
| 11 | Johnny | Mazzaferro | 118,900 |
| 12 | Chaayanath | Mysore | 110,000 |
| 13 | Robert | Perlaki | 100,700 |
| 14 | Fuad | Nasser | 94,900 |
| 15 | Shawn | Patrick Brien | 91,500 |
| 16 | Paul Theodore | Klann | 85,800 |
| 17 | Robert | Cohen | 79,000 |
| 18 | Jonas | Mackoff | 78,800 |
| 19 | Carter | Swidler | 76,600 |
| 20 | Stephan | Langevin | 76,300 |
| 21 | Kevin | MacDonald | 72,300 |
| 22 | Jean-Philippe | Piquette | 71,200 |
| 23 | Jeremie | Bilodeau | 70,200 |
| 24 | Tomio | Tran | 70,000 |
| 25 | Viktor | Leonov | 69,000 |
| 26 | Daniel | Dvoress | 66,000 |
| 27 | Zennawi | Petros | 63,400 |
| 28 | Benoit | Pesant | 63,300 |
| 29 | Rich | Caplan | 59,700 |
| 30 | Andrew | Chen | 57,800 |
| 31 | Spencer | Stacey | 56,200 |
| 32 | Gurkiran | Mangat | 55,800 |
| 33 | Murad | Khan | 54,000 |
| 34 | Aki | Votkin | 45,000 |
| 35 | Daniel | Denghel | 43,300 |
| 36 | Jeffery | Rossiter | 42,000 |
| 37 | Ronald | Laplante | 40,200 |
| 38 | Jeffrey Dale | Gross | 39,100 |
| 39 | Alain | Dion | 38,000 |
| 40 | Claude | Comtois | 37,700 |
| 41 | Sasa | Stancic | 35,700 |
| 42 | Andrei | Cristescu | 25,600 |
| 43 | Jean-Philippe | Matte | 23,400 |
| 44 | Chris | Back | 19,200 |
| 45 | Thomas | Thomas | 17,500 |
| 46 | Ronald | Eaton | 17,300 |
| 47 | John | Andress | 16,800 |
