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$1,500 + $500 Deepstacks Day 1B begins

Level: 1
Small Blind: 100
Big Blind: 200
BB Ante: 0
Chip Average: 30K
Remaining: 27
Entries: 27

2018/11/01 | 18:32 by Playground Poker

Day 1B of the WPT DeepStacks has just kicked off here at Playground Poker Club, the second of four DeepStack flights happening this week. Days 1C and 1D will be tomorrow, Friday at 12:00pm and 6:00pm, and in addition there will be a Turbo Day 1E at 10:00am on Saturday November 3rd.

Players start the evening with 30,000 tournament chips and the DeepStacks competitors will play through 12 levels of 40 minutes each. There will be breaks following every 3rd level on each Day 1, but no dinner break in the evening flight.

This is a multiple re-entry event, and players are permitted one entry and one re-entry per Day 1 starting flight. Late registration will be available until the beginning of level 10, or at appoximately 1am.

Good luck to everyone playing – cards are in the air!

Dinner break approaches

Level: 14
Small Blind: 1.5K
Big Blind: 2.5K
BB Ante: 2.5K
Chip Average: 145K
Remaining: 219
Entries: 792

2018/11/01 | 18:30 by Playground Poker

The dinner break is only a few minutes away, as level 14 is coming to a close. An updated leaderboard will be publish during the break, highlighting the top stacks in play.

Photographs from level 14:

Langlois lives to see another hand

Level: 9
Small Blind: 400
Big Blind: 800
BB Ante: 800
Chip Average: 62K
Remaining: 74
Entries: 153

2018/11/01 | 18:21 by Playground Poker

Low stack at table 84, Pierre-Anthony Langlois just risked it all. From an early position Krzysztot Chmielowski raised 1,600, preflop. Joseph Lupoi, and the table’s big stack, Yuan Li, both called. Pierre-Anthony, who had just joked about a series of bad beats that had drastically reduced his chip count, raised to 7,500.

Krzysztot and Joseph both called, and Yuan folded. The flop came down . Krzysztot and Joseph checked and Pierre-Anthony pushed all of his remaining 9,500 chips into the pot. Krzysztot folded and Joseph called.

When the players turned over their cards, Pierre-Anthony showed . But when he saw Joseph’s , Pierre-Anthony moaned, “Oh-nh, he has an out.”

But the dealer flipped the on the turn and immediately revealed the river . Pierre-Anthony sighed, happy to see another hand.

Event #2 Main Event prize pool and payout table

2018/11/01 | 18:17 by Playground Poker

Event #2 in the 2018 WPT Montreal Festival – the Main Event – was a $5,000 + $300 NL Hold’em tournament with one online Day 1, 3 Live Day 1s, and featured Day 2 registration until the end of level 10. The event had a $5,000,000 guarantee, and the 792 total entries failed to meet this number. Therefore, the prize pool is based on the Guarantee number, not the prize pool generated by participants. 103 places will pay in the event with a min-cash of $11,400 and a top prize of $855,000.

Rank \| Pos	Prize \| Bourse
1st	$855,000
2nd	$556,000
3rd	$410,000
4th	$305,450
5th	$230,250
6th	$175,500
7th	$135,500
8th	$105,500
9th - 10th	$83,500
11th - 12th	$67,000
13th - 14th	$54,000
15th - 16th	$44,000
17th - 20th	$36,500
21st - 24th	$30,500
25th - 32nd	$26,000
33rd - 40th	$22,500
41st - 48th	$19,600
49th - 56th	$17,300
57th - 64th	$15,500
65th - 72nd	$14,100
73rd - 80th	$13,000
81st - 88th	$12,100
89th - 103rd	$11,400

5 levels down

Level: 14
Small Blind: 1.5K
Big Blind: 2.5K
BB Ante: 2.5K
Chip Average: 126K
Remaining: 251
Entries: 792

2018/11/01 | 17:43 by Playground Poker

Day 2 of the WPT Montreal Main Event is into level 14, with 5 levels now in the books for the day. The dinner-break is scheduled to take place after level 14, where players will have 45 minutes to grab some grub and stretch their legs. They will then return to the felts to complete 3 more levels before the survivors bag their chips onto Day 3.

Photographs from level 13:

Quang checks his way to a winning hand

Level: 8
Small Blind: 300
Big Blind: 600
BB Ante: 600
Chip Average: 50K
Remaining: 84
Entries: 140

2018/11/01 | 17:23 by Playground Poker

Here is a quick recount of a hand just played at table 95 that was won by the big stack at the table, David Quang. Preflop, Xuan Liu raised to 1,200, and both David and James Elliot Husain called.

The flop came down , and Liu wagered 1,500. David and James called. When the dealer revealed the turn , all three players tapped the top of the table once again. David showed his . His pair of aces was superior to the results of Liu and James. Both of them shook their heads, and returned their hole cards to the dealer.