The WPT500 Day 1E has progressed through all 16 levels and the remaining players are now bagging up their chips. According to the tournament clock there are 104 players who qualified for WPT500 Day 2. They will join the 241 players who have already qualified during the previous 3 online and 4 live Day 1s.

There are still two chances to qualify for Day 2. Any player can still enter Day 1F, which is on now – there are still two hours to late register – or you can try your luck in the Turbo Day 1G, tomorrow morning at 10:00am!

The chip leader at the end of Day 1E was Shaan Siddiqui with a count of 595,000. He is followed by Christine Do (521,000) chips, Stuart Taylor (486,000), and Mathieu Boucher (433,000). Shaan’s total of just shy of 600K is good enough to put him in 3rd position overall our of the 346 Day 2 qualifiers so far.

Christine Do continued to add to her substantial stack. The level 4 and level 8 stack leader knocked Steven Aucoin out of the tournament during level 14 action.

Preflop, Christine raised 6,500 and Steven responded by pushing his entire stack into the pot. Christine immediately called. Before the flop was dealt, Steven revealed his , and Christine flipped her . Steven stood up and nodding towards Christine wished her good luck.

The flop was . Steven sighed and when the turn and river cards were dealt he walked away from the table.

The WPT500 Day 1E has been running since 12pm and the players just completed level 12. Players took a break before the final 4 levels of play and during the pause in the action, we roamed the room looking for stacks greater than 200,000 tournament chips.

Satish Surapenini is now the front runner with 271,000 chips.

Adrian Buckley went all in after Irvine Greer raised 3,500 preflop.  Irvine, who was sitting on a pair of kings called. Buckley, who was holding shook his head when the flop was dealt. The :10h wasn’t quite what he was hoping for. But, on the turn, when dealer flipped a   a smile appeared upon his face. And when the was dealt on the river his grin, like his chip count, grew a little bit bigger.

Will Failla raised 9,000, preflop and both Samuel Brouillard and Christine Do called.  When the flop was dealt, Will raised another 9,000 and both Christine and Samuel called. The river card was a . Samuel immediately went all in, pushing the remainder of his 25,000 chips into the pot. Will folded and Christine called. Samuel revealed his pair of aces and Christine turned her pair of kings. On the river, a confirmed that Samuel’s hand was the winner.

We’re midway through level 10. We’ve already had 563 entries, and there are only minutes left before late registration closes.  Here are some photos of some of the remaining 288 entries in the flight.