Event #2: $5,000 + $300 Main Event

Timothy Ulmer leads the pack after two levels

Level: 3
Small Blind: 100
Big Blind: 200
BB Ante: 200
Chip Average: 43K
Remaining: 51
Entries: 55

2018/10/29 | 18:21 by Playground Poker

After two 60-minute levels we have reached the first break in today’s WPT Main Event.

At 43,000, the average chip stack is barely higher than where it started (the starting stack was 40,000 chips). That said, there were a few players whose chip stacks were notable at the first break, even though it remains early in today’s flight. Congrats to the early leader, Timothy Ulmer!

First Name \| Prénom	Last Name \| Nom	Stack \| Tapis
Timothy	Ulmer	85,300
Marc	MacDonell	79,700
Karim	Kamal	74,400
Benjamin	Leblond	71,200
Peter	Katsoulis	56,000

The action continues in the WPT Main Event

Level: 2
Small Blind: 100
Big Blind: 200
BB Ante: 100
Chip Average: 42.5K
Remaining: 48
Entries: 151

2018/10/29 | 17:25 by Playground Poker

Here are some more shots of the players in the WPT Montreal Festival’s Main Event, now 20 minutes into level 2.

The action has begun!

Level: 1
Small Blind: 100
Big Blind: 200
BB Ante: 0
Chip Average: 40K
Remaining: 35
Entries: 36

2018/10/29 | 16:25 by Playground Poker

Here is a look at just a handful of the players that have elected to join us so far in the WPT Main Event, including 2016 Champion Mike Sexton.

Good luck to all the players!

Welcome to the WPT Montreal Main Event

Level: 1
Small Blind: 100
Big Blind: 200
BB Ante: 0
Chip Average: 41.1K
Remaining: 34
Entries: 35

2018/10/29 | 16:18 by

Today is Day 1A of the WPT Montreal Main Event here at Playground Poker Club in Kahnawake, just minutes from downtown Montreal. This is the 7th edition of the WPT Montreal, and the event is already shaping up to to be one of the marquee events of year!

This year, this WPT Main Tour stop has become a $5,000 + $300 NL Hold’em event with a huge $5,000,000 prize pool guarantee. It features three Live Day 1s – plus an online Day 1 which was held on Sunday October 28. Each Day 1 will play through 8 60-minute levels. This is a multiple entry tournament with one entry and one re-entry permitted per day per day, and late registration will be open for the entire length each Day 1. Players will also be permitted to enter (and re-enter) on Day 2 until the beginning of level 11.

Players who survive each Day 1 will qualify for Day 2 – and all players (qualified or not) may elect to play additional Day 1s to try to qualify again, or to try to qualify with a better stack.

Past champions in this event have been Maxime Heroux (2017), Mike Sexton (2016), Jared Mahoney (2015), Jonathan Jaffe (2014), Derrick Rosenbarger (2013), and Jonathan Roy (2012), and the event has also seen historic runs by players like Ema Zajmovic (final table 2016), Rainer Kempe (first big tournament score in North America), and Mukul Pahuja (back to back final tables), among others.

Cards are now in the air… good luck to everyone playing today!

Main Event: the first results are in

2018/10/29 | 13:22 by

Live flights in the WPT Montreal Main Event get underway today at 4:00pm, but there are already sone results of note in the event as the Online Day 1 was played on partypoker last night. There were only 14 entries in the online starting flight, but 8 of those players have qualified for Day 2 including chip leader Alexis Urli, who has accumulated over 148,000 in chips.

The full list of qualifiers is available via the WPT Montreal Main Event Day 1 Combined Results page.

Here’s an old photo of Alexis from a WPT we hosted a few years ago.

Alexis Urli – WPT partypoker Montreal Championship (S13)

Event #2 Info

2018/09/25 | 11:15 by Playground Poker

The WPT Montreal Main Event is a World Poker Tour Main Tour Event with a huge $5,000,000 guaranteed prize pool. The event starts with Day 1 Online on Sunday, October 28 at 9:00pm. Then it continues with three Day 1s from October 29 to 31, all leading to Day 2 on November 1. Play will continue through to the final day on November 4 when a champion will be crowned. Players are permitted one entry and one re-entry per Day 1, and this continues through to Day 2, during which registration is permitted until the beginning of level 11. Blind levels will be 60 minutes in length throughout Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3 and move to 90 min for Days 4 and 5.

Event #2: Main Event

$5,000 + $300 NL Hold’em Single Re-entry

$5,000,000 Guaranteed Prize Pool

Day 1A: Monday October 29 at 4:00PM
Day 1B: Tuesday October 30 at 12:00PM
Day 1C: Wednesday October 31 at 12:00PM
Day 2: Thursday November 1 at 12:00PM
Day 3: Friday November 2 at 12:00PM
Day 4: Saturday November 3 at 12:00PM
Day 5: Sunday November 4 at 12:00PM