The second Day 1 in the WPT500 in the WPT Montreal was played last night on partypoker. Online Day 1B had 56 entries, and 11 players managed to book their way through to Day 2 in the tournament, bringing the total number of Day 2 qualifiers up to a total of 26. Day 1B was just as star-studded as Day 1A on Sunday night, and at the end of the 16 levels of play it was Pierre-Marc Chadi in the lead with 227,000 in chips (all counts adjusted to account for the minimum 1K chip value that will be in play to begin Day 2).
There are some other players of note in the Day 1B standings, including Canadian pros Mike Leah (194,000) and Shawn Buchanan (149,000), 2017 WSOP Vegas Monster Stack champ Tommy Nguyen (198,000), and 2018 WSOP-C Playground Main Event champion Danny Freitas (110,000). In addition, there are two well-known and respected qualifiers who, while not locals, have been playing in big events at Playground for as long as we can remember: Bradley Smith (124,000) and Jimmy “Bones” Gall (173,000).
Online Day 1C runs tonight at 9:00pm. Following this, the WPT500 will resume with Live Day 1A on Friday October 26 at 12:00pm.