Level: 10
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Level: 10
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
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The board was at the turn with on the table and Freddy Deeb bet 6,000, getting a call from his one opponent.
The turn was the and Deeb fired again, this time for 9,000. His opponent took little time pushing all in for 30,300. Deeb thought for a moment before shaking his head and throwing his cards in the muck. He's still holding one of the best stacks in the room.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Freddy Deeb |
177,000
101,000
|
101,000 |
|
Just before players bagged and tagged their chips, we grabbed photos of a few of them.
Here are the official chip counts for all 96 players who bagged a stack at the end of Day 1b.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Abdallah Aljboul
|
252,300
252,300
|
252,300 |
Marco Caza |
252,000
138,000
|
138,000 |
Michael Tieu |
220,300
220,300
|
220,300 |
Freddy Deeb |
180,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
||
Daniel Notice
|
175,700
175,700
|
175,700 |
Carlos Sanchez |
157,100
157,100
|
157,100 |
Patrick Blye |
153,600
153,600
|
153,600 |
Anthony Diotte |
149,000
149,000
|
149,000 |
Ronald Laplante |
144,600
144,600
|
144,600 |
Mike Linster |
141,400
22,400
|
22,400 |
|
||
Marc Ladouceur |
127,500
60,500
|
60,500 |
Matthieu Boisvert
|
126,400
126,400
|
126,400 |
Rainer Kempe |
123,700
123,700
|
123,700 |
Seth Davies |
120,800
120,800
|
120,800 |
|
||
Mike McDonald |
116,200
25,200
|
25,200 |
Justin Liberto |
114,500
114,500
|
114,500 |
Doug Mackinnon
|
113,800
113,800
|
113,800 |
Ward Hewitt
|
112,700
112,700
|
112,700 |
Craig Stewart |
109,000
109,000
|
109,000 |
Timothy Reilly |
101,500
101,500
|
101,500 |
Jonathan Duhamel |
99,400
-15,600
|
-15,600 |
Scott Diver |
90,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
Jean-Pierre Sevigny
|
89,600
89,600
|
89,600 |
Yazan Jerab
|
88,500
88,500
|
88,500 |
Mike Sexton |
82,900
47,900
|
47,900 |
|
Another 10 levels of play have come to a close here at Playground Poker Club. The 2015 partypoker.net WPT Montreal saw Day 1b fill with 235 players today. When play concluded at about 10:40 p.m., just 96 of them still had chips to bag for Day 2.
Once the chips were counted, the best stack in the room belonged to Abdallah Aljboul with 252,300 which puts him 30,000 ahead of Day 1a's chip leader Brian Altman with 221,600.
The second-best stack was the 252,000 chips at the hands of Marco Caza, and Michael Tieu rounded out the top trio with 220,300.
Combined with Day 1a, this event has had 362 entries so far and 141 of them are headed to Day 2 at this point.
Some of the other late-day survivors include the likes of Freddy Deeb (180,000), Mike Linster (141,400), Marc-Andre Ladouceur (127,500), Mike McDonald (116,200), Jonathan Duhamel (99,400), Mike Sexton (82,900), Darren Elias (82,600), WPT Montreal defending champion Jonathan Jaffe (71,700), Samuel Chartier (60,900), Kevin MacPhee (54,300), and Jeff Gross (53,000).
There were also several notable players who bought a stack today but weren't able to make it through the 10 levels. They include Ami Alibay, Andy Frankenberger, Darryll Fish, Will Molson, Liv Boeree, Igor Kurganov, Vince Van Patten, Eric Afriat, and Sheraz Nasir.
Players will have one last chance to build a Day 2 stack tomorrow with Day 1c. Action will kick off at 11 a.m. with late registration open through to the end of the dinner break after Level 6 — about 6:15 p.m.
PokerNews will be back on the tournament floor bringing you live updates of all the action. Until then, have a great night!
Main Event
Day 1b Completed