Season XIV of the World Poker Tour continued on Friday with Day 1A of the partypoker.net WPT Montreal. A total of 127 players took to the felt and after 10 levels of play, 45 players bagged up and will return for Day 2 on Monday.
Leading the Day 1A survivors is WPT Champions Club member Brian Altman (pictured) with 221,600. Also bagging up were Jacques Frenette (190,400), Jared Mahoney (181,900), Alex Keating (181,500), Samuel Barre (151,800), TJ Ulmer (140,000), Mike Leah (107,700), Pascal Lefrancois (91,300), Jeff Madsen (86,900), WPT Champions Club member Will Failla (79,800), reigning Hublot WPT Player of the Year Anthony Zinno (77,000), WPT Champions Club member Mike Watson (38,900), WPT Champion Club member Antonio Esfandiari (29,600) and WPT Champions Club member Dylan Wilkerson (28,300).
Among those who failed to survive the day include Hublot WPT Player of the Year leader Stan Jablonski, partypoker qualifier Mike McDonald, Jonathan Duhamel, partypoker qualifier Kevin MacPhee, Jeff Gross, and WPT Champions Club members Darren Elias, Eric Afriat, Mike Linster, Freddy Deeb and Cornel Cimpan.
There were eight partypoker qualifiers in today’s field, though only one of them survived — Sebastian Sikorski, who finished with 26,100.
Players are allowed one entry per starting day and if a player bags twice, the larger stack of the two would advance to Day 2.
Day 1B is scheduled to start Saturday at 11:00 am ET, so be sure to return for updates on all of the action.