The final starting flight at the partypoker.net World Poker Tour Montreal Main Event has come to a close and the overall field size is 732 players. There were 390 players on Day 1C and 171 have advanced to join the 131 that already made it through during the previous starting flights.
The chip leader at the end of play tonight is Alexis Urli (pictured above) with 290,700. Other top stacks were bagged up by Marc-Andre Ladouceur (205,900), Alexandre Blanc (176,100), Ivan Mamuzic (166,800), and Gary Lucci (163,400).
The notables that survived Day 1C were Antonio Esfandiari, Tim Reilly, Cornel Cimpan, Chanracy Khun, Curt Kohlberg, Russell Thomas, Dave Swanson, Anthony Zinno, Paul Volpe, Danny Suied, Dylan Wilkerson, Dan Kelly, Xuan Liu, and Valerie Ross.
The familiar faces that weren’t so lucky and made their exit today were Will Failla, Mike Dentale, Ari Engel, Paul Klann, Mike Linster, Keven Stammen, Giacomo Fundaro, and Micah Raskin.
The total prize pool was also released late tonight and it is $2,192,888. The top 90 players in the tournament will all make at least $4,791. The eventual champion will take home $408,932 at the conclusion of the final table on Wednesday, November 26.
Day 2 will start at noon ET on Sunday at the Playground Poker Club. Tune back in at that time to follow all of the big hands, chip counts, photos, and videos from the WPT Live Updates team. That’s all for now, goodnight from the province of Quebec in Canada.