Day 2 Begins at 11:00 am with 160 Players; Official Seating and Chip Counts

May 16, 2024

Samuel Guillen
Photo:  Overall chipleader Samuel Guillen bagged 1,129,000 (141 big blinds) at the end of Day 1C.

There were 1,291 entries in the WPT Prime Montreal Championship, with four starting flights held live at the Playground Poker Club, and a fifth held online at WPT Global. There were 160 players who survived to Day 2, which begins today at 11:00 am.

Everyone who made it to Day 2 is already in the money, and there was a double-elimination on the Money Bubble at the end of Day 1D, and those two players chopped 163rd place. Here is the full list of chip counts.

1st:  CAD $191,300*  (~US $139,840)
2nd:  CAD $119,300  (~US $87,208)
3rd:  CAD $88,000  (~US $64,328)
4th:  CAD $66,000  (~US $48,246)
5th:  CAD $50,000  (~US $36,550)
6th:  CAD $38,000  (~US $27,778)
7th:  CAD $29,500  (~US $21,565)
8th:  CAD $22,800  (~US $16,667)
9th-10th:  CAD $17,900  (~US $13,085)
11th-12th:  CAD $15,500  (~US $11,331)
13th-15th:  CAD $13,300  (~US $9,722)
16th-19th:  CAD $11,400  (~US $8,333)
20th-23rd:  CAD $9,800  (~US $7,164)
24th-31st:  CAD $8,400  (~US $6,140)
32nd-39th:  CAD $7,100  (~US $5,190)
40th-47th:  CAD $6,000  (~US $4,386)
48th-55th:  CAD $5,100  (~US $3,728)
56th-63rd:  CAD $4,300  (~US $3,143)
64th-76th:  CAD $3,600  (~US $2,632)
77th-89th:  CAD $3,000  (~US $2,193)
90th-104th:  CAD $2,560  (~US $1,871)
105th-130th:  CAD $2,200  (~US $1,608)
131st-162nd:  CAD $2,000  (~US $1,462)

T-163rd:  Richard Sysko  –  CAD $1,000 (~US $731)
T-163rd:  Nirosh Jeyananthan  –  CAD $1,000 (~US $731)

And here are the official chip counts and seating positions for the start of Day 2:

1-1  Srinivas Gottiparthi – 148,000
1-2  Chun Kit Kwan – 141,000
1-3  Wei Han Zhang – 561,000
1-4  Ibrahim Ozor – 321,000
1-5  Pierre Lussier-Hall – 425,000
1-6  Louis-Frederick Garneau – 119,000
1-7  Elvira Popescu – 199,000
1-8  Akshat Verma – 44,000

2-1  Louis Boutin – 116,000
2-2  Micha Bitton – 493,000
2-3  Jordan Grant – 148,000
2-4  Jean Brassard – 418,000
2-5  Carl Sellars – 343,000
2-6  Jonathan Van Fleet – 476,000
2-7  Sebastien Vezina – 257,000
2-8  Adam Cader – 262,000

3-1  Alexandre Bolduc – 491,000
3-2  Ralph Villeneuve – 207,000
3-3  Ari Shin – 95,000
3-4  Arnaud Rossi – 115,000
3-5  Senthuran Vijayaratnam – 132,000
3-6  Samuel Guillen – 1,129,000
3-7  Jair Beltran – 623,000
3-8  Maxim Kogay – 287,000

4-1  Milan Savic – 22,000
4-2  Chi Do Nguyen – 455,000
4-3  Olivier Rebello-Frechette – 212,000
4-4  Eun Park – 536,000
4-5  Will Molson – 174,000
4-6  Patrick Pochyla – 530,000
4-7  Patrick St-Onge – 482,000
4-8  Christine Park – 239,000

5-1  Daniel Linh Nang Le – 191,000
5-2  Sebastien Labbe – 341,000
5-3  Jozef Cibicek – 437,000
5-4  Xin Qi – 157,000
5-5  Stephen Oates – 239,000
5-6  Michael Hooper – 176,000
5-7  Wonkyoo Han – 565,000
5-8  Yannick Labattaglia – 294,000

6-1  Rayan Chamas – 973,000
6-2  Victor Adams – 227,000
6-3  Carlos Gerones – 293,000
6-4  Abel Ouellet-Clark – 203,000
6-5  Fan Jia – 146,000
6-6  Callum Roque – 440,000
6-7  Johnny Yu – 345,000
6-8  Jason Clarke – 548,000

7-1  Jonathan Hsu – 368,000
7-2  Trent Hopper – 575,000
7-3  Maxime Gerard Gravel – 99,000
7-4  Alon Messica – 1,061,000
7-5  Brad Owen – 287,000
7-6  Nicholas Belanger – 73,000
7-7  Lily Kornik – 263,000
7-8  Xinwei Jiang – 107,000

8-1  Marcello Rosa – 197,000
8-2  Jean-Pascal Gauthier – 525,000
8-3  Jonathan Willis – 309,000
8-4  Jan Steinberg – 162,000
8-5  Baruch Forst – 234,000
8-6  Steven Marin – 82,000
8-7  Alexandre Fournier – 251,000
8-8  Eric Miron – 316,000

9-1  Daniel Watton – 478,000
9-2  Patrick Braga – 1,033,000
9-3  Maroun Diab – 242,000
9-4  Farhat Akbari – 563,000
9-5  Brady Hinnegan – 140,000
9-6  Eric Welsh – 860,000
9-7  Samuel Gagnon – 173,000
9-8  Sergei Gurin – 262,000

10-1  Frederick Deguzman – 94,000
10-2  Alexander Tan-Wing Wong – 155,000
10-3  Dongwoo Ko – 381,000
10-4  Vasilios Gerontakos – 422,000
10-5  Harpreet Padda – 115,000
10-6  Michael Korovine – 151,000
10-7  Qingwei Meng – 167,000
10-8  Pascal Monarque – 425,000

11-1  Jonathan Garneau – 246,000
11-2  Benjaman Chen – 209,000
11-3  Jonathan Brazeau – 367,000
11-4  Stephane Blouin-Verroeulst – 568,000
11-5  David Baba – 464,000
11-6  Johan Levyssohn – 598,000
11-7  Artur Tahiri – 146,000
11-8  Benito Cruz – 127,000

12-1  Ian Monahoyios – 453,000
12-2  Romain Morvan – 418,000
12-3  Sandy Lam – 690,000
12-4  Timothy Deering – 230,000
12-5  Jean-Sebastien Labonte – 525,000
12-6  Donald Abdelhay – 185,000
12-7  Jason Sagle – 587,000
12-8  Patrick Tardif – 20,000

13-1  Jennifer Frankenstein – 342,000
13-2  Timothy Ulmer – 441,000
13-3  Michael Mellor – 160,000
13-4  Stuart Taylor – 50,000
13-5  Josue Sauvageau – 108,000
13-6  Vaughn Steeves – 339,000
13-7  Brian Michael Wilson – 138,000
13-8  Robert Renaud – 634,000

14-1  Haralambos Margaritis – 197,000
14-2  Michael McIntyre – 148,000
14-3  Scott Douglas Carragher – 131,000
14-4  Carlotta Ceccatelli – 315,000
14-5  Ali Khan – 94,000
14-6  Joshua Frazer-James – 621,000
14-7  Archimedes Arenas – 141,000
14-8  Shaan Siddiqui – 521,000

15-1  Christopher Nother – 482,000
15-2  Irtiza Malik – 160,000
15-3  Steven Chodjai – 123,000
15-4  Nicolas Majdalani – 287,000
15-5  Bradley Smith – 362,000
15-6  Jikai Zhang – 508,000
15-7  Antoine Chalhoub – 436,000
15-8  Mario Lim – 227,000

16-1  Jeffrey Cormier – 641,000
16-2  William Couillard-Olczyk – 337,000
16-3  Marc Lavergne – 242,000
16-4  Anoop Jugurnath – 740,000
16-5  Dan Stavila – 193,000
16-6  Jimmy Setna – 249,000
16-7  Darryll Fish – 270,000
16-8  Michael Gordon Smith – 178,000

17-1  Shane Chief – 345,000
17-2  Sebastien Aube – 870,000
17-3  Baptiste Provost – 320,000
17-4  Adrian Brown – 688,000
17-5  Sebastien Proulx – 402,000
17-6  Antoine Sankari – 103,000
17-7  Ran Yi – 270,000
17-8  Edouard Dupuis – 318,000

18-1  Alexandru Jurca – 234,000
18-2  Grant Donovan – 425,000
18-3  Omar El Nasrallah – 226,000
18-4  Carlos De La Pena – 302,000
18-5  Emilio Ulisse – 164,000
18-6  Zennawi Petros – 184,000
18-7  Dennis Nguyen – 677,000
18-8  Gaurav Sood – 318,000

19-1  Amit Jhagroo – 173,000
19-2  David Guay – 495,000
19-3  Grant Ellis – 221,000
19-4  Alexander Bitsakis – 95,000
19-5  Matteo Carelli – 224,000
19-6  David Urban – 119,000
19-7  Gil Levy – 162,000
19-8  Nimer Ltaif – 105,000

20-1  Stephane Edme – 477,000
20-2  Devesh Thapar – 132,000
20-3  Nicholas Teeuwen – 107,000
20-4  James Pillon – 107,000
20-5  Timothy Rutherford – 459,000
20-6  Alessandro Borrega – 114,000
20-7  Alessandro Fiorani – 336,000
20-8  Per Hindrikes – 244,000

Action is scheduled to begin at 11:00 am, so stay tuned to WPT.com for our continuing coverage of the WPT Prime Montreal Championship.

* First-prize amount includes the winner’s US $10,400 seat into the season-ending WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.

NOTE:  For worldwide consistency across all WPT events, the amounts on the Payouts page are in U.S. dollars. For this event, payouts have been converted using a rate of CAD $1.00 = US $0.731.

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