Day 1D Ends with Patrick Braga Leading 75 Survivors

Photo:  Day 1D Chipleader Patrick Braga bagged 1,033,000.

After the simultaneous eliminations of Richard Sysko and Nirosh Jeyananthan on the end-of-day Money Bubble, Day 1D comes to an end with 75 players remaining. The big stack appears to belong to Patrick Braga, who bagged 1,033,000 after scoring one of the final knockouts.

Action ended with 1:33 remaining in Level 17, with blinds at 5,000-10,000 and a 10,000 ante. Day 2 will begin with the blinds rolled back to where they were for the starting flight that finished the earliest.

The full list of official chip counts will be released later tonight, but in the meantime, here’s a look at the probable top of the leaderboard:

1.  Patrick Braga  –  1,033,000
2.  Rayan Chamas  –  973,000
3.  Eric Welsh  –  860,000

The prizepool was released today, and everyone who made Day 2 is guaranteed at least CAD $2,000 each. Here is the full list of payouts:

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-163rd:  CAD $2,000  (~US $1,462)

Day 2 begins tomorrow (Thursday) at 11:00 am, and the Day 2 seat draw should be released later tonight. 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.