Brian Altman is the Man to Beat as WPT Montreal Day 1b Gets Set
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World Poker Tour is ready to continue with Day 1b in its third Canadian event of 2015. Partypoker.net WPT Montreal is hosted by Playground Poker Club in Kahnawake, Quebec, just across the St. Lawrence river from beautiful and historic downtown Montreal.
With three Day 1s, there is plenty of opportunity for players to turn their $3,850 buy-in into a Day 2 stack. Day 1b kicks off at 11 a.m. on Saturday, followed by Day 1c on Sunday, before those remaining return for Monday's Day 2. The tournament has a next-day reentry format, so players who are eliminated on a Day 1 can return and buy in again on another Day 1. If a player is lucky enough to survive more than one starting day, their largest stack will be carried to Day 2.
Day 1a concluded with WPT Champions Club member Brian Altman being the only player to cross the 200,000 mark, eventually bagging 221,600 chips. There were 127 entries for Day 1a with 45 of them still holding chips for Day 2.
Last year, this event saw 732 entries to create a prize pool of $2,485,140 CAD and the final table was packed full of talent. Jonathan Jaffe won the title for $464,252, but also joining him within the top 10 were the likes of Mukul Pahuja (third - $201,920), Kevin MacPhee (fourth - $149,340), Sam Chartier (fifth - $111,820), and Marc-Andre Ladouceur (ninth - $44,680). There is little doubt that this year's event will also feature a big roster of poker's best players.
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