Day 2 of WPT Montreal Sees Camille Mikhael Leading 432 Survivors; Registration Open to 4:30 p.m. (ET)

By Tim Duckworth

Welcome back to Playground in Kahnawake, Quebec, for Day 2 of WPT Montreal in partnership with partypoker LIVE as part of the Season XVIII WPT Montreal Festival.

The WPT Montreal Festival sees three major WPT tournaments on offer with WPT500 Montreal, WPT Montreal, and WPTDeepStacks Montreal each taking center stage throughout the festival. WPT500 Montreal attracted a total of 2,134 entrants with Toronto-native Bradley Smith collecting the CA$140,000 first-place prize before the Season XVIII WPT Montreal Main Event became the focal point.

In conjunction with the three Day 1 starting flights at Playground, an online flight was held on partypoker last week that saw players survive into Day 3 of WPT Montreal to be a guaranteed a min-cash. A total of 101 entrants took part in the online Day 1, and just 14 players would survive with Mike Watson bagging the chip lead with 660,000, while the likes of Duff Charette (248,000), Martin Raus (180,000), Manig Loeser (146,000), and WPT Player of the Year Mukul Pahuja (85,000) also earning themselves a Day 3 berth and a WPT cash.

At Playground, the three Day 1 starting flights attracted a total of 787 entrants, and when play wrapped up on Halloween night, just 432 players would survive into Day 2. One of those players bagged two stacks, and amazingly it was the recently crowned WPT500 Montreal champion Smith who bagged 77,400 on Day 1B and 171,200 on Day 1C to sit in tenth place overall on the chip leaderboard.

Leading those 431 players into Day 2 is Camille Mikhael (pictured above) who finished with 284,500 in chips ahead of Roger Lamia (278,000), Aaron Shepard (250,000), and Spencer Mclean (222,200) as the only players over the 200,000-chip mark. Players still in contention include WPT Champions Club members Mike Leah, Victor Ramdin, Art Papazyan, Demo Kiriopoulos, Amir Babakhani, Darren Elias, Soren Turkewitsch, Jonathan Roy, James Romero, Ema Zajmovic, Will Failla, Eric Afriat, Matt Salsberg, Donald Maloney, Aaron Van Blarcum, Brian Altman, Tony Sinishtaj, Ben Cade, Maxime Heroux, Chanracy Khun, Daniel Strelitz, and Tony Tran. Also surviving into Day 2 are WPTDeepStacks champions Jose Montes, Faraz Jaka, Justin Liberto, Maria Ho, Erik Lemarquand, David Quang, and Martin Gaudreault-Remillard, along with Chairman of partypoker Mike Sexton, and partypoker pros Kristen Bicknell (pictured below) and Jeff Gross.

WPT Montreal Structure and Schedule

The WPT Montreal Main Event features a CA$3,300 buy-in and a CA$3 million guaranteed prize pool. Players are allowed one re-entry per each starting flight with registration ending on Day 2 at the start of Level 13 (approximately 4:30 p.m. ET on Friday, November 1). Players entering for the start of Level 13 will begin with 20 big blinds.

Day 2 will play down until the money is reached (1 in 7 entries), and according to Playground staff, they believe it will take roughly 10 to 11 levels of play. Levels will continue at 60 minutes in duration with a dinner break occurring after Level 14 (approximately 6:30 p.m. ET).

To view complete information on the WPT Montreal structure and schedule, click here.

With that, the stage is now set for the start of Day 2 of WPT Montreal Main Event to begin at 12 p.m. (ET) from Playground. Stay tuned right here to WPT.com for the exclusive live coverage of the tournament from start to finish to see who becomes the WPT Montreal Champion, and wins his or her way to the season-ending WPT Tournament of Champions.

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