The field is thinning out but with still 31 players in contention, and with the final 16 moving on to Day 2, there is still a lot of poker left to play. Usually we see some small stack shoves at this point of the evening as well as some big stack aggression, so it will be interesting to see how the stacks go up and down until the players bag for the night.
The average is exactly 100,000 chips right now (20 big blinds) and there is a new leader that has emerged: Goran “Go-Go” Brestovac has taken a huge leap ahead of the other players and is playing a stack of 274,500 chips (55 big blinds). The second place runner-up is George Kazarian holding 184,500 chips (37 big blinds).
Here are the leaders from the break:
| First name: | Family Name; | Chip stack: |
|---|---|---|
| Goran | Brestovac | 274,500 |
| George | Kazarian | 184,500 |
| Peter | Liakopoulos | 172,000 |
| John | Eliakis | 148,000 |
| Marc-Olivier | Beauregard | 137,500 |
Still in contention are: Frederick Watson, Bruce Kraemer, Rene-Philippe Noel, Daniel Germain, Tina Howie, Costa Psallidas, Nick Nikoletopoulos, Edgar Avshalomov, to just name a few.
Recent bustouts include: Jonathan Tremblay, Alexandre Lauziere, Sebastien Proulx, Lukas Rubba, James Bridgeman, Francis Fortin-Chevalier, Dat Doan and Richard Sysko.