The late registration and re-entry period has now finally closed and the totals are in: there are 40 entries (including 5 re-entries) in Day 1A, with 26 players still in contention with still six full levels of play before the remaining players bag for the Day 2.

Although we missed the action, the players at the table tell us that a hand took place just before the last break when Andreas K. had pocket sevens and ended up calling an all-in for a flip against Patrick St-Laurent holding ace-king. St-laurent hit the board and is now in the lead with 179,800 chips, good for 112 big blinds. Andreas is still on the leaderboard and trying to get back the chips that he gave up to St-Laurent.

Here are the leaders from the second break: