For the first time on Day 1E, the chip leader is someone other than Claude Perrault.

Jean-Pascal Gauthier has maintained a healthy stack throughout the flight and found ways to take his stack to new heights in the lead up to the latest break. Gauthier now stands head and shoulders above the field with a stack of nearly 120 big blinds, which is more than triple the current average. Perrault still has plenty of chips at his disposal, sitting in second on the leaderboard with just under 100 big blinds.

As play resumes in level 13, there are 55 players still in contention. The top 24 players will advance to Day 2 so the tension will only mount from here.