Day 2 of the
WPT Montreal $3,200 Main Event witnessed 133 players out of a total field of 888 entrants whittled down to just 23 hopefuls after ten levels of 30-minutes each on Monday, Jan. 26 at
Felix Schulze, waving the Austrian flag at partypoker, emerged as the clear overnight chip leader with a towering stack of 20,785,963 in chips.
Schulze is looking to add a WPT title to his
WPT DeepStacks title he earned in April 2019 in that festival s â¬1,100 Main Event for â¬104,304 ($117,018).
Andrei Kriazhev entered Day 2 with the chip lead and parlayed this into a healthy second place stack heading into Day 3 with 18,782,517 in chips. Also bagging eight-figure stacks into Day 3 were
Brazil s
Luiz Orrico had the best day among the 61 survivors after he virtually bagged the Day 1b chip lead with a stack of 4,066,132.
The flight attracted 406 entrants to add another $1,218,000 to the prize pool. This brought the total prize pool up to $2,664,000 after taking into account the 482 entrants battling it out last Sunday, Jan. 17 to obliterate the $2 million guarantee.
Jan-Eric Schwippert bags a big stack on Day 1b of the WPT Montreal Main Event
While Orrico is a relatively unknown player, he did have many big names close on his tail to end Day 1b including online poker superstar
Niklas Astedt (4,011,326),
partypoker with Day 1a of the $2,000,000 GTD Main Event.
Poker players have been eagerly awaiting the festival since it was announced back in November.
The schedule features eight High Roller events, a $1m GTD Super High Roller and culminates in the WPT Montreal champion being crowned on January 27th in a livestreamed final table.
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Kriazhev Leads WPT Montreal Online Day 1a
The $3,200 WPT Montreal Online Day 1a attracted a field of 482 players, with 72 making it through to Day 2. Germany s
After almost four hours of play on Day 3 of the
PokerStars Blowout Series: $530 NLHE [8-Max, The Big Blowout!], the second Big Blowout title has been captured for the Netherlands as Gwolde defeated
The Dutch player laid claim to
$721,692 for their victory in the 12,938-strong entry field which had a prize pool of
$6,469,000 which easily surpassed the
$5,000,000 that was set for this tournament. Gwolde is no stranger to success on the PokerStars tables as they have won the
Sunday Kickoff in the past for example. The Dutch player also came out victorious in
Event 20-M: $109 NLHE Deep Stacks Freezeout on January 3 for $35,856 so must be having a great start of 2021 on the PokerStars virtual tables.