The day started out with some wild action before play finally settled down to a calm pace, and then remained that way through most of the afternoon. Players seemed to be in “caution mode”, not wanting to spew away chips, preferring instead to be able to bag for the day so that they could join the Day 2 action on Saturday. One player, Robert Gariepy, had a different plan and was dominating the action through most of the late levels. In the end, he simply ran away from the entire field, bagging an impressive 409,500 chip stack. That was more than the double both the 2nd place runner (Yaacoub Gerges, 205,000) and 3rd place runner (Ruben Perceval, 204,500). With players returning to blinds of 1500/3000, Richard will be starting the day with more than 130 BB’s, and Yaacoub and Ruben still have a very solid 66.6 BB stack to start their day.

Other top finishers include Philipp Daze (181,500), Michel Gariepy (178,500), Kevin Macdonald (161,000), Trevor Delaney (140,500), and Adam Cader (130,500), just to name a few. Some of the late day bustouts include Kim Renaud, Pierre Sirios, Sebastien Proulx, Eric Ranger, and Johnny Akillian.

Players will return for Day 2 at 1:00pm on Saturday. Your last chance to still jump into the action is right now, as Day 1C still has over 90 minutes of late registration available.

Day 1B chip leader: Robert Gariepy, 409,500 chips