New players and re-entries continue to fill in the ranks on Day 1C, as play is set to resume following the first break of the day.

Despite the large starting stacks, the players in this field that they were not shy about putting their tournament lives on the line in their pursuit of chips. Driven by 26 re-entries through the first four levels of play, the early levels were action-packed. Of course, some players benefited from these dynamics more than others, but none more than Jean-Francois Levesque. Levesque could do no wrong in the early stages, as he run up a stack over of 290 big blinds.