Wai Kit Ngai Leads the 44 Survivors on Day 1C of WPT500 Montreal

Day 1C of WPT500 Montreal has come to a conclusion with the field of 310 entries reduced to the final 44 players. Wai Kit Ngai (pictured) leads the way with 587,500.

Ngai chipped up in the later stages of the day when he picked up pocket aces, doubling through an opponent while eliminating another to take the chip lead. He lost it for a little while but retook it when play was on the money bubble.

Maxime Theroux busted shortly thereafter on the sixth hand of hand-for-hand play to become the bubble boy. Among those surviving into Day 2 Ubaid Habib, Brad Dumont, Bill Jennings and defending champion Miguel Goncalo.

Here are the official chip counts for the 44 survivors from Day 1C:

1. Wai Kit Ngai – 587,500
2. Richard Paradis – 545,000
3. Lily Kornik – 483,500
4. Pascal Zaklama – 406,000
5. Michael Pitcher – 367,500
6. Joseph Martire – 341,000
7. Ubaid Habib – 333,500
8. Salomon Benarroch – 328,000
9. Thanh Phuong Luong – 326,000
10. Adam Cader – 324,000
11. Grant Guevremont – 303,500
12. Shawn Bolton – 277,000
13. Michael Levy – 257,000
14. Christian Barbeau – 256,000
15. David Letourneau-Sullivan – 226,500
16. Tzu Sheng Huang – 221,000
17. Charles La Boissonniere – 205,500
18. Grant Ellis – 195,500
19. Prosper Azoulay – 185,000
20. Geng Chen – 183,000
21. Mathieu Caron – 182,000
22. Reginald Vigneau – 178,000
23. Michael Rawn – 174,000
24. Brad Dumont – 167,000
25. Stephane Arbour – 163,500
26. Babak Forozandeh – 155,000
27. Devon Auld – 150,500
28. Tanvir Ahmed – 149,000
29. Yuriy Gapon – 149,000
30. Robert Sibbald – 147,500
31. Bill Jennings – 125,000
32. Gordon Sinclair – 120,500
33. Rudy Alexander Cadenas – 117,500
34. Francois Semaan – 114,000
35. Robert Gosselin – 111,000
36. Neil Macleod – 108,500
37. Marc-Andre Racine – 107,500
38. Einav Shalom – 105,000
39. Daniel Lemay – 98,500
40. Miguel Goncalo – 88,500
41. Karim-Olivier Kamal – 79,000
42. Mitcheal Ferguson – 70,000
43. Louis-Charles Junior Levros – 59,000
44. Thibaut Nouveau – 43,000

Day 1D is playing down to its final 25, while Day 1F and Day 1G begin on Sunday, October 27, at 12 p.m (ET) and 5 p.m. (ET) respectively. There will also be a Day 1H (Turbo) flight kicking off at 10 p.m. (ET). Day 2 begins on Monday, October 28, at 1 p.m. (ET).

Stay tuned to WPT.com for continuing coverage throughout the WPT500 Montreal.

Photography by Tomas Stacha / Poker-Photo

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