Full Tilt Poker Montreal Festival Is Under Way

The Full Tilt Montreal Festival is expected to be one of the largest poker events ever in canada.

It started on Sept 21 and numerous poker pros including Jonathan Duhamel, Vanessa Rousso, Gus Hansen among others.

The main event is a $1k +$100 buy-in with re-entries. There will be a live stream available from Sept 30 through Oct 3rd.

Visit the full tilt poker blog for pictures, videos etc:

www.fulltiltpoker.com/blog/tour/full-tilt-poker-net-montreal-festival/

HD Live Broadcast / Stream - From the Playground Casino Montreal (Hole cards will be revealed after the hand is over.)

SEP.30 @ 12:00 EDT - Day 2
OCT.01 @ 12:00 EDT - Day 3
OCT.02 @ 12:00 EDT - Day 4
OCT.03 @ 16:00 EDT - Final Table

The pros love coming to play in Montreal, which out of all North American cities is the closest to a European City. Very lax and late Bar rules, absoutely Beautiful women and a great city make for a great time.
They will enjoy

Seems to be going great!

The Full Tilt Poker Montreal Festival Main Event set new Canadian attendance records for number of entrants in a tournament with a buy-in of C$1,000 or higher. The festival’s main event has surpassed the C$1 million guarantee by a long shot, attracting 1,625 entrants with a total prize pool of C$1,576,250.
The winner will walk away with C$260,582 and the Main Event title.

The 13-day festival, which began on September 21st, got off to a record-breaking beginning with the first event, a C$135 + C$15 NLHE tournament, attracting 1,605 runners over three start days – this more than doubled the C$100,000 guaranteed prize pool and broke the attendance record for Playground Poker Club.

The Main Event has now reached Day 3 and players are in the money; a champion will be crowned on Thursday, October 3rd.
Main Event coverage including live reporting, photographs and videos can be found on the Full Tilt Poker blog, while a live stream of the action kicked off yesterday, September 30th, and will run until a winner is determined.

Here are the final table results - looks like most of them were from Canada:

1. Henri Balcazar, Kitchener, Ontario - $194,044*
2. Eric Despres, St-Eustache, Quebec - $150,000*
3. Michael Linster, Park Island, New York - $200,000*
4. Guillaume Rivet, Montreal, Quebec - $96,151
5. Bill Kontaratos, Laval, Quebec - $74,714
6. Vineet Pahuja, New York City, New York - $58,006
7. Roger Lamia, Ottawa, Ontario - $44,923
8. Zheng-yi Xie, Montreal, Quebec - $35,150
9. Colin Piché, Repentigny, Quebec - $27,269