With the elimination of Philippe Chapdelaine in 11th place, we are now down to our final table!
11e place: Philippe Chapdelaine, $1,865
Des éliminations!
2013/11/22 9:54pm by
- 12e position: Antoine Poirier, 1 865 $
- 13e position: David Guay 1 575 $
- 14e position: Joey Silver, 1 575 $
- 15e position: Mohamad Mahbouba, 1 575 $
- 16e position: Stephen Baker, 1 335 $
- 17e position: Patrick David Hu-A-Kam, 1 335$
- 18e position: Alexandre Boyer, 1 335$
Two tables left
2013/11/22 8:59pm by
At the very end of level 28, Andrew Helleur busted in 19th place for $1,135 leaving just 18 players left in Event 1. The tournament is now down to 2 tables of 9 players each. The final table will start with 10 players left and there will be a full seating redraw at that point.
The Bagging of the Chips
2013/11/22 8:31pm by
Day 1a has come to a close and the players are bagging up their chips – everyone remaining in the tournament will come back on Sunday at 12pm for Day 2. We’ll have chip counts for the day in a little while.
Day 1b will start at 12pm tomorrow, and considering it’s a Saturday we’re expecting a lot of players to jump into the event.
Down to 27… and beyond
2013/11/22 8:06pm by
With 8 exits already the tournament is down to 27 players, which means that table 61 has broken and the players have been distributed among the other tables. Table 61 had a ton of chips on it – the chip leader was seated there along with 3 other above-average stacks – so it will be interesting to see how the other players are able to react to the newbies at their table.
Final break
2013/11/22 7:48pm by
The players in Day 1a of Event 2 have entered their final break of the day. By the way, they were scheduled to play 16 levels today but the Tournament Director has decided that they will stop after just 15 levels, meaning that there is just one level to play today after this break.
Quick off the mark
2013/11/22 7:44pm by
The action on table 61 got off to a super fast start – they’ve played just a few hands and already there are two players out of the tournament.
On the very first hand, Mohamad Mahbouba took out Christos Zavouris with AQ > 44 to bring him all the way back into contention. Mohamad had been among the chip leaders since the beginning of Day 2 before losing a series of hands that took him all the way down to around 200K. Now he’s all the way back – over 1.4M.
The ebbs and flows of tournament poker
2013/11/22 6:26pm by
Players are in the last level before the final break of the day, and some of the chip leaders have remained among the leaders – Antony M, Sean Balfour – but some new players have begun to grow big stacks to challenge the leaders from earlier in the day. Miguel Goncalo, Jose Pereira, Andrew Graham and David Dusone are all playing over 120K at this point in the evening.
Top 6 Chip Leaders
2013/11/22 4:34pm by
During the break we got a better look at some of the stacks in play. Only two players have breached the 100K mark so far but there are several others following closely behind. Here are the top 6 to this point:
- Marc Piché – 150K
- Jean Noreau – 103K
- Gilles Cornelis – 92K
- Ricky Tang – 88K
- Dean Murphy – 88K
- Antony M – 85K
Almost halfway through
2013/11/22 4:13pm by
The second break is approaching which will mark the half way point of today’s action. Doing a quick tour of the room we noticed a few players approaching 100K stacks, including:
- Jean Noreau – 95K
- Russel Turner – 90K
- Sean Balfour – 90K
We’ll look for some other big stacks during the break and post some photos soon.