Chip leaders – 2nd break

2014/05/17 3:41pm by
Tournament:
  • Level: 9
  • Small Blind: 400
  • Big Blind: 800
  • Ante: 100
  • Chip Average: 36.9K
  • Remaining: 189
  • Entries: 349


    • Players are just returning from their second break of the day and during the pause we found the following chip leaders.

    1. Michael D Brown – 145K
    2. Richard Moreau – 140K
    3. Ghislain Soucy – 120K
    4. Carla Sabini – 105K
    5. Gaetan Perreault – 95K
    6. Marcel Basset – 95K
    Filed Under: Event 1 - Day 1c Tagged With:

    More shots of Day1c

    2014/05/17 3:01pm by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 8
  • Small Blind: 300
  • Big Blind: 600
  • Ante: 75
  • Chip Average: 32.8K
  • Remaining: 213
  • Entries: 349


    • Some more shots of Event 1’s Day 1c taking place this afternoon including some of the bigger stacks that players are growing. Level 8 has just begun and there are still 214 players in the action… and a long way yet to go…

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    Entries for Day 1c

    2014/05/17 1:42pm by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 5
  • Small Blind: 150
  • Big Blind: 300
  • Ante: 50
  • Chip Average: 24.4K
  • Remaining: 286
  • Entries: 349


    • Late registration has closed following the break after level 4 and the final tally of entries is in for today – there were 349 total who entered, adding up to a whopping 992 total entries so far!

    The great thing about that number? The prize pool has already surpassed the guaranteed $100,000! Every entry after #741 has built the prize pool above and beyond the guarantee. By the time the final number of entries is in, it’s sure to add up to an impressive total!

    Filed Under: Event 1 - Day 1c Tagged With:

    Some early shots of 1c

    2014/05/17 1:13pm by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 3
  • Small Blind: 75
  • Big Blind: 150
  • Ante: 25
  • Chip Average: 20.9K
  • Remaining: 304
  • Entries: 318


    • Day 1c is through two levels of play and the number of entries has grown to 318 with more still joining every few minutes.

    Here are some shots of the early action.

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    The first break approaches

    2014/05/17 1:06pm by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 4
  • Small Blind: 100
  • Big Blind: 200
  • Ante: 25
  • Chip Average: 22.8K
  • Remaining: 298
  • Entries: 346


    • Day 1c has almost reached the end of level 4, following which players will take their first break of the day. Late registration will end after this break, at which time we’ll be able to share the final number of entries for this flight.

    A quick survey of the room found some early leaders in the day. Patrick Laquerre, Gaetan Perreault, Konrad Gloge, Edin Cekic, and Ghislain Soucy all have stacks passing 60K!

    Filed Under: Event 1 - Day 1c Tagged With:

    And they’re off…

    2014/05/17 11:15am by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 1
  • Small Blind: 50
  • Big Blind: 100
  • Ante: 0
  • Chip Average: 20K
  • Remaining: 269
  • Entries: 269


    • Players are now seated and the TD announcements have been made and play has begun on over 30 tables with more filling up by the minute.

    Filed Under: Event 1 - Day 1c Tagged With:

    Welcome to Day 1c

    2014/05/17 10:33am by
    Tournament:

    In just half an hour, cards will be in the air for Day 1c of Event 1 of the PokerStars Canada Cup here at Playground Poker Club. The first two starting flights had a total of 643 entries, and of those, 165 have qualified for Day 2. As a “Next Day” re-entry tournament, anyone who played yesterday may try to qualify again in one or both flights today. If a player were to qualify from two different days, only their largest stack would move to Day 2, with the other chips being forfeit. For the record, in the first two flights no player qualified multiple times.

    Today is a very special day at Playground beyond Event 1 though. As much as Montreal is a poker town, it’s 100x that much a hockey town – and today at 1pm, Game 1 of the NHL Eastern Conference Finals between the Montreal Canadiens and the New York Rangers will be taking place downtown. Every TV set in Playground will be tuned to the action and you can be sure that loud cheers will erupt every time the Habs score.

    With both the hockey game AND a great tournament on tap, it’s already buzzing at Playground, so come on down and join in the fun!

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    Event 1 Day 1b – final chip counts

    2014/05/17 3:41am by
    Tournament:

    Day 1b of Event 1 of the PokerStars Canada Cup started at 7:30pm on May 16 and played through 13 half-hour levels before the remaining players bagged their chips to take to Day 2. Day 1b had 406 total entries, and when the day wrapped up, the following 109 players qualified to return on Sunday.

    Rank First Name Last Name Chip Count
    1 Jonathan Poissant 248,200
    2 Patrick Renaud 228,300
    3 Gary Farrell 205,600
    4 James Morgan 190,100
    5 Glenn Sauve 174,900
    6 Ricky Tang 168,300
    7 Pierre Blackburn 161,000
    8 Jamie Marciano-Pegoretti 155,800
    9 Martin Gelinas 154,700
    10 Amale Chahine 153,600
    11 Dominic Dufour 148,100
    12 Steven Umansky 143,700
    13 Nicolas Couture 142,000
    14 Patrick Lightenauer 129,400
    15 Philip Fauteux 122,600
    16 Jeremy Thompson 122,000
    17 Nicolas Aubin 119,800
    18 Kelly Smith 118,000
    19 Thanh Phu 115,800
    20 Carmela De Ciantis 114,500
    21 Eddie Daldalian 107,300
    22 Roland Roy 105,900
    23 Alberto Scuderi 104,400
    24 Andrej Bachynsky 101,900
    25 Franco Sicondolfi 101,100
    26 Hung Dao 100,600
    27 Olivier Morin 98,800
    28 Daniel Schreiber 95,800
    29 Alexandre Patoprsty 93,700
    30 Kyle Paul 93,700
    31 Pascal Roberge 92,700
    32 Greg Arevian 92,600
    33 Martin Archambault 92,000
    34 Cory Maize 91,400
    35 Norman Gauthier 86,000
    36 Erik Cajelais 85,600
    37 Derek Lerner 84,400
    38 Isabelle Tremblay 84,400
    39 Miguel Goncalo 83,200
    40 Ian Middel 80,500
    41 Rony Cherfan 78,400
    42 Edouard Dupuis 78,200
    43 Igor Ledovskikh 76,500
    44 Ryan Wilhelm 76,000
    45 Kaveh K 70,500
    46 John Clarke 69,600
    47 Chulsoo Park 69,500
    48 Sebastien Drolet-Poitras 69,200
    49 Sammy Sidky 67,800
    50 Robbie Dickson 64,700
    51 David Baba 63,000
    52 Sengdao Soysangwane 62,600
    53 Denis Leclerc 61,800
    54 Sophie Bourassa 61,800
    55 Cedrick Quenneville-Renaud 61,700
    56 Real Cantin 60,300
    57 Bogos Doshoian 58,500
    58 Jeremie Meynard 57,100
    59 Mark Demuth 56,700
    60 Dominique Morin 55,000
    61 Philippe Drouin 55,000
    62 Alain Couture 54,200
    63 Vanessa D'souza 53,400
    64 Michael Chaloux 53,000
    65 Luciano Iacovella 51,600
    66 Hugo Fontaine 50,000
    67 Richard Bourgeois 49,800
    68 Pierre Gaudreau 49,600
    69 German Tamayo 49,200
    70 Marc-Andre Cote 49,200
    71 Yvan Waltzing 48,600
    72 Mike McCarthy 46,900
    73 Louis Lam 46,800
    74 Steve Fardy 46,600
    75 John Cronin 45,300
    76 Christophe Fracheboud 45,100
    77 Michel Beland 44,900
    78 Samuel Boissonneault 44,300
    79 David Boudreau 44,100
    80 Marc Andre Gagne 43,700
    81 Philippe Genequand 42,900
    82 Cristian Niculae 42,000
    83 Dominik Lavoie 40,900
    84 Gael Simonard 40,100
    85 Andrew Hum 38,700
    86 Maxime Benoit 36,000
    87 Patrick Mailloux 35,900
    88 Alexandre Belanger 35,700
    89 Jean-Francois Kirouac 35,000
    90 Yanick Ranzi 34,200
    91 Sylvain Gauthier 32,400
    92 Yannick Labattaglia 31,600
    93 Carlo Nini 31,000
    94 Sharron Patenaude 30,900
    95 Stephen Louden 30,000
    96 Daniel Germain 29,900
    97 Dino Cicora 29,500
    98 Sebastien Morin 28,600
    99 Ben Menache 28,500
    100 Michel Dessureault 28,100
    101 Jean-Guy Larosiliere 23,900
    102 Gerald Oleksiuk 23,700
    103 Giovanni Massa 20,400
    104 Marco Caza 18,300
    105 Jason Collins 18,200
    106 Steve Daraiche 17,900
    107 Danny Nguyen 16,900
    108 Chris Oleksiuk 16,400
    109 Serge Girard 13,300
    Filed Under: Event 1 - Day 1b Tagged With:

    Event 1 Day 1a – final chip counts

    2014/05/16 6:13pm by
    Tournament:

    Day 1a of Event 1 of the PokerStars Canada Cup started at 11am on May 16 and played through 13 half-hour levels before the remaining players bagged their chips to take to Day 2, on Sunday.

    Of the 237 players who started today, 56 remained at the end of the day.

    Rank First Name Last Name Chip Count
    1 Michael Pitcher 200,000
    2 Patrick Bernier 192,200
    3 David Garcia 169,700
    4 Mathieu Gariepy 159,000
    5 George Evans 149,800
    6 Michel Gramigna 137,500
    7 Martin Giguere 136,200
    8 Claude Comtois 136,000
    9 Leo Mantas Ragusa 131,400
    10 Nicola Merlo 129,700
    11 Jeffrey Bartlett 124,200
    12 Gilbert Ouellette 123,400
    13 Ren Zhe Jin 123,300
    14 Alek Stasiak 117,300
    15 Blake Tarbell 108,500
    16 Francis Mercier 107,400
    17 Vitaly Rimmer 98,900
    18 Dany Saba 97,500
    19 Maurice Simard 96,800
    20 Luc Morissette 90,900
    21 Sylvain Blais 90,600
    22 Nigsan Thavalosan 90,100
    23 Alexandre Morel 85,800
    24 Julien Giguere 84,900
    25 Salomon Ponte 84,100
    26 Pierre Gauthier 83,400
    27 Mark Fitzpatrick 81,800
    28 Aberdeen Parro 80,500
    29 Alain Rondeau 79,000
    30 Andre Pronovost 75,100
    31 Jordan Perlis 75,100
    32 Jean Yves Demers 73,600
    33 Mario Bourassa 70,300
    34 Michael Moussis 70,000
    35 Andrew Chen 69,900
    36 Eric Richer 67,700
    37 David Guay 64,200
    38 Lesley Amos 63,500
    39 Vincent Mimeault 63,500
    40 Travis Robertson 61,700
    41 Daniel Clairmont 58,500
    42 Mathieu Jawirnycki 58,500
    43 Said Michailidis 55,000
    44 Luc Ratelle 46,800
    45 Etienne Leduc 46,300
    46 Tristan Bernier 45,900
    47 Jessie Wheatley 40,200
    48 Simon Malenfant 39,600
    49 Jason Mottershead 39,100
    50 Matthew Brunskole 38,600
    51 Francois Cote 36,000
    52 Alexander Richmond 30,800
    53 William Perrault 29,800
    54 Alexandre Caron 23,800
    55 Remy Scalabrini 23,400
    56 Rong Xu 23,400
    Filed Under: Event 1 - Day 1a Tagged With:

    Last 6 hands

    2014/05/16 4:56pm by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 13
  • Small Blind: 1K
  • Big Blind: 2K
  • Ante: 300
  • Chip Average: 81.7K
  • Remaining: 58
  • Entries: 237


    • The TD called for tables to play 6 additional hands a few minutes ago, and once those are done players will bag up their chips. We’ll have final chip counts for the day shortly.

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