Today’s number is 161

2014/05/23 8:16pm by
Tournament:
  • Level: 8
  • Small Blind: 300
  • Big Blind: 600
  • Ante: 75
  • Chip Average: 53.1K
  • Remaining: 91
  • Entries: 161


    • Today’s Day 1c of the Main Event of the PokerStars Canada Cup attracted a total of 161 players once late registration had closed at the end of the dinner break, and added to yesterday’s total of 129 for Day 1a, the event has had 290 total entries so far.

    Day 1c should be quite a bit larger than either Day 1a or 1b. As we’ve seen in the past, a large proportion of satellite winners prefer to play on the final day in a multi-flight tournament, and for many recreational players, a Saturday start is much more convenient than a weekday start.

    That being said, there’s still a chance there might be an overlay by the time the dust settles tomorrow, which means added value for everyone in the field. We’ve heard through the grapevine that there are some serious players living in Ottawa, Quebec City, and Toronto who are thinking about taking a drive tonight…

    Filed Under: Event 6 - Day 1b Tagged With:

    One more seat for 1c

    2014/05/23 6:23pm by

    One of the ways that players can get into big events like the PokerStars Canada Cup is simply by playing cash games! Once an hour (during specified hours), a player from among all of the cash players is selected to spin the Mega Wheel. They can win cash directly, but often players who spin the wheel win a raffle ticket into the upcoming big event.

    We drew the final raffle ticket for the Main Event of the PokerStars Canada Cup today, so that player will have a free ticket to play in Day 1c, tomorrow! We’ve never had a raffle winner make a deep run in an event, but you can bet that will be news as well!

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    Filed Under: PokerStars Canada Cup News

    Main Event Day 1a – final chip counts

    2014/05/22 11:13pm by
    Tournament:

    Day 1a of the Main Event of the PokerStars Canada Cup started at 11am on May 22 and played through 10 hour-long levels before the remaining players bagged their chips to take to Day 2, on Sunday. Of the 129 players who started today, 47 remained at the end of the day.

    Players who did not manage to qualify for Day 2 today may re-enter the tournament either (or both) tomorrow and/or Saturday.

    Rank First Name Last Name Chip Count
    1 Jeremy Thompson 260,000
    2 Marco Caza 191,400
    3 Marc Andre Ladouceur 174,400
    4 Steven Silverman 163,200
    5 Amer Sulaiman 158,800
    6 Gary Lucci 154,300
    7 William Molson 152,200
    8 Lucas Greenwood 150,000
    9 Pierre Guenette 149,000
    10 Danny Boyaci 135,200
    11 Johnny Mazzaferro 118,900
    12 Chaayanath Mysore 110,000
    13 Robert Perlaki 100,700
    14 Fuad Nasser 94,900
    15 Shawn Patrick Brien 91,500
    16 Paul Theodore Klann 85,800
    17 Robert Cohen 79,000
    18 Jonas Mackoff 78,800
    19 Carter Swidler 76,600
    20 Stephan Langevin 76,300
    21 Kevin MacDonald 72,300
    22 Jean-Philippe Piquette 71,200
    23 Jeremie Bilodeau 70,200
    24 Tomio Tran 70,000
    25 Viktor Leonov 69,000
    26 Daniel Dvoress 66,000
    27 Zennawi Petros 63,400
    28 Benoit Pesant 63,300
    29 Rich Caplan 59,700
    30 Andrew Chen 57,800
    31 Spencer Stacey 56,200
    32 Gurkiran Mangat 55,800
    33 Murad Khan 54,000
    34 Aki Votkin 45,000
    35 Daniel Denghel 43,300
    36 Jeffery Rossiter 42,000
    37 Ronald Laplante 40,200
    38 Jeffrey Dale Gross 39,100
    39 Alain Dion 38,000
    40 Claude Comtois 37,700
    41 Sasa Stancic 35,700
    42 Andrei Cristescu 25,600
    43 Jean-Philippe Matte 23,400
    44 Chris Back 19,200
    45 Thomas Thomas 17,500
    46 Ronald Eaton 17,300
    47 John Andress 16,800
    Filed Under: Event 6 - Day 1a Tagged With:

    Last level of Day 1a

    2014/05/22 10:28pm by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 10
  • Small Blind: 500
  • Big Blind: 1K
  • Ante: 100
  • Chip Average: 74.4K
  • Remaining: 52
  • Entries: 129


    • The players are well into level 10, which is the final level to be played in Day 1a of the PokerStars Canada Cup Main Event. After a gruelling 10 hours of poker there are just 52 players left in the action.

    There have been some big eliminations in the last level or so, but none bigger than Jonathan Duhamel, who tweeted about his experience:

    Other recent eliminations of note include Players Club member Chris “d0r1t0s” McClung and, perhaps ironically, the 1st and 2nd place finishers in the High Roller event that finished earlier today – Samuel Chartier and Ami Alibay – were both eliminated one after the other in the Main Event.

    Filed Under: Event 6 - Day 1a Tagged With:

    The twittersphere is abuzz…

    2014/05/22 8:55pm by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 9
  • Small Blind: 400
  • Big Blind: 800
  • Ante: 100
  • Chip Average: 56.9K
  • Remaining: 68
  • Entries: 129


    • One of the really great things about welcoming the poker world to Playground Poker Club is the fantastic reactions we get from so many players, from pros who travel the world to players who might be at their first big event.

    Here’s a sampling of tweets about Playground from the past day or so:

    Filed Under: Event 6 - Day 1a Tagged With:

    Day 1a dinner break

    2014/05/22 6:15pm by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 7
  • Small Blind: 250
  • Big Blind: 500
  • Ante: 75
  • Chip Average: 44.5K
  • Remaining: 87
  • Entries: 129


    • The players entered in Day 1a of the PokerStars Canada Cup Main Event have completed 6 levels of play and have settled into the 45 minute dinner break. As the players are enjoying a meal from the buffet provided, we toured the room to find out the leaders at this point in the day. (Chip counts approximate)

    1. Jonathan Duhamel – 138K
    2. Gary Lucci – 127K
    3. Kevin MacDonald – 127K
    4. Paul Klann – 115K
    5. Jeffrey Rossiter – 96K

    There are also several players in the 75K-85K range – by rough count, there are at least 12 hovering around that mark and poised to join the chip leaders with one or two good pots.

    Late registration ends at the end of this break (in another 20 minutes) but it doesn’t seem that there are too many waiting to register at the last minute.

    Filed Under: Event 6 - Day 1a Tagged With:

    Event 4 – Results & payouts

    2014/05/22 3:15pm by

    The High Roller event in the PokerStars Canada Cup, also known as Event 4, is a $10,000 + $400 No Limit Hold’em event held from May 20 to 22, 2014. There were 34 total entries in the event, which adds up to a prize pool of $329,800.00 which was distributed according to this payout table.

    Rank First Name Last Name Prize
    1 Samuel Chartier $122,050.00
    2 Ami Alibay $79,150.00
    3 David Dong Ming Yan $49,470.00
    4 Jonathan Duhamel $34,620.00
    5 Kevin MacDonald $24,730.00
    6 Timothy Adams $19,780.00
    Filed Under: PokerStars Canada Cup News, Event 4 - Results & Payouts

    The High Roller Champion: Samuel Chartier

    2014/05/22 2:59pm by
    Tournament:

    Heads-up action between Ami Alibay and Samuel Chartier was a relatively short affair, as Sam put in a dominating performance and he seemingly had an answer at every turn for anything Ami tried. By the final hand, the stack size had migrated from roughly 50-50 at the outset of 2-way action to about 80-20 in favour of Sam.

    The final hand, when it came, came very quickly. After a standard button raise from Ami, Sam pushed all-in and Ami quickly called.

    Sam: Ace of Diamonds Queen of Clubs
    Ami: Ace of Clubs 9 of Spades

    The flop had a little bit for each of them – and would have had more had one of them held any hearts: Queen of Hearts 8 of Hearts 9 of Hearts. The turn Ace of Spades and river 3 of Diamonds couldn’t give Ami any additional help, however, and he was eliminated in 2nd place.

    Event 4 - Last Hand of Heads-Up

     

    Event 4 High Roller Champion: Samuel Chartier, $122,050.00

    Event 4 Champion: Samuel Chartier

     

    Event 4 Champion: Samuel Chartier

    Filed Under: Event 4 - Day 3 Tagged With:

    2nd place: Ami Alibay

    2014/05/22 2:45pm by
    Tournament:

    Local poker player, nightclub owner, and DJ Ami Alibay has been eliminated in 2nd place in Event 4 of the PokerStars Canada Cup, a $10,000 + $400 No Limit Hold’em High Roller event. Ami played fantastic poker throughout the 3-day event and only fell heads-up after starting Day 3 in dominant fashion.

    Congratulations Ami!

    2nd place: Ami Alibay, $79,150.00

    Ami Alibay

    Filed Under: Event 4 - Day 3 Tagged With:

    Heads up action

    2014/05/22 2:07pm by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 19
  • Small Blind: 4K
  • Big Blind: 8K
  • Ante: 1K
  • Chip Average: 510K
  • Remaining: 2
  • Entries: 34


    • Ami Alibay and Samuel Chartier are the only two players left in the High Roller event and they have taken a short break before heads up action begins.

    Going into heads up play Ami is the chip leader with 529K in chips while Samuel is just a shade behind with 491K in chips. There has been some discussion of a deal but so far no agreement has been reached.

    Ami Alibay
    Ami Alibay

    Samuel Chartier
    Samuel Chartier

     

    Event 4 – Heads-Up Action 

    Event 4 - Heads-Up between Samuel Chartier (left) and Ami Alibay (right)

    Filed Under: Event 4 - Day 3 Tagged With: