A total of 34 players entered Event 4 of the PokerStars Canada Cup at Playground Poker Club. Event 4 is the $10,000 + $400 No Limit Hold’em High Roller Event. After 8 levels of play on Day 1 today just 20 players remain and will return for Day 2 at 1pm tomorrow (Wednesday May 22). This is the seating chart for Day 2 including the chip counts each player bagged up at the end of Day 1.

Our TD Martin Roy has just made the announcement that Day 1 of Event 4 will conclude after each table has played a total of 5 more hands.

Player chip counts as well as Day 2 seating assignments will be made available shortly.

As stated in the rules for Event 4 – High Roller, there was a full seating redraw with 24 players remaining. Here is what the new seating arrangements look like:

Table 62

1. Jean-Philippe Matte
2. David Dong Ming Yan
3. Jonathan Duhamel
4. Carlos Chadha
5. John Andress
6. Martin Rauss
7. Patrick Crivell
8. Marco Cannizzaro

Table 66

1. Jason Duval
2. Guillaume Rivet
3. Sylvain Siebert
4. Antoine Berube
5. Steven Silverman
6. Ami Alibay
7. Chanracy Khun
8. Kevin MacDonald

Table 70

1. Samuel Chartier
2. Nicholas Petrangelo
3. Jeffrey Rossiter
4. John Krpan
5. Timothy Adams
6. Lawrence Greenberg
7. Ankush Mandavia
8. Danny Lauzon

There is another seating redraw scheduled for when the field drops to 16 players, and for the final table of 9.

The players are now back from their 3rd break of the day and there were no last-minute registrations so the final tally stands at 34 players that started the event.

During the break we found the following 5 chip leaders. The situation hasn’t changed considerably since the last break, but that’s not to say that the action hasn’t been fierce.

1. Samuel Chartier – 100K
2. Sylvain Siebert – 100K
3. Marco Cannizzaro – 85K
4. Danny Lauzon – 78K
5. Jonathan Duhamel – 75K

4 levels have come and go in the High-Roller event, and a few players have managed separate themselves from the field. Here are the top 5 stacks at the moment:

1. Samuel Chartier – 85K
2. Jonathan Duhamel – 77K
3. Sylvain Siebert – 58K
4. Danny Lauzon – 55K
5. Timothy Adams – 54K

The High Roller tourney has just had its second elimination as Jeffrey Cormier raised all-in preflop with his small 2,475 chip stack and was called by Steven Silverman.

Jeffrey:
Steven:

There was no sweat on the flop of giving Steven quads and making the turn and river entirely meaningless (but – they were the and ).

In a hand just moments later, PokerStars online pro Marc-André Ladouceur was also eliminated from the event.

The attendance for Event 4 – $10,000 + $400 No Limit Hold’em High Roller – has climbed up to 33 players, with another two and a half hours left before the registration period closes. Only one player has hit the rail so far, as local Quebec pro Yann Dion was eliminated before the first break.

Here is an album of the players currently playing in this event:

Patrick Crivell

Jordan Westmorland

Steven Silverman

Sylvain Siebert

David Peters

Guillaume Rivet

Jean-Philippe Matte

Nicholas Petrangelo

Philippe D'Auteuil

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Two hours of play have elapsed and players are about to take their first short break of the day. Note that unlike many tournaments at Playground, late registration continues beyond the first break in this event.

So far there are 28 players who have taken their seats with more rumoured (on Twitter and elsewhere) to be on their way, so it’s shaping up to be a decent turnout.

Some photos of the early action in today’s Day 1 of Event 4, the High Roller event in the PokerStars Candada Cup.

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