Main Event Day 1c – final chip counts

Day 1c of the Main Event at the PokerStars Canada Cup had 288 total entries, and by the end of 10 levels of play, 131 players remained in the action. These players have all qualified for Day 2, which will start tomorrow (Sunday May 25th) at 11am.

Full results for all three starting flights and seating charts for Day 2 will be published in a few minutes.

Rank First Name Last Name Chip Count
1 Alex Cordero 244,400
2 Domenico Agatiello 227,500
3 Marcello Delgrasso 202,000
4 Francois Binette 192,200
5 Riyaz Abdulla 185,700
6 Jason Dean Ross 159,100
7 Hani Sawaf 140,400
8 Levon Dedeyan 133,100
9 Vincent Bellissimo 128,900
10 Robert Notkin 126,600
11 James Armstrong 122,400
12 Jonathan Driscoll 121,900
13 Eric Afriat 120,600
14 Jordan Westmorland 119,700
15 Frederick Laurin Fortin 118,400
16 Christopher McMahon 115,000
17 Setrak Suloukji 114,600
18 Amirmasoud Babakhani 113,600
19 Jiachen Gong 109,500
20 Johnny A Benehoutsos 106,900
21 Maxime Ouimet 106,900
22 Ottavio Tassone 106,300
23 Chang Whan Sohn 103,800
24 Nimer Ltaif 103,200
25 Danny Lauzon 103,100
26 Justin Miller 101,200
27 Jeffrey Gross 97,000
28 Medhat Ramzy 95,500
29 Robert Mcadam 95,100
30 Antonio Pace 94,100
31 Nicholas Petrina 93,300
32 Oliver Gergely 91,300
33 Maxime Laberge 88,300
34 Kaven Fontaine Bernier 86,900
35 Camille Godin 85,300
36 Derek Lerner 83,500
37 Thomas Popov 80,700
38 Said Michailidis 80,000
39 Thomas Lefort 78,200
40 Kieu Hoa Lam 77,600
41 Michael Malm 77,200
42 Chanracy Khun 77,000
43 Francis Labonte 72,400
44 Yizhe Zhang 71,500
45 Jonathan Poissant 70,300
46 Alemu Makonen 70,000
47 Samuel Louis Gagnon 69,000
48 Carlo Nini 68,600
49 Tam Ho 68,100
50 Ian Oshaugnessy 67,600
51 Alec Brandstatter 67,200
52 Joeygajan Ravinthan 64,900
53 Nick Nickoletopoulos 64,100
54 Maxime Theroux 63,600
55 Michael Mellor 60,400
56 Denis Cyr 60,300
57 Jonathan Theriault 60,000
58 Samuel Bisrat Tsehai 58,600
59 Gabriel Vezina 57,500
60 Martin Moral 57,100
61 Patrick Crivell 56,900
62 John S 56,000
63 Mario Lepine 55,700
64 Jonathan Roy 54,700
65 Viken Artinian 54,600
66 Alexander James Allison 53,700
67 Guillaume Rivet 53,500
68 Todd Sislev 53,100
69 Alexander Livingston 53,000
70 Erik Cajelais 53,000
71 Xin Qi 52,800
72 Patrick Braga 52,700
73 Andrew Graham 51,400
74 Ellis Polsky 50,400
75 Stephen Morris 49,800
76 Doug Degrace 49,300
77 Pascal Lefrancois 48,700
78 Marc-Andre Roy 48,100
79 Li Zhang 46,700
80 Wassim Boutros 46,600
81 Michael Watson 44,900
82 Wei Xu 44,800
83 Ryan Rivers 44,300
84 Kent Mosur 43,300
85 Stephen Smith 42,000
86 Felix Sides 41,500
87 David Ormsby 41,400
88 Ryan Hall 41,400
89 Michael Tremblay 41,200
90 Nektarios Papadedes 40,900
91 Anil Anand 40,200
92 Constantinos Psallidas 39,800
93 Theodore Doukas 39,500
94 Domenico Scalamogna 38,700
95 Alexender Wong 36,300
96 Jean Rene Lafleur 35,000
97 Thanh Phu 35,000
98 Matthew Leo Bracanovic 34,200
99 Alexandre Lavigne 33,300
100 Frederic Larose 33,300
101 Mike Saragossi 32,400
102 Steven Escobar 32,300
103 Waldemar Konieczny 31,700
104 Vincent Jacques 31,400
105 Arthur W 30,500
106 Cesidio Ricci 30,500
107 Daniel Ghionoiu 30,300
108 Davinder Sprann 30,100
109 Tom Kim Tien 30,000
110 Christopher Clisby 29,300
111 Tamer Alkamli 29,200
112 Jeffrey Cormier 29,100
113 Martin Rauss 29,100
114 Nicola Basile 28,200
115 Michael Korovine 26,500
116 Elizabeth Bennett-Martin 26,100
117 Sebastien Girard 25,200
118 Rong Xu 23,600
119 Elliot Smith 22,000
120 Marc-Olivier Carpentier-Perrault 20,600
121 Frederic Cossette 20,500
122 Raffi Don Dayian 20,100
123 Osman Soubra 19,600
124 Johnatan Morales 17,300
125 Timothy Vukson 17,200
126 Laurence Grondin 15,500
127 Mun Kyun Yim 13,700
128 James Morgan 13,300
129 Israel Pantaleon 12,400
130 Hugo Dumoulin 10,700
131 Tianshu Liu 5,800

Closing Tweets

Here are a few messages that appeared on our Twitter feed near the end of Day 1c:

5 hands to go

  • Level: 10
  • Small Blind: 500
  • Big Blind: 1K
  • Ante: 100
  • Chip Average: 64K
  • Remaining: 135
  • Entries: 288


  • Our TD Martin Roy has just announced that Day 1c will be over once all the tables have played 5 more hands. We’ve noticed a few players with stacks above the 200K mark, as we were expecting. Final chips counts of the day will be made available shortly, as will the seating assignments for Day 2.

    Last level of play

  • Level: 10
  • Small Blind: 500
  • Big Blind: 1K
  • Ante: 100
  • Chip Average: 56.1K
  • Remaining: 154
  • Entries: 288


  • Day 1c of the Main Event has just entered level 10, which is the last level of play for today. The players that remain at the end of this will bag their chips onto Day 2, which will begin tomorrow, Sunday May 25th, at 11am.

    Leaderboard going into level 9

  • Level: 9
  • Small Blind: 400
  • Big Blind: 800
  • Ante: 100
  • Chip Average: 49.1K
  • Remaining: 176
  • Entries: 288


  • We are back from the last break of the day, and Day 1c will be finished upon the completion of 2 more 1-hour levels. We’ve seen a lot of movement in chips in these last 2 levels, and and few players have sprung up way above the average. Given the amount of entries in this flight versus the two previous ones, we are expecting to see a lot more players finish the day with stacks upwards of 200K, although no one has reached that plateau yet. Here is an approximation of the top ten stacks we’ve come across:

    1. Marcello Delgrasso – 180K
    2. Francis Binette – 164K
    3. Levon Dedeyan – 148K
    4. Sebastien Girard – 137K
    5. Johnny A Benehoutsos – 135K
    6. Joeygajan Ravinthan – 132K
    7. Eric Afriat – 117K
    8. Medhat Ramzy – 103K
    9. Alex Cordero – 103K
    10. Riyaz Abdulla – 100K

    Level 8

  • Level: 8
  • Small Blind: 300
  • Big Blind: 600
  • Ante: 75
  • Chip Average: 44.8K
  • Remaining: 193
  • Entries: 288


  • Day 1c of the PokerStars Canada Cup Main Event is into it’s 8th level of the day, and players still have almost 3 hours left of play before bagging their chips onto Day 2.

    Dinner time chip counts

  • Level: 7
  • Small Blind: 250
  • Big Blind: 500
  • Ante: 75
  • Chip Average: 38.4K
  • Remaining: 224
  • Entries: 287


  • With the players on dinner break here in Day 1c of the PokerStars Canada Cup Main Event, we went around the room to estimate some chip counts. Here is what we found:

    Leaders

    1. Jason Dean Ross – 128K
    2. Steven Escobar – 102K
    3. Justin Miller – 100K
    4. Joeygajan Ravinthan – 93K
    5. Francois Binette – 93K

    Notable local players

    This is a list of local players who have either had big international results, or have run deep in events here at Playground Poker Club.

    • Pascal Lefrancois – 82K
    • Marc-Etienne McLaughlin – 37K
    • Ami Alibay – 21K
    • Philippe Boucher – 38K
    • Eric Afriat – 41K
    • Patrick Braga – 11K
    • Laurence Grondin – 46K
    • Derek Lerner – 28K
    • Jonathan Roy – 55K
    • Guillaume Rivet – 60K
    • Jonathan Driscoll – 81K
    • Chanracy Khun – 52K
    • Jonathan Poissant – 35K
    • Eric Cajelais – 22K

    Other players of note

    This is a list of international players who have either had big international results, or some deep runs at events here at Playground Poker Club.

    • Michael Watson – 51K
    • Andrew Graham – 52K
    • Ryan Hall – 26K
    • Sam Greenwood – 33K
    • Daniel Suied – 31K
    • Patrick Crivell – 29K
    • Timothy Adams – 45K
    • Sol Bergren – 5K
    • Buck Ramsay – 27K
    • Ricky Tang – 13K
    • Michael Malm – 30K
    • Amir Babakhani – 75K
    • Alexander Wong – 16K
    • David Baba – 31K

    Notable eliminations include the likes of Victor Ramdin and Barry Kruger.

    Party!

  • Level: 6
  • Small Blind: 200
  • Big Blind: 400
  • Ante: 50
  • Chip Average: 38K
  • Remaining: 225
  • Entries: 285


  • Tonight is the PokerStars Canada Cup Player’s party, being held here at The Rail from 9pm to 11pm (and continuing until ???) with a live DJ, hors d’oeuvres, and most importantly an Open Bar! Any PokerStars Canada Cup player is welcome – so come on out to the Club and join us at The Rail.

    Photo Update

  • Level: 6
  • Small Blind: 200
  • Big Blind: 400
  • Ante: 50
  • Chip Average: 36.1K
  • Remaining: 235
  • Entries: 283


  • Here are a few photos taken during level 5:

    Top stacks after 4 levels

  • Level: 5
  • Small Blind: 150
  • Big Blind: 300
  • Ante: 50
  • Chip Average: 33.8K
  • Remaining: 243
  • Entries: 274


  • The players are returning from their second break of the day, and the field is led by the following players:

    1. Jason Dean Ross – 114K
    2. Justin Miller – 85K
    3. Joeygajan Ravinthan – 84K
    4. Hani Sawaf – 82K
    5. Amir Babakhani – 81K
    6. Francois Binette – 80K
    7. Michael Watson – 78K

    Registration is up to 274 for the day, which means we still have over $300K in overlay for the time being! Late registration will remain open for another 2 hours and 45 minutes.

    Some notable eliminations leading up to this break include Mike Leah, Carla Sabini and Eric Despres.