Some notable players have hit the rail in the last level and a half. A break is coming in just 3 minutes and we’ll find the current chip leaders as tournament staff colours up and races off the black T100 chips.

• Eric Afriat
• Jason Duval
• Jean-Philippe Piquette
• Kevin Macphee
• Charles Alexandre Sylvestre
• Jeffrey Dale Gross

Busted the Canada Cup. Got shortish & got it in with KJhh on 653hh vs 9s in a 3 bet pot & bricked… at least I get to play #sundayfunday

— Kevin MacPhee (@KevinMacPhee) May 25, 2014

Players Club member Jean-Philippe Piquette has been eliminated from the tournament in a really ugly hand that also eliminated Maxime Laberge while giving a huge boost to Chang Hwan Sohn.

Dean Murphy opened the action in early position with a raise to 5K. Chang, sitting in seat 2, 3-bet a huge 44K, and Maxime (in seat 3) shoved over the top for what we would eventually learn was 78K. Jean-Philippe then insta-jammed his marginally larger stack (from seat 4) and it folded back around to Chang, who asked for counts of the all-in bets and then went in the tank.

Eventually his math told him that although he was sure he had the worst hand he had to call anyhow, and so he called.

Chang:
Maxime:
Jean-Philippe:

The flop was safe for the aces: , as was the turn . The river was a disaster though: gave Chang a set and sent both Maxime and Jean-Philippe to the showers.

A few players have been doing their own ‘live updates’ and keeping their rail informed via Twitter.

Triple up, j'ai maintenant 40bb! @PokerStars #CanadaCup

— Laurence Grondin (@LadyLuckPoker) May 25, 2014

So much for that. Ran bad, then shoved last 25k with 66 into CO raise and button call and CO had QQ. WSOP Friday.

— Ryan Hall (@RGHall) May 25, 2014

Boooooooommmmm 10k super short 8bb to almost 200k Pokerstars Canada cup main event day 2 @PLAYGROUNDPOKER

— AmiAlibay (@AmiAlibay) May 25, 2014

That was harsh. Just busted the #CanadaCup with AK vs AQ on a AT5J board for a 200k pot. #sadpuppy. Great event once again @PlaygroundPoker

— Patrick Braga (@BragaP) May 25, 2014

5bet got in AKcc vs KdKh for like 50effective vs oldish nit, prob will regret it in few days,thanks to @PlaygroundPoker for great tournament

— derek (@derek8poker) May 25, 2014

Things are going well at the @PokerStars #CanadaCup so far!!! pic.twitter.com/jpZflJedIE

— Jonathan Duhamel (@JonathanDuhamel) May 25, 2014

Boomshikiboom! Double up, 115,000. @PokerStars #CanadaCup

— Laurence Grondin (@LadyLuckPoker) May 25, 2014

Eliminations continue to come fast and furious and we’ve seen a lot of Playground regulars and frequent “big event” visitors as well:

• Derek Lerner
• Jonathan Roy
• Costa Psallidas
• Carlo Nini
• Setrak Suloukji
• Noy
• Ramzi Karam
• Andrew Graham
• David Ormsby
• Michael Malm
• Geoffrey Robert McNeely

Two 1-hour levels have passed us in Day 2 of the Main Event, and chips have been flying here as we’ve lost over 60 players so far. Here is the current leaderboard going into level 13:

1. Danny Boyaci – 322K
2. Riyaz Abdulla – 296K
3. Ankush Mandavia – 293K
4. Amer Sulaiman – 271K
5. Jean Francois Bouchard – 252K
6. Antonio Esfandiari – 235K
7. Mathieu Boulanger-Vaugeois – 223K
8. Jeremy Thompson – 210K

A lot of the players in the event have been active on Twitter in the opening levels of Day 2. Here’s a sample of some of the tweets…

Starting @PokerStars #CanadaCup Day 2 !! On the live stream table, check it out at pokerstars.tv !! #allin

— Jonathan Duhamel (@JonathanDuhamel) May 25, 2014

Playing day2 of @PlaygroundPoker #CanadaCup while meticulously obsessing over my @FantasyPoker WSOP 'All Events' team before todays deadline

— Kevin MacPhee (@KevinMacPhee) May 25, 2014

Day 2 of @PokerStars Canada Cup just started. 174K at 600-1200. Live stream available with @Stapes on #Pokernews

— Marc-Andre Ladouceur (@MarcAndre_FDawg) May 25, 2014

Day 2 of Pokerstars Canada club ,have 11bb need super luck @PlaygroundPoker

— AmiAlibay (@AmiAlibay) May 25, 2014

The players in the Main Event have completed the first level of the day (+ 15 mins) and the action is typically fast and furious to get things started. 240 players started today and there have already been 38 eliminations though Philippe “takechip” D’Auteuil is the only well-known player to have hit the rail.

We took a walk around the room in level 11 and snapped a few photographs. They can be found in the gallery below:

Jonathan Duhamel

Erik Cajelais

Michael Tremblay

Ronald Eaton

Ian Oashaugnessy

Nicholas Petrina

Marc-André Ladouceur

Vincent Bellissimo

Costantinos Psallidas

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The PokerStars Canada Cup Main Event continues today with Day 2 starting in a few short minutes. Of the 578 total entries, 240 have qualified through to Day 2, and all of them have their eye on that $366,660 top prize, which is accompanied by the beautiful PokerStar Canada Cup Champion’s Trophy!

The field is led by Jeremy Thompson (260K), and the leaderboard is riddled with poker legends and online sharks. Amongst the chip leaders you’ll find WSOP Bracelet winner (and WSOP-C ring winner, and SCOOP runner-up) Charles-Alexandre Sylvestre (222.2K), 2-time WPT Montreal final tableist Sylvain Siebert (174.8K), EPT High Roller Champion and PokerStars pro Marc-André Ladouceur (174.4K), #1 all-time money list Antonio Esfandiari (163.4K), EPT High Roller Champion and online phenomenon Steven Silverman (163.2K), WSOP Main Event Champion Jonathan Duhamel (157.9K). And these are just the big stacked players!

If you keep going down the leaderboard, you’ll find more talents, such as Will Molson (152.2K), Lucas Greenwood (150K), Kevin MacPhee (141.8K), Yann Dion (133.5K), Eric Afriat (120.6K), Derek Lerner (83.5K), Michael Malm (77.2K), Characy Khun (77K), Jonathan Roy (54.7K), Patrick Braga (52.7K), Pascal Lefrancois (48.7K), Michael Watson (44.9K), Tim Ulmer (42K), Jason Duval (41.8K), and Jeff Gross (39.1K), amongst others.

Needless to say that this is a very tough field! The schedule of the day is to play down to the money, which is at 72 players, unless 10 levels of 1-hour go by without reaching that point. There will be a 45-minute dinner break after 6 levels.

Good luck to our Day 2 players!