Chip leaders into level 15

  • Level: 15
  • Small Blind: 1.5K
  • Big Blind: 3K
  • Ante: 500
  • Chip Average: 141K
  • Remaining: 123
  • Entries: 578


  • The Main Event has reached level 15 and the black T100 chips have been removed from play. Here are the chip leaders at this stage of the tournament.

    1. Jeremie Bilodeau – 500K
    2. Riyaz Abdullah – 412K
    3. Danny Boyaci – 397K
    4. Pascal Lefrançois – 395K
    5. Mathieu Boulanger-Vaugeois – 382K

    Some more eliminations

  • Level: 14
  • Small Blind: 1.2K
  • Big Blind: 2.4K
  • Ante: 400
  • Chip Average: 139.8K
  • Remaining: 124
  • Entries: 578


  • 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

    Piquette loses ugly

  • Level: 14
  • Small Blind: 1.2K
  • Big Blind: 2.4K
  • Ante: 400
  • Chip Average: 119.6K
  • Remaining: 145
  • Entries: 578


  • 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: 6 of Clubs 6 of Spades
    Maxime: Jack of Hearts Jack of Spades
    Jean-Philippe: Ace of Hearts Ace of Diamonds

    The flop was safe for the aces: 2 of Hearts 5 of Diamonds 3 of Clubs, as was the turn 7 of Spades. The river was a disaster though: 6 of Diamonds gave Chang a set and sent both Maxime and Jean-Philippe to the showers.

    Player updates

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

    Recently eliminated

  • Level: 13
  • Small Blind: 1K
  • Big Blind: 2K
  • Ante: 300
  • Chip Average: 107.7K
  • Remaining: 160
  • Entries: 578


  • 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

    Current chip leaders

  • Level: 13
  • Small Blind: 1K
  • Big Blind: 2K
  • Ante: 300
  • Chip Average: 97.4K
  • Remaining: 178
  • Entries: 578


  • 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

    The action on Twitter…

  • Level: 12
  • Small Blind: 800
  • Big Blind: 1.6K
  • Ante: 200
  • Chip Average: 95.3K
  • Remaining: 182
  • Entries: 578


  • 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…

    First level of the day

  • Level: 12
  • Small Blind: 800
  • Big Blind: 1.6K
  • Ante: 200
  • Chip Average: 86.7K
  • Remaining: 202
  • Entries: 578


  • 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.

    Level 11 photos

  • Level: 12
  • Small Blind: 800
  • Big Blind: 1.6K
  • Ante: 200
  • Chip Average: 80.7K
  • Remaining: 215
  • Entries: 578


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

    Live stream of the PokerStars Canada Cup!

  • Level: 11
  • Small Blind: 600
  • Big Blind: 1.2K
  • Ante: 200
  • Chip Average: 75.4K
  • Remaining: 230
  • Entries: 578


  • There will be a live stream of the Main Event of the PokerStars Canada Cup from today until the end of the event. The English commentary is being provided by James Hartigan and Joe Stapleton, while French coverage is being provided by Dominic Fugère from RDS alongside Philippe Jetté (from Prince Poker) and – if she is eliminated from the event – Laurence Grondin.

    For the English stream, you can view it embedded here on the Events Blog or via PokerStars.tv.

    For the French stream, you can view it at RDS Poker en direct or via PokerStars.tv.