There were a total of 195 entries in Day 1B, of which 20 players will advance to Day 2. The top finisher was Yannick Gouin, with an impressive 579,000 chip stack. The other stacks vary all the way down to 45,000, and with some skill mixed in with some luck, anyone can still run it up and make it to the final table.
Combined Day 1 qualifiers along with their chip stacks and seating positions will be posted later on tonight.
Here are photos of the qualifiers from Day 1B:
The chips have been moving back and forth over the last hour and we now have a new chip leader, Daniel Pepin, a regular Playground daily tournament grinder who is clearly ahead of the others and is the only player right now above 200k .
As play will continue today until the tournament is down to 20 players (10% of the field), there will continue to be some big swings and stacks are sure to keep changing.
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|
| Patrick | Boisvert | 218,400 |
| James | Maxwell | 163,500 |
| Tam | Ho | 145,000 |
| Andre | Faucher | 141,000 |
| Steven | Taylor | 135,500 |
| Vera | G. | 135,500 |
| Michael | McKinnon | 125,000 |
The action has been heating up as many of the players with shorter stacks have found that if they hit that spot where it is “now or never”, they have been shoving away, hoping for a badly needed double up.
Shelly Rapp took a lot of chips from Manolis Garoufalis, and as the dealer was sending the chips her way, a few of the chips fell behind, and the dealer had to make sure that all of them made it to her. She told the dealer “as long as you bring the chips my way, I really don’t care what happens on the journey”.
The next hand, Garoufalis finding himself with a big hit on hos stack, announced that he was “all in blind”. The player seated to his left, Marc Touloute, also then shoved his stack. Then Langis De Grand Pre, seated in late position, instantly announced that he was all in.
The hands were tabled:
Garoufalis: 
Touloute: 
De Grand Pre: 
De Grand Pre smashed the 
flop, and the 
turn and 
river were of no help to either of the shorter stacks, who’s tournament lives ended just like that.
With the chip average a little under 50k, we now have 4 players above 100k and another 5 who are hovering just below that. Dylan Thibault, who made a deep run a few days ago as well as many other deep runs here at Playground, has now climbed to the top of the pack. With hours of play left to go, anything can happen and it is still anyone’s game, so, stay tuned.
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|
| Dylan | Thibault | 120,100 |
| Sebastien | Dion | 115,400 |
| Marc Andre | Larouche | 99,800 |
| Gilbert | Charles | 97,100 |
| Dominik | Palys | 91,900 |
| Christopher | Doyle | 86,600 |
| Nicolas | Cimon | 83,400 |
Late registration is now closed, and the field has grown to a whopping 195 players (including 32 re-entries), putting a total of 3,900,000 chips into play this afternoon.
Only 1 player has managed to surpass the 100k mark; feeling relaxed after his massage at the table, Sebastien Dion leads the way with 101,300 chips.
Here is a list of our chip leaders in level 7:
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|
| Sebastien | Dion | 101,300 |
| Dominik | Palys | 95,300 |
| Diana | Shamshoun | 74,700 |
| Dylan | Thibault | 64,200 |
| Marc | Touloute | 61,600 |
| Nicolas | Cimon | 59,700 |
| Tam | Ho | 55,500 |
Arriving at table 36, Daniel Proulx had shoved his stack on the turn which put Rick Shamshoun deep into the tank. The board was really wet, 
, and, with all kinds of possibilities, after thinking it through, Rick decided to fold his hand.
Proulx showed his hand: AK, so Rick decided to show his hand too: Rick had AJ for flopped trip J’s, but inferior to the broadway straight that Proulx had turned.
Players are now heading into the 1st break of the day, so that means there is only 15 more minutes left to late register the tournament.
