The last level before the first break is underway and with today’s registrations, the accumulated buy-ins bring the total at $381,600. The Event’s overlay flavor is still very present. There is about 25 minutes left to the registration period, so make sure to grab a piece of the 500K cake!
This afternoon flight shatters the attendance record for Day 1s of the Grand Prix Canada. At level 5, with another 50 minutes to the late registration period, Day 1I has already welcomed 295 players! This brings the accumulated buy-ins at $377,200, which means that we are still a long way from the 500K guarantee boasted by the house.
Photographs of level 4:
It is only level 2 in Day 1I of the Grand Prix Canada, and already 229 players have registered! Late registration is open until 14h15, which is an hour and a half away, leaving plenty of time for you to hop over to Playground Poker Club and earn that Day 2 seat!
Saturday in the Montreal area is going to be cool and partially cloudy – a perfect day to play poker! And a lot of people will be doing just that, as the final live opportunities to qualify for Day 2 in the partypoker LIVE Grand Prix Canada come today at 12:00pm, 4:00pm, and 7:00pm, in addition to the final online Day 1 at 9:00pm tonight.
The tournament is still on track for an overlay on the $500,000 prize pool, as a total of 909 entries are required to make that half-million overall figure. Poker players are well acquainted with the value this represents – effectively, players will have a smaller field to navigate for the same prize pool, which is a relatively easier task for everyone!
For most players, today’s starting flights represent their last chance to navigate through the field to the final 10% and thus qualify for Day 2 – and book a $400 payday in the process. For others though – the 170+ who have already qualified for Day 2 – it’s an opportunity to qualify a second time and build up a larger stack for Day 2 AND book a second $400 payday. This is a best-stack forward tournament, and with the top 10 chip leaders having all passed the 640K mark, anyone who wants a shot at the big money prizes will put that count in the crosshairs and spend $220 to try and vault themselves to the top of the leaderboard.
There are just 5 players already in the “double stack” territory – players who have qualified twice for Day 2 and who have already booked $800 in cash. With quite a few players likely to be aiming to join them, today’s flights are sure to be as exciting as they are well-attended.
Good luck to everyone playing today! As usual, we’ll be following the action throughout the day to keep everyone up-to-date on the status of the Grand Prix Canada as the final Day 1s play out.
Another flight is over and done, and with a huge 281-player turnout, 29 players have secured themselves a spot in Day 2, collecting a $400 cash bonus along the way. Tomorrow will be the last day to participate in a starting flight to the Grand Prix Canada, and a total of 4 flights are scheduled. Playground Poker Club will host 3 of them, with live flights kicking off at 12pm, 4pm and 7pm. Players can also join into a 9pm online flight on partypoker.net, which will be the final flight. Day 2 will then take place on Sunday at 1pm, and all of the qualifiers will be reunited under one roof in the tournament hall at Playground to compete for their share of this $500,000 guaranteed prize-pool.
Leading up to Saturday’s flights, the combined total number of entries through 24 starting flights is of 1,591, which is still a ways from meeting the guarantee. Players might therefore be treated to some overlay if less than 909 more entries take place tomorrow, and who doesn’t like added value? Don’t miss out!
Tyler St-Clair bagged the biggest of the 29 stacks that qualified from Day 1H, and he will return to the felts with a towering 934,300 in chips. Only one player has managed to bag more chips that Tyler so far: Victor Artemenko, who ended his online flight with 990,000 chips. Given the larger field size, a number of other players also managed to end the night with more than healthy chip counts. Below are the end results from Day 1H of the Grand Prix Canada.
Follow this link to view the full list of players who qualified a stack onto Day 2.
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|
| Tyler | St-Clair | 934,300 |
| Olivier | Finlay Mercer-Smail | 795,500 |
| Gabor | Peteri | 640,000 |
| Denis | Quirion | 611,300 |
| Guillaume | Tremblay | 471,600 |
| David | Brillon | 424,200 |
| Bob | T | 360,100 |
| Jesse | Massicotte | 352,900 |
| Robert | Leboeuf | 292,300 |
| Anthony | Lamanna | 287,000 |
| Matthew | Hendler | 276,900 |
| Francois | Semaan | 264,700 |
| Claude | Dufresne | 230,800 |
| Chrishan | Sivasundaram | 218,400 |
| Patrick | Mailloux | 205,900 |
| Real | Cantin | 203,600 |
| Nicholas | Civitarese | 201,600 |
| Thibault | Delmarle | 197,500 |
| Pierre Andre | Prevost | 193,900 |
| Behrouz | Ghaedi | 192,800 |
| Denis | Giguere | 173,100 |
| Gary | Yeghiayan | 162,700 |
| Yann | Dushesneau | 162,600 |
| Nicolas | Basile | 160,700 |
| Andre | Perron | 148,000 |
| Danny | Rouleau | 134,900 |
| Colin | Scheckman | 84,400 |
| Austin | Lamanna | 53,500 |
| Arthur | W | 31,000 |
Players in Day 1H have completed 18 levels of play so far, and 44 remain as they play down to the final 29. Once the flight is completed, we will publish the final results of the flight, and add the counts to the Grand Prix Canada Day 1 combined results page.
Guillaume Tremblay (pictured) has taken over the chip lead at this stage of the night, and he holds a hair above half a million in chips. With 15 more eliminations needed to end the flight, we can expect to see a lot of chip movement in the levels to come. Below are the top counts entering level 19:
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|
| Guillaume | Tremblay | 500,400 |
| Kokulan | Jeyaseelan | 466,500 |
| Olivier | Finlay Mercer-Smail | 322,200 |
| Robert | Leboeuf | 315,500 |
| Bob | T | 277,000 |
| Jesse | Massicotte | 275,900 |
| Gary | Yeghiayan | 270,100 |
| Thibault | Delmarle | 254,100 |
| Nicholas | Civitarese | 249,900 |
| Behrouz | Ghaedi | 237,800 |