Jason Conforti is still leading the flight, with 152 000 to his name. It seems like his whole table plays to his beats. Claude Comtois and Jean-Louis Thériault are not too far behind, enforcing the law on their respective tables.
Here is the top 5 at this point, formed by players with more than 100K:
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|
| Jason | Conforti | 152,000 |
| Claude | Comtois | 145,500 |
| Jean-Louis | Thériault | 129,500 |
| Laszlo | Kassa | 107,500 |
| Étienne | Guay | 103,000 |
Day 1E of the Grand Prix Canada Event is well underway, as just under half the field was sent to the cash games, or the Player’s Lounge. The tournament just shrunk to 4 tables, and some of our players are pushing 150K, which is triple the actual average!
We at playground Poker Club are very excited about the heavy action that is coming to us this week-end. The last Grand Prix Canada Day 1s will be held on Saturday, and as Day 2 unfolds, Sunday will also feature the first inner series Phase 1s for the partypoker Million North America. Be sure to be part of the thrill!
Photographs of levels 10-11:
The first break is now passed, and with it the end of late registration. A total of 79 players found their way to Playground Poker Club to compete in Day 1E of the Grand Prix Canada Event. This means that 8 players will qualify for Day 2. We will therefore form a final table, and play will go on until 2 finalists are eliminated.
After 6 levels of play, it is no surprise that Jason Conforti towers above the field, having built a 80K stack. The day is still young, but this player sure knows how to put chips to work!
Players are shooting chips in a relaxed fashion, in a tournament hall that displays the typical week-day afternoon calm… for the last time in this Event. Entries are building up nicely, having reached 75, with just under an hour left to late registration.
Photographs from level 3:
It’s a beautiful Thursday morning and the Grand Prix Canada continues to roll along, picking up steam as both Live and Online starting flights continue through Saturday. With the weekend quickly approaching, today’s Day 1 may be the last of the “relatively calm” Day 1s on the schedule as attendance figures are expected to ramp up significantly through Friday and then all day Saturday.
And ramp up it should, because with a $500,000 Guarantee, the Grand Prix Canada is about as big a tournament as possible for a low $200 + $20 buy-in. So far there have been 850 entries in the event, which means the prize pool is still in the Overlay Zone with over 1500 more entries needed to hit the guarantee.
Play in Day 1E begins in 35 minutes and players start with 30,000 tournament chips and play through 20 minute levels until 10% of the starting field on the day remains. This 10% (rounded up) will each make $400 for their efforts on the day and then bag up their stacks to return to play on Day 2. Remember, this is a next day re-entry event and players may attempt to qualify as many times as they like – and book a $400 prize for each time they manage to qualify for Day 2. On Day 2, a player who has qualified multiple times will keep their best stack to put into play.
Good luck to everyone today!
Another flight of the Grand Prix Canada is in the books as Day 1D has recently come to a close. Of the 131 that started the night, 14 players bagged a stack onto Day 2, collecting a prize of $400 along the way. They will join the other qualifiers on Sunday as they compete for the lion-share of the $500,000 guaranteed prize-pool.
The biggest stack of the flight belongs to Karim Abdelhamid, who turned his 30,000 starting stack into an impressive 747,200. This places him in the top 3 stacks overall thus far. Mathieu Ducharme (642,500) and Dominic Chagon (500,400) also broke the half a million mark. Below are the counts from Day 1D of the Grand Prix Canada.
Follow this link for a complete list of Day 2 qualifiers, from both live and online flights.
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|
| Karim | Abdelhamid | 747,200 |
| Mathieu | Ducharme | 642,500 |
| Dominic | Chagnon | 500,400 |
| Levon | Dedeyan | 340,700 |
| Marc | Guerbilsky | 323,900 |
| Franco | Sicondolfi | 283,700 |
| Ghislain | Bissonnette | 243,800 |
| Michel | Leblanc | 242,600 |
| Sofiane | Boulila | 158,300 |
| Natalya | Goldis | 156,200 |
| Nadir | Lalji | 105,200 |
| Daniel | Leduc | 82,100 |
| Brian | Morgan | 65,100 |
| Jean-Philippe | Leclerc | 31,000 |