Day 1C in the Colossus got underway at 12:00pm today and has just now come to a close in the Tournament Hall. They played 14 40-minute levels today, as is the case in each of the Day 1s in the event (except Sunday’s Turbo flight), and once the final hand was completed on the day, just 27 players remained, each of whom has now qualified for Day 2 in the tournament.

The chip leaders on the day didn’t manage to amass a crazy stack like Jonathan Bussieres’ in last night’s flight, but there are 5 players over the 300K mark that will jump in to the Combined Results table easily within the top 15 overall. Among the leaders today were Lucas Braga, Andrew Kristoff, and Ian Joannette – the exact counts will be published a little later this evening on the Colossus Combined Day 1 Results page.

Congratulations to all who have made it to Day 2!

The Colossus Day 1C is approaching it’s final moments. The tournament director has announced that there will only be four hands to play. As expected, most of the players are trying to grab some extra chips in order to bag the biggest stack possible.

There is definitely some interesting play in the air, and we just witnessed a massive fold by Ian Joanette. Francesco Tatto went all-in pre-flop for 93,000 and everyone folded quickly to Lucas Braga who surprised everyone by shoving all-in on top for 234,000. No one was more surprised than Ian Joannette who thought long and hard before achingly saying “fold” and announcing he had pocket Jacks.

Relief flooded Joannette when the hands were tabled.

Lucas Braga:
Francesco Tatto:

The board of did not help Francesco, and Lucas added some important chips to his stack.

Michael Husted has taken the lead in Day 1C of the Colossus with just 2 levels left to play tonight. The entire top end of the leaderboard seems to consist of stacked players with experience in multi-day tournaments, and there are several players in the field who will feel that just under 2 levels is plenty of time to build up the stack they want to take to Day 2!

Dylan Maille-Thibault is a player that has had some success here at Playground Poker Club in the past, including a 3rd place finish in a $1.1K event here this past spring during. It looks like he’s working hard to set himself up for another deep run in the Colossus – He’s now up to over 240,000 in chips after eliminating Marc-David Vil when Vil called Dylan’s all-in bet on a flop.

Vil:
Maille-Thibault:

Dylan was way ahead and would stay there on the turn and river.

The players in Day 1C are now playing in level 10 of the 14 scheduled for today, and there are still 66 players still at the tables – which seems to indicate that the pace has slowed somewhat overall in this flight.

Simon Tremblay is still near the top of the leaderboard, but at the last break, Michael Malm and Philippe Binette had both surpassed his count.

There are now just 88 players left at the tables in Day 1C – the final total number of entries when registration closed was 230 (including 38 re-entries) – and play continues in level 8 with blinds at the 500/1,000 level with a button ante of 1,000. We recently surveyed the room to find the current leaders and found three players with more than double the chip average – and quite a few others with less than 100K, but not by very much.