Event #1: $300 + $30 Colossus | Page 8 of 24

Day 1I Updates

Level: 8
Small Blind: 500
Big Blind: 1K
Button Ante: 1K
Chip Average: 32.6K
Remaining: 152
Entries: 248

2018/08/26 | 22:29 by

Play in Day 1I continues unabated, with the first (and only) break set to come at the end of level 8. A quick survey of the room shows Gary Lucci in the lead with the only stack over 100K so far, though there are a few players hot on his heels – and there’s a long way to go!

There are also some new entrants to the tournament of note – in particular, Will Molson, Samuel Chartier and Mike Leah. It’s not often that you see players with $2.2M, $3M and $7.6M respectively in published live career earnings in a $330 buy-in tournament – it will be interesting to track their progress should they manage to qualify for Day 2 through this turbo flight.

Play continues now in level 8.

Day 1H on break – Mansour in the lead

Level: 7
Small Blind: 400
Big Blind: 800
Button Ante: 800
Chip Average: 44K
Remaining: 226
Entries: 502

2018/08/26 | 21:34 by Playground Poker

We are at the beginning of level 7 here in the tent, and the players just came back from break. The registration (and re-entry) period is now closed.

We’ve had quite a turnout for Day 1H: 502 entries, including 97 re-entries. We currently have 229 players still in the action. Some players with shorter stacks are keeping an eye on the clock, because they know they have until roughly 10:55pm, to register in the last Day 1 of this event. Day 1I has been running for 90 minutes and there are already 190 entries.

During the break we went through the Tent and found three chip leaders. Steve Mansour is the front-runner with a stack of 201,800 chips, almost 5 times the chip average.

The players settle in for the middle stretch of the tournament. This is when the players need to bring their A-game to the table in order to feed their stacks enough to last another 8 levels.

First Name \| Prénom	Last Name \| Nom	Stack \| Tapis
Steve	Mansour	201,800
Alexandre	Nadeau-Levesque	156,600
Eric	Grenier	114,000

Leaders deep in Day 1G

Level: 13
Small Blind: 1.5K
Big Blind: 3K
Button Ante: 3K
Chip Average: 118K
Remaining: 121
Entries: 712

2018/08/26 | 21:22 by

Play in Day 1G is now into level 13 and players have taken their last break of the day. During the break we were able to get counts of all of the top stacks at this point, and one thing we’ve found in this starting flight is that the leaderboard is a lot more consistent than in previous flights. Vasilios Gerontakos and Trevor Delaney have been near the top all day, and Louis Boutin and Keenen Smallwood have joined them for the past couple of levels if not more.

First Name \| Prénom	Last Name \| Nom	Stack \| Tapis
Trevor	Delaney	353,000
Vasilios	Gerontakos	328,500
Louis	Boutin	296,000
Keenen	Smallwood	282,500
Stephen	Hamilton	269,000
Yann	Prevost-Dumont	264,500
Mauro	Palmieri	258,000
Jermot	Ochoa	228,000
Luc	Lafontaine	222,500
Michel-Claude	Baroud	215,000

The Turbo is already into level 2

Level: 2
Small Blind: 100
Big Blind: 200
Button Ante: 200
Chip Average: 21K
Remaining: 133
Entries: 140

2018/08/26 | 20:39 by

There are 140 entries so far in the Turbo Day 1I in the Colossus, but more players keep arriving to take their final shots at a coveted spot in Day 2 in this event.

Here are a few photos of players in the event as the clock got started at 8:00pm.

The wonderful ladies of poker

Level: 5
Small Blind: 250
Big Blind: 500
Button Ante: 500
Chip Average: 34K
Remaining: 286
Entries: 487

2018/08/26 | 20:14 by Playground Poker

We are halfway in level 5 here in the Tournament Tent and the players are entering at a steady pace. We now have 286 players still playing out of 487 entries, including 90 re-entries, that were logged for this flight.

Players still have until 9:00pm to register in Day 1H, or elect to try their hand in the turbo Day 1I scheduled to start at 8:00pm.

We decided to shine a light on the beautiful ladies of poker. Don’t let their pretty eyes and soft demeanor fool you, they will take all your chips if you let them!

Next: the Turbo Day 1 flight

2018/08/26 | 19:46 by

Coming up next is the final starting flight in the $300 + $30 Colossus, set to get underway at 8:00pm tonight. This one is a little bit different than the starting flights so far – it’s a Turbo, which in this case means that the blind levels will be just 20 minutes in length.

The shorter blind level lengths tightens up the whole schedule – late registration will be open until the beginning of level 9, but that will be at 10:55pm, just under 3 hours after it begins, and the whole thing will wrap up at just after 1:00am – earlier even than the Day 1H flight currently underway in the Tent!

This is the last chance for players to qualify for Day 2 in the event, so we’re expecting it to be an action-packed flight… there won’t much of an opportunity for players to wait for something to happen!

Action gets underway in the Tournament Hall in 15 minutes – good luck to all.