Local poker phenom Samuel Chartier has taken over the lead in the Main Event with a stack of 4.77M chips, just ahead of Ben Underwood at 4.6M.
Play continues in level 25 with just 74 players remaining.
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|
| Samuel | Chartier | 4,770,000 |
| Benjamin | Underwood | 4,600,000 |
| Nghi Van | Tran | 4,330,000 |
| Mark | A | 4,030,000 |
| Yuan | Li | 3,825,000 |
| Maxime | Lejeune-Hebert | 3,650,000 |
| Chen | Turjeman | 3,100,000 |
The players in the Main event just took their first break of Day 3, and while they were away from the tables, we took the opportunity to put together a new leaderboard for the event, focusing on all players with stacks of greater than 2M in chips – double the average. The list was surprisingly long – but that’s what happens when players are eliminated relatively quickly on a tournament day – it leads to nice big stacks among the players who stay!
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|
| Cole | Neufeld | 3,461,000 |
| Duc To | Bui | 3,352,000 |
| Benjamin | Underwood | 2,560,000 |
| Frederick | Mowatt | 2,368,000 |
| Michael | Leblanc | 2,287,000 |
| Ranbir | More | 2,280,000 |
| Chen | Turjeman | 2,280,000 |
| Alon | Messica | 2,092,000 |
| Carter | Swidler | 2,069,000 |
| Anthony | Vacca | 2,038,000 |
The Main Event has been underway for just a single level, and there have already been 37 eliminations, taking the total number of players remaining down to 176 and no end in sight to the quick pace of play.
Here are some photos from level 21:
Beginning in just 15 minutes is Day 3 of the Main Event of the 2018 WSOP-C Playground. From the final tally of entries of 2,401, the tournament is now down to just 214 entries, and everyone is in the money (73 players have already cashed in the tourney). Play on Day 3 will again continue through 10 levels of 60 minutes each, and by the time the final cards are dealt today, the tournament should be withing striking distance of a final table.
The chip leader to start the day is Duc Tu Bui – a player who, like most of the rest of the top players by chip count today, spent most of Day 2 somewhat under the radar. He wasn’t part of any leaderboards during the day, and though he always seemed to have a decent stack to play, and only came to the front of the list during the last level yesterday evening. Benjamin Underwood had a similar trajectory, though in his case he benefited from a key double-up right before the bubble.
One player among the top stacks that had been there throughout the day is Michael Khan, who starts with 1.68M on Day 3. And looking to regain a spot near the top of the leaderboard today will be Eric Afriat and Noeung Troeung. Both of these players are master chip accumulators so it will be interesting to follow their journey today. Another player to watch today will be John Palmer. He spent most of the day on Day 2 with well under the average stack and it seemed like he might be content to tough it out to the bubble and take his cash. Instead, he begins Day 3 with a near top-10 stack.
Here are a few photos from the end of yesterday’s session featuring players we’ll see more of today.
When registration and re-entry closed on Day 2 of the Main Event in the 2018 WSOP-C Playground, there were 2,401 total entries, and at that time there were over 850 players still in the event. Over the next few levels that number went down all the way to the bubble at 238 players left and beyond into the money. By the end of 10 levels of play there were just 214 players left in the tournament, and they will return for Day 3 at 12:00pm on September 2nd.
There has been a full seating redraw, and when play resumes, the players will be seated according to the following table. Click or tap on a column heading to sort, or use the search box to find a name in the list.
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Seat | Siège | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ali | Brate | Table 17 - Seat 1 | 616,000 |
| Hal | Rotholz | Table 17 - Seat 2 | 386,000 |
| Adam | Peltier | Table 17 - Seat 3 | 419,000 |
| Michael | Noor | Table 17 - Seat 4 | 556,000 |
| Daniel | Gagne | Table 17 - Seat 5 | 242,000 |
| Nicholas | Rudochvilow | Table 17 - Seat 6 | 328,000 |
| Kevin | Lamothe Fournier | Table 17 - Seat 7 | 520,000 |
| Kenneth Paul | Hicks | Table 17 - Seat 8 | 545,000 |
| Richard | Mask | Table 18 - Seat 1 | 447,000 |
| Eric | Vanauken | Table 18 - Seat 2 | 520,000 |
| Claudemir | De Oliveira | Table 18 - Seat 3 | 350,000 |
| Harry | Chaimowiz | Table 18 - Seat 4 | 290,000 |
| Denis | Cyr | Table 18 - Seat 5 | 452,000 |
| Alexandre | Domitrovic | Table 18 - Seat 6 | 851,000 |
| Francis | Vallee | Table 18 - Seat 7 | 200,000 |
| Milad | Hak | Table 18 - Seat 8 | 564,000 |
| Jaered | Besse | Table 19 - Seat 1 | 603,000 |
| Malcom Harold | Fraser | Table 19 - Seat 2 | 532,000 |
| Gary | Lucci | Table 19 - Seat 3 | 1,422,000 |
| Danny | Park | Table 19 - Seat 4 | 724,000 |
| Michael | Neuber | Table 19 - Seat 5 | 484,000 |
| Corey | Waszynski | Table 19 - Seat 6 | 311,000 |
| Marc Stephen | Lopez | Table 19 - Seat 7 | 999,000 |
| Ottis | Mascoll | Table 19 - Seat 8 | 298,000 |
| Goran | Brestovac | Table 20 - Seat 1 | 561,000 |
| Bahman | Ataeianfar | Table 20 - Seat 3 | 571,000 |
| Daniel | L. | Table 20 - Seat 4 | 1,388,000 |
| Patrick | Huakam | Table 20 - Seat 5 | 228,000 |
| Bakai | Toichubekov | Table 20 - Seat 6 | 600,000 |
| Dov | Markowich | Table 20 - Seat 7 | 923,000 |
| Vasco | Morgado | Table 20 - Seat 8 | 271,000 |
| Philippe | Breault Raymond | Table 21 - Seat 1 | 246,000 |
| Oliver | Yue | Table 21 - Seat 2 | 269,000 |
| Walide Ahmed | Zazouh | Table 21 - Seat 3 | 654,000 |
| Danny A | Ibrahim | Table 21 - Seat 4 | 548,000 |
| Michael D | Brown | Table 21 - Seat 5 | 451,000 |
| Alim | Perales | Table 21 - Seat 6 | 392,000 |
| Mathieu | Caron | Table 21 - Seat 7 | 609,000 |
| Pierre | Poirier | Table 21 - Seat 8 | 222,000 |
| Sanjeepan | Sathasivam | Table 22 - Seat 1 | 562,000 |
| Mohammad Reza | Jonidi | Table 22 - Seat 2 | 555,000 |
| Mathieu | Ranger | Table 22 - Seat 3 | 230,000 |
| Michael | Tieu | Table 22 - Seat 4 | 536,000 |
| Sylvie | Lamoureux | Table 22 - Seat 5 | 747,000 |
| Patrick | Braga | Table 22 - Seat 6 | 1,023,000 |
| Sinisa | Kvrgnjas | Table 22 - Seat 7 | 804,000 |
| Alexandre | Henry | Table 22 - Seat 8 | 377,000 |
| Alexandre | Lavigne | Table 23 - Seat 1 | 340,000 |
| Anthony | Dalpra | Table 23 - Seat 2 | 986,000 |
| Gil | Levy | Table 23 - Seat 3 | 811,000 |
| George | Lagos | Table 23 - Seat 4 | 341,000 |
| Donovan Jeromy | Obrien | Table 23 - Seat 5 | 141,000 |
| Martin | Boisvert | Table 23 - Seat 6 | 520,000 |
| Michel | Leccese | Table 23 - Seat 7 | 201,000 |
| Ryan | Godson | Table 23 - Seat 8 | 322,000 |
| Jonathan | Bardier | Table 24 - Seat 1 | 503,000 |
| Rodney | Ramalho | Table 24 - Seat 2 | 565,000 |
| Alex | Fortin Demers | Table 24 - Seat 3 | 557,000 |
| Gary Allison | Irvine | Table 24 - Seat 4 | 538,000 |
| Alexandre | Chan | Table 24 - Seat 5 | 575,000 |
| Ryan | Andrade | Table 24 - Seat 6 | 450,000 |
| Samuel | Chartier | Table 24 - Seat 7 | 1,041,000 |
| J Drew H | Taylor | Table 24 - Seat 8 | 150,000 |
| Victor | Adams | Table 25 - Seat 1 | 160,000 |
| Mekhail | Mekhail | Table 25 - Seat 2 | 744,000 |
| Michael | Braden | Table 25 - Seat 3 | 475,000 |
| Jackob | Datashvili | Table 25 - Seat 4 | 568,000 |
| Leon | Chiasson | Table 25 - Seat 5 | 62,000 |
| Olivier | Rebello-Frechette | Table 25 - Seat 6 | 1,046,000 |
| Joel | Giguere | Table 25 - Seat 7 | 572,000 |
| Leroy | Pollack | Table 25 - Seat 8 | 383,000 |
| Jean Luc | Theaudiere | Table 26 - Seat 1 | 1,045,000 |
| Michael | Leblanc | Table 26 - Seat 2 | 269,000 |
| Shaner | Yo | Table 26 - Seat 3 | 411,000 |
| Dan | Edery | Table 26 - Seat 4 | 344,000 |
| Thanh Duc | Nguyen | Table 26 - Seat 5 | 787,000 |
| Alex | Sauriol | Table 26 - Seat 6 | 378,000 |
| Yuan | Li | Table 26 - Seat 7 | 1,892,000 |
| Michael | Benko | Table 26 - Seat 8 | 76,000 |
| Jeffrey Williams | Sarwer | Table 27 - Seat 1 | 213,000 |
| Kieu Hoa | Lam | Table 27 - Seat 2 | 484,000 |
| Ranbir | More | Table 27 - Seat 3 | 1,300,000 |
| Nathan | Hall | Table 27 - Seat 4 | 649,000 |
| Carmela | De Ciantis | Table 27 - Seat 5 | 757,000 |
| Michael | Golzman | Table 27 - Seat 6 | 557,000 |
| Maxime | Boulais | Table 27 - Seat 7 | 558,000 |
| Gabriel | Dt | Table 27 - Seat 8 | 500,000 |
| Barry | Kruger | Table 28 - Seat 1 | 656,000 |
| Eric | Bigras | Table 28 - Seat 2 | 1,376,000 |
| Daniel | Mackay | Table 28 - Seat 3 | 315,000 |
| Maxime | Lejeune Hebert | Table 28 - Seat 4 | 322,000 |
| Stephen | Caplan | Table 28 - Seat 5 | 625,000 |
| Ryan | Boudreau | Table 28 - Seat 6 | 758,000 |
| Ricky | Campanelli | Table 28 - Seat 7 | 211,000 |
| Denis | Giguere | Table 28 - Seat 8 | 417,000 |
| Andrea | Adorjan | Table 29 - Seat 1 | 441,000 |
| Steven | Martin | Table 29 - Seat 2 | 413,000 |
| Dany | Noel | Table 29 - Seat 3 | 804,000 |
| Amir | Babakhani | Table 29 - Seat 4 | 236,000 |
| Aaron Roy | Parsons | Table 29 - Seat 5 | 287,000 |
| Yann | Prevost-Dumont | Table 29 - Seat 6 | 880,000 |
| Carter | Swidler | Table 29 - Seat 7 | 647,000 |
| Vernon | Evoy | Table 29 - Seat 8 | 385,000 |
| Duc Tu | Bui | Table 30 - Seat 1 | 2,081,000 |
| James | Gibson | Table 30 - Seat 2 | 314,000 |
| Jonathan | Jessop | Table 30 - Seat 3 | 198,000 |
| Lawrence | Baslaw | Table 30 - Seat 4 | 580,000 |
| Sebastien | Gelinas | Table 30 - Seat 5 | 565,000 |
| Will | Failla | Table 30 - Seat 6 | 644,000 |
| Wing | Seto | Table 30 - Seat 7 | 625,000 |
| Brett | Apter | Table 30 - Seat 8 | 536,000 |
| Anthony Joseph | Vacca | Table 31 - Seat 1 | 1,800,000 |
| Elgert | Aaron Edward | Table 31 - Seat 2 | 122,000 |
| Angelo | Cusinato | Table 31 - Seat 3 | 206,000 |
| Jessie | Wheatley | Table 31 - Seat 4 | 1,036,000 |
| Timothy | Aube | Table 31 - Seat 5 | 475,000 |
| Timothy | Cavallin | Table 31 - Seat 6 | 893,000 |
| Shaun N | Scrymgeour | Table 31 - Seat 7 | 110,000 |
| Justin | Rabba | Table 31 - Seat 8 | 291,000 |
| Blaise | Googoo | Table 32 - Seat 1 | 293,000 |
| Andrew | Macdonald | Table 32 - Seat 2 | 254,000 |
| Daniel | Mercier | Table 32 - Seat 3 | 448,000 |
| Raffi | Nahabedian | Table 32 - Seat 5 | 416,000 |
| Steven | Chodjai | Table 32 - Seat 6 | 231,000 |
| Franco | Casarcia | Table 32 - Seat 7 | 205,000 |
| Nghi Van | Tran | Table 32 - Seat 8 | 401,400 |
| Joao Vitor | Petenel | Table 33 - Seat 1 | 1,102,000 |
| Daniel | Marsden | Table 33 - Seat 2 | 502,000 |
| Chrishan | Sivasundaram | Table 33 - Seat 3 | 530,000 |
| Alexander James | Allison | Table 33 - Seat 4 | 337,000 |
| Cole Spencer | Neufeld | Table 33 - Seat 5 | 1,829,000 |
| Laurence | Grondin | Table 33 - Seat 6 | 647,000 |
| Branden | Macinnis-Morris | Table 33 - Seat 7 | 511,000 |
| Matthew D | Gordon | Table 33 - Seat 8 | 408,000 |
| Long Hoang | Nguyen | Table 34 - Seat 1 | 144,000 |
| Dustin | Melanson | Table 34 - Seat 2 | 546,000 |
| Christian | Soucy | Table 34 - Seat 3 | 432,000 |
| Frederick | Mowatt | Table 34 - Seat 4 | 393,000 |
| Tam | Ho | Table 34 - Seat 5 | 175,000 |
| Julien | Perouse | Table 34 - Seat 6 | 317,000 |
| Alexandre | Nadeau-Levesque | Table 34 - Seat 7 | 313,000 |
| Sebastien | Labbe | Table 34 - Seat 8 | 212,000 |
| Maxime | Theroux | Table 35 - Seat 1 | 526,000 |
| Nikolaos | Alafogiannis | Table 35 - Seat 2 | 800,000 |
| Jishant | Sapra | Table 35 - Seat 3 | 361,000 |
| Eric | Afriat | Table 35 - Seat 4 | 763,000 |
| Bradley | Crispin | Table 35 - Seat 5 | 497,000 |
| Sam | Patel | Table 35 - Seat 6 | 495,000 |
| Muhammad | Abdel-Rahim | Table 35 - Seat 7 | 1,100,000 |
| Benoit | Theetge | Table 35 - Seat 8 | 397,000 |
| Joe | Skorija | Table 36 - Seat 1 | 238,000 |
| Maximilian | Droege | Table 36 - Seat 2 | 470,000 |
| Thundup | Ringpa | Table 36 - Seat 3 | 546,000 |
| Francois | Gauthier | Table 36 - Seat 4 | 996,000 |
| Eric Jc | Ylagan | Table 36 - Seat 5 | 359,000 |
| Duc Hung | Nguyen | Table 36 - Seat 6 | 820,000 |
| Maxim | Caron-Turcotte | Table 36 - Seat 7 | 464,000 |
| Alon | Messica | Table 36 - Seat 8 | 604,000 |
| Larry | Farr | Table 37 - Seat 1 | 273,000 |
| Sherif | El-Messiri | Table 37 - Seat 2 | 196,000 |
| Steve | Horic | Table 37 - Seat 3 | 791,000 |
| Noeung | Troeung | Table 37 - Seat 4 | 827,000 |
| Mike | Leah | Table 37 - Seat 5 | 369,000 |
| Alexandru | Baron | Table 37 - Seat 6 | 417,000 |
| Yan | Neiman | Table 37 - Seat 7 | 247,000 |
| Zheng-Yi | Xie | Table 37 - Seat 8 | 1,383,000 |
| Van Quang | Bui | Table 38 - Seat 1 | 534,000 |
| Piotr | Siwiec | Table 38 - Seat 2 | 124,000 |
| Sean | Vantassel | Table 38 - Seat 3 | 474,000 |
| Alexandre | Lajoie | Table 38 - Seat 4 | 317,000 |
| Yoann | Saubot | Table 38 - Seat 5 | 267,000 |
| Michael | Khan | Table 38 - Seat 6 | 1,680,000 |
| Frederic | Robert | Table 38 - Seat 7 | 94,000 |
| Glen | Gillis | Table 38 - Seat 8 | 378,000 |
| Robert | Courriere | Table 39 - Seat 1 | 362,000 |
| Harman | Jassal | Table 39 - Seat 2 | 937,000 |
| Weituoxin | Wu | Table 39 - Seat 3 | 638,000 |
| George | Parublev | Table 39 - Seat 4 | 248,000 |
| Adam | Hendrix | Table 39 - Seat 5 | 526,000 |
| Mathieu | Boucher | Table 39 - Seat 6 | 455,000 |
| Arthur | W | Table 39 - Seat 7 | 157,000 |
| Amin | Akhlaghi | Table 39 - Seat 8 | 511,000 |
| Said | Michailidis | Table 40 - Seat 1 | 220,000 |
| Stuart | Taylor | Table 40 - Seat 2 | 331,000 |
| Pablo | Mariz | Table 40 - Seat 3 | 688,000 |
| Kalpesh | Raichura | Table 40 - Seat 4 | 1,200,100 |
| Ami | Alibay | Table 40 - Seat 5 | 379,000 |
| Alexander | Rocha | Table 40 - Seat 6 | 283,000 |
| Martin | Charbonneau | Table 40 - Seat 7 | 92,000 |
| Noy | U | Table 40 - Seat 8 | 606,000 |
| Marc Etienne | Mclaughlin | Table 41 - Seat 1 | 460,000 |
| Bartosz R | Piotrowski | Table 41 - Seat 2 | 448,000 |
| John | Palmer | Table 41 - Seat 3 | 1,283,000 |
| Joshua | Abiscott | Table 41 - Seat 4 | 1,210,000 |
| Theo | Psihogios | Table 41 - Seat 5 | 216,000 |
| Obaidullah | Habibi | Table 41 - Seat 6 | 478,000 |
| Danny | Freitas | Table 41 - Seat 7 | 1,070,000 |
| David | Ormsby | Table 41 - Seat 8 | 351,000 |
| Chen | Turjeman | Table 42 - Seat 1 | 1,307,000 |
| Benjamin | Underwood | Table 42 - Seat 2 | 2,065,000 |
| James | Pillon | Table 42 - Seat 3 | 362,000 |
| Kofi | Hasford | Table 42 - Seat 4 | 719,000 |
| Jeffrey | Kostyniuk | Table 42 - Seat 5 | 291,000 |
| Raphael | Duval | Table 42 - Seat 6 | 198,000 |
| Mark | A | Table 42 - Seat 7 | 1,099,000 |
| Daniel | Chalifour | Table 42 - Seat 8 | 684,000 |
| Adam | Balog | Table 46 - Seat 1 | 330,000 |
| Dave | Kauffeldt | Table 46 - Seat 2 | 345,000 |
| Kevin | Stokes | Table 46 - Seat 3 | 78,000 |
| Raymond | Carter | Table 46 - Seat 4 | 630,000 |
| Joel | Thibeault | Table 46 - Seat 5 | 938,000 |
| Isabelle | Tremblay | Table 46 - Seat 6 | 458,000 |
| Isabelle | Simard | Table 46 - Seat 7 | 494,000 |
| Jason | Rivkin | Table 46 - Seat 8 | 714,000 |
