The closer just took a shot break. The event is shrinking rapidly, and now unfolds 8-handed on 6 tables. The field is led by Aleksander Stasiak who had an amazing time in the last couple of levels, surpassing the leading pack by 50%!
Here’s our current top 5:
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|
| Aleksander | Stasiak | 1,516,000 |
| Robert | Cheung | 1,182,000 |
| Samuel | Miranda | 1,131,000 |
| Allan | Barnes | 1,016,000 |
| James | Phanyansaeng | 1,010,000 |
We came across a hand that featured a 3-way all-in between Samuel Miranda, Darren Mcguire and Evgenii Tsatskin. We missed the exact preflop action, but know that the whole cards were shown before the flop:
Miranda: 
Mcguire: 
Tsatskin: 
Board: 
Although Tsatskin only had about 100K to his name before the hand, Miranda was very healthy with about 450K, and covered by a few chips by Mcguire. This hand created a new chip leader in Samuel Miranda, while Mcguire left the premises a couple of hands later.
A few big stack photos:
After two and a half hours of play, James Nortcliff shows the way in Day 2 of the Closer. His table was broken during the break, and his large stack was brought to table 20, causing a few frowns.
Here a look at the top 15 stacks:
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|
| James | Nortcliffe | 787,000 |
| Réjean | Bourgogne | 727,000 |
| Rami | Hammoud | 694,000 |
| Hai Ut Phuong | Le | 602,000 |
| Dave | Jeannot-Cyr | 564,000 |
| Michael | Mckinnon | 564,000 |
| Robert | Rose | 544,000 |
| Jun Francis | Ishii | 524,000 |
| Graham | Lupton | 498,000 |
| Frank | Szelepcsenyi | 496,000 |
| Robert | Cheung | 484,000 |
| Jean-François | M | 479,000 |
| Shailesh | Patel | 444,000 |
| Alex | Normandin | 443,000 |
| Richard | Breau | 423,000 |
After a very short hand-for-hand period, the Closer was sent in the money! All sitting players are now guaranteed $1,100 and gunning for the $50K top prize!
The bubble hand had a bit of spice to it, as it was orchestrated by Alex Normandin who pulled a brilliant bluff catcher against a very courageous Adil Morkos. Morkos had bet 40K on the turn, saving just under 100K for the river battle, and Normandin called.
Full board: 
On the river, Morkos took a minute, and shoved his remaining chips in the middle. Normandin tanked for a while, with a lot of spectators around the table waiting to be sent in the money. Normandin made the call, and the cards were revealed:
Morkos: 
Normandin: 
That was one gutsy bluff, and one bright call! Congratulations everybody!
The last day of a very successful WSOP-C Playground just got underway, with Day 2 of the Closer an the final and 4th day of the Main Event. For the conclusion of the Closer, 211 players assembled in the tournament hall and will play down to a winner tonight.
151 players get paid, or roughly three quarters of today’s starters. With 50K and another WSOP-C ring up top awaiting the winner, the competition will be fierce! The tournament director just announced “Shuffle up and deal!”, and cards are now in the air!
Stay tuned!
At 12:00pm today (September 3rd), Day 2 in the $300 + $30 Closer event in the 2018 WSOP-C Playground. 211 players will take to the tables for the restart. The following table is the official seating draw for Day 2.
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Seat | Siège | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthony | Griparic | Table 17 - Seat 1 | 153,000 |
| Richard | Breau | Table 17 - Seat 2 | 222,000 |
| Allan Scott | Barnes | Table 17 - Seat 3 | 145,500 |
| Michael | Ma | Table 17 - Seat 4 | 20,500 |
| Michael | Macdonell | Table 17 - Seat 5 | 71,000 |
| Simon | Belzile | Table 17 - Seat 6 | 153,500 |
| Prateek | Sachdeo | Table 17 - Seat 7 | 117,500 |
| James | Belanger | Table 17 - Seat 8 | 95,500 |
| Alexander | Matveev | Table 17 - Seat 9 | 93,500 |
| Adam | Peltier | Table 18 - Seat 1 | 46,000 |
| Lisa | Marshall | Table 18 - Seat 2 | 87,500 |
| Lorenzo | Di Chiazza | Table 18 - Seat 3 | 43,000 |
| Rabih | Aboudib | Table 18 - Seat 4 | 61,000 |
| Leon | Chiasson | Table 18 - Seat 5 | 105,500 |
| Jason | Mottershead | Table 18 - Seat 6 | 93,000 |
| Sylvain | Lessard | Table 18 - Seat 7 | 36,000 |
| Daniel | Cloggie | Table 18 - Seat 8 | 47,500 |
| Karahwase | Richmond | Table 18 - Seat 9 | 90,000 |
| Yannick | Labattaglia | Table 19 - Seat 1 | 131,000 |
| Adam | Hussen | Table 19 - Seat 2 | 58,000 |
| Jamie | Baker | Table 19 - Seat 3 | 146,000 |
| Joel | Moreau | Table 19 - Seat 4 | 38,500 |
| Yi Li | Yang | Table 19 - Seat 5 | 232,500 |
| Toby | Condo | Table 19 - Seat 6 | 43,000 |
| Murielle | Viau | Table 19 - Seat 7 | 41,000 |
| Ryan | Crane | Table 19 - Seat 8 | 110,000 |
| David | Phong | Table 19 - Seat 9 | 42,000 |
| Paul | Dalrymple | Table 20 - Seat 1 | 76,500 |
| Kenneth | Wigfield | Table 20 - Seat 2 | 105,500 |
| Peter Mark | White | Table 20 - Seat 3 | 14,000 |
| Terence | Flood | Table 20 - Seat 4 | 73,500 |
| Ryan | Boudreau | Table 20 - Seat 5 | 80,000 |
| Leon | Chiasson | Table 20 - Seat 6 | 94,000 |
| Robert | Cheung | Table 20 - Seat 7 | 111,500 |
| Daniel | Soussan | Table 20 - Seat 8 | 103,500 |
| Armand | King | Table 20 - Seat 9 | 55,000 |
| Cullen Adam | Dekker | Table 21 - Seat 1 | 138,500 |
| Stephane | Chartrand | Table 21 - Seat 2 | 47,500 |
| Yan | Dube | Table 21 - Seat 3 | 31,000 |
| Rajendra | Patel | Table 21 - Seat 4 | 311,500 |
| Jean Luc | Joseph | Table 21 - Seat 5 | 83,500 |
| James | Nortcliffe | Table 21 - Seat 6 | 183,000 |
| Maxime | Gauvreau-Paquette | Table 21 - Seat 7 | 71,500 |
| Aviva | Chepurny | Table 21 - Seat 8 | 113,500 |
| Jaime | Novak | Table 22 - Seat 1 | 136,500 |
| Lennix E | Lariviere | Table 22 - Seat 2 | 54,000 |
| Sasan | Mehrabian | Table 22 - Seat 3 | 193,000 |
| Christopher | Lau | Table 22 - Seat 4 | 41,000 |
| Rodolfo Dorival | Da Silva | Table 22 - Seat 5 | 143,500 |
| Louis | Mailhiot | Table 22 - Seat 6 | 124,000 |
| Francis | St-Jean | Table 22 - Seat 7 | 97,500 |
| Jason | Bigelow | Table 22 - Seat 8 | 78,500 |
| Sylvain | Ferreira | Table 22 - Seat 9 | 118,500 |
| James | Reinhart | Table 23 - Seat 1 | 178,000 |
| Khaly | Dang | Table 23 - Seat 2 | 32,000 |
| Trevor | Proch | Table 23 - Seat 3 | 77,000 |
| Majid | Janna | Table 23 - Seat 4 | 71,500 |
| Genia | Frenkel | Table 23 - Seat 5 | 40,000 |
| Scott B | Amisson | Table 23 - Seat 7 | 84,500 |
| Buu | Nguyen | Table 23 - Seat 8 | 38,500 |
| Bruce | Froom | Table 23 - Seat 9 | 37,500 |
| Robert | Gariepy | Table 24 - Seat 1 | 158,000 |
| Michael | Mccarthy | Table 24 - Seat 2 | 83,000 |
| Martin | Dufour | Table 24 - Seat 3 | 73,500 |
| Jordan | Rochon | Table 24 - Seat 4 | 72,000 |
| Michel | Leblanc | Table 24 - Seat 5 | 141,500 |
| Rami | Hammoud | Table 24 - Seat 6 | 555,000 |
| Francesco | Persechino | Table 24 - Seat 7 | 131,000 |
| Patrick | Corrigan | Table 24 - Seat 8 | 251,500 |
| Paul | Sokoloff | Table 24 - Seat 9 | 179,500 |
| Brent | Wajcman | Table 25 - Seat 1 | 89,000 |
| Riteshkumar Nitinkumar | Shah | Table 25 - Seat 2 | 139,500 |
| Ratharam | Sivagnanam | Table 25 - Seat 4 | 200,500 |
| Denis | Quirion | Table 25 - Seat 5 | 194,500 |
| Kyrylo | Golovan | Table 25 - Seat 6 | 141,000 |
| Sebastien | Roy | Table 25 - Seat 7 | 130,000 |
| Christopher | Mccray | Table 25 - Seat 8 | 74,500 |
| Alexandre | Tremblay | Table 25 - Seat 9 | 76,000 |
| Tomislav | Mitar | Table 26 - Seat 1 | 146,000 |
| Wayne | Ward | Table 26 - Seat 2 | 110,500 |
| Linda | Nguyen | Table 26 - Seat 3 | 94,000 |
| Vladislav | Gulii | Table 26 - Seat 4 | 66,000 |
| Julius | Roque | Table 26 - Seat 5 | 245,500 |
| Evgenii | Tsatskin | Table 26 - Seat 6 | 127,500 |
| Douglas | Suffel | Table 26 - Seat 7 | 78,000 |
| Alexandre | Gaudreau | Table 26 - Seat 8 | 93,000 |
| Sivajini | Kathiravelu | Table 26 - Seat 9 | 109,500 |
| Dean | Pitcher | Table 27 - Seat 1 | 89,000 |
| Jean-Francois | M | Table 27 - Seat 2 | 108,500 |
| Shane | Flewelling | Table 27 - Seat 3 | 89,500 |
| Langis | De Grand Pre | Table 27 - Seat 4 | 63,000 |
| Eleuterio | Guedes | Table 27 - Seat 5 | 56,500 |
| Noy | U | Table 27 - Seat 6 | 147,000 |
| Peter Joseph | Oneil | Table 27 - Seat 7 | 164,500 |
| Sergio | Reschetnikov | Table 27 - Seat 8 | 103,000 |
| Maximilian | Droege | Table 27 - Seat 9 | 189,500 |
| Linda | Huard | Table 28 - Seat 1 | 100,000 |
| Elias | El-Ghazal | Table 28 - Seat 2 | 82,000 |
| Gino Roland | Frenette | Table 28 - Seat 3 | 138,500 |
| Philippe | Belley | Table 28 - Seat 4 | 109,000 |
| Michelle | Davis | Table 28 - Seat 5 | 88,500 |
| Robert | Cohen | Table 28 - Seat 6 | 210,000 |
| Kofi | Hasford | Table 28 - Seat 7 | 72,500 |
| David | Brookshire | Table 28 - Seat 8 | 162,500 |
| James | Phanyasaeng | Table 28 - Seat 9 | 139,500 |
| Howard | Manning | Table 29 - Seat 1 | 39,000 |
| Daniel | Leddy | Table 29 - Seat 2 | 97,000 |
| Jun Francis | Ishii | Table 29 - Seat 3 | 285,500 |
| Larry | Mansfield | Table 29 - Seat 4 | 125,000 |
| Pino | Frascione | Table 29 - Seat 5 | 62,500 |
| Arnold | Yaxley | Table 29 - Seat 6 | 88,500 |
| William Cornelius | Johnston | Table 29 - Seat 7 | 132,500 |
| Giuseppe | Niro | Table 29 - Seat 8 | 84,500 |
| Aleksander | Stasiak | Table 29 - Seat 9 | 106,500 |
| Frank | Szelepcsenyi | Table 30 - Seat 1 | 158,500 |
| David-Alexander | Jimenez-Murcia | Table 30 - Seat 2 | 91,500 |
| Peter Brian | Pap | Table 30 - Seat 3 | 39,000 |
| Christophe | Joubert | Table 30 - Seat 4 | 90,000 |
| Giuseppe | Galluzzo | Table 30 - Seat 5 | 166,000 |
| Gregory | Baksic | Table 30 - Seat 6 | 41,500 |
| Emilio | Salvatore | Table 30 - Seat 7 | 209,000 |
| David | Bolduc Hamel | Table 30 - Seat 8 | 200,500 |
| Dave | Jeanneau-Cyr | Table 30 - Seat 9 | 291,000 |
| Kyle | Janisse | Table 31 - Seat 1 | 39,000 |
| Bonita | Mccann | Table 31 - Seat 2 | 165,500 |
| Steven | Martin | Table 31 - Seat 4 | 179,000 |
| Shawn | Daigle | Table 31 - Seat 5 | 88,500 |
| Michael | Hunter | Table 31 - Seat 6 | 59,000 |
| David | Lanthier | Table 31 - Seat 7 | 167,000 |
| Daniele | D'Agostino | Table 31 - Seat 8 | 89,000 |
| Matthew Richard | Cluff | Table 31 - Seat 9 | 282,500 |
| Irina | Tchakarova | Table 32 - Seat 1 | 86,000 |
| Jason | Clarke | Table 32 - Seat 2 | 83,000 |
| Lawrence | Radie | Table 32 - Seat 3 | 57,000 |
| Michael | Mckinnon | Table 32 - Seat 4 | 241,000 |
| Rejean | Bourgogne | Table 32 - Seat 5 | 355,500 |
| Mustafa | Hassanzada | Table 32 - Seat 6 | 100,000 |
| Gary | Farrell | Table 32 - Seat 7 | 470,000 |
| Laura | Farrell | Table 32 - Seat 8 | 69,500 |
| Pierre Olivier | Adam | Table 32 - Seat 9 | 360,000 |
| Ryan | Jensen | Table 33 - Seat 1 | 63,000 |
| David | Cadoch | Table 33 - Seat 2 | 68,000 |
| Graham | Lupton | Table 33 - Seat 3 | 278,000 |
| Matthew | Paplyk | Table 33 - Seat 4 | 112,500 |
| Timothy | Deering | Table 33 - Seat 5 | 25,500 |
| Shane | Brotherwood | Table 33 - Seat 6 | 72,000 |
| Terrence | Plagenz | Table 33 - Seat 7 | 70,500 |
| Daniel | Pepin | Table 33 - Seat 8 | 105,000 |
| Mitcheal | Ferguson | Table 33 - Seat 9 | 67,000 |
| Darren | Mcguire | Table 34 - Seat 1 | 166,000 |
| Ryan | Lashmar | Table 34 - Seat 2 | 140,500 |
| Samuel | Miranda | Table 34 - Seat 3 | 499,000 |
| Simon | Assouline | Table 34 - Seat 4 | 137,500 |
| Maxime | Marcouiller | Table 34 - Seat 5 | 78,500 |
| Giovanni | Massa | Table 34 - Seat 6 | 125,000 |
| Lily | Kornik | Table 34 - Seat 7 | 166,000 |
| Madonna | Mascoll | Table 34 - Seat 8 | 56,000 |
| Michael | Frattaroli | Table 34 - Seat 9 | 47,000 |
| Kevin | Bergeron | Table 35 - Seat 1 | 98,500 |
| Ian | Tang | Table 35 - Seat 2 | 99,500 |
| Vasco | Morgado | Table 35 - Seat 3 | 265,500 |
| Sebastien | Lepine | Table 35 - Seat 4 | 71,500 |
| Denis | Ward | Table 35 - Seat 5 | 168,000 |
| Robert | Brosseau | Table 35 - Seat 6 | 178,500 |
| Tyler | Brady | Table 35 - Seat 7 | 71,500 |
| Dylan Thimothy | Maille Thibault | Table 35 - Seat 8 | 121,500 |
| Martin | Borras | Table 35 - Seat 9 | 59,000 |
| Michael | Carrington | Table 36 - Seat 1 | 57,000 |
| Brigitte | Korak | Table 36 - Seat 2 | 103,000 |
| James | Pillon | Table 36 - Seat 3 | 174,500 |
| Robert | Rose | Table 36 - Seat 4 | 111,000 |
| Rotsi Ra | Mccomber | Table 36 - Seat 5 | 119,000 |
| Sophie | Bourassa | Table 36 - Seat 6 | 53,500 |
| Daniel | Thibodeau | Table 36 - Seat 7 | 43,500 |
| Francois | Gauthier | Table 36 - Seat 8 | 300,000 |
| Xuan Huy | Phan | Table 36 - Seat 9 | 152,000 |
| Elias | Traiforos | Table 37 - Seat 1 | 39,500 |
| Hai Ut Phuong | Le | Table 37 - Seat 2 | 719,000 |
| Maxime | Gosselin | Table 37 - Seat 3 | 81,500 |
| Joseph | Desveaux | Table 37 - Seat 4 | 105,000 |
| Joao | Fernandes | Table 37 - Seat 5 | 53,000 |
| Sebastien | Labbe | Table 37 - Seat 7 | 171,000 |
| Srinivas | Gottiparthi | Table 37 - Seat 8 | 78,000 |
| Jay | Srinivasan | Table 37 - Seat 9 | 150,000 |
| Nirvair | Sandhu | Table 38 - Seat 1 | 38,000 |
| Matthew | Wilkins | Table 38 - Seat 2 | 96,500 |
| Chi Tsun | Chan | Table 38 - Seat 3 | 80,000 |
| Vincenzo | Luca | Table 38 - Seat 4 | 102,000 |
| Terence | Caulcutt | Table 38 - Seat 5 | 126,000 |
| William | Hock | Table 38 - Seat 6 | 96,500 |
| Francois | Tarrab | Table 38 - Seat 7 | 217,000 |
| Rong | Xu | Table 38 - Seat 8 | 67,000 |
| Vsevolod | Malamud | Table 38 - Seat 9 | 116,500 |
| Grant | Ellis | Table 39 - Seat 1 | 136,000 |
| Alex | Normandin | Table 39 - Seat 2 | 139,000 |
| Adel | Mansour | Table 39 - Seat 3 | 106,000 |
| Shailesh | Patel | Table 39 - Seat 4 | 130,000 |
| Nicholas | Kypriotis | Table 39 - Seat 5 | 57,000 |
| Vera | G | Table 39 - Seat 6 | 65,000 |
| Olivier | Brossard | Table 39 - Seat 7 | 172,000 |
| John | Theofilopoulos | Table 39 - Seat 8 | 43,000 |
| Saleem | Delawalla | Table 39 - Seat 9 | 66,000 |
| Adil Atif | Morkos | Table 40 - Seat 1 | 95,000 |
| Jonathan | Clavet Grenier | Table 40 - Seat 2 | 60,000 |
| Marcello | Iacovella | Table 40 - Seat 3 | 167,000 |
| Sherif | El-Messiri | Table 40 - Seat 4 | 73,000 |
| Daniel | Mercier | Table 40 - Seat 5 | 45,000 |
| Ruslan | Bagirov | Table 40 - Seat 6 | 142,500 |
| Pauline | Briand | Table 40 - Seat 7 | 40,500 |
| Tom | Kim Tien | Table 40 - Seat 8 | 84,000 |
| Sergei | Gurin | Table 40 - Seat 9 | 52,500 |
