Matthew Brunskole Dominates Day 1c of $1,100 Playground1000 $1M Guaranteed!
Day 1c of the $1,100 Playground1000 $1 Million Guaranteed event has come to an end, for the third of four live starting days.
Matthew Brunskole led the field for the majority of the day and never looked back. He bagged a whopping 659,700 chips, good for the top stack today and second overall going into Day 2, pending flight 1d tomorrow at Noon.
The next-biggest stack belongs to Rong Xu with 546,300. He is joined by Olivier Badeau (518,800), Giovanni Massa (514,700) and Shawn Daigle (490,500) to round out the top five stacks.
The day began with 100 players and the total number of entries quickly grew to 288 by the end of the night. Of those 288 entries, 40 were re-entries. A total of 150 players have advanced to Day 2 tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. local time, making up 339 players moving on between the online Day 1 and the three live Day 1's.
Notable players to advance from today's flight include Miguel Proulx (437,000), Tam Ho (408,200), 2010 WSOP Main Event Champion Jonathan Duhamel (308,500), Senthuran Vijayaratnam (306,500), David Guay (305,000), Peter Chien (256,000), Patrick St-Onge (170,100), Jean-Philippe Piquette (160,000), Carla Sabini (143,600), Said Michailidis (140,000), Cassidy Battikha (59,700) and Jason James (46,800).
While a little more than half of the field advanced, that leaves a good chunk that didn't. Familiar faces to hit the rail today included Jason Lavallee, Michael Korovine, Bob T, June Jenkins, Debra Holman, Pablo Mariz, Sylvain Siebert, Eric Afriat, Joe Tehan and Jean-Francois Bouchard.
The final flight kicks off tomorrow at noon and is a turbo, scheduled to complete within four hours. Day 2 will pick up at 5:00 p.m. tomorrow and PokerNews will be on the ground to see who can take it a step further to make it to Day 3.