Thomas Cemm Bags Chip Lead After Day 1 of $5k 8-Max Concludes
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Early Wednesday afternoon the largest buy-in of the 2017 World Cup of Cards kicked off as Event #19: $5K 8-Max took center stage. There were 30 hopefuls put up the $5,300 price tag to take a seat in the event. Thomas Cemm leads the pack of 18 survivors after 10 levels on Day 1.
Registration remained open all day and players took advantage of the unlimited re-entry event. When the clock was paused at the end of the night a total of 39 entries were received, nine of those being a second bullet.
The event sits just one entry away from meeting the $400,000 guarantee. Registration will remain open until the start of Day 2 so anyone failing to qualify this evening or unable to fire today will have a chance to dive in on Thursday.
Cemm mustered a mighty stack of 436,500 to claim the top spot. Leading for most of the day, Cemm won big pots off Dustin Melanson and Danny Boyaci, busting both players with pocket kings. Then Cemm picked up aces and busted Sam Chartier holding kings.
Following behind Cemm on the leaderboard were Parker Talbot (424,000), partypoker ambassador Kristen Bicknell (294,000), Jean Christophe Ferreira (285,000), and Gary Lucci (278,000) who made the most out of a second bullet.
A few other players also needing a second bullet include Shaan Siddiqui (269,000), Thomas Lefort (261,000), Sam Chartier (239,500), David Ormsby (163,000), Pascal Lefrancois (125,000), and Francois Billard (86,500).
Dustin Melanson, Jonathan Marrie, Matthew Wilkins, Pierre Paulin, and Danny Boyaci all took part but found the exit before day's end. Each will have the option of reloading in the morning before Day 2 kicks off.
Day 2 will resume at 1 p.m. local time Thursday afternoon inside Playground Poker Club and continue until the latest WCC champion is crowned.
not changing much but Ghag hit a one-outter as the 
fell on the turn to take a lead. Chartier needed one of the two remaining queens to scoop the pot and that's just what the dealer delivered.
landed on the river and Chartier raked in the whole pot, sending both of his opponents to the rail.
, up against Lefrancois' 
.
and Lefrancois remained ahead, just needing to dodge an ace. Unfortunately for him, the 
hit the turn with the 
and Cemm led out for 55,000. Chartier thought about it and eventually moved all-in for 60,000 total. Cemm snap-called. 
for the ultimate pre-flop cooler. The turn was the 
and the river was the 
flop. The 
on the turn left Lefrancois drawing dead but for good measure, the 
and Lefort bet 15,000 this time. Siddiqui snap-called and Lefort tabled 
for a couple of busted draws. Siddiqui showed 
for a straight to the jack and raked in the pot.
and Lefort check-called a bet of 7,000 from Monarque. The turn was the 
and Lefort checked for the third and final time. Monarque asked to see how much Lefort had left, which was about 20,000. Eventually Monarque checked back. 
and Mariz checked to Bicknell who bet 3,500. Paulin folded and Mariz called. 
and Mariz led out for 20,600. Bicknell went into the tank and eventually tossed some chips in the middle to call. Mariz tabled 
