$1,100 Playground1000
Day 1c Completed
2017 Playground Poker Club and partypoker World Cup of Cards
$1,100 Playground1000
Day: 1c
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2017 Playground Poker Club and partypoker World Cup of Cards
Buy-in
1,100 CAD
Prize Pool
1,000,000 CAD
Entries
867
Level
34
Blinds
300,000 / 600,000
Ante
300,000
Matthew Brunskole Dominates Day 1c of $1,100 Playground1000 $1M Guaranteed!
Level 9
: 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
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.
End of Day 1c Chip Counts (full)
Level 9
: 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
659,700 | 184,700 |
|
546,300 | |
|
518,800 | 215,800 |
|
514,700 | 237,700 |
|
490,500 | 377,500 |
|
437,000 | |
|
426,500 | |
|
408,200 | 146,200 |
|
380,300 | |
|
|
376,300 | 63,300 |
|
373,000 | |
|
|
371,700 | 120,700 |
|
370,000 | 175,000 |
|
|
365,000 | |
|
|
359,600 | 197,600 |
|
|
359,600 | |
|
|
352,300 | 107,800 |
|
|
319,400 | -82,600 |
|
308,500 | 107,500 |
|
306,500 | 183,500 |
|
305,000 | -5,000 |
|
|
303,800 | |
|
298,400 | 198,400 |
|
|
282,700 | 52,700 |
|
|
282,500 | 19,500 |
Play Has Ended For the Night
Level 9
: 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Play has concluded for the night. A full list of chip counts and a recap will be available later tonight.
Four More Hands
Level 9
: 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Players are going to grind it out for four more hands before bagging for Day 2 tomorrow at 5:00 p.m!
Laberge Doubles Through Siebert
Level 9
: 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
We got to the table as Sylvain Siebert put in a three-bet to 26,500 from the small blind. Robert Laberge was in the big blind and moved all-in for 109,000. Siebert agonized for a couple of minutes but eventually called.
Robert Laberge: 
Sylvain Siebert: 
Laberge was at risk but ahead with two aces, up against Siebert's queens.
The board ran out 
and Laberge held for the double.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
235,000 | |
|
80,000 | -315,000 |
A Little Bit of Watermelon, A Whole Lot of Chips for Le
Level 9
: 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
A player in middle position raised to 5,000 and Joe Tehan three-bet to 14,000 from the hijack. Tony Phu Le, midway through eating his fruit plate, decided to cold-call from the cutoff. The middle-position player folded.
The flop came 
and Tehan paused for a moment before betting 7,800. Le finished another fork-full of fruit and raised it up to 20,000. Tehan called.
The turn was the 
and Tehan checked. Le finished his last piece of watermelon, put his fork down and moved all-in. Tehan folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
135,000 | |
|
55,000 |
Last Level of the Night
Level 9
: 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Players have taken their seats following the last break of the day and will play one more level before the night is up.
Level: 9
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 2,000
Last Break of the Day
Level 8
: 800/1,600, 1,600 ante
The remaining 177 players are on their last break for the day. They'll come back and play one more level before bagging for the night.
The total entries for today has climbed up to 279 already with 35 re-entries.