The sixth event of the World Cup of Cards is special at Playground Poker Club. Event #6: All-Stars for Starlight is a $150 no-limit hold'em tournament featuring a massive $100,000 guarantee. Over the next two days players will have four chances to qualify for Day 2.
Join NHL Hall of Famer and legend Larry Robinson from August 26th to 28th in the All-Stars for Starlight event. This is Big Event Poker at a price anyone can afford - and you'll do some good for the community while you play. The $25 tournament fee will be given as a charitable contribution to the Starlight Children's Foundation Canada.
Starlight Children’s Foundation Canada is a charitable organization dedicated to bringing laughter, joy and hope back into the lives of children with serious illnesses. For over 20 years, our in-hospital entertainment therapy and out-of-hospital fun family adventure programs have brought smiles to children when they need it most.
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The first of four flights in the All-Stars for Starlight Tournament began today at 11 p.m. local time. The CAD $160 buy in tournament has a CAD $100,000 Guarantee. The entire $25 taken from the prize pool goes to the Starlight Children's Foundation Canada.
This opening flight drew 136 players and there is another flight this evening at 7 p.m. There are currently 93 players remaining in the opening flight and Samuel Chaput is in the chip lead with 81,000.
John Young and Aein Moradi Zirkohi were heads up to the flop.
Young led for 2,000 and Zirkohi raised to 10,000. Young took about 30 seconds and shoved all in for 24,000. Zirkohi called and showed against the of Young.
The turn was the , giving Zirkohi the flush he was looking for and the river was the , which was no help to either player. Zirkohi won the hand and Young was left with under 10 big blinds.
Today was the first day of event #6 of the World Cup of Cards, The All-Stars for Starlight CAD $160 No Limit Hold em tournament.
There were 136 players in the field and Daniel Le bagged the chip lead (247,500) with 29 moving forward to Day 2. The All-Stars for Starlight tournament is a four-starting flight tournament with a CAD $100,000 guarantee with a morning and evening flight today and tomorrow before Day 2 Sunday.
Le shot to the chip lead very fast, adding around 200,000 chips to his stack in just about 15 minutes. He had better luck than Michael Bakeman, who held the chip lead during the middle part of the day, but was eliminated by Eric Shapiro (99,500) during the final hour of play.
Fraser Swidler (169,500), Robert Dagenais (168,000), Sameul Chaput (155,500), and Jason Bulman (129,000) round out the top five stacks heading to Day 2. The next flight is just getting under way and the remaining two flights will be tomorrow at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.
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, which was no help to either player. Zirkohi won the hand and Young was left with under 10 big blinds.
