The second starting flight of Event #16: $500,000 partypoker Canadain Grand Prix has come to an end with 14 players remaining. Thursday evening's Day 1b attracted a field of 139 entries.
Leading the way at the end of play was Mathieu Massicotte-Lecompte, bagging a top stack of 627,500. Also sitting at the top of the leaderboard were Colin Scheckman (455,000), Anoop Jugurnath (278,500), Dylan Thibault (267,500), and Tina Howie (200,000).
A number of familiar faces around Playground took their shot this evening. A few failing to survive include Joey Boczek, Jonathan Bussieres, Kenneth Wigfield, Carrie Webster, and Grant Ellis.
Players will have nine more opportunities to qualify for Day 2, live at Playground. There are five starting flights on Friday, and another four on Saturday.
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The World Cup of Cards (WCC) is really starting to ramp up with Day 1b of the partypoker Grand Prix Poker Tour $500,000 Guarantee. This is Event #16 and sports the biggest guarantee of the WCC. It also has the lowest buy in, only $109.
Tonight's flight is the second of eleven live starting flights. There have been a ton of online Day 1 flights as well and 38 players have already qualified for Day 2. Mike Stannard is the big stack so far with 668,500.
There will be plenty of chances for live players to match Stannard's stack, beginning with Day 1b at 9 p.m. Tomorrow there are five Day 1 flights and four more on Saturday. The regular flights will have 20-minute levels and the turbo flights will have 15-minute levels. Each player will start with 20,000 and each starting flight play will continue until ten percent of the field remains. Day 1b is a turbo flight.
One of the unique elements of the GPPT is a "Golden Chip." The golden chip can be earned in a series of 1-cent online tournaments. The top five players from each of the tournaments earn a virtual golden chip. If a player with a virtual golden chip makes Day 2, they get a physical golden chip. Then any player who wins the tournament and has a golden chip adds $50,000 to their first place prize.
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