Canadian Grand Prix Day 1b | 2016 Playground Poker Club World Cup of Cards

09-02-2016 00:06 UTC-3

Registration Closed; 14 Advance to Day 2

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This evening's Day 1b field reached a total of 139 entries. The top 14 will move on to Day 2. Anyone unsuccessful will have nine more chance over the next two days to book their seat.

There is currently 96 players remaining.

09-01-2016 23:50 UTC-3

Player	Chips	Progress
Prosper Azoulay	97,000	97,000
Philippe Chikani	95,000
Eric Ranger	85,000	85,000
Daniel Golea	78,900
Mathieu Guindon	53,500

Player	Chips	Progress
Tina Howie	32,000
Kuoch Kuong	23,000
Grant Ellis	21,500	21,500
Spencer S	14,000
Carrie Webster	11,000	11,000

Level 3 Underway; 111 Remain

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With three more levels of late registration available, tonight's Day 1b has gathered a crowd of 117 players. There are 111 players remaining. The top 10% will qualify for Day 2.

09-01-2016 21:58 UTC-3

Day 1b of the $500,000 partypoker Canadian Grand Prix Kicks Off

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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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