Canadian Grand Prix
Day 1c Started
Canadian Grand Prix
Day 1c Started
The World Cup of Cards (WCC) is really starting to ramp up with Day 1a of the partypoker Grand Prix Poker Tour $500,000 Guarantee. This is event #16 and this tournament sports the biggest guarantee of the WCC. It also has the lowest buy in, only $109.
Today's flight is just the third 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 are still plenty of chances for live players to match Stannard's stack, beginning with Day 1c at 10 a.m. This will be one of four starting flights today. 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 1c 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 earns 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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Day 1c of the partypoker Canadian Grand Prix $500,000 Guarantee has 75 entries so far.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Kathy Sawers |
31,500
31,500
|
31,500 |
Marie-Pier Simard | 25,200 | |
Adham Francis | 22,500 | |
Carrie Webster |
21,000
21,000
|
21,000 |
Normand Belair
|
21,000 | |
Dmytro Bilan
|
20,000 | |
Mical Lepage
|
19,400 | |
Tarek Hammoud
|
18,400 | |
Tony Stratopoulos
|
17,800 | |
Alexandre Omerson
|
17,600 | |
Andre Bildeau
|
16,600 | |
Charles La Boissonniere | 14,600 | |
Devon Graves | 9,800 |
About 30 minutes after the start of each live flight, there is an online flight on partypoker. The current online flight has six players and if you make it to Day 2, you are in the money.
The players can play the online flights at the table. Mike Stannard is the current chip leader through to Day 2 with 668,500 and he built that stack in one of the online flights.
Hope Stacey bubbled the Day 1a turbo flight of the Canadian Grand Prix. She is in the field again today hoping to improve on the near miss. She got all in with her last chips in the blind after a shorter stack quadrupled up one hand earlier.
She couldn't find a pair and was eliminated in 13th place in that flight.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Hope Stacey |
14,200
14,200
|
14,200 |
Level nine is about to begin and Kathy Sawers is sitting with over 60 big blinds.
Ronald Macdonald just won a good size pot without seeing a flop. Marco Simonetti and Sofiane Boulila had 1,800 in front of them and David Garcia made it 4,500 from the cutoff before Macdonald shoved all in for 21,700 and everyone folded.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Kathy Sawers |
72,400
40,900
|
40,900 |
Marcello Simonetti | 53,000 | |
Jean PIerre Gagnon
|
34,000 | |
Ronald Macdonald
|
30,200 | |
Sofiane Boulila | 24,200 | |
Isabelle Tremblay | 20,400 | |
Patrick M | 15,400 | |
Francis Alberto
|
12,800 | |
David Garcia | 10,600 | |
Nassim Kabbara | 5,400 |
Today's morning flight for the partypoker Canadian Grand Prix $500,000 Guarantee got 95 players. The final ten will bag and move on to Day 2 which starts at 1 p.m. Sunday.
There are currently 60 players remaining in this turbo flight.
Sofiane Boulila and Fouad Akli are the two of the biggest stacks remaining in Day 1c and they are sitting right next to each other.
Boulila extended his lead, beating Akli in a pot and then Akli busted Gagnon to regain some ground.
Hand #1:
Three players saw the flop for 4,000. The flop was and Boulila checked. Akli bet and Boulila was the only caller.
The turn was the and Boulila checked again. Akli bet 11,000 and Boulila called. The river was the and both players checkedd. Boulila showed for a flush and Akli mucked his hand.
Hand #2:
On the very next hand, Jean Pierre Gagnon went all in for about 10,800 and Boulila called. Then Akli raised to about 35,000 and Boulila folded. Akli had against the of Gagnon. The board ran out and Gagnon was eliminated.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Sofiane Boulila |
152,000
127,800
|
127,800 |
Fouad Akli
|
99,000 | |
Jean PIerre Gagnon
|
Busted |