Canadian Grand Prix
Day 1h Started
2016 Playground Poker Club World Cup of Cards
Canadian Grand Prix
Day: 1h
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2016 Playground Poker Club World Cup of Cards
Buy-in
100 CAD
Prize Pool
500,000 CAD
Entries
3,341
Level
39
Blinds
800,000 / 160,000
Ante
200,000
Day 1h of partypoker Canadian Grand Prix Starts
Today is another busy day with four more live Day 1 flights 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 Day 1h flight is the eighth of eleven live starting flights. There have been a ton of online Day 1 flights as well and online flights are still starting 30 minutes after each live flight. Mike Stannard is the big stack so far with 668,500 qualifying from one of the earlier online flights.
There are still plenty of chances for live players to match Stannard's stack, beginning with Day 1i at 1 p.m. This will be the first 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 1h is a turbo flight with 15-minute levels.
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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155 Entries in Day 1h, 16 Will Advance
Day 1h drew 155 entries and 16 more players will advance to Day 2 from this flight. There are currently 88 players remaining.
Kathy Sawers at it Again
Kathy Sawers built a big stack yesterday and eventually bubbled Day 1c. Today she is in the field again and building another big stack. Yesterday she busted when she check-raised all in with second pair and Day 1c chip leader Esmail El Megharbel called with top pair.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
96,000
96,000
|
96,000 |
|
68,000 | |
|
27,200 | |
|
26,000
26,000
|
26,000 |
|
23,100
23,100
|
23,100 |
|
12,500
12,500
|
12,500 |
Mike Sexton Sends One To The Rail
Poker Hall of Famer Mike Sexton is one of the remaining 77 players in Day 1h. He was sitting a little over 50,000 before he knocked out Basil Armanazi. The two got all in preflop with Armanazi holding 
against the 
of Sexton.
Both players hit a pair on the flop, but Sexton would stay ahead and add about 20,000 to his stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
82,000 | |
|
||
Sawyers and Tam Out When Over Card Hits
Within a few minutes, both Kathy Sawers and Tam Ho got all in for their tournament lives ahead. They would both be eliminated by an ace.
First, Ho got all in against Dominique Prefontaine with against the . The board ran out low cards until the river when the 
hit and it was as though a needle poked Ho at that exact moment. Prefontaine made a quiet fist pump and then went back to his normally stoic demeanor.
Then, Sawers was all in with on a queen-flop. Ken Stutz was all in against her and hit an ace on the turn to go ahead of Sawers and stay ahead sending her to the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
158,000 | |
|
110,000 | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
Busted |
Weldon Ward Could Care Less
Weldon Ward bet the 
flop and Matthew Durand went all in and Ward hesitated for a second. Then he shrugged his shoulders.
"Alright let's do it," he said as he pushed his chips in.
Durand had a pair with 
against the of Ward. The turn was the 
, giving Ward a straight and the river didn't change a thing. Ward doubled up.
Someone seemed to question his move and he responded by saying he could always join the next flight.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
160,000 | |
|
33,000 |
Photos from Day 1h
Kevin Daily Knocks Out Mike Sexton
"Do I get like a hundred thousand dollars or something," Kevin Daily said as he eliminated Mike Sexton.
Sexton and Daily got all in preflop with pretty even stacks. Sexton was holding against the of Daily. Sexton failed to catch an ace or a king and Daily, who had him covered, won the hand.
Sexton will likely join one of the remaining flights today, the next one starts at 4 p.m. and there is another one at 7. He could also late register for the 1 p.m. flight.
Daily now has over 200,000 with 23 players remaining. The final 16 players will make Day 2.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
260,000 | |
|
|
Busted | |
|
|
||
Updated Counts
June Jenkins busted two players when she got pocket eights all in against two players. Her hand held and she stacked over 150,000.
The players are currently on break with 21 remaining. Just five more eliminations until the players bag for Day 2.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
267,000
267,000
|
267,000 |
|
|
232,000
72,000
|
72,000 |
|
|
180,000 | |
|
|
168,000 | |
|
162,000
162,000
|
162,000 |
|
125,000 | |
|
|
115,000 | |
|
107,000 | |
|
|
84,000 | |
|
|
84,000 | |
|
|
76,000 | |
|
|
75,000 | |
|
|
75,000 | |
|
|
60,000 | |
|
|
60,000 | |
|
|
56,000
56,000
|
56,000 |