Day 1a of the Quantum No Limit Hold Em Tournament is in the Books, [Removed:105] Leads

The first event of a 28-event schedule at Playground Poker Room's World Cup of Cards has finished. There were 161 players all vying for the 13 Day 2 spots. In the end, Brent Mccue just missed Day 2 when he got all in preflop against Kathy Sawers with . Sawers had and held. She will enter Day 2 with 169,800.

Nick-Real Seide was eliminated just before Mccue after having the chip lead for a good portion of the day. [Removed:105] took over the chip lead and ended the day with 399,100, almost 100,000 ahead of Eric Ranger who finished with the second largest stack (301,900).

Day 2 will be Sept. 13th, but until then each of the players who cashed today can play one of the nine remaining starting flights. If they make Day 2 again, they forfeit their smaller stack and earn CAD $400 on top of the CAD $1,500 for the forfeited stack. Day 1b starts Saturday at 7 p.m. local time.

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Player	Chips	Progress
[Removed:105]	399,100	179,100
Eric Ranger	301,900	76,900
Aidan Quin	253,400	128,400
Alain Levesque	186,400	87,400
Kathy Sawers	169,800	59,800
Manfred Gunther	129,900	4,900
Alain Zarka	102,300	28,300
Alexandre Henry	99,600	-21,400
Albert N	95,600	-59,400
Andrew Boujaoude	90,600	39,600
Toufic Kamali	69,100	39,100
Christian Belanger	53,900	-20,100
Prosper Azoulay	51,700	-32,300