Break!
The players are off on a 15-minute break with four levels now in the books.
The players are off on a 15-minute break with four levels now in the books.
Level: 5
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 50
Toronto, Canada's Lu Zhang now finds herself among the early leaders.
She managed to bust one short stack with versus , winning the classic flip by going runner-runner to make a flush.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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Lu Zhang | 72,000 |
2014 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown champ Eric Afriat called the clock on Boston's Tim Reilly as he pondered a post-river bet.
Reilly promptly shoved and Afriat called. Reilly then showed the nut flush and while he pushed up close to the top of the chip counts, Afriat mucked and hit the rail.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Tim Reilly | 80,000 | |
Eric Afriat | Busted | |
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Toronto's Quyen Dao was on the better end of a three-way cooler moments ago.
He got it in preflop with kings over queens and ace-king, holding on a run out to bust one foe and double through another.
Dao's now among the bigger stacks.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Quyen Dao | 60,000 |
Level: 6
Blinds: 200/400
Ante: 50
Below are updated counts for the current and early chip leaders:
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Marc Etienne McLaughlin |
140,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
Brian Wang
|
128,000
73,000
|
73,000 |
Lu Zhang |
81,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
Ari Engel |
70,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
Tim Reilly |
68,000
-12,000
|
-12,000 |
Quyen Dao |
65,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
Geoff McNeely
|
57,000
-12,000
|
-12,000 |
Angelo Cusinato |
49,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
Will Molson |
37,400
-12,000
|
-12,000 |
Jonathan Duhamel |
35,000
-7,000
|
-7,000 |
John Krpan |
33,000
-20,000
|
-20,000 |
Mike Yacoubain
|
30,000
-30,000
|
-30,000 |
On Episode 11 of the Remko Report, Dong Kim joined Remko Rinkema in Seoul, South Korea, to talk about the local culture, competing against the best heads-up players in the world, and much more.
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada's Sheraz Nasir finished 10th at the partypoker.net WPT Montreal main event the last time the WPT was here at Playground this past November.
Today he's back at it again and building a contending stack. Nasir picked up an early pot with aces, then stacked one opponent who shoved aces of his own into his flopped set of sixes.
As a result, Nasir now trails only chipleader Marc-Etienne McLaughlin at the top of the counts.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Sheraz Nasir | 139,000 | |
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Canadian Pro Mike Leah has been killing it over the past two years, with second place finishes in the 2015 WPT L.A Poker Classic and Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Main Event and a win in the World Series of Poker APAC $25,000 High Roller adding up to more than $2 million in live tournament earnings.
Now he's enjoying a little of the local hospitality in Quebec, one province over from his Ontario home.
Especially the part where one local paid him off with a set, failed to push him off top-pair top-kicker and eventually shipped it into his tens with a weak ace that failed to improve.
As a result, Leah finds himself among the leaders.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Mike Leah |
88,000
88,000
|
88,000 |
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