Event #8: $1,700 Main Event
Day 2 Started
Event #8: $1,700 Main Event
Day 2 Started
Table | Seat | Player | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | Christopher Nother | 74,000 | 7 |
1 | 2 | Thomas Demarinis | 159,000 | 16 |
1 | 3 | Yiqiang Xie | 46,000 | 5 |
1 | 4 | Spencer Mclean | 59,000 | 6 |
1 | 5 | Jean-Manuel Estrela | 393,000 | 39 |
1 | 6 | Justin Van Boxtel | 107,000 | 11 |
1 | 7 | Francois Billard | 242,000 | 24 |
1 | 8 | Philippe Beaudoin-Pellerin | 940,000 | 94 |
1 | 9 | Jean-Louis Cyr | 542,000 | 54 |
2 | 1 | Stephen Nahm | 396,000 | 40 |
2 | 2 | Medhat Ramzy | 633,000 | 63 |
2 | 3 | Evan Roth | 38,000 | 4 |
2 | 4 | Ruben Perceval | 663,000 | 66 |
2 | 5 | Oksana Kuznichenko | 197,000 | 20 |
2 | 6 | Michael Malouin | 310,000 | 31 |
2 | 7 | Mehdi Saeed | 93,000 | 9 |
2 | 8 | Tania Marie Stephan | 145,000 | 15 |
2 | 9 | Tony Wong | 194,000 | 19 |
3 | 1 | Nabil Karrass | 88,000 | 9 |
3 | 2 | Jordan Grant | 218,000 | 22 |
3 | 3 | Boyan Shi | 532,000 | 53 |
3 | 4 | Xing He | 915,000 | 92 |
3 | 5 | John Araujo | 139,000 | 14 |
3 | 6 | Derek Dufour | 690,000 | 69 |
3 | 7 | Johan Levyssohn | 226,000 | 23 |
3 | 8 | Sebastien Soares | 170,000 | 17 |
3 | 9 | Samuel Chartier | 107,000 | 11 |
4 | 1 | Massimo Romanelli | 340,000 | 34 |
4 | 2 | Ryan Lelinowski | 90,000 | 9 |
4 | 3 | James Bernard Sullivan | 184,000 | 18 |
4 | 4 | Khaly Dang | 945,000 | 95 |
4 | 5 | Mickael Thomas | 178,000 | 18 |
4 | 6 | Oleg Boulchyi | 537,000 | 54 |
4 | 7 | Brian Morgan | 44,000 | 4 |
4 | 8 | Darryl Chopra | 267,000 | 27 |
4 | 9 | Eric Leblond | 291,000 | 29 |
5 | 1 | Maurizio Lo Russo | 228,000 | 23 |
5 | 2 | Joey Messina | 273,000 | 27 |
5 | 3 | Dominic Staniscia | 32,000 | 3 |
5 | 4 | Fan Jia | 272,000 | 27 |
5 | 5 | Joshua Silverman | 207,000 | 21 |
5 | 6 | Anoop Jugurnath | 136,000 | 14 |
5 | 7 | Tarik Mazari | 1,330,000 | 133 |
5 | 8 | Achour Amhis | 142,000 | 14 |
5 | 9 | Shayne Khanna | 89,000 | 9 |
6 | 1 | Jason Blodgett | 585,000 | 59 |
6 | 2 | Malachy Hagan | 273,000 | 27 |
6 | 3 | Joseph Efford | 169,000 | 17 |
6 | 4 | Elie Kortbawi | 96,000 | 10 |
6 | 5 | Robert George Zend-Gabori | 514,000 | 51 |
6 | 6 | George James | 343,000 | 34 |
6 | 7 | Kieu Hoa Lam | 105,000 | 11 |
6 | 8 | Panagiotis Prahalis | 360,000 | 36 |
6 | 9 | Nghi Van Tran | 524,000 | 52 |
7 | 1 | Steven Richard Daoust | 130,000 | 13 |
7 | 2 | Lam Ho | 121,000 | 12 |
7 | 3 | Santiago Plante | 163,000 | 16 |
7 | 4 | Anthony Potis | 133,000 | 13 |
7 | 5 | Eli Cohen | 257,000 | 26 |
7 | 6 | Joseph Magdangal | 76,000 | 8 |
7 | 7 | Christopher John Di Giglio | 426,000 | 43 |
7 | 8 | Eric Miron | 258,000 | 26 |
7 | 9 | David Bolduc Hamel | 211,000 | 21 |
8 | 1 | Samuel Roussy-Majeau | 360,000 | 36 |
8 | 2 | Shawn Daigle | 437,000 | 44 |
8 | 3 | Ryan Smith | 233,000 | 23 |
8 | 4 | Shane Brotherwood | 105,000 | 11 |
8 | 5 | Xinwei Jiang | 56,000 | 6 |
8 | 6 | Jubin Joy | 254,000 | 25 |
8 | 7 | Georgi Tsikarisvili | 122,000 | 12 |
8 | 8 | Evan Sparling | 257,000 | 26 |
8 | 9 | Jean Francois Alexandre | 93,000 | 9 |
9 | 1 | Rafik Zouaghi | 443,000 | 44 |
9 | 2 | Abrahim Wadhai | 160,000 | 16 |
9 | 3 | Seth Nuhn Jordan | 84,000 | 8 |
9 | 4 | Daniel Lefebvre | 80,000 | 8 |
9 | 5 | Dave Graham | 130,000 | 13 |
9 | 6 | Johnson Phanyaseng | 227,000 | 23 |
9 | 7 | Ara Asatoorian | 78,000 | 8 |
9 | 8 | Wangchao Yuan | 432,000 | 43 |
9 | 9 | Jaered Besse | 790,000 | 79 |
10 | 1 | Jean-Francois Levesque | 41,000 | 4 |
10 | 2 | James Lahey | 195,000 | 20 |
10 | 3 | Antonio De La Cruz | 765,000 | 77 |
10 | 4 | Jean-Sebastien Roy | 156,000 | 16 |
10 | 5 | Vineet Puri | 147,000 | 15 |
10 | 6 | Harpreet Singh Padda | 417,000 | 42 |
10 | 7 | Francis Beauregard | 364,000 | 36 |
10 | 8 | Stephen Driver | 110,000 | 11 |
10 | 9 | Richard Thomas Mullen | 208,000 | 21 |
11 | 1 | Jonathan Camara | 310,000 | 31 |
11 | 2 | Peter Raimondi | 174,000 | 17 |
11 | 3 | Jingzhe Cheng | 137,000 | 14 |
11 | 4 | Chanracy Khun | 329,000 | 33 |
11 | 5 | Azim Popatia | 299,000 | 30 |
11 | 6 | Aj Paleatsos | 200,000 | 20 |
11 | 7 | Matthew Alexander Ruby | 302,000 | 30 |
11 | 8 | Narveen Shembedasie | 373,000 | 37 |
11 | 9 | Chun Kit Kwan | 182,000 | 18 |
12 | 1 | Matthew Paplyk | 800,000 | 80 |
12 | 2 | Connor Joinson | 409,000 | 41 |
12 | 3 | Mario Lim | 152,000 | 15 |
12 | 4 | Sebastien Vezina | 359,000 | 36 |
12 | 5 | Graham Lupton | 194,000 | 19 |
12 | 6 | Zacharie Desautels | 121,000 | 12 |
12 | 7 | Jodie Dunfield | 346,000 | 35 |
12 | 8 | Gurpreet Singh Lubana | 82,000 | 8 |
12 | 9 | Adam J Posch | 250,000 | 25 |
13 | 1 | Maxime Gerard Gravel | 87,000 | 9 |
13 | 2 | Ran Yi | 628,000 | 63 |
13 | 3 | Charles Turnbull | 171,000 | 17 |
13 | 4 | Shaan Siddiqui | 428,000 | 43 |
13 | 5 | Vasilios Gerontakos | 242,000 | 24 |
13 | 6 | Benjamin Szwimer | 115,000 | 12 |
13 | 7 | Kurtis Ruhl | 128,000 | 13 |
13 | 8 | John Gumbley | 356,000 | 36 |
13 | 9 | Dakota Vandine | 137,000 | 14 |
14 | 1 | Jimmy Setna | 914,000 | 91 |
14 | 2 | Steven Paradis | 466,000 | 47 |
14 | 3 | Vadym Sienichkin | 806,000 | 81 |
14 | 4 | Carla Sabini | 124,000 | 12 |
14 | 5 | David Poirier | 159,000 | 16 |
14 | 6 | Alex Martel-Boiteux | 68,000 | 7 |
14 | 7 | Lucassie Andre Joamie | 32,000 | 3 |
14 | 8 | Drew Scott | 505,000 | 51 |
14 | 9 | Yannick Labattaglia | 164,000 | 16 |
15 | 1 | Leo H Gulliver | 21,000 | 2 |
15 | 2 | Christopher Marquis | 271,000 | 27 |
15 | 3 | Bradley Smith | 310,000 | 31 |
15 | 4 | Michael Mckinnon | 256,000 | 26 |
15 | 5 | William Alexander Molson | 207,000 | 21 |
15 | 6 | Richard Roth | 331,000 | 33 |
15 | 7 | Michael Porkolab | 232,000 | 23 |
15 | 8 | Stephane Blouin-Verroeulst | 236,000 | 24 |
15 | 9 | Kyle Hucker | 400,000 | 40 |
16 | 1 | Xin Qi | 96,000 | 10 |
16 | 2 | Israel Pantaleon | 356,000 | 36 |
16 | 3 | Joel Malo | 192,000 | 19 |
16 | 4 | Tooraj Etemad | 379,000 | 38 |
16 | 5 | Jean-Christophe Binette | 352,000 | 35 |
16 | 6 | Sundiata,S Devore | 410,000 | 41 |
16 | 7 | Rami Hammoud | 953,000 | 95 |
16 | 8 | Yuan Yuan Li | 218,000 | 22 |
16 | 9 | Michael Chappus | 88,000 | 9 |
17 | 1 | Pietro Lo Giudice | 530,000 | 53 |
17 | 2 | Sebastien Proulx | 490,000 | 49 |
17 | 3 | Stefan Siveski | 143,000 | 14 |
17 | 4 | Jinrong Zhang | 180,000 | 18 |
17 | 6 | Hugo Morrissette | 275,000 | 28 |
17 | 7 | Soufiane Bakas | 213,000 | 21 |
17 | 8 | Bradley Douglas Ellis | 132,000 | 13 |
17 | 9 | Yan Neiman | 97,000 | 10 |
18 | 1 | Khaled Aljoma | 784,000 | 78 |
18 | 2 | Timmy Vaillancourt | 81,000 | 8 |
18 | 3 | Per Hindrikes | 179,000 | 18 |
18 | 4 | Mounzer Awada | 448,000 | 45 |
18 | 5 | Gaetano Di Maria | 662,000 | 66 |
18 | 6 | Sechan Yoon | 195,000 | 20 |
18 | 7 | Griffin Benger | 153,000 | 15 |
18 | 8 | Jonathan Brazeau | 369,000 | 37 |
18 | 9 | Christopher Da Rocha | 523,000 | 52 |
19 | 1 | Derek Jonathan Van Lieshout | 214,000 | 21 |
19 | 2 | Jason Baker | 640,000 | 64 |
19 | 3 | Victor Adams | 356,000 | 36 |
19 | 4 | Adam Cader | 82,000 | 8 |
19 | 5 | Michel Dubreuil | 317,000 | 32 |
19 | 6 | Charanjeev Malhotra | 234,000 | 23 |
19 | 7 | Mohammad Feizi | 660,000 | 66 |
19 | 8 | Judy L Miller | 194,000 | 19 |
19 | 9 | Ryan Featherstone | 294,000 | 29 |
20 | 1 | Ali Awada | 298,000 | 30 |
20 | 2 | Dhiraj Sharma | 207,000 | 21 |
20 | 3 | Samuel Guillen | 461,000 | 46 |
20 | 5 | Fabio Luongo | 720,000 | 72 |
20 | 6 | Pascal Monarque | 122,000 | 12 |
20 | 7 | Terence Caulcutt | 151,000 | 15 |
20 | 8 | Steven Tripp | 204,000 | 20 |
20 | 9 | Michael Arcaro | 114,000 | 11 |
21 | 1 | Antonio Basile | 102,000 | 10 |
21 | 2 | Senthuran Vijayaratnam | 834,000 | 83 |
21 | 3 | Grant Ellis | 110,000 | 11 |
21 | 4 | Gabriel Croteau | 47,000 | 5 |
21 | 5 | Haider Afg | 509,000 | 51 |
21 | 6 | Philippe Breault Raymond | 498,000 | 50 |
21 | 7 | Thi Dao | 213,000 | 21 |
21 | 8 | Joel Moreau | 237,000 | 24 |
21 | 9 | Richard Catellier | 73,000 | 7 |
22 | 1 | Rodney Ramalho | 700,000 | 70 |
22 | 2 | Amarjit S Lail | 56,000 | 6 |
22 | 3 | Van Tam Ho | 508,000 | 51 |
22 | 4 | Patrick Atallah | 222,000 | 22 |
22 | 5 | Jeremi Lemaire | 274,000 | 27 |
22 | 6 | Yang Xu | 166,000 | 17 |
22 | 8 | David Valcourt-Dube | 202,000 | 20 |
22 | 9 | Andrew Delaney | 244,000 | 24 |
23 | 1 | Michael Khan | 102,000 | 10 |
23 | 2 | Marco Lang | 118,000 | 12 |
23 | 3 | Mike Leah | 526,000 | 53 |
23 | 4 | Jamie Sequeira | 215,000 | 22 |
23 | 5 | Mathieu Boucher | 137,000 | 14 |
23 | 6 | Jikai Zhang | 485,000 | 49 |
23 | 7 | Fadi Chamoun | 90,000 | 9 |
23 | 8 | Andres Campero Nunez | 252,000 | 25 |
23 | 9 | Thinh Bui | 110,000 | 11 |
24 | 1 | Steven Martin | 115,000 | 12 |
24 | 2 | Renmei Liu | 494,000 | 49 |
24 | 3 | Jonathan Gagnon-Villeneuve | 183,000 | 18 |
24 | 4 | Eliot Hudon | 222,000 | 22 |
24 | 5 | Derek Letourneau | 221,000 | 22 |
24 | 6 | Gregory Taylor | 460,000 | 46 |
24 | 7 | Sergei Gurin | 206,000 | 21 |
24 | 8 | Archimedes Arenas | 241,000 | 24 |
24 | 9 | Jean-Pascal Gauthier | 294,000 | 29 |
25 | 1 | Dustin Melanson | 497,000 | 50 |
25 | 2 | Seong Guan Teoh | 514,000 | 51 |
25 | 3 | Stephane Faure | 298,000 | 30 |
25 | 4 | Nektarios Papadedes | 83,000 | 8 |
25 | 5 | Duc Hung Nguyen | 171,000 | 17 |
25 | 6 | Devesh Thapar | 385,000 | 39 |
25 | 7 | Kyle Nevin Yun-Wing Ho | 578,000 | 58 |
25 | 8 | Robin Wezelenburg | 26,000 | 3 |
25 | 9 | Edouard Dupuis | 208,000 | 21 |
26 | 1 | Yair Ostritsky | 176,000 | 18 |
26 | 2 | Christopher Baoukian | 296,000 | 30 |
26 | 3 | Joshua Abiscott | 185,000 | 19 |
26 | 4 | Remy Beland | 148,000 | 15 |
26 | 5 | Mitchell Jacko | 230,000 | 23 |
26 | 6 | Qingwei Meng | 9,000 | 1 |
26 | 7 | Robert Wong | 498,000 | 50 |
26 | 8 | Akshat Verma | 257,000 | 26 |
26 | 9 | Benoit Coulombe | 155,000 | 16 |
TBD | Anthony Potis | 85,000 | 9 | |
TBD | Seth Nuhn Jordan | 49,000 | 5 |
Three flights up, three flights down. A combined total of 828 players took their shot across the three starting flights in Event #8: $1,700 No Limit Holdem Main Event at the World Series of Poker Playground. Today at 11 a.m. local time the remaining 131 players will return to battle through 10 hour-long levels in hopes of finding a bag so they can return on Day 3 to crown a champion. The Playground staff will be announcing how the $2,490,000 prize pool will be broken out before the start of the Day but for now, the returning players can rest easy knowing they have some pocket change locked up and are in the money.
Your current chip leader is Tarik Mazari with a huge stack of 1,330,000 which is almost a full 40 big blinds more than Rami Hammond who sits in second with 953,000. The chip leader from Day 1a, Khaly Dang, currently sits in third with 945,000. There are still plenty of other crushers hanging around to makes moves though. Local crusher Senthuran Vijayaratnam (834,0000) is healthy and will be a force, WSOP Main Event Final Tablaist Griffin Benger (153,000) found a bag, and Bracelet winner Mike Leah (526,000) will be a force on Day 2 with a very above-average stack.
The players will be making a move from the tent outside into the upstairs poker room on the third floor for Day 2 of the main. They will kick the day off at the 5,000/10,000/10,000 level and each one will now be bumped up to a full hour.
Place | Player | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
---|---|---|---|
1 | Tarik Mazari | 1,330,000 | 133 |
2 | Rami Hammoud | 953,000 | 95 |
3 | Khaly Dang | 945,000 | 95 |
4 | Philippe Beaudoin-Pellerin | 940,000 | 94 |
5 | Xing He | 915,000 | 92 |
6 | Jimmy Setna | 914,000 | 91 |
7 | Senthuran Vijayaratnam | 834,000 | 83 |
8 | Vadym Sienichkin | 806,000 | 81 |
9 | Matthew Paplyk | 800,000 | 80 |
10 | Jaered Besse | 790,000 | 79 |
Registration may be closed but in reality, the real tournament is just beginning. Day 2 is moving day and its about time the players move up, or move out. At the end of Level 27 only a select few players will be finding a bag for Day 3 and it won't be the ones who played timid on Day 2. Who will win the ring, the money, and the glory at Playground? By the end of Sunday, we will have a much clearer picture of who it could be.
Stay tuned to Pokernews for updates on this and many other events happening worldwide.
Level: 18
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
Cards are in the air for Day 2 of Event #8: $1,700 No Limit Holdem Main Event! Lock in!
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The final payouts are in! Players that returned for Day 2 are in the money and have locked up a minimum cash of $3,100.
They will be battling it out all the way to the $375,000 top prize!
Place | Prize (CAD) | Place | Prize (CAD) |
---|---|---|---|
1 | $375,000 | 28-36 | $7,500 |
2 | $250,000 | 37-45 | $6,800 |
3 | $181,600 | 46-54 | $6,300 |
4 | $140,000 | 55-63 | $5,800 |
5 | $105,000 | 64-72 | $5,400 |
6 | $82,500 | 73-81 | $5,000 |
7 | $65,000 | 82-90 | $4,700 |
8 | $50,000 | 91-99 | $4,500 |
9 | $35,000 | 100-108 | $4,300 |
10-12 | $25,000 | 109-117 | $4,100 |
13-15 | $19,000 | 118-135 | $3,900 |
16-18 | $13,500 | 136-153 | $3,700 |
19-21 | $10,300 | 154-171 | $3,500 |
22-24 | $9,200 | 172-198 | $3,300 |
25-27 | $8,300 | 199-234 | $3,100 |
The action folded to Bradley Smith in early position who took a moment and then moved all in for 129,000 and his tournament life. It then folded to William Alexander Molson in middle position who got a count and then flat called. The remaining players folded and the cards hit their backs.
Bradley Smith: A♣K♥
William Alexander Molson: 7♦7♥
The full board ran out 4♥K♠6♥10♥10♦ and with a king on the flop, Smith earned a pure double to give him some breathing room and about 25 bigs.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
William Alexander Molson
|
350,000
143,000
|
143,000 |
Bradley Smith |
260,000
229,000
|
229,000 |
|
The action folded to Benoit Coulombe in late position who opened to 20,000 before the action moved to Sebastian Vezina on the button who put in a three-bet to 65,000. It folded back to Coulombe who only took moment before moving all in. Vezina was holding a very similar stack and a call meant that the both players would be crippled of eliminated with a loss. He thought it through and opted to stick in the chips. It ended up being a flip.
Benoit Coulombe: A♠K♠
Sebastian Vezina: J♥J♠
The 5♦7♠10♥ flop looked safe for the jacks and the 4♦ turn did too. Unfortunately, the dealer burned and turned the K♣ river giving Coulombe the win and leaving Veznia with just 2.5 big blinds.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Benoit Coulombe |
390,000
235,000
|
235,000 |
Sebastian Vezina
|
25,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
Level: 19
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 12,000