On Friday, Day 1b of the CAD $3,500 buy-in, CAD $1.5 million GTD World Poker Tour (WPT) Playground Championship attracted 229 runners, which together with Day 1a’s 143 introduced the entire discipline as much as 372 entries with Day 1c nonetheless to go.
After 10 ranges of play, 74 gamers remained with Connor Daynard and their stack of 435,500 main. That was barely larger than that of Day 1a chip chief Giuseppe Corapi, who superior with 401,000.
Some others to bag on Day 1b had been Jeff Reardon (388,500), Guillaume Nolet (322,000), Mike Leah (253,500), Michael Wang (222,500), Senthuran Vijayaratnam (167,500), Ami Alibay (135,000), Ema Zajmovi (95,000), and NHL legend Phil Kessel (135,000), who not too long ago signed on as a WPT International Ambassador.
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One other pair of gamers that’ll return for Day 2 are good associates Rob Wazwaz (266,000) and Wealthy Alsup (104,000), who each additionally occur to be World Collection of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet winners and Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Corridor of Famers. Each hail from Minnesota and took the two-hour flight, Wazwaz for the primary time and Alsup cited it as one among his favourite locations to play.
For Reardon, he received a whole lot of his chips in Stage 8 (600/1,200/1,200) when, based on dwell updates from the event, he opened for two,500 from center place and Howard Feingold three-bet all in for 14,500 from the small blind. Charles L.B. known as from the massive, Reardon got here alongside, and the flop fell 3♦8♦7♥.
L.B. wager 6,000, Reardon known as, and the ten♦ hit the flip. The previous wager once more, this time 15,000, and Reardon known as to see the 9♠river. L.B. moved all in and Reardon rapidly known as with the Okay♦Q♦ for a flush, which was good as L.B. held the A♦Q♥ bluff and Feingold the 7♠7♣ for a set.
Different gamers to fall on Day 1b had been Vitalijs Zavorotnijs, Stuart Taylor, Erik Lemarquand, and former poker reporter Tyler Warken, who PokerNews profiled earlier within the day right here.
Day 1c, the third and closing beginning flight, will kick off at 11 a.m. native time on Saturday. The surviving gamers from all three flights will then return for Day 2 on Sunday, October 27.
PokerNews can be on-site on the WPT Playground for the subsequent week providing content material all through, so make sure to verify again every day as we deliver you updates and tales straight from the event flooring.
*Pictures courtesy World Poker Tour (WPT) / Alicia Skillman
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