Simply after midnight because the clock ticked over into Saturday, the Dangerous Beat Jackpot was triggered at Playground positioned simply outdoors Montreal, Canada. The CAD $964,471 jackpot – which got here three weeks after the property’s CAD $2.2 million jackpot (the second-largest in historical past) – hit when Aymen Rhammaz received with a straight flush in opposition to the quad kings of Chad Whittaker, who took the lion’s share of the jackpot because the “loser.”
Lower than 12 hours later, the third and ultimate flight of the CAD $3,500 buy-in, CAD $1.5 million GTD World Poker Tour (WPT) Playground Championship came about. Day 1c attracted 434 runners, which together with Day 1a’s 143 and 1b’s 229 introduced the full discipline as much as 806 entries. Nevertheless, ultimate numbers should not but generally known as late registration is open till the beginning of Day 2.
After 10 ranges of play, 168 gamers remained with Jackson Oniske and his stack of 379,000 main the best way. That was a bit behind that of each Day 1b chip chief Connor Daynard (435,500) and Day 1a’s Giuseppe Corapi (401,000)
Some others to bag on Day 1c have been Duff Charette (319,500), Umut Ozturk (214,500), WPT International Ambassador Patrick Tardif (204,500), three-time WPT champ Eric Afriat (115,000), Kevin Rabichow (69,500), Frank Lagodich (58,500), Eliot Hudon (58,500), and Man Richard (51,500).
WPT Playground Prime 10 Day 1c Chip Counts
Among the many Day 1c eliminations have been Ori Hasson, Josh Frazer-James, Igor Tregoubov, Henry Tran, Maurizio Lo Russo, Michael Goodman, and Diana Shamshoum.
One other participant to fall was Yuan Yuan Li, who busted in Degree 8 (600/1,200/1,200). It occurred when Li received all of it in preflop with ace-king and was flipping in opposition to the pocket jacks of Josh Silverman. The board ran out 10-high with 4 diamonds, and Silverman held the J♦ for a flush. Sadly for Li, neither his king nor ace was a diamond and he was eradicated from the event.
The excellent news is that Li and others who didn’t survive the evening have the choice to leap again in motion if they need as late registration is open till the beginning of play on Day 2, which can start at 11 a.m. native time on Sunday, October 27.
PokerNews will likely be on-site on the WPT Playground for the following week providing content material all through, so you should definitely examine 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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