SUMMARY DAY 1 D OF THE 2011 WSOP MAIN EVENT:
A larger than expected crowd is presented for this last day of registration in the main event. With 2802 inscriptions, players will have preferred Sunday than Saturday, achieving a total of 6865 inscriptions. The registration number is down from last year, but nevertheless it's the 3rd largest crowd in the history of the WSOP (there was 8773 entries in 2006; 7319 the last year). The events of black friday does not seem to have affected the participation (some projected less than 5000 entries).
Quebecers have been many also prefer this day Sunday to play their first day of the Main Event: not less than 48 Quebec players are registered. In total, so talking about 105 Quebecers who have paid $ 10,000 (a total of just over $ 1 million!) to defend the title of champion of the world of Jonathan Duhamel: after effect "Moneymaker", can we talk about the 'Duhamel effect' in Quebec?
48 participants in the day Quebecers 1 d were as follows: Armen Afarian, Gabriel Alarie, Amirouddine Alibay, René Angélil, Christos Arvanitis, David Barter, Brahm Blumenthal, Alexandre Borduas, Francis Bouchard, Sylvain Bouchard, Philippe Boucher (PhilLeDingue), Erik Cajelais, Georges Caragiorgas, Samuel Chartier (aaajack), Mathieu Clavet (dilith knot), Rock Cloutier, Ryan Dellazizzo, Marc Deragon, Julien Fauteux (Jaedae) , Patrick Fortin (patnitrof), Stéphane Fournier, Charles Gagnon, Jonathan Gagnon-Villemure, Pierre Gauthier, Guillaume Gignac, Joseph Hanna, Terry Hobbs, Ludovic Lachance (theplux), Marc-André Ladouceur, Derek Lerner, Aaron Lerner, Eric Lévesque, Benoît Lord (Inflames), Patrick-James McNamara, Isabelle Mercier, David Patry (Nova), Guillaume Patry, Philippe Belley, Philippe Plouffe, Miguel Proulx (mig), Timoleon Psiharis, Vlad Teodoresco, Jonathan Roy (Brendl), Sébastien Roy (rockstar), Joshua Sauvageau (Mohd), Gabriel Vezina, Arthur Walker and John Xenos.
The day was a little more difficult than the two previous days for Quebecers, while it will be claimed 18 victims among the Québec delegation. Thus, 30 of them have been able to qualify for day 2B, but only 2 Quebecers have been able to finish the day in the top 100. So here is the ranking of Quebecers to the day 1 d:
29th - Marc-André Ladouceur
31st - Patrick-James McNamara (pjamez)
114th - Samuel Chartier (aaajack)
246e - David Barter
332nd - Julien 'jaedae' Fauteux
366th - Benedict 'Inflames' Lord
419 - Arthur Walker
494th - Amirouddine Alibay
507e - Guillaume Patry
510th - Derek Lerner
714e - Patrick Fortin (patnitrof)
725e - Ludovic Lachance (theplux)
817e - Aaron Lerner
839th - Jonathan Roy (Brendl)
863e - Joshua Sauvageau (Fayth)
867th - Philippe Plouffe
901E - Erik Cajelais
933e - Vlad Teodoresco
948E - Mathieu Clavet (dilith knot)
980e - Christos Arvanitis
1052e - Isabelle Mercier
1079e - Terry Hobbs
1117e - Rock Cloutier
1152e - Timoléon Psiharis
1209e - Sylvain Bouchard
1272e - John Xenos
1471e - Stéphane Fournier
1513e - Brahm Blumenthal
1547th - Sébastien Roy (rockstar)
1726th - Joseph Hanna
Among the other familiar faces, there were several disposal which Prahlad Friedman, Tom 'durrrr' Dwan, Steve Zolotow, John Juanda, Bertrand 'Elky' Grospellier, Jennifer Tilly, Antonio Esfandiari, David Williams and many others.
The action will resume today so that players of the day 1 A and 1 c compete. Stay tuned, while 30 Quebecers will take part in the day 2A. Christopher 'D0r1t0s' McClung (4th), Armenak Kizirian (38th), Jean-Christophe 'Ahmad' Ferreira (101st), Vincent 'vluff' Jacques (105th) and Jonathan 'KiwiKaki' Garneau (128th) are Quebecers in the best positions. Therefore keep watch on PokerCollectif in order to have the latest developments and updates by clicking on the following link:
Results and discussions of Quebecers to the 2011 WSOP main event
Alternatively, you can click on the following link to know the results of Quebecers to the 2011 WSOP event #1 until the last event before the 'Main Event': results list of Quebecers to the WSOP 2011 - complete up to the Main Event update
