239 players have advanced to Day 5 of the 2013 World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event, with a dozen Canadian players still in contention to become part of this year’s “November 9” and quite possibly the next No Limit Hold’em World Champion. 2 players from Quebec are currently leading our charge to the more than $8.3 million top prize; Yann “Yadio” Dion (6th), who has made at least 3 huge final tables in the last year. Dion won an FTOPS Main Event, and has finished at the final tabled the PCA Main Event and Sunday Million over the past 12 months for more than $800,000 combined, more than proving he can crush tough, big field tournament poker. He’s joined by Ami Alibay (10th) in the top ten chip counts to start Saturday’s play.
Both players are around the T2,000,000 at Level 21, with blinds at 8000/16,000 and a 2000 ante. Not far behind, British Columbia players Jason Mann sits at about 1,780,000 in the 16th spot and Yi Fang is in 38th with nearly 1.4 million in chips.
Marc McLaughlin – 1,223,000 (QC), Alexander Livingston – 1,190,000 (NS) and Umang Dattani – 1,187,000 (AB) are also sitting on above average stacks, while Dustin Septa – 620,000 (AB), Stephane Blouin – 544,000 (QC), Ivan Mamuzic – 311,000 (ON), Greg Mueller – 300,000 (BC), David Pecaski – 199,000 (BC) and Ontario’s Mike Dietrich with a count of 193,000 round out the list of remaining Canadians.
Those players remaining are now guaranteed a bit over $37,000 with the next money jump at 225th to nearly $43,000.
As for those players eliminated in the money on Day 4, here is a list of Canadian results by pay bracket:
Current (239th) to 288th: $37,019
Stephane Lacas (QC) – 266th
289th to 360th: $32,242
Jeff Cote (QC) – 304th
Adam Kende (BC) – 316th
Timmy McIntyre (BC) – 320th
Guillaume Rivet (QC) – 326th
Michael Malm (ON) – 328th
Matt Marafioti (ON) – 329th
Carla Sabini (QC) – 343th
Jason Mandanici (QC) – 346th
James Hudson (QC) – 351st
Simon Charette (ON) – 358th
Julien Fautex (DNR) – 360th
361st to 432nd: $28,063
Benny Chen (PEI) – 391st
Harsukhpaul Sangha (BC) – 410th
Marc Carpentier-Perrault (QC) – 422nd
Jair Beltran (ON) – 424th
Jamie Dawick (ON) – 428th
433rd to 504th: $24,480
Samuel Gagnon (QC) – 441st
505th to 576th: $21,495
Joel Bullock (AB) – 510th
Michelle Doiron (NB) – 511th
Daniel Koschok (AB) – 532nd
Nicholas Verkaik (ON) – 548th
Evan Jarvis (ON) – 565th
Peter Kshonze (ON) – 569th
577th to 648th: $19,106
Daniel Landriault (AB) – 582nd
Mike Watson (ON) – 589th
Yan Lee (BC) – 593rd
(World Series of Poker Event #62 – $10,000 Buy-in with 6,352 entries)
