Day 1a of the Quantum No Limit Hold Em Tournament is in the Books, [Removed:105] Leads

The first event of a 28-event schedule at Playground Poker Room's World Cup of Cards has finished. There were 161 players all vying for the 13 Day 2 spots. In the end, Brent Mccue just missed Day 2 when he got all in preflop against Kathy Sawers with . Sawers had and held. She will enter Day 2 with 169,800.

Nick-Real Seide was eliminated just before Mccue after having the chip lead for a good portion of the day. [Removed:105] took over the chip lead and ended the day with 399,100, almost 100,000 ahead of Eric Ranger who finished with the second largest stack (301,900).

Day 2 will be Sept. 13th, but until then each of the players who cashed today can play one of the nine remaining starting flights. If they make Day 2 again, they forfeit their smaller stack and earn CAD $400 on top of the CAD $1,500 for the forfeited stack. Day 1b starts Saturday at 7 p.m. local time.

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Player	Chips	Progress
[Removed:105]	399,100 179,100	179,100
Eric Ranger	301,900 76,900	76,900
Aidan Quin	253,400 128,400	128,400
Alain Levesque	186,400 87,400	87,400
Kathy Sawers	169,800 59,800	59,800
Manfred Gunther	129,900 4,900	4,900
Alain Zarka	102,300 28,300	28,300
Alexandre Henry	99,600 -21,400	-21,400
Albert N	95,600 -59,400	-59,400
Andrew Boujaoude	90,600 39,600	39,600
Toufic Kamali	69,100 39,100	39,100
Christian Belanger	53,900 -20,100	-20,100
Prosper Azoulay	51,700 -32,300	-32,300