WSOP-C Playground

Fang Mei

A new WSOP Circuit ring winner has been crowned here at Playground in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The $250 Flip N' Go event saw 16 players advance to the "Go" stage after a series of flips over the past few days. 

Today, after an explosive seven hours of play Fang Mei was the last player standing, last-defeating Xavier Chayer St. Germain heads-up to win the top prize of $9,800 in addition to his first WSOP Circuit ring and an entry to the Tournament of Champions at the Commerce Casino. 

"I'm really excited. I mean, this wins a lot to me. I prepared and I always wanted to have a trophy" Mei commented following the win.

Mei came into the final table with the chip lead and despite being card-dead early on he did a good job preserving his stack to avoid following out of the top three spots on the leaderboard. 

Mei had a sizable lead agains St. Germain during heads-up until St. Germain doubled up with ace-ten against Mei's ace-seven to start closing the gap. The next hand after that saw St. Germain shove from the button only for Mei, who still had St. Germain covered, to look down at two aces. 

Here's how the final hand played out:

Despite St. Germain having a sweat after flopping an open-ended straight draw the rest of the board was clean for Mei to win the final pot of the night. Mei described his disbelief at the dream spot he found himself in for the final hand, with pocket aces and a covering stack facing a shove from his opponent headas-up.

"It was really unbelievable. I was thinking that I would call with any ace-high and then I looked at two aces. At that point it's meant to be right?"

Fang Mei and his rail

Event #6: $250 Flip N' Go Final Table Results

1. Fang Mei - $9,800
   
2. Xavier Chayer St-Germain - $6,000
3. Ryan Parungao - $3,300
4. Calvin Lake - $2,200
5. Zhi-Lin Lin - $1,650
6. Daniel Andrei - $1,400
7. Vadim Rozin - $1,250
8. Craig Gingras - $1,100
9. John Kalopedakis - $950
10. Stephen Langois - $850

Ruoxiao Shi leads after Day 1A of the WSOPC Playground Main Event

Down to just six big blinds at one point early in the day, WSOPC Playground champion Ruoxiao Shi went on an absolute tear after the dinner break to not only bag the Day 1A chip lead but to do so in dominating fashion, finishing as the only player with over a million chips.

Shi finished with 1,268,000, leading second place stack Santiago Plante (806,000) by well over 400,000.

The rest of the top five chip counts from Day 1A are as follows:

1. Ruoxiao Shi - 1,268,000
2. Santiago Plante - 806,000
3. Roger Lamia - 721,000
4. Chuhang Zhou - 715,000
5. Alexandre Fournier - 688,000

Full chip counts are available here .

The final 30 players from the field of 199 entries in Thursday’s first of three starting flights claimed a min-cash of $3,400 with the final 20 advancing to Day 2.

Day 1B will get underway at 11 a.m. ET with a significantly bigger field expected before a massive field for Day 1C on Saturday.

All players advancing to Day 2 will return at 11 a.m. on Sunday.

Stay with PokerOrg for continuing coverage of the Main Event, and all remaining WSOP Circuit ring events here at the GPI award winning best poker room of 2024, Playground in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

We're winding down the day and Ruoxiao Shi has run away with the chip lead.

He's now over 1,200,000 in chips and barring absolute catastrophe will bag by far the biggest stack of the day.

Ryan Purangao

The $250 Flip N' Go event has just gone on break and is down to four players, who will return to blinds of 10,000/20,000 (20,000). The final four players have all locked up $2,200 while one player is just three eliminations away from the top prize of $9,800 and the WSOP Circuit ring.

Ryan Parungao currently has the chip lead while Fang Mei is right behind him. Here are the current chip counts for the final four:

• Seat 5: Fang Mei - 840,000
• Seat 7: Xavier Chayer St. Germain - 505,000
• Seat 8: Calvin Lake - 560,000
• Seat 10: Ryan Parungao - 975,000