Brady Hinnegan Wins CPPT World Cup of Cards for $110,000

The largest prize of the 2016 World Cup of Cards (WCC) was won on Tuesday evening at Playground Poker Club in Kahnawake, Quebec.

Event #24 of the WCC featured a $1,650 Card Player Poker Tour (CPPT) $400,000 guarantee. A total of 359 entries were received across the two Day 1 starting flights. Topping the entire field was Brady Hinnegan, earning the champion’s trophy and a first-place prize of $110,000.

Final Table Results:

The second largest guarantee of the World Cup of Cards drew some of the area’s top talent to the tables. A number of Canada’s top players took to the felt but failed to make a deep run. Montreal Nationals Team Manager Marc-Andre Ladouceur, WCC High Roller champion Marc-Etienne McLaughlin, Sam Chartier, Ruben Perceval, Laurence Grondin, and WCC leaderboard front-runner Charles La Boissonniere were all unable to find success.

In total 36 players made the money, a few to bust in the money include Marco Caza (29th, $3,200), Kyle Janisse (25th, 3,500), Rodney Ramalho (22nd – $4,000), and Carter Swidler (15th – $6,600).

The first casualty of the final table was Ian Tang. Tang got it in preflop holding ace-king, racing against against Karim-Olivier Kamal’s pocket jacks. Kamal would fade the board to knock out Tang in 10th. Tyler Wilson was the next to go. He was crippled by Kevin Rivest a few hands before his elimination, running his ace-queen into Rivest’s ace-king. Wilson found himself all-in in the big blind moments later and was unable to make a hand.

Rivest couldn’t put his newly found chips to good use. Not too long after busting Wilson, Rivest made a huge call on a river shove from Elie A, with just a pair of aces. Unfortunately for him, Elie A had flopped the second-nut flush and milked Rivest for all his chips, busting him in 8th.

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