Garneau started Day 5 of the WSOP with 260k, less than half the average. He is currently guaranteed at least a $40,000 payday if he should bust early in Day 5. He is no longer on the featured table, so updates will be more difficult to garner.
Current Placement/name/chip count/table/seat
375 Mim 57,000 Amazon / 316 / 1
49 Steve Brecher 973,000 Amazon / 316 / 2
317 Joseph Lacarrubba 196,000 Amazon / 316 / 3
240 Christopher Moore US 350,000 Amazon / 316 / 4
175 Robert Kolbe 483,000 Amazon / 316 / 5
283 Jonathan Garneau 260,000 Amazon / 316 / 6
127 Paul Chauderson 599,000 Amazon / 316 / 7
343 Tyler Sumrall 147,000 Amazon / 316 / 8
103 Thomas Pedersen 671,000 Amazon / 316 / 9
Gaming Background
Garneau was a former Warcraft 3 Orc player who played on teams such as mTw and Serious Gaming. He switched back to SC2 when the beta came out. He is a protoss player known for his creative style and intelligent play. He lost 2-4 to HuK in MLG Raleigh to take $1500 second prize and continued to do well to obtain the first rank seed for 2011.
At MLG Dallas 2011, KiWiKaKi went first in his pool by defeating players such as IdrA and HuK. He settled for second again when he fell 2-4 to Naniwa, he would be the only player to take sets off him in the tournament.
KiWiKaKi was one of the 50 players invited to participate in the North American Starleague in Division 1. As of June 5th, 2011, he is 11-6 in his group. He has 5 series wins and 3 series losses.
In June, KiWiKaKi did not follow the majority of his former teammates from Root to CompLexity, choosing to team with former ROOT teammate Slush to team on the VTG Network at Team Reign. He is known as "the King of 4 gate."
