We’ve lost our first player of the final table.
10th place: Levon Demirdjian, $4,200
Smaller stacks winning so far
2013/05/03 4:17pm by
There have been a couple of players all-in and called so far, but to date the smaller stack has been winning. Geoff McNeely and most recently Noy Ung have both doubled through more “wealthy” adversaries. In any case there’s no lack of action on this final table so far.
Noy’s double up was very fortunate for him as he was down to 329K in chips, well below the current average of 630K and under some pressure with blinds at 10K/20K/a2K. Noy raised preflop in late position and Jason 3-bet a big amount. Noy tanked for a minute or two before quietly announcing, “All in”. Jason snap-called and flipped over 
and was way ahead of Noy’s 
.
The flop didn’t contain an Ace, but it was nevertheless fortunate for Noy. The 
added a gutshot draw to his A draw and the turn 
added some chop outs as well. Sure enough the 
came on the river – and Noy doubled up to over 700K.
Final table photos
2013/05/03 3:51pm by
Some photos from the beginning of tonight’s final table of Event 5.
Day 3 has begun!
2013/05/03 3:20pm by
Cards are in the air for Event 5 at the Playground Poker Spring Classic. Ten players have begun play on the final table of this $1000 + $100 No Limit Hold’em Deepstack event. We’ll be posting updates and photos all the way to the end.
After the first break
2013/05/03 2:38pm by
Day 1a is almost at the end of level 3 and participation has climbed to 186 entries with 174 still playing today. Registration doesn’t close for another 3 levels so there’s still lots of time to enter.
There are some big names in the field so far. Huck Seed, Mike Sexton, and Phil Laak are both here who are poker’s version of household names. in addition to those guys though there are a whole bunch of lower-profile, very-high-success players in the field like Shannon Shorr, Jeff Gross (3rd in the WPT Montreal), Joe Serock, Matt Jarvis, Mike Leah, Sam Chartier and more.
Playground Poker’s Players Club is very well represented – joining the event in Day 1a are: Anne-Marie Angelil, Ben Leblond, George Cargiorgas, Christopher McClung, Jean-Philippe Piquette, and Chanracy Khun.
Shuffle up and deal!
2013/05/03 11:26am by
Mike Sexton and our tournament staff have made some announcements and now cards are in the air in level 1 of the PartyPoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship!
There are 140 players on the tables to start with and registration is open until the end of level 6 so that number is sure to climb.
The WPT Canadian Spring Championship is here!
2013/05/03 10:34am by
After months of preparation and 6 preliminary events worth of warm-up, Event 7 of the Playground Poker Spring Classic – the PartyPoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship – has arrived!
Today is Day 1a – the first of three starting days for this 5-day, $3000 + $300 event. Days 1a, 1b, 1c, 2, 3, and 4 will all start at 11am, and between our Event Blog here on the Playground Poker site, Canada Poker, and the WPT Live Updates site you’ll be able to follow all of the action.
Event 5 Final table Seat assignments and counts
2013/05/02 7:27pm by
Here are the seating assignments and chip counts for the 10 players who will start the final table on Day 3 of the $1000 + $100 No Limit Hold’em Deepstack event tomorrow at 3pm. The Feature Table is the table on the stage! There is room for a few friends to rail the final table so let them know you could use their support!
| First Name | Last Name | Seat | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher | Annouza | Feature Table – Seat 3 | 1001000 |
| David | Dineen | Feature Table – Seat 5 | 445000 |
| Geoffrey Robert | McNeely | Feature Table – Seat 6 | 150000 |
| Jason | Duval | Feature Table – Seat 2 | 1230000 |
| Johnny | Mazzaferro | Feature Table – Seat 8 | 251000 |
| Kyle | Zechner | Feature Table – Seat 4 | 940000 |
| Levon | Demirdjian | Feature Table – Seat 7 | 575000 |
| Nandam | Subrahmanyam | Feature Table – Seat 9 | 406000 |
| Noy | Ung | Feature Table – Seat 1 | 381000 |
| Sol | Bergren | Feature Table – Seat 10 | 924000 |
Final table is set
2013/05/02 6:32pm by
Jason Duval was a man on a mission. Well, two missions. One: to win the tournament. Two (and seemingly more immediately relevant) to see the Habs playoff game tonight at the Bell Centre.
Whether it was one motivation or the other, Jason has personally eliminated three of the last four players to leave the tournament, which fulfills both of his missions – he’ll be the chip leader going into the final table and he’s in time to go see the game tonight.
Chip counts and seat assignments for tomorrow’s final table will be posted soon. Action resumes at 3pm tomorrow.
Congratulations to everyone who made the final table!
Three more eliminations
2013/05/02 6:13pm by
The tournament continues to move super quickly as Ben Leblond and Jonathan Duhamel have been eliminated in 14th and 13th place respectively.
Ben got short after doubling up Jason Duval in a huge pot (AQ>KK), and just one or two hands later shoved his pocket 99 and was called, again by Jason who held AK. The nines didn’t hold and Ben is out of the tournament.
Just a few minutes later Jonathan got his below-average stack in the middle with 
and was called, and once more Jason was playing for an opponent’s stack holding 
. The flop came all hearts: 
giving Jonathan some extra outs, but the turn and river were brutal – 
to put two higher pairs on the board leaving Jason’s Ace kicker the best hand.
Again just a few minutes later Thomas Lefort got it in and lost leaving the tournament in12th place.
Eliminations:
- 12th place: Thomas Lefort, $4,200
- 13th place: Jonathan Duhamel, $3,450
- 14th place: Ben Leblond, $3,450
One more elimination and we’ll have a final table.