After about 40 minutes of play following the chip chop, we have a winner in Event 3 of the Playground Poker Spring Classic! Alberto Melendez went out in 3rd place, followed by Danny Boyaci who took 2nd. That leaves Zeng Yi Xie as the Champion.
Zeng Yi Xie, the winner of Event 3 $300 + $30 No Limit Hold’em 6 Max in the 2013 Playground Poker Spring Classic.
The remaining three players have made a deal based on a chip chop. The prize money will be shared as noted below and play will continue for the remaining $1500 plus the Event 3 bracelet.
Seat 2, Zeng Yi Zi, $11,195.00
Seat 5, Danny Boyaci, $10,160.00
Seat 3, Alberto Melendez, $9,145.00
Blinds are now at 30K/60K/a5K as 4 players continue to compete for the remaining $37,000 in the prize pool.
5th place: Dan Szul, $3500
6th place: Raffi Ghazarian, $2500
7th place: Georges Hallak, $2000
Blinds have been frozen at level 25 as the chip average dipped below the 15 BB threshold we maintain at the end stages of tournaments. Blinds are 25K/50K/a5K.
Event 3 has reached the final table of 7 players! The final table bubble player was Simon Quintal, who went out while two tables were playing 4-handed. Then the 7 remaining players were brought together on Table 57 to play out the rest of the tournament.
The final table participants are:
The tournament is in level 24 (blinds 20K/40K,a4K).
8th place: Simon Quintal, $1600
Day 2 of Event 2 saw the field go from 91 players to 10, who will return at 7pm tomorrow to play out the final table. There is still $157,715.00 to be distributed among the final 10, including $50,000.00 for first place, so there’s still a lot to be decided.
| First Name | Last Name | Seat | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Allan | Puzantian | Feature Table – Seat 5 | 1760000 |
| Andrew | Graham | Feature Table – Seat 10 | 460000 |
| Christian | Soucy | Feature Table – Seat 4 | 395000 |
| Dimitri | Feoktistovs | Feature Table – Seat 1 | 1145000 |
| Gabriel | Alarie | Feature Table – Seat 9 | 1525000 |
| Nicolas | Aubin | Feature Table – Seat 7 | 964000 |
| Normand | Gauthier | Feature Table – Seat 2 | 617000 |
| Peter | Badel | Feature Table – Seat 6 | 509000 |
| Philippe | Plouffe | Feature Table – Seat 3 | 1242000 |
| Thanh Phong | Trieu | Feature Table – Seat 8 | 2337000 |
| Finish | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | $15000.00 |
| 2 | $10000.00 |
| 3 | $7000.00 |
| 4 | $5000.00 |
| 5 | $3500.00 |
| 6 | $2500.00 |
| 7 | $2000.00 |
| 8 | $1600.00 |
| 9 | $1300.00 |
| 10-12 | $1000.00 |
| 13-15 | $850.00 |
| 16-18 | $750.00 |
| 19-24 | $650.00 |
| 25-27 | $600.00 |
Action is just as fast as you’d expect in a 6-max tourney. Of the 211 total players who started the event 131 remain – and some pretty big stacks are starting to build. The current chip average is 40.3K and in level 8 blinds are 500/1K/a100.
Prize pool info coming in a few minutes.
