Event 3 has reached its first break with 207 total entrants – about 27 over the capacity with a few more buying in as alternates before the end of the break.
Next blinds will be 250/500/a50 and there are 188 players left in the tournament.
Early photos
2013/04/29 8:11pm by
Here are some early photos of the action in the 6-Max tonight. More on Facebook!
We have a final table
2013/04/29 7:56pm by
And with the 11th place player to bust, we have a final table. The tournament has been playing 9-handed throughout Day 2, so that means the FT starts at 10 players who will return for Day 3 tomorrow evening at 7pm.
Chip counts and seat assignments coming in a little while.
Six Max!
2013/04/29 7:38pm by
Event 3 of the 2013 Playground Poker Spring Classic is underway – a $300 + $30 6-Max No Limit Hold’em tournament. Shorthanded poker has been a fixture on the Playground tourney schedule since we opened, and so it’s a natural on a Monday night in our series schedule as well.
The tourney is filling up quickly (the capacity is 180 players plus alternates) but there’s still a little space if you’re running late. This is a one-day event, so we’ll have a winner tonight (well, tomorrow morning, technically speaking).
More players going…
2013/04/29 6:18pm by
11th place: G Man, $3000
12th place: Ryan Smith, $3000
13 place: Jeremy Smith, $2400
14th place: Bobby Cadillac, $2400.
Bobby Cadillac has been relatively short stacked for a while, and finally he shoved with 
. Philippe Plouffe to his left called with 
. The board ran out 
and Bobby’s tournament was over.
Final two table updates…
2013/04/29 5:23pm by
Players who busted from the tournament from 18 to 15:
- 18th place: Levon Demirdjian, $2000
- 17th place: Christopher Annouza, $2000
- 16th place: Yannick Kwan, $2000
- 15th place: Frederick Laurin Fortin, $2400
18 players at the break
2013/04/29 5:11pm by
Players are on break and there are 18 remaining on two tables. Here are approximate chip counts:
Table 23
- Seat 1: Ryan Smith, 1.1M
- Seat 2: Dimitri Feoktistovs, 1.5M
- Seat 3: Christian Soucy, 530K
- Seat 4: Thanh Phong Trieu, 780K
- Seat 5: Cadillac, 300K
- Seat 6: Philippe Plouffe, 380K
- Seat 7: Jeremy Smith, 680K
- Seat 8: Christopher Annouza, 350K
- Seat 9: Normand Gauthier, 510K
Table 26
- Seat 1: Allan Puzantian, 575K
- Seat 2: Gabriel Alarie, 1M
- Seat 3: Frederick Laurin Fortin, 300K
- Seat 4: Andrew Graham, 1.2M
- Seat 5: Levon Demirdjian, 520K
- Seat 6: Nicolas Aubin, 370K
- Seat 7: Yannick Kwan, 380K
- Seat 8: G Man, 365K
- Seat 9: Peter Badel, 190K
When players are back from break blinds will be 10K/20K/a2K with a 609.7K chip average.
Redraw at 27
2013/04/29 4:16pm by
Dimitri Feoktistovs has again stacked the player immediately to his right taking the tournament down to 27 players. The tournament seating has been redrawn and play will continue on 3 tables.
Currently there are three players with over a million in tournament chips – Andrew Graham, Ryan Smith, and Dimitri. There are several others around the 500K mark as well.
Second break
2013/04/29 3:27pm by
The schedule for today has changed slightly and there will be a break after every second level. That means that players are on their second break of the day. Between when the bubble burst and now another 10 players have busted out of the tournament.
When they return, the 35 players remaining will be be playing level 21 with blinds 6K/12K/a1K. The average stack is $313.6K. The payout for players who bust between now and 28th place is $1300 and then it jumps a bit to $1600 for positions 19-27.
There will be a full seat redraw at 27 players as usual.
Only 3 hands…
2013/04/29 2:46pm by
So continuing the “trend” from Event 1, the bubble has proven to be a very short business. Playing hand-for-hand the money bubble burst on just the 3rd hand!
The player who was unfortunate enough to go out on the bubble? Mathieu Couture who had been playing on Table 22 Seat 1. We didn’t see the hand but reports are that it was Dimitri Feoktistovs directly to his left who won the hand.
The remaining 45 players are all in the money – congratulations to all!
Event 2 Bubble player Mathieu Couture.