The prize pool and payouts have been announced for the High Roller event. There were 53 players total which give a total prize pool of $257,040.00. This will be distributed according to the following table.
| Finish | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | $100,250.00 + Championship Belt |
| 2 | $59,122.00 |
| 3 | $35,987.00 |
| 4 | $25,705.00 |
| 5 | $20,564.00 |
| 6 | $15,422.00 |
The Championship Belt for the High Roller Event at the Playground Poker Spring Classic!
Phil Laak has been eliminated from the tourney. He started the day as one of the short stacks, but couldn’t double.
Bruce Buffer is just one of the 28 players who are about to get started with Day 2 of Event 8 in the Playground Poker Spring Classic, A $5000 + $300 No Limit Hold’em High Roller tourney that started last night.
Along with Bruce we’ll see Phil Laak, Gavin Smith, Jeff Gross and some other great players in this, the highest buy-in tourney in this year’s festival.
When Event 8 got started at 7pm on Monday evening there were around 20 players who bought in immediately and were seated as level 1 began. There were a mix of players – well-known poker pros like Players Club members Gavin Smith and Phil Laak, local pros like Players Club member Christopher McClung and Pascal Lefrancois, and players who had been at the Spring Classic since the beginning and had played multiple events at various buy-in levels (i.e., Danny Boyaci and David Ormsby).
Throughout the evening players continued to jump in, joining the talented field and forcing some early table additions and a lot of “balancing up” as tables were added until eventually there were 52 total players representing a wide cross-section of poker talent. Players Club member and WPT Montreal third-place finisher Jeff Gross joined as soon as he was eliminated from the WPT Canadian Spring Championship, as did Shannon Shorr (who min-cashed the main event) and Tyler Reiman (the unfortunate bubble player in the WPT event).
Eventually the field reached 53 runners who played through 7 hour-long levels on Day 1. Of these 52, 29 remain in the tournament to return for Day 2 at 4pm today.
| First Name | Last Name | Seat | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bruce | Buffer | Table 26 – Seat 3 | 18050 |
| Christopher | McClung | Table 21 – Seat 2 | 85550 |
| Daniel | Ghionoiu | Table 25 – Seat 6 | 20600 |
| Darren | Elias | Table 21 – Seat 6 | 50300 |
| David | Ormsby | Table 21 – Seat 4 | 51525 |
| Farid | Jattin | Table 26 – Seat 5 | 70775 |
| Gabriel | Frank | Table 21 – Seat 7 | 32500 |
| Gavin | Smith | Table 25 – Seat 7 | 60225 |
| Guillaume | Rivet | Table 22 – Seat 4 | 35550 |
| Hank | Sitton | Table 21 – Seat 5 | 53875 |
| Jean-Christophe | Ferreira | Table 22 – Seat 1 | 44125 |
| Jeffrey Dale | Gross | Table 26 – Seat 1 | 147500 |
| Jesse | Yaginuma | Table 25 – Seat 4 | 58525 |
| John | Andress | Table 26 – Seat 7 | 47875 |
| Jonathan | Jaffe | Table 22 – Seat 5 | 66000 |
| Jonathan | Little | Table 22 – Seat 8 | 74675 |
| Kerry | Shears | Table 22 – Seat 2 | 61525 |
| Mark | Radoja | Table 22 – Seat 7 | 15800 |
| Martin | Raus | Table 21 – Seat 3 | 20850 |
| Matthew | Giannetti | Table 25 – Seat 2 | 57525 |
| Nicholas P | Grippo | Table 25 – Seat 5 | 152925 |
| Osman | Soubra | Table 21 – Seat 1 | 24000 |
| Pascal | Lefrancois | Table 25 – Seat 1 | 67875 |
| Phil | Laak | Table 26 – Seat 4 | 18000 |
| Philippe | Kerri | Table 26 – Seat 6 | 35800 |
| Setrak | Suloukji | Table 22 – Seat 6 | 82625 |
| Shannon | Shorr | Table 22 – Seat 3 | 81925 |
| Sylvain | Siebert | Table 26 – Seat 2 | 41225 |
| Tommy | Vedes | Table 25 – Seat 3 | 17900 |
The High Roller event (Event 8) is up to 50 players with three more levels of late registration still available. We just posted some photos on Facebook so go take a look!
…the high roller tournament has grown to 46 players of whom 45 are still alive. They’ve been playing at the same time as the bubble came (and went) in the WPT Canadian Spring Championship so things have been a little frantic in the room, but it is much calmer now. Plus, now that people are collecting their vouchers and cash in the WPT, some of those players are moving over to play the High Roller so numbers should continue to grow.
Level 1 of the $5000 + $300 tournament is about to end and registration in the tournament has already reached 35 players with a steady flow of people still joining. We’ll be posting some photos soon.
It looks like Matthew Salsberg is considering playing Event 8:
@playgroundpoker how late is registration open for the high roller?
— matt salsberg (@msalsberg) May 6, 2013
We’re about 20 minutes away from the start of Event 8 in the Playground Poker Spring Classic, the $5000 + $300 No Limit Hold’em High Roller event. Sit n’ go satellites have been running all day and there are quite a few players in The Rail eating a great meal before jumping in. Word is that Players Club members Phil Laak, Gavin Smith, Bruce Buffer are all going to play, and Christopher McClung was making enquiries an hour or so ago as well.
Late registration has been extended and will continue until the end of the 7th hour-long level tonight.
Day 1: May 6, 2013 7:00pm
Day 2: May 7, 2013 4:00pm
Day 3: May 8, 2013 4:00pm
Starting Stack: 30,000 tournament chips. All players start the tournament with a full stack.
Late Registration: Players may enter the tournament during the first 4 levels of play. In exceptional circumstances alternate players may be seated after the late registration period closes.
Structure notes: