After seeing Barry double twice to build a stack that could threaten him, the players got it in again on a flop of . The players both had trips – Barry the and Amir with . The turn came to give Barry some chop outs to the straight – but take away chop outs because of Amir’s better kicker. The came on the river and it was all over – Amir Babakhani is the 2013 WPT Canadian Spring Champion!

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.

WPTLive just posted a great video on YouTube describing some of what is so great about Playground Poker Club.

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At Playground Poker our goal is always to provide the best poker experience you can find in the world – and that goes for big events like the WPT Canadian Spring Championship as well as an every day $60 tournament and of course for cash games. It’s always nice to read or hear when players (other players – we’re all players too) give us great feedback.

Pretty sad to be out of this tournament, really enjoyed this venue and it’s staff. Will definitely come back for any future events here!

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— Tim Warren (@Timmy_Warren) May 5, 2013

Big shout out to my boy Brent @playgroundpoker. Great host in a great poker room! Love it here 🙂

— Matt Jarvis (@mattjarvispoker) May 5, 2013

TD Martin Roy and his staff here at @playgroundpoker are amazing, tracking all 194 players in the Day 1A field, w/ bustouts & seat changes!

— BJ Nemeth (@BJNemeth) May 4, 2013

Congratulations to Fuyuki Ikura, the winner of Event 1 of the 2013 Playground Poker Spring Classic!

There was an unscheduled pause a few hands after the tournament became a three-way affair. Deals were discussed, chip stacks were counted, and Playground rules for Event deals were calculated… and finally a deal was agreed to by all three players, who then continued to play for $2000 and the Event 1 bracelet.

Play continued for just a few hands until there was a three-way all in. Ricky Tang, first to act on the button raised all-in with . He was quickly called by Fuyuki Ikura in the small blind with … and then Nick-Real Seide in the big blind came along for the ride with .

The flop was about as definitive as you get: . Not only did Nick spike the J to beat Ricky’s AQ, but Fuyuki flopped the set to beat them both and scoop the entire pot. The and didn’t change anything and just like that the champion was crowned.

The final prizes were:

• 3rd place, Ricky Tang, $23,395
• 2nd place, Nick-Real Seide, $26,794
• 1st place, Fuyuki Ikura, $28,643

A pretty great prize for a tournament players bought into for $150!

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