Welcome to Day 2 of Event 4!

2014/03/26 1:11pm by
Tournament:
  • Level: 14
  • Small Blind: 1.2K
  • Big Blind: 2.4K
  • Ante: 400
  • Chip Average: 78.9K
  • Remaining: 70
  • Entries: 221


    • The players have taken their seats and play has begun for Day 2 of the $500 + $50 No Limit Hold’em tournament. There are 70 players still in the action to start the day, and although a couple of those players are starting short stacked, the field overall is pretty deep so there should be a lot of play over a sustained period today.

    The TD has announced that although the tournament was scheduled to continue for 14 levels today, he has decided that due to the field size and other factors they would play for a minimum of 10 levels today but perhaps not all 14 as scheduled.

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    Event 5 Champion: Constantinos Psallidas

    2014/03/26 9:44am by
    Tournament:

    Constantinos Psallidas – known to everyone at Playground as Costa – has emerged victorious in Event 5, a $200 + $20 Pot Limit Omaha 3 Lives tournament. The path through the 99-player field was a challenge, as very quickly three players (which didn’t include Costa) built up dominating stacks leaving everyone else to get relatively shorter stacked relatively early on. Nevertheless Costa was able to make his way through the challenging field and won the Spring Classic bracelet and $4,431 for his efforts.

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    Event 5 – Results & Payouts

    2014/03/26 8:50am by
    Tournament:

    Event 5 in the Playground Poker Spring Classic ($200 + $20 Pot Limit Omaha 3 Lives) had 99 players and generated a prize pool of $19,206. The published payout schedule paid 10 players but the players in this event chose to take $100 from each of the first 4 prizes and add an 11th payout of $400 (bubble save). The following payout list reflects this modification.

    Rank First Name Last Name Prize
    1 Constantinos Psallidas $4,431.00 plus the Spring Classic bracelet
    2 Fation Veizi $3,445.00
    3 Shane Brotherwood $2,690.00
    4 Christopher Saliba $2,095.00
    5 Jino Veizi $1,720.00
    6 David Telmosse $1,355.00
    7 Martin Dyotte $1,065.00
    8 Michael Hunter $835.00
    9 Alexandre Morin $655.00
    10 Timothy Vukson $515.00
    11 Michel Merlitti $400.00
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    A couple more photos

    2014/03/25 10:50pm by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 8
  • Small Blind: 600
  • Big Blind: 1.2K
  • Ante: 0
  • Chip Average: 56K
  • Remaining: 53
  • Entries: 99


    • Some more photos from Event 5. This started out as a gallery of some of the larger stacks, but as we toured the tables we had several other requests for photos, so we’ve added them as well!

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    Starting to grow

    2014/03/25 10:20pm by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 7
  • Small Blind: 500
  • Big Blind: 1K
  • Ante: 0
  • Chip Average: 43K
  • Remaining: 69
  • Entries: 99


    • The event is still in the relatively early stages but a few players have already built up stacks greater than 110K.

    • Steve Carrière
    • Martin Dyotte
    • Fation Veizi (aka TTA)
    • Dov Amzallag
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    Event 5 – prize pool and payout structure

    2014/03/25 9:50pm by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 5
  • Small Blind: 300
  • Big Blind: 600
  • Ante: 0
  • Chip Average: 34.5K
  • Remaining: 86
  • Entries: 99


    • Players in Event 5 are back from their first break of the evening and the TD has released the prize pool information for the event. A total of 99 players registered adding up to a total prize pool of $19,206.00 which will be distributed according to the following payout table.

    Finish Prize
    1 $4,531.00
    2 $3,545.00
    3 $2,790.00
    4 $2,195.00
    5 $1,720.00
    6 $1,355.00
    7 $1,065.00
    8 $835.00
    9 $655.00
    10 $515.00
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    Some photos of the early PLO action

    2014/03/25 9:15pm by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 4
  • Small Blind: 200
  • Big Blind: 400
  • Ante: 0
  • Chip Average: 32.8K
  • Remaining: 87
  • Entries: 95


    • The players in the PLO 3 Lives event are about 5 minutes from their first break of the evening, by which time they all must use all of their 3 “Life” chips. Registration has grown to 95 players with a few minutes of late registration left.

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    Cards are in the air in Event 5

    2014/03/25 8:05pm by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 1
  • Small Blind: 50
  • Big Blind: 100
  • Ante: 0
  • Chip Average: 30K
  • Remaining: 60
  • Entries: 60


    • The TD has made his announcements and cards are in the air in Event 5, a $200 + $20 Pot Limit Omaha 3 Lives event. So far there are 60 players at the tables but more will enter during late registration which lasts until the end of the break after level 4.

    Good luck to the players!

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    Event 4 Day 2 – seating draw

    2014/03/25 7:48pm by
    Tournament:

    Event 4 started with 221 players and at the end of the 13 levels played through Day 1, just 70 players remain. Day 2 begins at 1pm tomorrow afternoon (Wednesday March 26).

    Here is the seating draw for players. You can sort this table by chip count or by name.

    First Name Last Name Seat Chip Count
    Alex Fiorani Table 54 – Seat 9 69,900
    Andrew Humphrey Table 56 – Seat 6 43,800
    Anesti Kocini Table 61 – Seat 8 56,200
    Armand King Table 53 – Seat 5 60,000
    Benoit Jean Table 60 – Seat 2 179,800
    Benoit Perras Table 53 – Seat 2 68,100
    Constantinos Psallidas Table 64 – Seat 5 41,000
    Daniel Smouha Table 60 – Seat 7 110,800
    Danielle Micallef Table 56 – Seat 7 26,700
    David Baba Table 65 – Seat 3 39,000
    David Cahill Table 61 – Seat 9 45,000
    Denis Martel Table 53 – Seat 3 50,400
    Deron Noksana Table 65 – Seat 1 112,300
    Faizel Satchu Table 56 – Seat 8 89,900
    Francois Cote Table 61 – Seat 3 63,400
    Frederick Deguzman Table 54 – Seat 3 28,700
    Gary Yeghiayan Table 56 – Seat 2 125,900
    Guillaume Tremblay Table 56 – Seat 4 108,900
    Jackie Beaudoin Table 57 – Seat 1 17,100
    James Gallant Table 53 – Seat 4 50,500
    Jason Griffith Table 65 – Seat 7 112,400
    Jean-Louis Arseneau Table 57 – Seat 5 82,400
    Jeff Cote Table 53 – Seat 1 222,700
    Jeffrey Cormier Table 57 – Seat 4 73,700
    Jerome St-Onge Table 53 – Seat 6 52,800
    Jiachen Gong Table 61 – Seat 2 21,200
    Jiacheng Zhang Table 65 – Seat 2 132,300
    Johnathan Neil Hansmeyer Table 61 – Seat 4 79,000
    Jonathan Theriault Table 64 – Seat 1 190,700
    Jordan Martin Table 54 – Seat 1 64,800
    Julien Fauteux Delorme Table 56 – Seat 5 73,600
    Justin Leeson Table 57 – Seat 6 37,100
    Karo Lyne Dufour Table 57 – Seat 7 91,300
    Kelly Smith Table 60 – Seat 6 88,200
    Kevin MacDonald Table 56 – Seat 3 40,600
    Kieu Hoa Lam Table 60 – Seat 4 23,400
    Kliment Tarmakov Table 54 – Seat 2 73,000
    Kyle Hartree Table 57 – Seat 9 122,900
    Larry Farr Table 64 – Seat 3 233,900
    Linda Huard Table 60 – Seat 1 72,200
    Luc Robillard Table 57 – Seat 8 28,600
    Mark Fitzpatrick Table 65 – Seat 8 207,800
    Martin Giguere Table 65 – Seat 5 102,200
    Martin Messier Table 64 – Seat 2 49,900
    Maxime Laberge Table 54 – Seat 5 218,000
    Micah Johnson Table 65 – Seat 6 29,900
    Michael David Yeomans Table 53 – Seat 8 26,500
    Michael Hunter Table 64 – Seat 4 35,500
    Michael Malm Table 61 – Seat 5 103,000
    Michael Noor Table 56 – Seat 9 49,100
    N T Table 54 – Seat 8 64,700
    Omar Abdullahi Table 53 – Seat 7 19,700
    Patrick Dubois Table 54 – Seat 6 12,900
    Paul Naccarato Table 57 – Seat 3 56,100
    Peter Kavouras Table 61 – Seat 1 79,000
    Peter Labib Table 60 – Seat 5 78,600
    Pierre Paul Paulin Table 57 – Seat 2 91,700
    Qiang Dong Table 54 – Seat 4 49,300
    Ramzi Karam Table 64 – Seat 7 147,500
    Ruben Perceval Table 60 – Seat 8 135,900
    Sean Joseph Ruane Table 60 – Seat 9 49,100
    Sylvain Boisvert Table 61 – Seat 7 56,900
    Teodor Gheorghe Table 64 – Seat 6 125,200
    Thanh Phu Table 56 – Seat 1 42,900
    Timothy Fisher Table 61 – Seat 6 44,200
    Trieu Dung Hong Table 64 – Seat 8 88,500
    Victor Adams Table 60 – Seat 3 38,500
    Wafic Fala Table 53 – Seat 9 112,700
    Yan Touchette Table 54 – Seat 7 69,600
    Yannick Labattaglia Table 65 – Seat 4 53,100
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    Day 1 is in the books

    2014/03/25 7:22pm by
    Tournament:

    The TD called for dealers to deal 3 more hands a few minutes ago and now that all tables have completed the day, the players are bagging up their chips. We’ll publish full chip counts and the seating draw for Day 2 later this evening.

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