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Under an hour to Event 5

2014/03/25 7:00pm by Michael Boyle
Tournament: Event 5 – $200 + $20 Pot Limit Omaha 3 Lives

Tonight in the Spring Classic is Event 5, a $200 + $20 Pot Limit Omaha 3 Lives event. This is always a popular format at Playground Poker Club so the event should attract a good-sized field. This is a one-day event.

“3 Lives” means that players start with 3 “Life Chips” that they can exchange for T10K in tournament chips at any time in the first four levels (until the first break). Players come at this event with several different approaches – some try and run up their first 10K and use the remaining 2 life chips at the break as an add-on, others put all 30K in chips in play from the beginning, and others treat it simply as a virtual rebuy tournament – and the interplay between these different styles is one of the interesting wrinkles in the format.

Good luck to all of the players!

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Last level of Day 1

2014/03/25 6:48pm by Michael Boyle
Tournament: Event 4 – $500 + $50 No Limit Hold'em Re-entry

Level: 13

Small Blind: 1K

Big Blind: 2K

Ante: 300

Chip Average: 75.7K

Remaining: 73

Entries: 221

Players have begun the final level to be played today and there are a couple of interesting stories beginning to emerge.

First, two of the three top chip leaders in the tournament at this point are at the same table. Mark Fitzpatrick and Jeff Côté – both of whom have made deep runs or won major events at Playground in the past – are both hovering around stacks of about 225K in chips. They are the two clear leaders in the event at this point, and that table (Table 54) could prove dangerous for anyone who is moved there.

The second interesting story is that the third leader at this point – Ramzi Karam – is fresh off a very deep run in Event 1 in this series.

Mark Fitzpatrick

Ramzi Karam

Jeff Côté

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Event 4 – prize pool and payout structure

2014/03/25 6:13pm by Michael Boyle
Tournament: Event 4 – $500 + $50 No Limit Hold'em Re-entry

Level: 12

Small Blind: 800

Big Blind: 1.6K

Ante: 200

Chip Average: 59.4K

Remaining: 93

Entries: 221

Event 4 in the Playground Poker Spring Classic is a $500 + $50 No Limit Hold’em tournament being held over three days from March 25 to 27, 2014. A total of 221 players registered for the event building a prize pool of $107,185.00 which will be distributed according to this table.

Finish	Prize
1	$23,955.00
2	$17,865.00
3	$13,355.00
4	$9,985.00
5	$7,470.00
6	$5,580.00
7	$4,165.00
8	$3,115.00
9	$2,335.00
10-11	$1,745.00
12-13	$1,605.00
14-15	$1,475.00
16-17	$1,370.00
18-19	$1,260.00
20-21	$1,155.00
22-23	$1,070.00

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Event 3 Champion: David Ormsby

2014/03/25 8:56am by Michael Boyle
Tournament: Event 3 – $200 + $20 No Limit Hold'em 6-Max

David Ormsby has made his way through a very tough field and emerged victorious in Event 3 of the Playground Poker Spring Classic!

David has been a frequent visitor to Playground Poker Club during the festivals we’ve held over the years and he’s obviously a poker player’s poker player, so to speak, having made deep runs in the past in small side events, in Main Events, and even in $10K and $5K High Roller events at the Club. But although he’s had a lot of success in events elsewhere in Canada, until now he hadn’t made his breakthrough at Playground.

That changed on Monday night – in fact, early Tuesday morning as David outlasted the field to win the 6-Max event and take the top prize (after a deal was made heads up) of $8,650. Congratulations to David on the win!

1st place: David Ormsby

Event 3 Champion David Ormsby

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Event 3 – Results & Payouts

2014/03/25 7:50am by Michael Boyle
Tournament: Event 3 – $200 + $20 No Limit Hold'em 6-Max

This is the final results table for Event 3, a $200 + $20 No Limit Hold’em 6-Max event in the Playground Poker Spring Classic. Results reflect a deal made by the players heads up. The players agreed to reserve $1,100 and the bracelet for the winner and share the remaining prize pool evenly.

Rank	First Name	Last Name	Prize
1	David	Ormsby	$8,650.00 and the Spring Classic bracelet
2	Fuad	Shehab Nasser	$7,550.00
3	Sebastien	Soares	$5,205.00
4	Danny	Freitas	$3,910.00
5	Peter	Labib	$2,940.00
6	Vincent	Tringle	$2,210.00
7	Simon	Tremblay	$1,660.00
8	Luigi	Fantigrossi	$1,245.00
9	Eric	Boissonneault	$935.00
10	Benjamin	Porter	$700.00
11	Arthur	W	$700.00
12	David	Guay	$650.00
13	Vincent	Bernier	$650.00
14	Joseph	Hanna	$600.00
15	William	Blais	$600.00
16	Michel	Merlitti	$550.00
17	Irina	Tchakarova	$550.00
18	Diana	Shamshoum	$510.00
19	Gregory	Katayama	$510.00
20	Michael	Malette	$475.00
21	John Olivier	Pombert	$475.00
22	Francis	Falardeau	$435.00

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Chip leaders!

2014/03/25 1:39am by Michael Boyle
Tournament: Event 3 – $200 + $20 No Limit Hold'em 6-Max

Level: 17

Small Blind: 5K

Big Blind: 10K

Ante: 1K

Chip Average: 179.2K

Remaining: 30

Entries: 215

Event 3 is down to just 30 players in level 17 and two players have continued to dominate the chip counts as the tournament starts to move towards the bubble.

William Blais

Vincent Bernier

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Level 15 has begun

2014/03/25 12:51am by Michael Boyle
Tournament: Event 3 – $200 + $20 No Limit Hold'em 6-Max

Level: 15

Small Blind: 3K

Big Blind: 6K

Ante: 500

Chip Average: 101.4K

Remaining: 53

Entries: 215

Players in the 6-Max event are just back from a break and have started play in level 15. Here are some of the larger stacks found during the break:

William Blais – 290K
Vincent Bernier – 250K
Kevin Bijian – 200K
Eddie Bangash – 180K
Fuad Shehab Nasser – 175K

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4th place: Tony Stratopoulos

2014/03/25 12:22am by Michael Boyle
Tournament: Event 1 – $135 + $15 No Limit Hold'em Re-entry

Level: 34

Small Blind: 125K

Big Blind: 250K

Ante: 25K

Chip Average: 9.9M

Remaining: 3

Entries: 1492

Play had slowed down considerably while Steve Pouliot was playing with a huge chip advantage and the other 3 had relatively small stacks. After several orbits in which nothing notable happened, suddenly Tony Stratopoulos open shoved and Steve snap called.

Tony:
Steve:

The board gave no help to Tony and he was eliminated in 4th place.

4th place: Tony Stratopoulos, $12,405

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6-Max chip leaders

2014/03/24 11:52pm by Michael Boyle
Tournament: Event 3 – $200 + $20 No Limit Hold'em 6-Max

Level: 12

Small Blind: 1.2K

Big Blind: 2.4K

Ante: 300

Chip Average: 74.7K

Remaining: 72

Entries: 215

The 6-Max event is now in level 12 and a few players have started to build substantial stacks. The top four chip leaders at this point are:

Shane Brotherwood – 185K
William Blais – 170K
Luigi Fantigrossi – 160K
Maxime Theroux – 155K

That being said, there are quite a few players whose stacks are in the 90K to 100K range, and one pot can easily vault a player into the lead.

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6th place: Kevin Blais

2014/03/24 10:46pm by Michael Boyle
Tournament: Event 1 – $135 + $15 No Limit Hold'em Re-entry

Level: 32

Small Blind: 75K

Big Blind: 150K

Ante: 25K

Chip Average: 6M

Remaining: 5

Entries: 1492

Kevin Blais has been eliminated in 6th place on a slightly weird hand. He shoved his small stack of just over 1M chips from the UTG position and the dealer announced the all-in. It folded around to Shawn Martell in the small blind, who threw in two chips without saying a word, which is (of course) a call of the all-in bet. That being said, it was pretty clear from his surprised look that he only meant to call the Big Blind.

There was no controversy, however, as there was no question that it was a call of the all-in by Kevin whether or not it was Shawn’s intention, and he didn’t protest in any way.

As it turned out, Shawn’s was good against Kevin’s on a flop of . The turn brought the and the river cemented the result – .