Event 1 Day 1d counts

2014/03/23 3:00am by
Tournament:

There were 341 total entries on Day 1d and 86 players qualified for Day 2. The average stack upon for this flight upon completion was 79,500.

Rank First Name Last Name Chip Count
1 Luc Benoit 222,900
2 Samuel Roussy 201,300
3 Marc-Andre Racicot 196,800
4 Michel Dagenais 185,200
5 Chulsoo Park 185,000
6 Steve Pouliot 151,400
7 Anthony Zakem 151,100
8 Jeffrey Bartlett 146,700
9 Steve Carriere 138,100
10 Genevieve Champagne 137,600
11 Robert Haines 135,200
12 Paul Manoian 131,500
13 Darcy J Wright 126,000
14 Long Phi Pham 123,300
15 Glenn Sauve 122,000
16 Steve Black 119,000
17 Danick Landriault 117,000
18 Christien Beaudoin 116,500
19 Nicola Merlo 109,400
20 Gaston Dumas 105,600
21 Carlo Nini 105,500
22 Raffi Garabetian 105,100
23 Jonathan Castiel 101,100
24 Kiril Martinov Gelev 96,700
25 Robert Deslage 93,100
26 Chris Franklin 90,300
27 Sebastien Circe 90,100
28 Martin Riendeau 87,700
29 Diana Ferreira 87,500
30 Eddie Bangash 84,500
31 Peter Johnson 83,500
32 Michael Mellor 82,500
33 Jordan Martin 82,100
34 Simon Gosselin 81,100
35 James Gall 80,400
36 Eduard Goutnik 76,900
37 Andrew Hum 73,700
38 Steven Mavrigiannakis 73,700
39 Stylianos Stafylakis 71,700
40 Lesley Amos 71,200
41 William Blais 70,500
42 Gino Grande 67,400
43 Johnathan Neil Hansmeyer 67,000
44 Samuel Blouin 66,100
45 Jonathan Tardif 65,400
46 Kevin Yee 64,700
47 Shane St John 64,400
48 Andre Frechette 64,200
49 Jean Philippe Bouchard 64,100
50 Hashem Mohammad 63,400
51 Andrew Lalonde 62,300
52 Maxime Labrecque 61,600
53 Yong Li 60,900
54 Alex Leclerc 60,100
55 Nicholas Belanger 59,100
56 Patrick Carriere 56,500
57 Richard Gagnon 55,200
58 Sylvain Roland 54,600
59 Isabelle Lukawecki 52,800
60 Robert Piche 49,300
61 Stephane Bedard 49,100
62 Joel Malo 49,000
63 Brady Hinnegan 48,600
64 Denis Simard 48,500
65 Blake Hanson 47,600
66 Randy Hayes 47,000
67 Joseph Zambito 46,900
68 Moshe Cohen 46,000
69 Myriam Tessier 45,000
70 Alberto Melendez 41,800
71 Louis-Thomas Tremblay 40,000
72 Mustafa Ismail 38,500
73 Fabrizio Andaloro 37,500
74 Adam Daniels 36,900
75 Stephen Klimasko 36,100
76 Jose Castillo Ruiz 35,100
77 Matthew Parker 35,000
78 Alec Brandstatter 34,600
79 Bianca Perron 32,700
80 Hope Stacey 32,700
81 Etienne Duo 30,400
82 Wade Toutant 26,900
83 Sebastien Laviolette 25,200
84 Donald Rathwell 22,900
85 Dylan Cram 20,000
86 Darren Mcivor 11,000
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Event 1 – Prize pool and payout structure

2014/03/23 1:05am by
Tournament:

The prize pool has been released for Event 1 of the 2014 Playground Poker Spring Classic. The event had a $100,000 prize pool guarantee, but the huge attendance levels allowed the prize pool to blow past this figure as it ballooned to $195,377!

This pool will be allocated according to the following payout structure.

Finish Prize
1 $37,570
2 $23,297
3 $16,860
4 $12,405
5 $9,140
6 $6,740
7 $4,960
8 $3,650
9 $2,695
10-12 $1,990
13-15 $1,680
16-18 $1,425
19-21 $1,210
22-24 $1,035
25-27 $875
28-36 $740
37-45 $660
46-54 $585
55-63 $525
64-72 $465
73-81 $410
82-89 $370
90-99 $370
100-126 $290
127-153 $250
154-162 $230
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Event 1 Day 1b counts

2014/03/23 12:08am by
Tournament:

Of the 426 players who started Day 1b, the following 99 players have qualified for Day 2. The chip average for this flight was 85,900. Day 2 will start on Sunday March 23 at 1pm.

Rank First Name Last Name Chip Count
1 Martin Gelinas 199,900
2 Eric Thibodeau 189,500
3 Ali Awada 176,500
4 Charle-Alexandre Bergeron 169,000
5 Philippe Drouin 166,800
6 Robert Vaillancourt 164,400
7 Mathieu Boucher 159,300
8 Tony Stratopoulos 153,000
9 Francois Deschamps 152,400
10 Martin Beaudin 152,200
11 Nicolas Barrette 152,000
12 Franco Sicondolfi 145,800
13 George Karoubalis 143,800
14 Camille jr Lefebvre 139,700
15 Catherine Graves 139,100
16 Aladin Reskallah 135,000
17 Stephanie Daigle 134,500
18 John Helou 133,000
19 Jonathan Bussieres 132,800
20 Robin Leblanc 129,800
21 Brian Hodhod 129,400
22 Amir Mohsen 127,200
23 Alain Beaulac 126,600
24 Yannick Labattaglia 123,900
25 Jano Salbzian 114,700
26 Johnny Mazzaferro 114,000
27 Christopher Lourenco 113,300
28 Jean-Ronald Drouillard 111,700
29 Robert Petronio 108,400
30 Razvan Pitic 102,300
31 Louis Richard 101,200
32 Marilou St Jean 97,500
33 Bill Kontaratos 97,300
34 Cristian Radita 96,900
35 Chheng Bun 96,300
36 Daniel Cote 96,200
37 Eddie Daldalian 94,700
38 Sammy Chao 92,800
39 Jean Pierre Hetu 91,600
40 Sebastien Gagne 91,600
41 Andrew Humphrey 91,400
42 Manny Walia 89,600
43 ELIAS Stergiopoulos 88,500
44 Dominic Lessard 87,600
45 Gabriel Garzon 84,000
46 Daniel Mackay 83,800
47 Jean-Guy Roy 82,500
48 Jian-Xin Ma 82,200
49 Jean-Francois Lescadres 79,000
50 Yannick Sanscartier 78,400
51 Danny Larivee 77,000
52 Hugo Poitras 75,800
53 Jerry Felberbaum 75,700
54 Peter Marco 75,600
55 Vincent Martin-Bouthillette 74,200
56 Michele Corbeil 73,900
57 Franck Di Scala 72,100
58 Marcello Simonetti 69,600
59 Sascha Pietrowski 66,400
60 Simon Rochefort 66,300
61 Maxime Chabot 64,300
62 Denis Robidoux 62,900
63 Mike Di Criscio 61,400
64 Stephane Gosselin 61,400
65 Serge Huet 60,500
66 Dominique Morin 59,700
67 Valerie Turgeon 57,800
68 Pierre Pharand 57,400
69 Armry Senat 57,100
70 Helene Tennier 57,100
71 German Tamayo 55,300
72 Marc-Andre Gariepy 51,600
73 Etienne Handfield 49,600
74 Mike Saragossi 49,500
75 Martin Grothe 46,000
76 Alexandre Perrault 45,700
77 Simon Marciano 43,200
78 Rodney Ramalho 42,400
79 Jo Duclair 42,000
80 Levon Dedeyan 41,400
81 Ahmad Baalbaki 41,000
82 Jose Pereira 40,400
83 Mark Fitzpatrick 40,300
84 Darcy J Wright 40,000
85 Rodney Harris 39,900
86 Bruno Cote 39,200
87 Jason Ursomarzo 39,000
88 Eduard Goutnik 37,700
89 Franky Dionne 36,700
90 Eric Salois 36,000
91 Mathieu Fournier Gamelin 35,500
92 Andre Hernandez 34,500
93 Stephane Gemme 31,700
94 Samy Shedid 30,900
95 David Gosselin 30,200
96 Janie Grondin 27,700
97 Mike Giancola 27,000
98 Trevor Vrieling 26,900
99 Alexandre Boucher 26,600
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Event 1 Day 1c counts

2014/03/22 8:50pm by
Tournament:

Day 1c saw a total of 396 entrants, which means that through the first three starting flights of Event 1 there have been 1,151 total entries with the final Day 1d running now. After 13 Levels, 110 players remained in today’s flight and the average stack was 71,600. The overall chip leader for the first three flights was among today’s qualifiers.

Day 2 begins tomorrow (Sunday) at 1pm.

Rank First Name Last Name Chip Count
1 Patrick Fortin 272,100
2 Luigi Fantigrossi 197,000
3 Shawn A Martell 174,600
4 Michael Malm 173,300
5 Randy Khalil 170,600
6 Costa Ziakoulis 162,600
7 Justin Bones 156,500
8 David Dastoli 143,600
9 Romy Segal 142,000
10 Roman Ouvarov 131,200
11 Michel Champagne 127,300
12 Eric Schanck 126,300
13 John Clarke 118,700
14 Raphael Clayette 109,100
15 Johnny A Benehoutsos 109,000
16 Richard St-Jean 107,400
17 Ryan Simpson 106,700
18 Timothy Vukson 105,700
19 Jean Benoit Lebel 102,500
20 Gabriel Alarie 98,300
21 Jonathan Poissant 96,800
22 Nicolas Bernatchez 96,500
23 Danny Freitas 96,300
24 Brian Bond 90,900
25 Daniel Charette 90,500
26 Yves Bohemier 89,800
27 Mel Rothman 89,500
28 Eric Labrecque 88,600
29 Nick Petsas 87,100
30 Leandre St-Laurent 86,400
31 Yi Fan Dong 85,700
32 William McElligott 85,100
33 Edmond Dupuis Souliere 84,500
34 Colin Scheckman 83,600
35 Douglas Mcginnis 82,600
36 Martin Beaudry 82,400
37 Dave Brochu 81,400
38 Nicolas Prieur 76,200
39 Francois Lacasse 76,000
40 Michel Merlitti 75,600
41 Samuel Leblanc 74,700
42 Alain Lindsay 72,600
43 Leonard Cruz 72,200
44 Stephen Smith 71,400
45 Jean-Hugo Robitaille 70,700
46 Trevor Vrieling 70,500
47 Andrea Stracuzzi 70,000
48 Nicholas Soller 70,000
49 Daniel Arseneau 69,500
50 Greg Allen 67,900
51 Ramzi Karam 66,900
52 Luc Robillard 66,500
53 Nicolas Leclerc 64,500
54 Martin Messier 64,400
55 Sebastien Allain 63,600
56 Mathieu Paquette 62,500
57 Ian Armorer 62,300
58 Asm Nazmul Huda 61,300
59 Yvan Gravel 58,900
60 Douglas Mackie 57,200
61 Olivier Livernoche 56,900
62 Lily Kornik 56,600
63 Krzysztof Birecki 56,000
64 Matthew Brunskole 55,600
65 Dave Jeanneau-Cyr 55,200
66 Norman Gauthier 55,000
67 Kevin Blais 52,400
68 Yannick Lapointe 52,300
69 David Brunelle 52,000
70 Stephane Madore 51,800
71 Patrick Bergeron 51,600
72 Dominic Sanche 51,100
73 Anothony Ciambella 48,800
74 Aaron Czaja 46,700
75 Michel Leblond 46,500
76 Dany Hamel Boulay 46,400
77 Tedde Ballanger 46,300
78 Jay Doerr 46,000
79 tony Farcy 45,600
80 Martin Grenier 45,400
81 Ryan Levine 44,500
82 Raphael Duval 44,300
83 Marc Guerbilsky 43,400
84 Mathieu Gouin 43,000
85 Steve Toulch 42,400
86 Terrence Davis 42,400
87 Stephane Brisebois 41,300
88 Felix Brochu 39,900
89 Patrice Primeau 38,100
90 Denis Martel 36,700
91 Phil Chaif 35,900
92 Jacques Sigouin 34,500
93 Colin Horner 34,300
94 Timothy Taylor 33,900
95 Richard Alexander Cisneros Campuzano 33,700
96 Stephen David Gordon Stables 33,300
97 Nimer Ltaif 32,200
98 Gabriel Paquin 31,700
99 Denis Quirion 31,500
100 Andrew Dick 29,300
101 Alain Rondeau 28,700
102 Saul Tam 28,600
103 Mathieu Letourneau 26,300
104 Mario Lepine 25,100
105 Alex Guerrera 20,500
106 Sebastien St-Onge 18,600
107 Jean-Bruno Courcelles 18,200
108 Douglas Mcqueer 16,700
109 Andrew Boujaoude 14,500
110 Hope Stacey 7,400
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And finally… Day 1d!

2014/03/22 8:50pm by
Tournament:

Although the $135 + $15 No Limit Hold’em Re-entry format is the usual – and very popular – way that we kick off major tournament series’ at Playground, this is the first time we have run the event with four Day 1s.

So far the event has been a hit – and we surpassed the guarantee last night – so the extra Day 1 being played tonight will do two things: a) give players an additional chance to qualify for Day 2, and b) pump up the prize pool so we’ll be able to pay out more money to more players when the whole affair comes to a conclusion on Monday night.

As the tournament is about to start there are already 272 registrants with a published cap of 350 and late registration open until about 10:10pm tonight.

Good luck to all!

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A typical EOD hand…

2014/03/22 6:15pm by
Tournament:
  • Level: 13
  • Small Blind: 1K
  • Big Blind: 2K
  • Ante: 300
  • Chip Average: 62.9K
  • Remaining: 126
  • Entries: 396


    • Asm Nazmul Huda just doubled through Dany Hamel Boulay in the kind of hand that’s likely being played throughout the tournament at this stage in the day.

    Blinds were 800/1600/a200 and the button was on seat 4. Dany Hamel Boulay, a respected local player raised in early position to 3.2K, and Alain Rondeau and Terrence Davis both called. Huda had shoved from the Big Blind on the previous and gotten no resistance – but this time there were already 3 players who had expressed an interest in the pot.

    Boulay thought for a few seconds and shoved over the top with his 100K+ stack. Rondeau and Davis both insta-folded and the cards were flipped over. Huda showed Ace of Hearts 7 of Spades while Boulay had 5 of Diamonds 5 of Clubs.

    The board ran out 7 of Hearts 7 of Clubs 2 of Hearts to put Huda well in the lead and the turn 10 of Clubs changed nothing. Boulay didn’t connect on the river either, with the 2 of Spades giving Huda the Boat. Huda took 24K from Boulay on the hand plus the Big Blind, the antes, and the initial 3.2K from each of Rondeau and Davis left him with 58K – which will be a an OK, if below average, starting stack on Day 2.

    Play has now moved into the last level of Day 1c.

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    Some early big stacks

    2014/03/22 3:31pm by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 7
  • Small Blind: 250
  • Big Blind: 500
  • Ante: 75
  • Chip Average: 26.6K
  • Remaining: 298
  • Entries: 396


    • It’s still early in the day for anyone to have grown a huge stack, but there are a few players whose chip count is starting to set them apart from the field – at least 5 players are up over 60K and two are inching up on 100K!

    Some of the bigger stacks at the moment:

    80K+

    • Kyle Catling
    • Aris L-Dupont

    60K+

    • Randy Khalil
    • Jean-Kristophe Guillette
    • Shawn A Martell
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    Back from break

    2014/03/22 2:41pm by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 5
  • Small Blind: 150
  • Big Blind: 300
  • Ante: 50
  • Chip Average: 23.3K
  • Remaining: 340
  • Entries: 396


    • The players are back from their first break of the day and action continues in Level 5. They’re playing 13 levels total today, so the action should wind up at around 7:30pm this evening.

    The final number of entries in Day 1c after all late registrants were seated is 396, which means that through the first three flights of Event 1 there have been 1,151 total entries.

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    Early Day 1c action

    2014/03/22 1:59pm by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 4
  • Small Blind: 100
  • Big Blind: 200
  • Ante: 25
  • Chip Average: 22.1K
  • Remaining: 346
  • Entries: 382


    • Not that many people seem to have been put off by the snowstorm (or the bridge closure this weekend) and registration is up over 380 entries with some time left to late register.

    Here are some photos of the action today.

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    Today in the Spring Classic (March 22)

    2014/03/22 12:50pm by
    Tournament:

    Spring in the Montreal area is defined by two things: increasingly warm, beautiful weather… and the big spring snowstorm that drops a few inches before melting and clearing the way for the real springtime.

    Today is the day for the big spring snowstorm in Montreal! On my way to Playground this morning I stopped for coffee and in 20 minutes about 2 inches accumulated on the car. Luckily, it has already subsided quite a bit, and the highways are surprisingly clear and safe to travel. If there’s one civic project we get right in this area, it’s roadway snow clearing!

    You’d think this might herald a quiet day for Days 1c and 1d in Event 1, the $135 + $15 No Limit Hold’em Re-entry event that’s on now, but there are already just a shade under 200 players registered today and experience teaches us that this projects out to easily 350 or more runners in today’s daytime flight. We expect a comparable number tonight, which means the prize pool, which has already blown past the guaranteed $100,000, may actually start to edge towards $200,000!

    For a tournament with a total $150 buy-in, that adds up to some pretty great prizes for those who manage to qualify for Day 2 on Sunday and then compete for the win on Monday evening.

    Good luck to everyone today!

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