Past deep runs here at Playground

2014/03/28 3:46pm by
Tournament:
  • Level: 6
  • Small Blind: 200
  • Big Blind: 400
  • Ante: 50
  • Chip Average: 38.9K
  • Remaining: 235
  • Entries: 305


    • We’ve noticed a few players in today’s Day 1b field that have had success in some of the previous series here at Playground Poker Club. Here is an album of some of these players, along with their biggest past finishes:

     

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    A view of our tournament room

    2014/03/28 2:22pm by

    The tournament room here at Playground Poker Club has nearly 300 players in it right now with Day 1b of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship Main Event underway, and this number is roughly half the mount of players that we can accommodate in this room. Add another 16 tables available on our cash-game side, and it makes for one exciting place to be when it fills up!

    Here is a 360 view of the room:

    360 View of the Tournament Hall at Playground Poker Club

     

    Filed Under: Spring Classic News, Event 6 - Day 1b

    The first leaders

    2014/03/28 1:37pm by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 4
  • Small Blind: 100
  • Big Blind: 200
  • Ante: 25
  • Chip Average: 32.2K
  • Remaining: 267
  • Entries: 287


    • After 3 levels of play, the field is led by Fuad Nasser who is holding just over 90k. Not far behind are Ivan Mamuzic (76K), Michael Neuber (75K), Jonathan Cohen (73K) and Calogero Graci (70K). A number of players are also in the 60K-70K range, such Tyler Thomas (68K), Steve Kidman (67K), Yassin Choukri (67K), Paul Basi (66K), Karl Gingras (64K), amongst others.

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    Early level photos

    2014/03/28 12:34pm by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 3
  • Small Blind: 75
  • Big Blind: 150
  • Ante: 25
  • Chip Average: 30.9K
  • Remaining: 261
  • Entries: 269


    • Two levels have come and go here in this second Day 1 of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship Main Event, and attendance has climbed up to 269 entries.

    Here are a few photos of players participating in Day 1b:

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    Entries keep on coming in

    2014/03/28 12:14pm by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 2
  • Small Blind: 75
  • Big Blind: 150
  • Ante: 0
  • Chip Average: 30.6K
  • Remaining: 258
  • Entries: 263


    • We’re half-way through level 2 in today’s flight of the $1000 + $100 WPT Canadian Spring Championship and new players keep joining the tournament at a steady pace. This flight is already up to 263 entries with another 2+ hours to register.

    Among the players at the tables today are such notables as Gavin Smith, Marc-Etienne McLaughlin, Mike Sexton, Mike Leah, and yesterday’s Bad Beat Jackpot winner Richard Figiel.

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    Day 1b… go!

    2014/03/28 11:09am by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 1
  • Small Blind: 50
  • Big Blind: 100
  • Ante: 0
  • Chip Average: 30K
  • Remaining: 200
  • Entries: 200


    • It’s a snowy (!) Friday morning in the Montreal area, but the snow hasn’t hindered players from getting to Playground Poker Club to take their seats for Day 1b of the WPT Canadian Spring Championships. So far 200 players have been seated with late registrations coming all the time, so this Friday flight is definitely going to be busier than yesterday’s Day 1a.

    Good luck to all of the players today!

    Mike Sexton "Shuffle Up and Deal!"

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    WPT CSC Day 1a final chip counts

    2014/03/27 10:26pm by
    Tournament:

    A total of 219 players entered Day 1a of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship today, and 62 players remained at the end of 13 levels and have qualified for Day 2 on Sunday March 30. All players who entered the event today may enter again for Day 1b or Day 1c; if a player qualifies on multiple days, their smallest stack will be removed from the tournament.

    Rank First Name Last Name Chip Count
    1 Eric Davis 276,300
    2 Andre Turcotte 267,800
    3 Boyd Oneill 241,100
    4 Mark Wilson 225,400
    5 Ruben Perceval 218,300
    6 Nicolas Aubin 216,700
    7 Jean-Guy Boyer 207,100
    8 Steven Schartner 193,900
    9 Eric Levesque 180,000
    10 William R Mullen 162,600
    11 Alain Toledano 161,200
    12 Ioannis Pentefountas 160,500
    13 Georges Anthony Dunst 155,000
    14 Chase Olsen 136,400
    15 Jonathan Poissant 134,600
    16 Bill Loukanikas 133,200
    17 Eric Afriat 131,500
    18 William Foxen 126,400
    19 Amirmasoud Babakhani 125,000
    20 Joseph Leblanc 121,100
    21 Marc Etienne Blais 117,400
    22 Oliver David Greer 117,100
    23 Mathieu Martin 115,800
    24 Leng Khauv 112,900
    25 Glen Hammers 108,100
    26 Dale Chalifoux 105,000
    27 Wafic Fala 105,000
    28 Victor Adams 99,700
    29 Gerry Lye 99,400
    30 Michel Naggar 98,000
    31 Danny Ayoub 97,000
    32 Daniel Schreiber 93,700
    33 Jean-Philippe Matte 92,500
    34 Jean-Yves Blais 90,400
    35 Dan Wells 89,200
    36 Tony DiMaria 88,500
    37 Xuan Liu 87,300
    38 Patrick Lalonde 83,600
    39 Daniel Cote 77,400
    40 Ben Menache 73,700
    41 Kevin St Denis 70,000
    42 Alexander Wong 66,600
    43 Kevin MacDonald 64,100
    44 David Ormsby 61,300
    45 Darcy J Wright 60,000
    46 Antoine Berube 59,700
    47 Youssef Bejjani 57,700
    48 Olivier Racine 56,200
    49 Dylan Wilkerson 55,100
    50 Rayan Chamas 49,100
    51 Stephen Caplan 48,600
    52 Roger Lamia 47,900
    53 Tam Ho 42,900
    54 Shawn A Martell 41,800
    55 Robert Cohen 41,600
    56 Joel Bullock 38,600
    57 Gregory Katayama 38,000
    58 Charles-Eric Benoit 36,200
    59 Alexandre Morel 36,000
    60 Garen Galanti 31,200
    61 Shawn O'Dell 25,500
    62 Ramzi Karam 24,500
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    A few late Day 1a photos

    2014/03/27 9:09pm by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 13
  • Small Blind: 1K
  • Big Blind: 2K
  • Ante: 300
  • Chip Average: 95.2K
  • Remaining: 69
  • Entries: 219


    • We are now entering the last level of play for this Day 1a, and in less that 45 minutes the remainder of the players will bag and tag their chips for Day 2. Those who were unable to play today, or who tried but simply didn’t make Day 2, will be able to try to qualify tomorrow with Day 1b scheduled at 11:00am, or the day after (Saturday) with Day 1c also at 11:00am.

    Here is an album of photos taken during level 12:

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    Some chip leaders in these late levels

    2014/03/27 8:22pm by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 12
  • Small Blind: 800
  • Big Blind: 1.6K
  • Ante: 200
  • Chip Average: 80.1K
  • Remaining: 82
  • Entries: 219


    • We are back from the last break of the night, which means that Day 1a of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship Main Event will be over upon the completion of two more 45-minute level.

    With the average being just over 80K, the following players have managed to build stacks north of twice that amount:

    1. Boyd O’Neill – 290K
    2. Eric Davis – 220K
    3. Eric Afriat – 212K
    4. Alain Toledano – 205K
    5. Jonathan Poissant – 195K
    6. Jean-Guy Boyer – 190K
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    Some chip leaders

    2014/03/27 6:08pm by
    Tournament:
  • Level: 9
  • Small Blind: 400
  • Big Blind: 800
  • Ante: 100
  • Chip Average: 59.2K
  • Remaining: 111
  • Entries: 219


    • There is a new tournament chip leader, Playground regular (and experienced tournament player) Eric Afriat, who is sitting on over 240K chips. Following closely behind him is Alain Toledano (195K) and a few players in the 140K to 160K range, including: Boyd O’Neill, Nicolas Aubin, Jhonatan Morales, and Eric Davis.

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