Action folded around to Karo Lyne Dufour in the small blind, and she moved her 435K stack into the middle with only Michael David Yeomans left to act, who made a quick call with his 900K+ stack.
Karo Lyne: 
Michael: 
Michael gave a little fist pump when he saw the window card, an 
, and his pair held up on a board of 
, sending Karo Lyne to the cashiers to collect her $3,115 prize.
8th place: Karo Lyne Dufour, $3,115
Trieu Dung Hong has eliminated Jerome St-Onge in 9th place for $2,335.00.
Trieu raised from middle position to 60K and Jerome went deep in the tank from two seats to his left. After about 2 minutes he quietly announced “all-in”. Everyone folded back to the initial raiser who quickly called.
Trieu Dung Hong: 
Jerome St-Onge: 
The Kings held on a board of 
and Trieu added Jerome’s 320K stack to his own.
9th place: Jerome St-Onge, $2,335.00
The final table has just had its first elimination. Kelly Smith started the final table with just 48K in chips but in early action had doubled up to just over 100K. In the hand in question it folded around to her in the hijack and she pushed her two stacks to the centre. Karo Lyne Dufour in the cutoff insta-shoved over the top and the button and blinds folded.
Kelly flipped over a serious hand – 
, but unfortunately for her, Karo had the most serious hand – 
.
The board runout of 
didn’t give Kelly help (though the turn was a pretty interesting card) and her tournament is over.
10th place: Kelly Smith, $1,745.00
The 10 players remaining in Event 4 have returned to play down to a winner today and action is underway in Level 24 of the tournament.
We’ll be covering the action on the final table all the way to the end, so stay tuned!
Play has ended in Day 2 of Event 4 with the final table of ten players set to resume tomorrow at 3pm.
Here is the seating chart for the final table along with the chip counts each player bagged up at the end of play today.
| First Name | Last Name | Seat | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daniel | Smouha | Seat 2 | 450,000 |
| Jason | Griffith | Seat 4 | 653,000 |
| Jerome | St-Onge | Seat 3 | 462,000 |
| Justin | Leeson | Seat 10 | 1,359,000 |
| Karo Lyne | Dufour | Seat 7 | 405,000 |
| Kelly | Smith | Seat 6 | 48,000 |
| Larry | Farr | Seat 9 | 247,000 |
| Michael David | Yeomans | Seat 8 | 960,000 |
| Michael | Malm | Seat 5 | 442,000 |
| Trieu Dung | Hong | Seat 1 | 500,000 |
David Baba was eliminated one spot shy of the final table of Event 4. Jason Griffith open the action preflop to 40K from early position, and Kelly Smith moved all-in next to act. David Baba then announced he was also all-in, but his stack was considerably smaller than the other two. Jason hesitated for a minute before completing both all-ins, and all three were off to the flop.
Jason Griffith: 
Kelly Smith: 
David Baba: 
The board of 
was what Jason was hoping for, as it paired his ace (and his queen), good enough to scoop the pot. Kelly was left with a mere 48K, but will be back tomorrow for the final table.
With that elimination, Day 2 of Event 4 is now complete, and the final table will be played out tomorrow afternoon at 3:00pm (Thursday March 27th).
11th place: David Baba, $1,745
Since Justin Leeson doubled through Mark Fitzpatrick there have been some interesting dynamics on the table he shares with Michael Malm, Karo Lyne Dufour, Larry Farr, and Daniel Smouha. The action at the table has gotten very aggressive preflop and when the action is being contested between 2 or 3 of the large stacks at the table each move has huge implications.
One hand in particular is illustrative. Daniel raised UTG to 36K and Justin called. Michael then 3-bet to 155K and got a fold from Daniel. Justin was another story – he chose to 4-bet shove his almost 600K stack, which Michael covered but by a very small margin.
Michael went in the tank for about 4 minutes until he finally folded and Justin stacked the chips.
Mark Fitzpatrick has been eliminated in 12th place for $1,605.
The elimination was a two-stage affair that started with Justin Leeson open jamming his 295K stack from the button and Mark called from the Small Blind. The Big Blind folded and the hands were turned over.
Justin:
Mark:
The flop was very fortunate for Mark: 
but Justin faded Mark’s flush outs with an turn and 
river. The hand left Mark with under 100K in chips.
A few hands later Mark open shoved 93K from middle position and was called by Daniel Smouha in the BB.
Mark: 
Daniel:
The runout of was no help to Mark and he is eliminated.
12th place: Mark Fitzpatrick, $1,605
Michael Malm is trying to make his second final table in this Playground Poker Spring Classic, and has just increased his stack by over 200K by eliminating Faizel Satchu in 13th place.
Michael raised to 37K from UTG, and was faced with a decision when Faizel went all-in from the big blind for around 230K. He finished by making the call, but needed to improve if he was to win the hand.
Michael: 
Faizel:
The flop was good for Michael, and the turn even better as it assured him the win on a board of 
.
13th place: Faizel Satchu, $1,605
Kelly Smith has definitely been the most active player on table 65, and in the last few orbits we’ve seen her stack go on a virtual roller-coaster ride. She managed to grind her stack up to over 400K before sending around 250K over to Jason Griffith in a hand that made it to the river, but didn’t showdown. She then proceeded to move all-in preflop several times in the next few hands, all of which were uncalled, and picked up some valuable blinds.
Holding a little over 300K, she 3-bet jammed Jerome St-Onge’s preflop open to 40K from early position, and got the call. Her and was up against , but the board of 
ran in favour of Jerome, who doubled to over 500K, leaving Kelly with only 54K.
The very next hand she was all-in (blind) with 
versus Jason’s , and doubled her stack up on a board.
A few hands later, she found herself all-in again, this time with versus the 
of Trieu Dung Hong. She paired her ace on a 
, and climbed up to 295K. A few hands later she 3-bet jammed again over Jerome’s 40K UTG raise, and this time managed to make him fold. She is now nearing the 400K mark again.
