With no deal in place to influence the pace of play and reasonable stack sizes and chip differential between the two players, one would have been excused to assume that heads up play would be an extended affair... but it was not - Minh Chi Nguyen and Guillaume Tremblay obviously came to play and weren't afraid of a little gambling along the way. Before long, Guillaume was left gasping with just 160K left, and though he doubled once after that, within a few minutes both players were again happy [More...]

By the time heads up play arrived, both players were quite fatigued and with the deal in place, there was some fight between the two players - Christopher Turnbull and Antoine Simon - but both were equally easygoing about the whole affair. The mood was light, the players were happy, there was a nice small rail consisting of Sergei Gurin, and the stage was set for the final stretch of this terrific event. Chris scored an early double to take the chip lead, but before long Antoine had [More...]

Patrick Filteau has emerged as the winner of the first event in the 8-Year Anniversary Series! Today's NL Short Deck Hold'em tournament attracted 49 entries and played out over 7.25 hours in the Tournament Hall here at Playground. Patrick won $1,083 for his efforts - the amount agreed to in a 4-way deal (see below) plus the $143 that was reserved for the winner. Play had gotten down to 4-way action when the players inquired about making a deal, and after counting each of the players' stacks [More...]

After a little more than eight hours of play, we have a winner in today's tournament, Event #3 in the 8-Year Anniversary series, a $100 + $10 + $25 Bounty tournament. Congratulations to Benjamin Mathieu-Comptois on a tournament well played. After battling through a field of 121 entries (which included 30 re-entries), and collecting a whopping twelve $25 Bounties over the course of the day, Benjamin earned a prize of $2,126 plus those bounty chips. Well done! Event #3 Champion: Benjamin [More...]

Marco C. of Montreal, QC has been crowned the Champion of the 8-Year Anniversary edition of the Deepstack! He outlasted 128 players through 27 levels and a grueling 15 hours of play to emerge victorious. After Marco hit an ace on the river to knock Pierre Guay, the final three competitors continued to grind for dominance. When Christine Park knocked out Mark Saddik a half-dozen hands later, it left Marco and Christine to battle it out to the finish. When the tournament was reduced to 7 [More...]

Eric Schanck of Lachine, QC has been crowned the Champion of the 8-Year Anniversary edition of the Playground Shootout Turbo! He outlasted 62 players through 25 levels of play to emerge victorious. It wasn`t always easy going for Eric. He had to endure a heads up battle with Ghita Acordunencei just to secure the last spot at the final table. Ghita and Eric went back and forth long after the other eight spots had been secured, but in the end Eric finally prevailed. When the tournament was [More...]