Playground Poker

Whereas earlier in the day the number of players in the tournament was constantly increasing, at this point the number of participants will only shrink. We have now pass the 100-mark for the second time today – but this time moving in the opposite direction.

Case in point: On table 25 just now, Tu Khan Tran faced off in a battle against Tommy Inthouray that saw Tran come out victorious, successfully chasing Tommy out of the tournament.

When we joined the action the board was showing and Tommy was all in with an .

Tu, on the other hand, called Tommy’s all in with his . Any 6, Jack or club would get Tu the win, and as he had hoped, a winning card come down on the river. It was a , and Tu made his flush while Tommy was sent packing.

Level 6 has just ended and therefore registration is officially closed for this event.

We had a total of 129 entries, and currently there are 105 players still in contention for the $30,000 minimum guaranteed prize.

Good luck to all the competitors!

Four cards had already been dealt when Stephen Langlois opened with a bet of 5,200. His only opponent Travis Robertson re-raised to 12,000. Considering the average chip stack is only 34,705 at the moment, these were pretty large bets.

Not to be outdone however, Stephen upped the ante again by re-raising all in, drawing an insta-fold from Travis. We didn’t get to see what the players had as their hole cards, but that was the point of Stephen’s aggressive shove.

He collected the substantial pot and the dealer shuffled up the cards, ready to move on to the next hand.

Luigi Fantigrossi is up on top of the pile for now, collecting almost 100,000 chips by the first break.

However, there is still lots of poker left to play, and lots of time for those of you still interested in joining the action to register. Registration closes in about an hour.

Although we missed the hand, as we passed table 26 just now we were flagged down by the players at the table who regretted the fact that we had missed a killer hand.

However, one of the players had taken a photo of the cards on the table during the all in showdown, and so we can relay the story to you through the power of forensic poker reconstruction, a skill all Playground bloggers are expected master.

Alain Corriveau looked at his hole cards, seeing a must have thought he was in a good place. All in against his opponent, his heart no doubt dropped when he saw Olivier Brossard flip over his pocket !

But the crazyness was not over yet.

The flop was dealt , giving Olivier a full house, Aces over Tens and simultaneously giving Alain quad Tens! The turn/river didn’t help Olivier – only the final Ace could do that – and so Alain doubled up and eliminated Olivier from the tournament.

That’s the beauty of poker!

As we were passing by table 34 just now we noticed some unusually large bets, considering the blinds are at 75/150.

The flop had already been dealt when Dimitri Tchakarov opened with a bet of 3,600. It was called by Remi Bourque and an came down on the turn.

At this point Dimitri led out with a bet of 6,100, equivalent to 40bb. This was too much for Remi, who smartly folded. Dimitri turned over his low two pair (a 2 and a 4) and collected the rather large early pot.

Now in the middle of our second 30-minute Deepstack level, we are up to 66 participants.

Below are some shots of those first players to get started in today’s $300 + $30 Deepstack event.

Don’t forget, this tournament has $30,000 guaranteed! Come on down and join the fun, we’re already up to 48 entries in just the first few minutes, with plenty more likely to join us shortly.