In addition to the travelling poker pros, there are also (more) than our fair share of top poker players that come from right here in Quebec and the Montreal area. Some who have taken their seats so far:
We’re only part way through level 1 and many players are still making their way to Playground Poker Club to take their seats, but there are already several very well known poker pros at the tables. Some of the pros that have taken their seats so far:
Tony Dunst has made the opening remarks and cards are in the air for the 2014 WPT Montreal!
Be sure to follow the event here in the Playground Poker Event Blog but also be sure to follow WPT Live Updates for detailed event coverage!
Today is a great day at Playground Poker – the beginning of the 3rd WPT Montreal! The WPT Montreal is a $3500 + $350 No Limit Hold’em event with three Day 1s (next day re-entry). It will be a 5 day event – Day 2 will be held on Sunday, November 23rd and the event will play to a conclusion on Wednesday, November 26th.
Players start with 30K in tournament chips and blinds are 60 minutes long for Days 1 and 2 of the event. Late registration is open until the end of the break after level 6. Download a full Rules & Structure sheet for the event.
This year there’s a special prize that you can win by playing in any of the 3 Day 1s in the event. The chip leader of the day at the dinner break (end of level 6) and at the end of the day will win a pair of exclusive Partypoker branded Monster Headphones, courtesy of Partypoker!
There’s another amazing promotion for players in this event. Any player who wins a pot with a Royal Flush (televised or non-televised) will also win the Royal Caribbean International Royal Flush Bonus – a free cruise for that player and a guest on Royal Caribbean.
These are the 10 players remaining in Event 4, The $1000 + $100 WPT Warm-up. Day 2 came to conclusion with the 11th place player was eliminated, which leaves only the final table to be played tomorrow (Thursday November 20) at 3pm.
Here is the seating draw for the final table along with player-reported chip counts for all 10 players.
| First Name | Last Name | Seat | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faisal | Khan | Final Table – Seat 1 | 1748000 |
| Daniel Jason | Strelitz | Final Table – Seat 2 | 411000 |
| Mike | Lafable | Final Table – Seat 3 | 1810000 |
| Vlad | Faubert | Final Table – Seat 4 | 461000 |
| Julien | Fauteux Delorme | Final Table – Seat 5 | 337000 |
| Jonathan | Barrette | Final Table – Seat 6 | 263000 |
| Tim | Ulmer | Final Table – Seat 7 | 345000 |
| Edouard | Dupuis | Final Table – Seat 8 | 887000 |
| Graham | Upton | Final Table – Seat 9 | 224000 |
| Domenico | Scalamogna | Final Table – Seat 10 | 208000 |
Mike Lafable continues to have a leading stack and he has increased his holdings to near 1.5M chips as he eliminated Gary Lucci in 12th place. We missed the preflop action in the hand, but Lucci shoved on a 
board only to see Mike turn over the 
for the set.
Day 2 will continue only until the next player is eliminated. Then, the remaining 10 players will bag up their chips and return for Day 3, tomorrow.
12th place: Gary Lucci, $4,480
Event 4 of the Playground Poker Fall Classic – known as “The $1,100 WPT Warm-up” – was a $1000 + $100 NL Hold’em event. The event attracted a total of 269 entries, which generated a prize pool of $260,930.00. This prize pool will be distributed according to the following table.
Note that the players make a deal at 2 players remaining. They chose to reserve $7,500 and the bracelet for the winner and divide the rest according to chip counts at the time of the deal. Therefore, when the deal was made, Faisal Khan agreed to take $47,135 while Daniel Jason Strelitz agreed to take $49,985. This deal is reflected in the results in the table below.
| Rank | First Name | Last Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Faisal | Khan | $54,635.00 |
| 2 | Daniel Jason | Strelitz | $49,985.00 |
| 3 | Jonathan | Barrette | $27,710.00 |
| 4 | Mike | Lafable | $20,500.00 |
| 5 | Julien | Fauteux Delorme | $15,390.00 |
| 6 | Graham | Lupton | $12,310.00 |
| 7 | Edouard | Dupuis | $10,220.00 |
| 8 | Tim | Ulmer | $8,190.00 |
| 9 | Vlad | Faubert | $6,130.00 |
| 10 | Domenico | Scalamogna | $4,480.00 |
| 11 | Chanso | Munns | $4,480.00 |
| 12 | Gary | Lucci | $4,480.00 |
| 13 | Kuo | Hui-Chen | $3,670.00 |
| 14 | François | Goulet | $3,670.00 |
| 15 | Nikki | Price | $3,670.00 |
| 16 | Ioannis | Pentefountas | $3,130.00 |
| 17 | Fabio | Luongo | $3,130.00 |
| 18 | Eric | Lemarquand | $3,130.00 |
| 19 | Asem | Alsaadi | $2,730.00 |
| 20 | Jessie | Wheatley | $2,730.00 |
| 21 | David | Barter | $2,730.00 |
| 22 | Lonnie | Hallett | $2,450.00 |
| 23 | Louis | Boutin | $2,450.00 |
| 24 | Douglas | James | $2,450.00 |
| 25 | Joshua | Abiscott | $2,160.00 |
| 26 | Dustin | Centanni | $2,160.00 |
| 27 | Sasa | Stancik | $2,160.00 |
After about 10 hands of hand-for-hand play – interrupted by a break in the middle – Xin Qi has been eliminated in 28th place in Event 4. Xin had been short for a few levels already but he came back from the break with under 3 BB and as the blinds came around to his position in Seat 5. He folded both of his blinds as well as the Cutoff and Hijack positions, but with just 14K remaining he called Graham Lupton’s preflop raise to get his last chips in the middle.
Graham: 
Xin: 
The board started out pretty well for Xin when the 
were dealt, but the turn 
and River 
didn’t give Xin his flush and he was out of the tournament.
The rest of the players are now in the money and tournament staff has performed a full redraw with just 3 tables remaining. Play continues in level 19.
Faisal Khan went into the last break as chip leader and since play has resumed he has continued to add to his stack, which has grown to over 425K. Two other big movers so far today are Vlad Faubert and Patrick St-Onge, who are both now playing well over 200K.
During the last break we also found out what has happened to the players who started the day in the lead.
First is Julien Fauteux Delorme, who is the only one among the top 5 to remain among the leaders today.
Among the other leaders to start the day:
None of the chip leaders to start the day have been eliminated, but other than Julien, another group has taken over their positions – and there’s still a long way to go today.
