Event 10 of the Playground Poker Fall Classic is a $300 + $30 NL Hold’em 6-Max event. The event attracted a total of 188 entries, which generated a prize pool of $54,708.00. This prize pool will be distributed according to the following table.
| Finish | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | $12,880.00 |
| 2 | $9,598.00 |
| 3 | $7,010.00 |
| 4 | $5,500.00 |
| 5 | $4,000.00 |
| 6 | $3,000.00 |
| 7 | $2,220.00 |
| 8 | $1,660.00 |
| 9 | $1,240.00 |
| 10 | $1,000.00 |
| 11 | $1,000.00 |
| 12 | $850.00 |
| 13 | $850.00 |
| 14 | $750.00 |
| 15 | $750.00 |
| 16 | $650.00 |
| 17 | $650.00 |
| 18 | $550.00 |
| 19 | $550.00 |
The first break in Event 10 is approaching and there are 185 players in the tournament with registration open until the end of the break. Here are some photos of the players in the tournament taken during the first few levels.
Day 3 of the 2014 WPT Montreal started with 49 players and finished as scheduled with just 18 players remaining. Play will resume at 12pm tomorrow (November 25th) with approximately 6 minutes left in level 23. Play will continue on Day 4 until the official WPT Final Table of 6 players remains.
Tournament staff has performed a full seating redraw for the 18 players remaining. There will be another redraw at 10 players remaining, when the unofficial final table of 10 is brought together.
Counts in the following seating chart are provided by players. Chips have been sealed in bags until they are reopened before play Monday. Click (or tap) on the column headers in the table to sort by Name, Table/Seat, or Chip Count.
| First Name | Last Name | Seat | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edward | Arnold | Table 62 – Seat 4 | 470,000 |
| Alexandre | Blanc | Table 61 – Seat 3 | 367,000 |
| Samuel | Chartier | Table 61 – Seat 6 | 863,000 |
| Jeremie | Damret | Table 61 – Seat 7 | 369,000 |
| Lonnie | Hallett | Table 61 – Seat 9 | 1,440,000 |
| Maurice | Hawkins | Table 61 – Seat 2 | 614,000 |
| Edward | Hislop | Table 62 – Seat 9 | 1,671,000 |
| Philip | Hui | Table 62 – Seat 2 | 691,000 |
| Jonathan | Jaffe | Table 61 – Seat 1 | 2,500,000 |
| Marc Andre | Ladouceur | Table 62 – Seat 6 | 2,066,000 |
| Kevin | Macphee | Table 62 – Seat 1 | 554,000 |
| Maduka | Meragal | Table 62 – Seat 7 | 1,821,000 |
| Jeffrey | Mulder | Table 61 – Seat 5 | 719,000 |
| Sheraz | Nasir | Table 62 – Seat 3 | 1,072,000 |
| Guillaume | Nolet | Table 62 – Seat 5 | 2,000,000 |
| Mukul | Pahuja | Table 61 – Seat 4 | 1,782,000 |
| Ratharam | Sivagnanam | Table 62 – Seat 8 | 2,380,000 |
| Phong | Truong | Table 61 – Seat 8 | 492,000 |
Day 3 of the 2014 WPT Montreal has come to an end as the field has gone from 49 players to just 18 remaining. At the close of play today, Jonathan Jaffe seemed to be the chip leader with over 2.7M in chips, but we’ll have confirmation of this shortly.
The official seating draw and player-provided counts will be published shortly.
Jie Gao has been eliminated in 19th place as he was all-in holding 
and called by Jonathan Jaffe who held the 
. The flop of 
suddenly made even-strength hands anything but, as Jaffe was freerolling for the flush. The turn 
brought that possibility closer and the 
on the river made it 100% – Jaffe hit the flush, and Jie Gao was out of the tournament.
19th place: Jie Gao, $20,240
Preflop, Tim Ulmer was facing a raise to 105K from Guillaume Nolet. He shoved his last 400K (approximately) over the top and when the big blind folded, Guillaume snap called by throwing a single chip onto the table.
Tim: 
Guillaume:
Community cards: 
. Guillaume’s Ace held and TJ Ulmer hit the rail in 20th place.
20th place: Tim Ulmer, $20,240
We missed the hand, but Daniel Suied has been eliminated in 21st place after nursing a short stack all day and laddering up several pay jumps in the process. He was eliminated by Jonathan Jaffe, who is playing almost 2M in chips.
21st place: Daniel Suied, $20,240
Nenad was eliminated when he got it in on the flop with top pair, top kicker against a worse Ace – but suited. 
had already hit the flush and Nenad was eliminated.
22nd place: Nenad Sizgoric, $18,020
Ryan Fee was all-in holding 
and was called by a player holding . The bad news came right on the flop of and the turn and river brought no relief and Ryan was eliminated.
23rd place: Ryan Fee, $18,020
24th place: Philippe Plouffe, $18,020
Three players have hit the rail since we’ve returned from the break. The first to go was Gianluca Cedolia, as he open-shoved his last 261,000 from the small blind on the first hand back from break, and was called by Jonathan Jaffe in the big blind, who had him well covered.
Gianluca: 
Jonathan: 
Board: 
27th place: Gianluca Cedolia, $15,800
A few hands later, it was Francois Billard who found himself with all his chips in the middle, and flipping with Edward Hislop.
Francois:
Edward: 
Edward hit two pairs on the 
board to eliminate Francois in 26th.
26th place: Francois Billard, $15,800
Edward went on to make another elimination, as he 3bet Esfandiari’s 44,000 raise up to 128,000, and then called his 4bet shove for 416,000.
Edward: 
Antonio:
Edward won his second flip versus a pair of black jacks, as he made three of a kind on the 
board.
25th place: Antonio Esfandiari, $15,800
The High Roller event is already up to 45 players and the tournament is only part way through level 1. The field so far is a who’s who of modern poker, including:
…and many more.
While the WPT Montreal plays down from 27 to 18 players this afternoon, Playground Poker is also hosting the beginning of the $10,000 + $400 High Roller tournament. There are already 34 players at the tables with late registration set to continue for over 6 hours, so that number will definitely go up, and possibly quite significantly.
Players start the event with 30K in chips. Play will be 8-handed from the beginning of the tournament, and blind levels are one hour in length for the whole event.
Good luck to all of the players!
There are now just 27 players remaining in the WPT Montreal and now that the tournament has move to 3 total tables there has been a complete seating redraw.
Here is the new seating order.
Table 56
Table 63
Table 64
