Dany Hamel Boulay – a talented local player who has a lot of success here at Playground – was among the chip leaders at the last break with 109K, and who had grown his stack after the break to over 150K. Unfortunately Dany has just been eliminated from the tournament on a bad beat – in what was a 300K chip pot.
Dany held pocket Aces and ended up 5-betting all-in and found that his opponent held pocket Tens. His opponent hit a ten and Dany hit the rail.
Players are back from their second break of the night and play continues in level 10 of Day 1d of Event 3. During the break, tournament staff there was a colour up as the T25 chips were removed from play. There are 96 players left in action tonight, one of whom (Rawad Haddad) who is playing a stack of just under 200K in chips.
The level 9 has begun on this day 1D of Event 3, and a little less than half of the players who started continue to fight to qualify for Day 2. There are 10 tables currently active and several players distancing themselves from the crowd. The tournament is moving along and players currently have an average of more than 50 big blinds. It would not be surprising to see several small stacks disappear very soon.
The players in Day 1d of Event 3 are currently playing in level 6. Late registration closed with a total of 223 entries tonight, which brings the total number of entries in the event so far to 737. There are 2 additional Day 1 flights coming tomorrow (Sunday), Day 1e at 11am and Day 1f at 7pm. There’s lots of opportunity still to jump in the action!
Here are the final chip counts for Day 1c of The $250 Frenzy, Event 3 of the 2014 Playground Poker Fall Classic. There were a total of 188 entrants in the third of six starting flights in Event 3. Of the 188 players who started, 41 have qualified for Day 2 on Monday, November 17th at 7pm.
Note that these are unverified player-counted chip counts. All chips have been sealed in bags until they return to play on Day 2.
| First Name | Last Name | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|
| Philippe | Plouffe | 288,500 |
| Eric | Levesque | 216,500 |
| Andrew | Lalonde | 211,000 |
| Robert | Johnson | 207,000 |
| Rick | Shamshoum | 166,000 |
| Jonathan | Bussieres | 157,000 |
| Jeff | Belford | 150,000 |
| Tina | Frascarelli | 149,500 |
| J-F | M | 131,500 |
| Jared | Havelock | 116,000 |
| Daniel | Charette | 102,500 |
| Jerome | Demers | 101,000 |
| Karl | Gingras | 91,500 |
| Marcello | Simonetti | 90,500 |
| Zhen | Wang | 83,500 |
| Glenn | Holcombe | 82,500 |
| Stephane | Lacas | 75,500 |
| Mario | Lepine | 74,500 |
| Joey | Silver | 72,000 |
| Andre | Theriault | 70,500 |
| Muhyedine | Fares | 70,000 |
| Simon Pier | Belair-Grondin | 69,500 |
| Andre | Bilodeau | 67,500 |
| Francois | Cholette | 67,500 |
| George | Zakhem | 64,500 |
| Luigino | Di Caprio | 63,000 |
| Tanvir | Ahmed | 62,500 |
| Mario | Fuimidinisi | 60,000 |
| Maxime | Theroux | 57,500 |
| Christakis | Christaki | 56,000 |
| Sourasay | Souvanh | 54,500 |
| Isham | Yamani | 53,500 |
| Christopher | Lourenco | 53,000 |
| Paul | Coolidge | 52,000 |
| Jason | Mottershead | 42,500 |
| Pierre Olivier | Guay | 39,500 |
| Linda | Rioux | 39,000 |
| Louis | Richard | 38,500 |
| Yves | Bohemier | 38,500 |
| Steve | Roussy | 36,000 |
| Michel | Ghaleb | 18,500 |
Players are now bagging their chips as Day 1c of Event 3 has come to a close. There are around 45 players remaining and the chip leader to end the day looks to be Philippe Plouffe, who had a remarkable rush during the final level to take him from average stack to among the leaders at over 180K.
We’ll publish final counts and the final number of qualifiers from today’s flight as soon as tournament staff makes that information available.
The players in Event 3 Day 1c have entered the final level of the day and just 48 players remain.
Here are some photos of the larger stacks taken during the last level.
Play has begun in level 13 with 57 players left of the 188 who started today. With just two levels yet to play, there is still time for people to build up big stacks to take to Day 2 – and a few players have been steadily growing their counts throughout the day.
At the beginning of this level, Robert Johnson and Tina Frascarelli were still the chip leaders with stacks now surpassing 185K. Following him are several players hovering around 130K – Jonathan Bussieres, Eric Levesque, and Isham Yamani. Following these three players are several more between about 95K and 115K – any of whom could challenge for the chip lead before the day is though.
The players in Event 3 Day 1c have just taken their second break of the day while tournament staff removed the green T25 chips from play, and we took the opportunity to find the current leaders during the pause.
