Following a utg open from Brian Yoon, Eric Schanck moved in from the button, and Brian made the call.
Brian: 
Eric: 
Brian made a flush on the 
to eliminate Eric in 10th place.
10th place: Eric Schanck – $400
10th place: Eric Schanck
2014/11/19 2:58am by
- Level: 19
- Small Blind: 10K
- Big Blind: 20K
- Ante: 2K
- Chip Average: 473.3K
- Remaining: 9
- Entries: 213
Final Table
2014/11/19 2:45am by
- Level: 19
- Small Blind: 10K
- Big Blind: 20K
- Ante: 2K
- Chip Average: 426K
- Remaining: 10
- Entries: 213
Event 5 is down to 10 players, which means we have our final table! Here are the ten finalists:
Final Table
Seat 1. Marc-Andre Racine
Seat 2. Eric Schanck
Seat 3. Gheorghe Priala
Seat 4. Manfred Gunther
Seat 5. Brian Yoon
Seat 6. Patrick Mailloux
Seat 7. Franco Amorelli
Seat 8. Anthony Ciambella
Seat 9. Andreas Loubounakis
Seat 10. Marc Guerbilsky
Congratulations!
Event 5 Champion Brian Yoon and Runner-up Franco Amorelli
Event 5 Champion: Brian Yoon
Event 5 Champion: Brian Yoon
Last Hand of Play in Event 5
Event 5 Heads-Up: Franco Amorelli vs Brian Yoon
Marc Guerbilsky
Patrick Mailloux
Andreas Loubounakis
Manfred Gunther
Franco Amorelli
Leaders at the break
2014/11/19 2:13am by
- Level: 19
- Small Blind: 10K
- Big Blind: 20K
- Ante: 2K
- Chip Average: 284K
- Remaining: 15
- Entries: 213
With Event 5 on break, we did some chip counts. These are the current chip leaders, and their approximate chip counts:
- Manfred Gunther – 670,000
- Brian Yoon – 480,000
- Eric Schank – 475,000
- Anthony Ciambella – 430,000
- Andreas Loubounakis – 385,000
The bounty is in the money
2014/11/19 1:49am by
- Level: 17
- Small Blind: 6K
- Big Blind: 12K
- Ante: 1K
- Chip Average: 224.2K
- Remaining: 19
- Entries: 213
The 50/50 Bounty event is now in the money! Shortly after the fact, we saw a few short stacks move in and get eliminated. We are now down to the final two tables.
The WPT Warm-up is warming up!
2014/11/18 7:43pm by
- Level: 10
- Small Blind: 500
- Big Blind: 1K
- Ante: 100
- Chip Average: 56.5K
- Remaining: 119
- Entries: 269
Play in Event 4, the $1000 + $100 WPT Warm-up, has reached level 10 and a few of the players still in the action have managed to accumulate some very healthy stacks that should – if things go well – vault them towards Day 2. The players are back from their third break of Day 1 and during the break we were able to update the leaderboard to this point in the event.
- Dustin Centanni – 170K
- Mark Darner – 153K
- David Ryan Enda – 152K
- Jonathan Barrette – 141K
- David Barter – 136K
- Gary Lucci – 132K
One note about the leaderboard – Mark Darner and David Ryan Enda are sitting one seat away from each other on table 63!
The Fifty Fifty!
2014/11/18 6:24pm by
Tonight will be a very busy night at Playground Poker Club, with three tournaments going on simultaneously for much of the evening. Event 3 is wrapping up and will play to a winner, Day 1 of the WPT Warm-up will continue until about 10:45 tonight… and we’re also hosting Event 5, which is a 50/50 Bounty tournament ($100 + $20 + $100 NL Hold’em Bounty).
Fifty-fifty means simply that exactly half of a player’s buy-in goes to the prize pool, and the other 50% ($100) goes to a bounty chip that the player will keep until they are eliminated – when they will give it to the player who eliminated them. In other words, for every player you eliminate from the event, you get $100!
This is a very popular format, and players should be aware that due to the high level of activity tonight, we can only accept 150 players plus a maximum of 50 alternates. So if you are planning to join us for this event, it would be a good idea to ensure that you arrive at Playground in good time – if you wait until the end of the late registration period you may not have a chance to enter!
