The field continues to fill up as the day goes on and a few high profile players have joined the field along with some talented players who may not yet have made a “name” for themselves but are nevertheless players to watch.
- Eric Afriat – Eric is a talented local player who has had enormous success in some of the biggest events in the world, including a million-dollar cash and championship at the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown in Hollywood, FL in 2014.
- Yann Dion – Yann is a fixture at big events here at Playground Poker Club, and has been a fixture at big European events for several years now, achieving a great deal of success on a regular basis. Known primarily as an online wizard, Yann has made a very strong transition to the live game as well.
- André Boyer – André is quite simply Quebec’s first poker legend. He won his first WSOP bracelet in 2005 after more than a decade of published cash results in US tournaments – and then in the summer of 2015 proved that poker is not just a young man’s game with his second bracelet win.
- Carter Swidler – Carter hasn’t made a huge breakthrough in a live event (though he has plenty of small and medium cashes going back years) but he’s been at the absolute peak of online poker for years and is most certainly one of the most prominent online players in history.
- Timothy (TJ) Ulmer – TJ is another online poker legend like Carter and Yann, and has been considered among the best of the best for years, having racked up victories in many of the major online series’ over the years.
In addition to these players there is also a long list of players in the field with more limited profiles but who nevertheless have proven their ability in the past, either here at Playground or elsewhere. Some of these are:
- Noeung Troeung
- Patrick Braga
- Chris Arvanitis
- Gary Lucci
- Lonnie Hallett
- Justin Miller
- Roger Lamia
- Carla Sabini
- and many more…
