The action occurred extremely quickly so we were not able to catch up to the hand, but Hung-Phi Nguyen has been eliminated in 10th place.
10th place, Hung-Phi Nguyen, $3,600
Hung-Phi Nguyen
10th place: Hung-Phi Nguyen
Final Table
The final table has been assembled for the $1,000 + $100 NL Hold’em Deepstack tournament, Event 5 in the Playground Poker Fall Classic presented by Partypoker.net.
During the event we have learned a few of the players’ nicknames and have included them here!
Final Table
- Vi Thanh Tony “Gameboy” To
- Alexander James “Cheese” Allison
- Fabio Luongo
- Robert Taylor
- Alain Joseph Clement Chauvette
- Jonathan Schaler
- Brian R Iseman
- Mau Le Ho Tran
- Hung-Phi Nguyen
- Azim “Sammy” Popatia
Deron Noksana out 11th
There are just 10 players remaining in Event 5 as Deron Noksana, who had been nursing a tiny stack for hours, was finally eliminated in 11th place.
By the time of his elimination hand he only had 57K in chips – just over 3bb – and although he had waited for a hand – he flipped over 
– he also learned the dangers of making it profitable for a player to call with any two cards. In this case, Gameboy (aka Vi Thanh Tony To) shrugged and called with 
.
The board runout was no good for Deron: 
for treys up and he was out in 11th.
11th place, Deron Noksana, $3,600
Deron Noksana
Full leaderboard into level 22
The players in Event 5 have just taken a break and we took the opportunity to refresh the counts for each of the 11 players remaining. By the way, as soon as the next player is eliminated play will pause as there is a re-draw for the final table.
Updated/Dernière mise à jour: 2015/11/11 20:12| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|
| Fabio | Luongo | 929000 |
| Alain Joseph Clement | Chauvette | 779000 |
| Azim "Sammy" | Popatia | 740000 |
| Mau Le Ho | Tran | 678000 |
| Vi Thanh Tony "Gameboy" | To | 491000 |
| Robert | Taylor | 472000 |
| Alexander James | Allison | 435000 |
| Hung-Phi | Nguyen | 340000 |
| Brian R | Iseman | 241000 |
| Jonathan | Schaler | 207000 |
| Deron | Noksana | 59000 |
Next to go: Kazarian and Loukanikas
Players continue to be eliminated quickly as Bill Loukanikas and George Kazarian were both eliminated within just minutes of one another in 12th and 13th place.
First to go was George. Sammy Popatia opened the action to 25K and if folded around to George, who went all in for his remaining chips. Sammy quickly called and the cards were turned over:
George: 
Sammy: 
.
The community cards kept the best hand in the lead: 
and Sammy stacked the chips.
Just a couple of minutes later, on a board reading 
, Bill got it in on the good side of things holding 
. Tran couldn’t resist making the call with 
and just like that a 
was dealt to pair the board and just like that, Bill was out.
13th place: George Kazarian, $2,960
George Kazarian
12th place: Bill Loukanikis, $3,600
Bill Loukanikas
Routhier out 14th
Pierre Routhier had been nursing a small stack for some time but doing it with skill and good timing, picking up enough blinds and antes to stay above water for at least the last few levels. However, his good timing had to end, and so it did at the hands of Tony To, who eliminated Pierre in 14th place.
Tony open-limped, fully aware that both the bb and sb were very short-stacked, and found a call from Pierre in the sb and a check from George Kazarian in the bb.
The flop was dealt: 
Pierre pulled a stop-and-go and pushed his last 60K or so into the middle. George folded, but Tony wasn’t going anywhere: he instantly called.
Pierre: 
Tony:
Tony had flopped the straight with redraws available to the straight flush. The 
changed nothing and Pierre made his way to the Tournament Desk to receive his payout coupon.
14th place, Pierre Routhier, $2,960
Pierre Routhier
Two popular locals eliminated
Benoit Jean and Marie-Pier Simard have been eliminated from the tournament, leaving just 14 players left at the tables.
15th place, Marie-Pier Simard, $2,960
Marie-Pier Simard
16th place, Benoit Jean, $2,510
Benoit Jean
Luongo takes out Holley
Fabio Luongo is making his mark in the tournament as he has just eliminated Gregory Holley and in doing so moved to among the chip leaders with 16 players remaining. Gregory Holley finishes in 17th pace
17th place, Gregory Holley, $2,510
18th place, Curtis Lionel George Bernsten, $2,510
Just 18 players remain
The eliminations have come at a regular pace since the bubble and the tournament is now down to two tables. The next redraw will be at 10 players remaining.
Table 39
- Bill Loukanikas
- Benoit Jean
- Jonathan Schaler
- Brian R Iseman
- Alain Joseph Clement Chauvette
- Gregory Holley
- Mau Le Ho Tran
- Robert Taylor
- Fabio Luongo
Table 40
- Deron Noksana
- Curtis Lionel George Bernsten
- Pierre Routhier
- George Kazarian
- Alexander James Allison
- Marie-Pier Simard
- Azim “Sammy” Popatia
- Vi Thanh Tony To
- Hung-Phi Nguyen
New leaderboard, level 19
During the last break while tournament staff was removing the purple T500 chips from play we managed to get complete chip counts for all of the players remaining in the tournament at the break.
Here’s the leaderboard at the last break – and you can consult the full chip counts via the link to the upper right (with the black background).
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|
| Alexander James | Allison | 620000 |
| Brian R | Iseman | 563000 |
| Alain Joseph Clement | Chauvette | 522000 |
| Mau Le Ho | Tran | 462000 |
| Azim "Sammy" | Popatia | 462000 |
| Gregory | Holley | 362000 |
| Bill | Loukanikas | 327000 |
| Jonathan | Schaler | 299000 |
| Fabio | Luongo | 277000 |
Alexander James Allison
