Event 4 – $100 + $10 NL Hold’em Deepstack Turbo

Aboudib closes it in Event 4!

2015/11/09 - 20:16 by

After a challenging start to a tournament that saw 69 alternates seated, Rabih Aboudib managed to navigate his way to the mid-tournament among the chip leaders. Once he had wrested the lead from his tough table including former WPT Final Tableist Levi Stevens he never looked back, never relinquished his lead, and took it all the way to a sweet $2,808 payday in this $100 + $10 NL Hold’em Deepstack Turbo tournament. Rabih also won the Event 4 Champion’s trophy for his efforts today.

Event 4 Champion: Rabih Aboudib, $2,808.00

Rabid Aboudib

The final hand of play in Event 4

Rabin Aboudib and Michel Belanger (2nd place)

A deal has been struck

Level: 26

Small Blind: 40K

Big Blind: 80K

Ante: 5K

Chip Average: 1.1M

Remaining: 4

Entries: 169

2015/11/09 - 19:51 by

There were 5 players left in Event 4 when they decided to ask tournament staff about a possible deal. They were informed that $323 and the Champion’s Trophy had to be reserved for the eventual winner and beyond that they could set the terms of the deal or ask for chip chop numbers.

The players quickly decided to offer the 5th place player, David Nadler, $400 over the lowest remaining prize and then evenly chop the remaining prize pool. In other words, the players reserved $323 and the trophy for the winner, the top 4 players by chip count each took $2,485.00, and the smallest stacked player took $1,620.

Everyone quickly agreed to the deal and play continued.

When it did, David Nadler was eliminated almost immediately, and play continues.

Final Table

Level: 24

Small Blind: 25K

Big Blind: 50K

Ante: 5K

Chip Average: 420K

Remaining: 10

Entries: 169

2015/11/09 - 19:06 by Playground Poker

Event 4 of the Playground Poker Fall Classic attracted a total of 169 entries, and the field has now been reduced to the final table of ten players. Coming in as the chip leader is Rabih Aboudib, who holds nearly 1 million in chips, however given the turbo format, the average stack is below the 10 big blind mark, meaning things can change very fast.

Good luck to our final tableists!

First Name \| Prénom	Last Name \| Nom	Stack \| Tapis
Rabih	Aboudib	955,000
Gary	Lucci	590,000
Saman	Rezvani	565,000
David	Keyes	510,000
Darryl	Beel	325,000
Michel	Belanger	315,000
Luc Vincent	Guay	275,000
Basil	Armanazi	260,000
Levi	Stevens	210,000
David	Nadler	205,000

: David Keyes

: Michel Belanger

: Saman Rezvani

: Luc Vincent Guay

: Levi Stevens

: Gary Lucci

: David Nadler

: Rabih Aboudib

: Darryl Beel

: Basil Armanazi

15 minutes to Day 2 in the $250 Frenzy

2015/11/09 - 18:49 by

After six starting flights over 3 full days it might have seemed sometimes like Day 2 would never arrive – but arrive it has, and 307 players will be taking their seats in a matter of minutes to start down the road to the money bubble, and eventually to the $55,000 top prize!

At the top of the leaderboard to start the day are three particularly interesting names.

First is Tanvir Ahmed who built and maintained the largest stack in Day 1a – and though it was the smallest starting flight, his stack managed to remain among the top 2 among all of the stacks that will start Day 2! Tanvir has the hot hand, having gone deep in Event 1 just a few days ago.

Second is Michel Naggar, the chip leader to start the day. Michel is a frequent visitor to Montreal and to Playground and though he is apparently a very successful high stakes cash player, he has been heard many times to bemoan his fate in tournaments. It’s all good-natured, though, and he definitely has the experience to go deep in the tourney.

Third is Nick-Real Seide. Nick is a well-known local player – well known for being a very good tournament player. He already has a second-place finish in a previous Wild $150 and has been a winner at events around Montreal for several years now.

Beyond the top-10 on the starting leaderboard there are some other very solid players to keep an eye on. A partial list:

Will Molson
Michael Korovine
Arthur W
Jason Conforti
Alex Fiorani
Jason Mandanici-Turcot
Bill Kontaratos
Thomas Lefort
Ruben Perceval

Day 2 will play out tonight through 12 30-minute levels at which time the remaining players will bag up their chips to return for Day 3. Between now and then, however, we’re sure to reach the money bubble in the event. There is a ton of gripping poker to come tonight, only at Playground Poker Club.

ITM!

Level: 22

Small Blind: 15K

Big Blind: 30K

Ante: 3K

Chip Average: 281.7K

Remaining: 15

Entries: 169

2015/11/09 - 18:20 by

After about 12 hands of hand-for-hand play – a long time considering relative stack sizes – the remaining players in Event 4 are finally in the money! Maxime Leclerc was the unlucky player on the bubble.

Now that the bubble has passed, the many short stacks have started to play much more openly and we should be at the final table (10 players) in no time at all.

Final 2 tables

Level: 21

Small Blind: 12K

Big Blind: 24K

Ante: 2K

Chip Average: 234.7K

Remaining: 18

Entries: 169

2015/11/09 - 18:03 by

There are just 18 players remaining in Event 4 – they’re on the bubble! They moved to two tables when the tournament got down to 20 players, but with so many short-stacked players it took no time to go from 20 to 18 – and now they’re hand for hand.

Name	Seat	Name	Seat
Darryl Beel	1	Michel Belanger	1
Levi Stevens	2	Gary Lucci	2
Rabin Aboudib	3	Mark Anthony Notte	3
	4	Maxime Leclerc	4
Luc Vincent Guay	5	Basil Armanazi	5
Thomas Fehr	6	Jason Ursomarzo	6
Matthew White	7	Julian Volpe	7
Tomaz Kalinowski	8	Saman Rezvani	8
David Keyes	9		9
Rodney P Russell	10	David Nadler	10

A 3-player leaderboard

Level: 19

Small Blind: 8K

Big Blind: 16K

Ante: 2K

Chip Average: 176K

Remaining: 24

Entries: 169

2015/11/09 - 17:29 by

There are still 24 players left in today’s $100 + $10 NL Hold’em Deepstack Turbo Event, but nevertheless the leaderboard at this point in the tournament contains just three names – there are only three players with stacks significantly above 10bb.

First Name \| Prénom	Last Name \| Nom	Stack \| Tapis
Rabih	Aboudib	691000
Gary	Lucci	571000
David	Keyes	335000

Event 4 – Prize Pool & Payouts

Level: 15

Small Blind: 3K

Big Blind: 6K

Ante: 500

Chip Average: 88K

Remaining: 48

Entries: 169

2015/11/09 - 16:16 by

Event 4 in the Playground Poker Fall Classic was a $100 + $10 NL Hold’em Deepstack Turbo that was held on November 9th. There were a total of 169 players in the event which generated a prize pool of $16,393.00. This will be distributed according to the table below.

Pos	Prize
1	$3,973.00
2	$2,890.00
3	$2,170.00
4	$1,630.00
5	$1,220.00
6	$910.00
7	$690.00
8	$510.00
9	$380.00
10	$290.00
11	$290.00
12	$260.00
13	$260.00
14	$240.00
15	$240.00
16	$220.00
17	$220.00

Everything’s faster in a turbo!

Level: 14

Small Blind: 2.5K

Big Blind: 5K

Ante: 500

Chip Average: 81.3K

Remaining: 52

Entries: 169

2015/11/09 - 16:07 by

Event 4 has already reached level 14 and tournament staff have already taken the opportunity to remove the black T100 chips from play, barely 4 hours into the action! Of the 169 players who started the event, just 52 remain, and among them are some players who have built up some truly awe-inspiring stacks!

Number one is Levi Stevens, who resumed play after the break with an impressive 234K in chips. Levi is an experienced tournament player who made the final table of the most recent WPT Canadian Spring Championship earlier this year, so we’re going to track him closely to see if he can close out this turbo event.

First Name \| Prénom	Last Name \| Nom	Stack \| Tapis
Levi	Stevens	234000
Glenn	Sauve	197500
Luc Vincent	Guay	197000
Leo	Hackenbroch	185500
Steve	Argiropoulos	173000
Ramesh	Arya	149500
Denis	Lafreniere	143000

Level 10 update

Level: 10

Small Blind: 1K

Big Blind: 2K

Ante: 200

Chip Average: 41.4K

Remaining: 102

Entries: 169

2015/11/09 - 15:08 by

The players in Event 4 have returned from their second break and the tourney has settled down about as much as a Turbo can settle – which is to say, not much. The big blind is already 2K, after all, less than 3 hours into the action!

A total of 169 players took a seat once all of the alternates were seated, which is 69 players more than the scheduled capacity. We had to pull in trained dealers from all parts of the organization to make it happen, but it’s an important value at Playground Poker Club that people who want to play a tournament will almost always get a seat.

The huge number of participants means a nice big prize pool – the details of which will be published in just a few minutes.

Here’s the leaderboard as of the last break, and below that some additional photos from the event.