Welcome to Event 12!

2013/10/01 8:07pm by

Just as Monday night is 6-Max night, Tuesday night is Omaha night here at Playground Poker Club. On the agenda tonight is a Pot Limit Omaha 3 Lives tournament.

A 3 Lives tournament is a freezeout, except that each player is given 3 “life” chips which represent 10,000 chips each. During the first four levels, players can use these life chips as they wish – they can redeem all three at once to start with 30,000, or they can redeem one for 10,000 and use the other two as “virtual” rebuy chips. At the end of level 4, all remaining “life chips” are redeemed and the tournament continues with all of the chips on the tables.

The tournament is just underway and the tournament capacity is 120 plus alternates, so there’s plenty of time to jump in the action!

Filed Under: Event 12 - Pot Limit Omaha 3 Lives $180 + $20

Day 4, Table 39

2013/10/01 7:02pm by

Table 39 will be made up of the following players to start Day 4.

Filed Under: Event 8 - Day 4

Day 4, Table 38

2013/10/01 7:00pm by

Table 38 will be made up of the following players to start Day 4.

Filed Under: Event 8 - Day 4

Day 4, Table 34

2013/10/01 6:58pm by

Table 34 will be made up of the following players to start Day 4.

Filed Under: Event 8 - Day 4

Day 3 Chip Counts and Day 4 Seating Assignments

2013/10/01 6:50pm by

Here are the final Day 3 chip counts and the Day 4 seating assignments for Event 8. 84 players started Day 3 and just 25 will return for Day 4 at 12:00pm on Wednesday, October 2. Day 4 will play down until 9 players remain.

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First Name Last Name Seat Chips
Vineet Pahuja Table 38 – Seat 3 4,450,000
Eric Despres Table 38 – Seat 4 3,625,000
Eric Larose Table 34 – Seat 8 3,615,000
Michael Linster Table 38 – Seat 5 3,445,000
Roger Lamia Table 39 – Seat 5 2,680,000
Dawn Mootrey Table 39 – Seat 1 2,655,000
Zeng Yi Xie Table 38 – Seat 7 2,650,000
Guillaume Rivet Table 34 – Seat 3 2,580,000
Sebastien Drolets-poitras Table 34 – Seat 9 2,540,000
Kevin Dawe Table 38 – Seat 2 2,170,000
Maxime Laberge Table 34 – Seat 4 2,035,000
Jeremie Trepanier Table 39 – Seat 7 1,975,000
Colin Piche Table 34 – Seat 2 1,900,000
Russell Crane Table 39 – Seat 8 1,880,000
Bill Kontaratos Table 34 – Seat 5 1,880,000
Henri Balcazar Table 38 – Seat 6 1,550,000
Jonathan Bussieres Table 38 – Seat 1 1,435,000
Pirooz Bayat Table 38 – Seat 8 1,340,000
Marc Andre Girard Table 39 – Seat 4 1,340,000
Jeff Cote Table 34 – Seat 1 815,000
Terrance Eishens Table 39 – Seat 6 770,000
Wei Xu Table 39 – Seat 3 520,000
Mike Saragossi Table 34 – Seat 6 445,000
Michael Tremblay Table 34 – Seat 7 128,000
Francesco Buffone Table 39 – Seat 2 45,000
Filed Under: Event 8 - Day 4

Gavin Smith eliminated

2013/10/01 5:29pm by

One of the most notable players still in the event, Players Club member Gavin Smith was eliminated after he shoved King of Hearts 5 of Spades into Ace of Spades Queen of Spades which ended up making the nut flush.

Brian Coen was eliminated a few hands later by Dawn Mootrey, so the tournament is just one more elimination away from the close of Day 3.

Filed Under: Event 8 - Day 3

Huge hand!

2013/10/01 5:23pm by

There was a huge hand on Table 34 a few minutes ago. Terrance Eishens open raised from the button to 70K and was 3-bet by Francesco Buffone in the SB to 235K, who in turn was 4-bet by Eric Despres in the BB who bumped it to 500K.

Terrance didn’t think long before folding, and Francesco didn’t think much longer before shoving – which was met by a snap call from Eric.

Francesco turned over Ace of Hearts 10 of Diamonds while Eric flipped Ace of Diamonds Ace of Clubs. The board ran out Jack of Diamonds 4 of Diamonds Queen of Spades giving Francesco a gunshot. The turn came 5 of Spades and the river was another blank, 6 of Spades. Eric more than doubled to 3.5M chips and now has a healthy 100BB stack as Day 3 winds to a close.

Filed Under: Event 8 - Day 3

Down to 4 tables

2013/10/01 5:08pm by

Two more players have busted since the break and the tournament is down to 4 tables.

Table 34

  1. Terrance Eishens
  2. Francesco Buffone
  3. Eric Despres
  4. Russell Crane
  5. Gavin Smith
  6. Marc Andre Girard
  7.  
  8. Bill Kontaratos
  9. Mike Saragossi

Table 35

  1. Roger Lamia
  2. Sebastien Drolet-Poitras
  3. Maxime Laberge
  4. Wei Lu
  5. Dawn Mootrey
  6. Guillaume Rivet
  7. Daniel Leduc
  8. Brian Coen
  9. Bao Luu

Table 38 (Feature)

  1.  
  2. Kevin Dawe
  3. Victor Ramdin
  4. Jonathan Bussières
  5. Henri Balcazar
  6. Gil Simpritol
  7. Jeff Coté
  8. Colin Piché
  9. Eric Larose

Table 39

  1. Vineet Pahuja
  2. Zeng Yi Xie
  3. Michael Linster
  4. Jeremie Trepanier
  5. Stacy Levac
  6. Pirooz Bayat
  7. Asadul Islam Shah
  8. Michael Tremblay
  9. Kit Wong
Filed Under: Event 8 - Day 3

Another break

2013/10/01 4:29pm by

There is another break as tournament staff colours up and races off the yellow 1K chips. After the break, blinds will be 15K/30K/a5K. During the last level the number of players still in the action dropped from 47 to 38.

Here are a few photos from the last level:

Filed Under: Event 8 - Day 3

A tale of two locals

2013/10/01 4:16pm by

Two Playground regular players got involved in big hands just now but with very different results.

First, Josh Kimmel open-shoved his small-blind with about 330K (~13BB) and the big blind (Jonathan Bussieres) called. Josh turned over Queen of Spades 10 of Hearts while Jonathan held King of Diamonds 8 of Diamonds. The board ran out 3 of Clubs 3 of Hearts 9 of Spades 6 of Hearts 9 of Diamonds and Jonathan’s King high took the pot.

Just a minute or so later, Bill Kontaratos was in the tank for a short while facing a shove to his BB. Eventually he called and flipped over 5 of Clubs 5 of Hearts while his opponent, Barron Ha, had shoved with 6 of Clubs 4 of Clubs. The board ran out 2 of Spades King of Clubs 3 of Diamonds 3 of Spades Ace of Clubs and Bill’s pocket pair held up.

  • 39. Baron Ha, $4,886
  • 40. Josh Kimmel, $4,886
Filed Under: Event 8 - Day 3
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