Power Weekend

11 Champions in the 6-Max Bounty!

2016/03/15 - 3:31 by

As expected, the 6-Max Bounty tournament attracted a lot of players – who played in a fierce tournament from beginning to end. There were 20 or so eliminations just in the final 2 hours, and from the moment there were just 3 tables remaining there were players who were looking to make some kind of deal.

Considering the weak chip holdings of several of the players, the leaders initially refused any kind of agreement. When the tourney got down to 2 tables there were more negotiations, but more refusals as well and play continued – particularly because of one player with a markedly inferior chip count.

Once eliminated, the remaining 11 players quickly agreed to an ICM chop, and to keep their own bounty chip as well. The following are the players’ holdings at the time as well as the amount agreed to in the deal.

Jean-Guy Larosilière: 1,022,000 chips, $2,767 (8 bounties)
Jeremy Chandler: 492,000 chips, $1,960 (14 bounties)
Domenico Agatiello: 447,000 chips, $1,865 (6 bounties)
Jonathan Poissant: 383,000 chips, $1,710 (3 bounties)
Christopher Fowler: 377,000 chips, $1,700 (3 bounties)
K.P.: 345,000 chips, $1,615 (9 bounties)
Michael Gabrial: 266,000 chips, $1,390$ (6 bounties)
Alexandre Martel: 224,000 chips, $1,260 (? bounties)
Richard Berenbaum: 196,000 chips, $1,165
Eric Borduas: 133,000 chips, $925 (5 bounties)
Daniel Gates – $640 (1 bounty)

4 of the 11 Winners

Final elimination from the tourney

Level: 20

Small Blind: 8K

Big Blind: 16K

Ante: 2K

Chip Average: 363K

Remaining: 11

Entries: 201

2016/03/15 - 2:55 by

Domenico “Agi” Agatiello went all-in utg with a little more than 200K in chips and found a call from Benoit Landry and his pocket 9s. Luck was on Agi’s side, and by the river, several players mentioned how envious they were of Agn’s good fortune!

Agi:

Benoit:

Board:

12th place: Benoit Landry, $290

From 13th to 16th

Level: 19

Small Blind: 6K

Big Blind: 12K

Ante: 1K

Chip Average: 335K

Remaining: 12

Entries: 201

2016/03/15 - 2:06 by

13th place: David Valcourt-Dubé, $290

14th place: Adam Couture, $270

15th place: Robert Barasa, $270

16th place: Matt Ranger – $250

Post-bubble bustouts

Level: 18

Small Blind: 5K

Big Blind: 10K

Ante: 5K

Chip Average: 309.2K

Remaining: 13

Entries: 201

2016/03/15 - 1:35 by

In general, once the bubble bursts in a tournament, the following hands are a festival of all-ins. This tournament was no exception with at least 8 eliminations in 15 minutes. Not minutes after the bubble there was a notable 3-way all-in in which Jeremy Chandler’s pocket KK eliminated both Maxime Théroux (holding TT) and Jean-Philippe Grenier (holding K9). In one shot he took out both players and secured his 12th and 13th bounties.

17th place: Réjean Grenier, $250

18th place: Goran Brestovac, $230

19th place: Kenny Faucher, $230

20th place: Maxime Théroux, $210

21st place: Jean-Philippe Grenier, $210

Chip leaders

Level: 15

Small Blind: 2.5K

Big Blind: 5K

Ante: 500

Chip Average: 138.6K

Remaining: 29

Entries: 201

2016/03/15 - 0:26 by

The break will be over shortly and the players will resume play in the stretch run to the money. A few players have taken a huge lead in the tourney – Jean-Guy Larosilière has 3 times the chip average! Here are the other leaders.

Jean-Guy Larosilière: 370,000 (5 bounties)
Eric Borduas: 280,000 (3 bounties)
K.P.: 220,000
Christopher Fowler: 210,000 (3 bounties)
Richard Berenbaum: 207,000 (5 bounties)

Special mention goes to Jeremy Chandler, who already has 9 bounty chips!

Bounty hunter photos

Level: 12

Small Blind: 1.2K

Big Blind: 2.4K

Ante: 300

Chip Average: 83.8K

Remaining: 48

Entries: 201

2016/03/14 - 23:25 by

The tournament is in level 12 and 25% of the field remains in action. Tables are breaking quickly and players are eliminated and chips – regular chips and bounty chips – are being accumulated quickly as a consequence.

Photos taken during level 12

Welcome to the 6-Max Bounty

Level: 1

Small Blind: 25

Big Blind: 50

Ante: 0

Chip Average: 20K

Remaining: 110

Entries: 110

2016/03/14 - 19:13 by

Tonight is the final event in the TonyBet Power Weekend – the 6-Max Bounty tournament. This is a tournament that combines two of Playground’s most popular tournament formats: 6-Max, referring to the number of players per table, and Bounty, referring to the $25 each player receives for eliminating a player from the tourney. There’s not much more to be said other than this format guarantees action all night long!

Pineapple Champions!

2016/03/14 - 5:26 by

Tonight was the first ever NL Pineapple tournament at Playground Poker Club, part of the TonyBet Power Weekend. The buy-in was $100 + $10 and this first edition attracted 163 players – players who were impressed with the format and looked forward to another… or possibly Pineapple cash games at some point.

Despite the initial rapid pace of eliminations, the length of the event overall was about normal, even considering the 6 way deal that wrapped up the tournament.

With 6 players remaining, the players decided to negotiate a deal – here are the chip counts when discussions began:

Richard Figiel: 355,000
Domenico Boemio: 210,000
Andrew Forest: 1,835,000
Jean-Sébastien Labonté: 320,000
Kosta Papa: 280,000
Donald Abdelhay: 255,000

According to the published prize pool, the winner was scheduled to received $3,801, and as the chip leader with almost 60% of the chips in play, Andrew Forest offered to take $3,500, leaving the remaining prize pool to be distributed among the remaining players, who chose an even chop (save for the extra $11 to 2nd place).

Final prize payouts

Andrew Forest – $3,500
Richard Figiel – $1,771
Jean-Sébastien Labonté – $1,760
Kosta Papa – $1,760
Donald Abdelhay – $1,760
Domenico Boemio – $1,760

7th, 8th, and 9th place

Level: 20

Small Blind: 15K

Big Blind: 30K

Ante: 4K

Chip Average: 543K

Remaining: 6

Entries: 163

2016/03/14 - 4:58 by

7th place: Joseph B., $660

Joseph B was as normal as a metronome all night, playing almost exactly the tournament chip average from start to finish. When he finally went all-in for 80K, he was called by Andrew Forest.

Joseph B.:

Andrew Forest:

Board:

The flop reminded Joseph that some nights, KK just won’t do the trick – Andrew had out-flopped him by hitting his set of 7s. After the hand Donald Abdelhay mentioned that he had folded a pair of nines – he would have made his 3rd Quads of the night.

A key hand in the tournament followed. The chip leader for several hours already, Andrew Forest, raised from middle position and everyone folded around to the blinds who both went all-in, one after the other. Andrew made a snap-call with pocket Aces, while all his opponents in the hand could do was to note they both had the same hand (killing outs for each).

Andrew Forest:

Vera Greenstein:

Jean Marie Roy:

Board:

Even though both of them made their straight with their Queen Ten, the Ace on the turn along with the pair on the flop kept Andrew well in the lead.

(Vera had more chips than Jean-Marie to start the hand, so she finishes ahead of him in the standings).

8th place: Vera Greenstein, $490

9th place: Jean-Marie Roy, $370

8 teams share the win!

2016/03/14 - 2:41 by Playground Poker

When the TonyBet Power Weekend Tag Team tournament reached level 27, a few of the team members asked the table once again if there was any interest in looking at potential numbers for a deal. With the blinds entering 50K/100K and an ante of 5K, the average stack would be reduced to just 12 big blinds, leaving less room for manoeuvrability – and a huge gap between 1st place prize money and 8th place.

After much negotiating, something to be expected when two players are involved per member of the final table, the 8 teams finally agreed to the ICM chop numbers, which split the remaining prize pool based on their current chip counts. Team Fee was awarded the biggest piece of the chop, as they were the chip leaders at the time of the chop, and all team members were left well rewarded for their long day on the felts.

Congratulations!

Here is the final prize distribution:

Team \| Équipe	Seat \| Siège	Prize \| Prix
Team Fee	Seat 2	$6,880.00
Team Chaykowski	Seat 1	$6,520.00
Team Gunther	Seat 9	$5,425.00
Team Fred Belanger	Seat 4	$5,420.00
Team Aristeo	Seat 3	$4,810.00
Team Isreal	Seat 5	$4,325.00
Team Betournay	Seat 7	$4,325.00
Team Lapointe	Seat 8	$3,465.00