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Évènement 2 – Résultats et Prix

2015/08/25 - 4:16 by Playground Poker

L’Évènement 2 de L’Expo Poker de Montréal était un tournoi de 135$+15$ NL Hold’em Shootout. Il y a avait un maximum de 100 joueurs inscrits pour ce tournoi à concurrence de 10 joueurs par table. Chaque joueur qui remportait sa table jouait la table finale. Seuls les joueurs atteignant la table finale remportaient une bourse. La cagnotte totale s’élevait à 13 095$ qui fût distribuée selon le tableau suivant.

Rank	First Name	Last Name	Prize
1	Michele	Black	$2,850.00
2	Jean-Pierre	Poirier	$2,645.00
3	Reginald	Vigneau	$1,900.00
4	Michael Albert	Marinaro	$1,500.00
5	Joey	Boczek	$1,200.00
6	Brent A	Bidan	$950.00
7	Bill	Kontaratos	$700.00
8	Ahmad	Baalbaki	$550.00
9	Safouh	Sawaf	$450.00
10	Tommy	Coulombe	$350.00

The Strike Out Cancer Charity Event Champion: Mark Wells

2015/08/25 - 2:17 by Playground Poker

After 3 long days of poker, Mark Wells managed to turn a 20,000 stack into 24 million, in the mean time turning his $135 (+ $25 charity contribution) investment into a sweet $24,440 cash prize!

Heads-up play with opponent Cherif Mohand was fairly brief, as fatigue seemed to have reduced Cherif’s level of patience. He began playing very aggressively, and it seemed to work at first, until he got caught in a hand that lead to his elimination. Cherif opened preflop to 700,000, and then raised all-in on the flop for nearly 10,000,000 after Mark lead out for 900,000. Mark made the call with bottom pair, and his held versus Cherif’s , as the running cards were .

With that pot, Mark emerged as the champion of Event 1 – Strike Out Cancer Charity Event, and awarded him a stunning Montréal Poker Expo Champions Trophy along with his cash prize.

Congratulations!

Strike Out Cancer Charity Event Champion: Mark Thomas Wells – $24,440

Event 1 Runner-Up: Cherif Si Hadj Mohand – $16,840

Cherif Si Hadj Mohand

Last Hand of Play

3rd place: Fazeel Munawar

Level: 35

Small Blind: 150K

Big Blind: 300K

Ante: 50K

Chip Average: 11.9M

Remaining: 2

Entries: 1186

2015/08/25 - 1:39 by Playground Poker

Mark Thomas Wells has chipped up considerably since the break, and used this momentum to bing this tournament down to heads-up.

He 3bet shoved facing an open to 600,000 from Fazeel, and found a call.

Mark:
Fazeel:

Mark flopped a full house on the board, sending Fazeel on a walk to the cashier.

Heads-up play is underway! Mark and his ~18 million are leading the way over Cherif and his ~6 million.

3rd place: Fazeel Munawar – $18,332

Fazeel Munawar

Chip counts entering level 35

Level: 35

Small Blind: 150K

Big Blind: 300K

Ante: 25K

Chip Average: 7.9M

Remaining: 3

Entries: 1186

2015/08/25 - 1:15 by Playground Poker

Here is the chip distribution of the final three players, as they enter level 35:

First Name	Last Name	Seat	Chip Count
Mark Thomas	Wells	Seat 1	8,850,000
Fazeel	Munawar	Seat 2	7,775,000
Cherif	Si Hadj Mohand	Seat 7	6,975,000

Still 3-handed

Level: 34

Small Blind: 125K

Big Blind: 250K

Ante: 25K

Chip Average: 7.9M

Remaining: 3

Entries: 1189

2015/08/25 - 0:57 by Playground Poker

We are still 3-handed in Event 1, and we’ve seen the balance of chips shift several times. Mark Wells began as the chip leader, at one point rising to nearly 15-million in chips, however he lost a few big pots and found himself drop to the bottom of the leaderboard a few orbits ago.

Fazeek Munawar recently took over the chip lead, as he double-up through Mark up to 13-million, however gave it right back a few hands later. Cherif Mohand has also been on a bit of a rollercoaster ride, and he’s seen his stack fluctuate between 2 and 8 million.

At the moment, all three players are basically even, sitting on roughly 8 million each!

: Mark Thomas Wells

: Fazeel Munawar

: Cherif Si Hadj Mohand

4th place: Danny Rouleau

Level: 32

Small Blind: 75K

Big Blind: 150K

Ante: 25K

Chip Average: 7.9M

Remaining: 3

Entries: 1186

2015/08/24 - 23:35 by Playground Poker

Moments after a deal was made 4-way, the short stack Danny Rouleau found himself all-in versus Cherif Mohand on a flop of .

Danny:
Cherif:

Danny failed to improve on the running cards ( ), bringing us down to 3-handed poker in Event 1.

4th place: Danny Rouleau – $13,655

Danny Rouleau

5th place: George Kazarian

Level: 32

Small Blind: 75K

Big Blind: 150K

Ante: 25K

Chip Average: 5.9M

Remaining: 4

Entries: 1186

2015/08/24 - 23:17 by Playground Poker

When action folded around to him in the small blind, George Kazarian wagered his remaining ~2,400,000, and was called by Mark Thomas Wells in the big blind.

George:
Mark:

George needed to improve his hand if he wanted to stay on this final table, however the board brought him no help, ending his run in 5th place.

5th place: George Kazarian – $8,070

George Kazarian

6th place: Ian Armorer

Level: 32

Small Blind: 75K

Big Blind: 150K

Ante: 25K

Chip Average: 4.7M

Remaining: 5

Entries: 1186

2015/08/24 - 23:12 by Playground Poker

Ian Armorer pulled the trigger from under the gun, moving in his 1,800,000 stack. Fazeel Munawar made a quick call, and the others got out of the way.

Ian:
Fazeel:

The flop was interesting for Ian, however the running cards were of no help to him, as the board showed .

6th place: Ian Armorer – $6,240

Ian Armorer

Leaderboard after 10 levels

Level: 10

Small Blind: 500

Big Blind: 1K

Ante: 100

Chip Average: 33.9K

Remaining: 99

Entries: 168

2015/08/24 - 22:55 by Playground Poker

Players are on a short chip-up break here in Event 4, and we took this chance to find out who the chip leaders are. Here are the biggest stacks we came across:

Name	Chip Count
Mathieu Guidon	79,500
Jean-Francois R	79,000
Sean Windover	76,000
Odette Tremblay	72,500

8th place: David Nadler

Level: 31

Small Blind: 60K

Big Blind: 120K

Ante: 20K

Chip Average: 3.4M

Remaining: 7

Entries: 1186

2015/08/24 - 22:37 by Playground Poker

David Nadler just lost back to back hands to George Kazarian to finish his deep run in 8th place.

In the first hand, David opened to 350,000 from middle position, and called George’s late-position all-in for 1,140,000. His couldn’t overcome George’s on a board showing , leaving him with 840,000 behind.