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Event 16 Champion: Tommy Coulombe

2014/09/04 7:15am by Playground Poker
Tournament: Event 16 - $185 + $15 + $100 No Limit Hold'em Bounty $100

Heads-up play between Tommy Coulombe and Chad Bouchard lasted all of two hands. On the first hand, Tommy limped from the button with , and then moved all-in after Chad raised his from the big blind. Chad ended up by making the call, and Tommy’s big slick held to win him a pot of 4.4M. On the next hand, Chad moved his few remaining chips in with , and lost versus Tommy’s .

With that, Tommy completed a nice comeback, as at one point on the final table he fell below the 3 big blind mark. He took home $7,166 for his win, as well as a Playground Poker Montreal Festival bracelet.

Congratulations Tommy!

Event 16 Champion: Tommy Coulombe, $7,166

Event 16 Runner-Up: Chad Bouchard, $5,565

Last hand of Event 16

3rd place: Eric Levesque

2014/09/04 6:57am by Playground Poker
Tournament: Event 16 - $185 + $15 + $100 No Limit Hold'em Bounty $100

Eric Levesque moved all-in from the button with just over 600K, and was called by Chad Bouchard from the big blind.

Eric:

Chad:

Board:

3rd place: Eric Levesque, $5,565

3-way deal

2014/09/04 6:41am by Playground Poker
Tournament: Event 16 - $185 + $15 + $100 No Limit Hold'em Bounty $100

The three remaining players (Tommy Coulombe, Chad Bouchard and Eric Levesque) decided to make an even chop, while leaving the required 5% of the prize pool up top for the eventual winner. They will be taking $5,565 each, and leaving $1,601 and the bracelet for the tournament champion.

4th place: Felix Sides

2014/09/04 6:38am by Playground Poker
Tournament: Event 16 - $185 + $15 + $100 No Limit Hold'em Bounty $100

Felix Sides and Chad Bouchard found themselves all-in in preflop one against another.

Felix:

Chad:

Board:

4th place: Felix Sides, $3,300

5th place: Tomas Larivee Magni

2014/09/04 6:35am by Playground Poker
Tournament: Event 16 - $185 + $15 + $100 No Limit Hold'em Bounty $100

After min-raising from under the gun, Tomas Larivee Magni couldn’t get his chips in quickly enough facing Eric Levesque’s 3-bet shove.

Tomas:

Eric:

Eric rivered a pair of aces to eliminate Tomas on the .

5th place: Tomas Larivee Magni, $2,460

6th place: Dan Knobovitch

2014/09/04 6:15am by Playground Poker
Tournament: Event 16 - $185 + $15 + $100 No Limit Hold'em Bounty $100

Dan Knobovitch’s Event 16 came to a sudden halt, and there was not much he could’ve done to change that. He 3-bet shoved from middle position after Chad Bouchard had opened from under the gun, and got an instant call.

Dan:

Chad:

Board:

6th place: Dan Knobovitch, $1,840

7th place: Niki Vassilev

2014/09/04 6:04am by Playground Poker
Tournament: Event 16 - $185 + $15 + $100 No Limit Hold'em Bounty $100

With 195K to him name, Niki Vassilev decided it was time to move in from under the gun. It folded around to Tommy Coulombe in the big blind, who threw in some calling chips.

Niki:

Tommy:

Niki couldn’t improve on the board, and finished in 7th place.

7th place: Niki Vassilev, $1,380

Chip counts

2014/09/04 5:40am by Playground Poker
Tournament: Event 16 - $185 + $15 + $100 No Limit Hold'em Bounty $100

These are the chip counts going into level 27:

Final Table

Seat 1. Felix Sides – 530,000
Seat 2. Tommy Coulombe – 150,000
Seat 3. Niki Vassilev – 550,000
Seat 4. Dan Knobovitch – 675,000
Seat 5. Tomas Larivee Magni – 1,420,000
Seat 6. empty
Seat 7. Chad Bouchard – 690,000
Seat 8. empty
Seat 9. Eric Levesque – 695,000
Seat 10. empty

8th place: Alex Chiasson

2014/09/04 5:28am by Playground Poker
Tournament: Event 16 - $185 + $15 + $100 No Limit Hold'em Bounty $100

Alex moved in from early position with his last 124K, and action folded around to Dan Knobovitch in the big blind. After getting the count, Dan decided to call the two extra big blinds blind.

Alex:

Dan:

Dan ran two-pairs to win Alex’s bounty chip on the board.

8th place: Alex Chiasson, $1,000

9th place: Mathieu Leclerc

2014/09/04 5:01am by Playground Poker
Tournament: Event 16 - $185 + $15 + $100 No Limit Hold'em Bounty $100

After opening from under the gun, Mathieu 4-bet all-in for 375K over Tomas Larivee Magni’s hi-jack 3-bet of 175K. Tomas put a little thought into it, then opted for a call.

Mathieu:

Tomas:

Tomas ran good in the hand, picking up a set on the board to eliminate Mathieu in 9th.

9th place: Mathieu Leclerc, $760