Playground Montreal Festival

Dropping like flies

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Tournament:

Players in Event 11 are feeling the pressure of the turbo format, as almost 2/3 of the field has already hit the rail. The nice aspect of this game is that for every stack that crumbles, another one grows. A few players have starting building some impressive towers with all of their chips. Players will go on break in 15 minutes, and we will bring you an update on the leaderboard at that point.

The big stacks at the second break

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After 10 levels of play, the following players have managed to breach the 100K mark, and sit on top of the leaderboard:

  1. Ti – 159K
  2. Yu Zhou – 132K
  3. John Consiglio – 129K
  4. Mark Larsen – 104K
  5. Daniel Kwon – 103K
  6. Conrado Corpus – 102K

The last flight of the Main Event is over

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Day 1c of the Playground Poker Montreal Festival Main Event has just finished, and with that the Day 1 of this Event has come to a conclusion. Full player reported stacks from all three starting flights, as well as the seating assignment for Day 2 will be published shortly. Players that qualified onto Day 2 will begin play at 12:00pm tomorrow, September 1st.

Here are a few photos from the last level of play of today:

Early tournament

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The 150 player cap that was imposed on this tournament was hit long before it even started, and after 5 levels, 133 players are still in the running.

Here are a few photos taken prior to the first break:

Post-dinner photoset

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Almost two levels have gone by since dinner break, which means we are nearing the end of Day 1c. Upon the completion of level 13, the players still in the tournament will bag and tag their chips onto Day 2.

Here are a few photos taken shortly after dinner:

Chip counts of notable players

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Here are some chip counts of some of the notable players in today field, counted during the dinner break.

  • Alexandre Lavigne – 81K
  • Ami Alibay – 67K
  • Derek Lerner – 61K
  • Henri Balcazar – 46K
  • Johnny Mazzaferro – 49K
  • Jonathan Duhamel – 82K
  • Michael Malm – 23K
  • Nicola Basile – 105K
  • Philippe Plouffe – 79K
  • Samuel Chartier – 49K
  • Vincent Jacques – 20K

Day 1b complete

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Day 1b has come to a close, and 72 players have bagged and tagged their chips onto Day 2. The chip average of the day was slightly higher than yesterday’s, sitting at 127.1K.

Full player reported chip counts will be made available shortly. In the mean time, here are some photos from the last level of play:

Playground Poker Montreal Festival