Michael Aflalo was already the chip leader before flopping a set of tens and eliminating two other players (who were both holding decent stacks). He is now sitting on roughly 1.3M, or 33% of the chips in play, with 9 players left in the field.
Only 2 tables remain in Event 4, which means the field is composed of just 12 players. The final table will start when 7 players remain.
Table 54
Table 61
After a fairly short heads-up battle, it was Eddie Bangash who emerged as the champion of this first event of the Playground Poker Montreal Festival! He managed to navigate through a field of 1,401 entrants to claim the $32,100 first prize, and is now the proud owner of a Playground Poker Montreal Festival bracelet!
Congratulations Eddie! We hope to see you at the Main Event!
Event 1 Champion: Eddie Bangash, $32,100
Event 1 Runner-Up: Robert Amireault, $21,581
Last hand of play in Event 1
Event 4 is on a short break, and with 32 players remaining, the bubble is just around the corner. 21 players will go home with a prize of at least $320 (and up to $6,795), whereas the rest will leave empty handed. Here are the top 4 stacks at this stage of the tournament:
We are now heads-up in Event 1, and Eddie Bangash and Robert Amireault are battling it out for the $32,100 first prize, and of course the Playground Poker Montreal Festival winner’s bracelet! Eddie has nearly a 5-1 chip lead, as his 23M dwarf the 5M of Robert.
Good luck to both of you gentlemen!
With just under 2 million in chips, Andrew announced he was all-in from the small blind, and Eddie Bangash snap called from the big blind.
Andrew: 
Eddie: 
Eddie made a straight on the 
, and eliminated Andrew in 3rd.
3rd place: Andrew Sarazin, $14,760
Normand St-Jean Thibodeau was the short stack of the table when he moved all-in for 1.25M from the button. He was called by Robert Amireault from the big blind, and they shared a chuckle when they both turned over the same hand, with Robert holding 
, and Normand 
.
Unfortunately for Normand, the board ran 
, ending his deep run in this event. Just like that, Event 1 is down to three players!
4th place: Normand St-Jean Thibodeau, $12,200
Eddie opened the action preflop to 450K, and was faced with an all-in from Justin Lieu for around 2.2M. He didn’t take long to make the call, and they were off to the races!
Justin: 
Eddie: 
Board: 
5th place: Justin Lieu, $8,710
Here is an update of the chip counts of the remaining 5 players:
Final Table
