Sitting on the button, Benoit Frechette took advantage of an unopened pot to move in with his last 725K, and did so with a fairly big hand. Unfortunately for him, Normand St Jean Thibodeau woke up with a bigger hand from the small blind, and make the call.
Benoit: 
Normand: 
The board was Benoit’s last one of Event 1, as it ran in favour of Normand, showing 
, and he was sent home in 12th place, good for $1,940.
12th place: Benoit Frechette, $1,940
Day 3 of Event 1 has just seen it’s first elimination of the night, as Maurice Devereaux found himself all-in preflop with roughly 850K versus Andrew Sarazin.
Maurice: 
Andrew: 
Maurice could not find help of the board of 
, and was sent to the cashiers to pick up his $1,590 prize.
13th place: Maurice Devereaux, $1,590
By the time play reached heads-up between Alexandre Miron and Mofei Wang, the chips were split fairly evenly between the two players. It didn’t take long for both players to get their chips into the middle, at the end of it all it was Alexandre Miron who had possession of all the chips in play!
Congratulations Alexandre!
Event 3 winner: Alexandre Miron, $1,569
Last hand of play in Event 3
Event 3 runner-up: Mofei Wang, $1,160
The feature tournament every Monday night here at Playground Poker Club is of a 6-max format, and it is widely popular amongst the regular local players. Tonight’s 6-max tourney will be a little more special than usual, as it is the 4th Event of the Playground Poker Montreal Festival, and is sure to attract an large and talented field.
Event 4, priced at $150 + $15, is scheduled to start at 7:30pm. Players will begin with 20,000 in chips, and blinds will increase every 20 minutes. Late registration will remain open until the very end of the first break, or just past 9:00pm. The winner will go home with a Playground Poker Montreal Festival bracelet, and of course a nice chunk of the prizepool!
Come on down to Playground Poker Club to participate in this unique event!
Tonight is the third and final day of Event 1 of the Playground Poker Montreal Festival, and only 13 players are back to battle it out on the felts from a starting field of 1,401 entries! With a payout difference of over $30,000 between 1st place and 13th place, it all comes down to what happens tonight here at Playground Poker Club!
Terry Nother is coming in as the chip leader, having bagged an impressive 5,490,000 after two days of poker. He has quite a lead on the others, as 2nd in chips is Andrew Sarazin, with 4,275,000 in chips. The rest of the field is below the 3 million chip mark, with Normand St Jean Thibodeau on the tail end with only 475,000 in chips. With the blinds at 40K/80K/10K, it’s still anybody’s game.
Be sure to stay tuned in to follow all the action tonight, as we will be crowning a champion before the night is over!
Good luck to our 13 finalists!
Event 3 is on a short break now, and only 5 players remain. Mofei Wang still has a commanding lead, but as we all know, anything can happen in the game of poker!
Here is an update on their stacks:
We’ve reached the final table here in Event 3 of the Playground Poker Montreal Festival, as two players were eliminated in roughly the same time to drop the field down to 9 players. Here are our finalists:
Jennifer Brooks 
Mofei Wang 
Franco De Marinis 
James Bruyere 
Alexandre Miron 
Eric Tetreault 
Maxime Cyr 
Maxime Dube-Gagne 
Matthew Machula
It only took one hand for the final table of Event 2 to be over! The 10 final tableist decided they wanted to do an even chop, but were told that 5% of the prizepool has to be reserved for the winner in the event of a deal. They agreed to this, but then also made a gentlemen’s agreement to all go all-in blind on the first hand… Surely enough, the first hand was dealt, and all 10 players announced they were all-in!
It was finally Sylvain Cote, holding , who scooped the pot on a 
board, giving him the extra $500 prize on top of the $920 that everyone else received in the chop, as well as a Playground Poker Montreal Festival bracelet!
Congratulations Sylvain Cote!
Event 2 winner: Sylvain Cote, $1,420
Last hand of Event 2
Event 2 – $100 + $10 No Limit Hold’em Shootout is now in Round 2, which is the final table of 10 players. Congratulations to the players who have made it this far! Here is our line-up:
Round 2 – Final Table
Jason Dupont 
Alexandre Nadeau-Levesque 
Sylvain Cote 
Bharat Shetty 
Daniel Pietramala 
Michael Bergeron 
Kristopher Chaykowski 
Alain Jobin 
Byron Doyle 
Ryan Brown
Day 2 of Event 1 has now come to a close, and 13 players will be back tomorrow at 7:30pm for the conclusion of the tournament. There will be a full seating redraw, which will be published shortly, as well as another redraw when the final table of 10 players is reached.
Terry Nother is still the chip leader for the moment, and has managed to accumulate an impressive 5,490,00 in chips. Full player reported chip counts will be published momentarily.
Good luck in Day 3 tomorrow!
