Day 3 of the Main Event of the Playground Poker Montreal Festival will get underway in just under 12 hours, and with 35 players remaining the field is stacked with talent!
The current chip leader, Pierre Daigle, started Day 2 with just about 50,000 chips in play but managed to chip up quickly to the point that he was among the leaders all day. Players like Michael Malette and Noeung Troeung were among the leaders for most of the day as well.
There are some other players who played more modest stacks who now find themselves near the top of the leaderboard – most notably Alexandre Lavigne, who has had remarkable success in events at Playground Poker Club in the past year.
Also lurking on the leaderboard are quite a few extremely accomplished players with a long history of top results at the top levels of the game whether online or live. First on this list is Montreal’s own Derek Lerner, but anyone who overlooks players like Ami Alibay, Carla Sabini, or Patrick Braga will most likely regret it eventually.
Special mention should also go to Nicola Basile, a Toronto-area player who is a frequent visitor to Playground for big events and recently made a deep run in the inaugural WPT 500 at Aria in Las Vegas, and (for an entirely other reason) Mike Costa, who flew to Montreal at the last minute, had a friend late register for him and had his stack blind off for about 2 levels past late reg just to get in the tournament in the first place.
Good luck to everyone still in the event. Day 3 is sure to be a fantastic day of poker!
