Daniel Gagnon began heads-up play with a massive chip advantage – greater than 3:1 – over Noeung Troeung, and the play didn’t take long to come to a conclusion. Noeung doubled up a couple of times, but counteracting that was Daniel’s amazing run-good, that had been in effect all day.

On the ultimate hand, Noeung was first to act and opened all-in holding . Daniel looked at his hand and made the call, tabling .

There was no uncertainty when the flop was dealt: though the turn gave Noeung some outs. The came on the river and sealed the deal for Daniel – he is the champion of the Main Event in the Playground Poker Montreal Festival!

Congratulations Daniel!

Main Event Champion: Daniel Gagnon, $190,750

Main Event Runner-Up: Noeung Troeung, $125,410

Last Hand of Play in the Main Event:

Day 2 in the Playground Poker Montreal Festival has come to a close and there are just 35 players still in the tournament who will return on Tuesday September 2 at 12pm for Day 3.

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First Name,Last Name,Seat[attr sort=”asc”],Chip Count
Pierre,Daigle,Table 62 – Seat 9,”2,771,000″
Michael,Malette,Table 65 – Seat 3,”2,164,000″
Daniel,Gagne,Table 62 – Seat 2,”1,654,000″
Gabriel,Vezina,Table 70 – Seat 4,”1,625,000″
Noeung,Troeung,Table 70 – Seat 2,”1,473,000″
Daniel,Gagnon,Table 65 – Seat 1,”1,459,000″
Alexandre,Lavigne,Table 62 – Seat 7,”1,414,000″
Yannick,Lamarre-Delooz,Table 62 – Seat 8,”1,235,000″
Theodore,Doukas,Table 62 – Seat 6,”1,209,000″
Carla,Sabini,Table 62 – Seat 1,”1,202,000″
Thi,Nguyen,Table 66 – Seat 5,”1,159,000″
Joakim,Beaupre,Table 70 – Seat 3,”1,154,000″
Presten,Cloutier,Table 70 – Seat 9,”1,100,000″
Ami,Alibay,Table 65 – Seat 8,”1,080,000″
Dustin,Melanson,Table 66 – Seat 4,”897,000″
Kamal,Hamai,Table 65 – Seat 2,”868,000″
Derek,Lerner,Table 70 – Seat 8,”809,000″
Lorne,Wechsler,Table 65 – Seat 4,”772,000″
Rick,Shamshoum,Table 66 – Seat 7,”767,000″
Chad,Gray,Table 66 – Seat 2,”740,000″
John,Helou,Table 66 – Seat 9,”709,000″
Amirmasoud,Babakhani,Table 62 – Seat 4,”632,000″
Dean,Murphy,Table 65 – Seat 5,”562,000″
Justin,Chung,Table 66 – Seat 6,”542,000″
Andrew,Pereira,Table 70 – Seat 5,”497,000″
Alain,Rondeau,Table 70 – Seat 1,”471,000″
Mike,Costa,Table 66 – Seat 8,”470,000″
Michael,Mellor,Table 70 – Seat 6,”380,000″
Nicola,Basile,Table 62 – Seat 3,”378,000″
Jano,Salbzian,Table 66 – Seat 1,”367,000″
Amine,Mouna,Table 65 – Seat 6,”352,000″
Saim,Mumal,Table 70 – Seat 7,”339,000″
Patrick,Braga,Table 66 – Seat 3,”310,000″
Alain,Jobin,Table 62 – Seat 5,”274,000″
Denis,Cyr,Table 65 – Seat 7,”217,000″
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