Playground Montreal Festival

Le dingue, not crazy at all

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Philippe Boucher is a well-known professional player from Quebec who has long been known as Phil “Le Dingue” – which would be kind of like “Crazy Phil” in English.

Philippe just sent the following tweet this morning…

Not “dingue” at all.

477 was the number

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Days 1a and 1b of the Main Event brought in a total of 523 entries, which meant that another 477 entries were required to meet the prize pool guarantee of $1M. Well, the flight is almost through the first level to be played today and that number has already been surpassed as 486 players have taken their seats so far today.

And while an overlay and the added value it represents is great for players, passing the number of entries to hit a guarantee is even better, because every entry in the event after #477 grows the prize pool, which is obviously a great thing.

A poker explosion!

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Traditionally, the final starting flight of any multiple Day 1 tournament is the busiest, and often by a long way, but it’s still an amazing sight to behold when a room like the Tournament Hall at Playground Poker Club fills up with players, all of them with a single goal in sight: to take down the winner’s share of a $1 Million prize pool.

So far – with just 5 minutes to go before the flight begins today – there are 411 players who have bought in to today’s Day 1c. And although that’s a very strong number of entries, we’re still officially in overlay territory. So there’s still value being added to the tourney beyond what player buy-ins have contributed.

In other words – if you’re not here yet, Day 1c is busy but we still have room for you, so come on out to Playground and take your shot at a fantastic Guaranteed prize pool!

Main Event Day 1b final chip counts

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Today’s second flight in the Main Event of the Playground Poker Montreal Festival had 305 entries, adding up to 523 total entries in the tournament so far with just Day 1c to go tomorrow. Of those who started, 69 players survived the 13 levels today to qualify for Day 2 on Monday, September 1st at 12pm.

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Rank,First Name,Last Name,Chip Count [attr sort=”desc”]
1,Alain,Jobin,”394,000″
2,Philippe,Landy,”323,000″
3,Denis,Cyr,”291,600″
4,Francois,Semaan,”267,700″
5,Kamal,Hamai,”262,700″
6,Serge,Pouliot,”246,500″
7,Renmei,Liu,”237,900″
8,Gabriel,Vezina,”221,300″
9,Patrick,Braga,”217,800″
10,Gaetano,Di Maria,”217,300″
11,Alex,Fortin Demers,”205,500″
12,Senthuran,Vijayaratnam,”202,000″
13,Tyler,Petri,”194,400″
14,Nimer,Ltaif,”187,800″
15,Rodney,Lawrence,”183,500″
16,Presten,Cloutier,”169,800″
17,Vinh,Lieu,”169,000″
18,Gabriel,Alarie,”168,000″
19,Christine,Do,”167,000″
20,Yannick,Lamarre-Delooz,”163,400″
21,Hong Wei,Jin,”157,400″
22,Jonathan,Bussieres,”157,000″
23,Mark,Dietrich,”150,100″
24,Amirmasoud,Babakhani,”149,900″
25,Daniel,Gagne,”146,400″
26,Bradley,Tuck,”143,000″
27,Yannick,Harvey,”136,000″
28,Tian Lin,Liao,”135,000″
29,Theodore,Doukas,”129,000″
30,Shawn,Sperber,”127,200″
31,Jeff,Cote,”127,200″
32,James,Gibson,”126,900″
33,Stuart,Taylor,”124,300″
34,Edward,Hislop,”120,800″
35,Michael,Wolowicz,”119,400″
36,Domenic,Vannelli,”119,400″
37,Frederik,Simoneau,”118,600″
38,Dario,Diplacido,”115,000″
39,Vlad,Faubert,”112,500″
40,Richard,Figiel,”110,700″
41,Joseph,Abou Khalil,”109,500″
42,Tom,Kim Tien,”108,000″
43,Chris,Doheney,”98,500″
44,Faizel,Satchu,”97,600″
45,Nektarios,Papadedes,”94,900″
46,Amer,Sulaiman,”94,500″
47,William,Blais,”90,600″
48,Kevin,Rivest,”89,000″
49,Tim,O’Grady,”88,100″
50,Marc Etienne,Mclaughlin,”82,900″
51,Danick,Landriault,”78,800″
52,Kalpesh,Raichura,”78,500″
53,Geri,Casey,”71,800″
54,Jesse,Dee,”71,200″
55,John,Toth,”66,300″
56,Michael,Mellor,”65,400″
57,Eric,Ranger,”60,200″
58,Rong,Xu,”52,400″
59,Jason,Mottershead,”51,000″
60,Eddie,Daldalian,”48,300″
61,Kevin,Baulne,”47,200″
62,Louis-Philippe,Carpentier-Perrault,”45,100″
63,John,Blaha,”44,800″
64,Ghislain,Bolduc,”41,500″
65,Buu,Nguyen,”39,800″
66,Panagiotis,Klaoudatos,”36,400″
67,Alexandre,Nadeau-Levesque,”35,200″
68,Dino,Dalpra,”34,900″
69,Mark,Defaria,”31,600″
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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