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    • Event 1 – The Wild $150 ($135 + $15 NL Hold’em Re-entry)
    • Event 2 – Escalator ($135 + $15 No Limit Hold’em)
    • Event 3 – $70 Deepstack Turbo ($60 + $10 NL Hold’em)
    • Event 4 – $330 Freeze ($300 + $30 NL Hold’em)
    • Event 5 – $60 Freeze ($50 + $10 NL Hold’em)
    • Event 6 – Mixed ($100 + $10 NL Hold’em/PL Omaha)
    • Event 7 – $70 Single Rebuy ($60 + $10 NL Hold’em)
    • Event 8 – Survivor ($200 + $20 NL Hold’em)
    • Event 9 – Playground Winter Festival Main Event ($1000 + $100 NL Hold’em)
    • Event 10 – NL Hold’em 3 Lives ($200 + $20 NL Hold’em)
    • Event 11 – 8-Max ($100 + $10 NL Hold’em)
    • Event 12 – $80 Deepstack Turbo ($70 + $10 NL Hold’em)
    • Event 13 – 6-Max ($150 + $15 NL Hold’em)
    • Event 14 – Ante Up ($60 + $10 NL Hold’em)
    • Event 15 – $25 Bounty ($90 + $10 + $25 NL Hold’em)
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Event 4 – Results & Payouts

2015/03/04 8:56am by

Event 4 of the Playground Winter Festival was a $300 + $30 NL Hold’em Freeze event that began on March 2st, 2015 at Playground Poker Club. The 2-day event attracted a total of 165 entries, which generated a prize pool of $48,015.00. This prize pool was distributed according to the following table.

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Rank [attr sort=asc],First Name,Last Name,Prize
1,Michael,Korovine,”$11,500.00″
2,Jean-Philippe,Lehoux,”$8,490.00″
3,Joseph Abou,Khalil,”$6,350.00″
4,Andreas,Loubounakis,”$4,775.00″
5,Rong,Xu,”$3,580.00″
6,Peter,Bodnar,”$2,680.00″
7,Maxime,Laberge,”$2,020.00″
8,Guglielmo Mino,Dall Osto,”$1,500.00″
9,Edward,Hislop,”$1,120.00″
10,Raymond,Kay,”$900.00″
11,Martial,Bonnaire,”$900.00″
12,George,Rombotis,”$800.00″
13,Said,Nehme,”$800.00″
14,Kathy,Sawers,”$700.00″
15,Martin,Peltier,”$700.00″
16,Samuel,Picard,”$600.00″
17,Debra Ann,Holman,”$600.00″
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Event 4 Champion: Michael Korovine

Event 4 Champion: Michael Korovine

Michael Korovine

Michael Korovine

Filed Under: Event 4 - Results & Payouts

Michael Korovine wins Event 4

2015/03/04 1:53am by Playground Poker
Tournament: Event 4 - $330 Freeze ($300 + $30 NL Hold'em)

After dropping to 24,000 just past the bubble, where the big blind was worth 10,000, Michael Korovine was able to rebuild his stack and drive it to victory. Heads-up play with Jean-Philippe Lehoux proved to be somewhat of a challenge, as chips went back and forth for nearly an hour and a half, but in the end they all ended up on Michael’s end of the table.

In the last hand of play, Michael check-called 200,000 on a 5 of Hearts 9 of Spades Queen of Clubs flop, and then check-called the all-in when the King of Clubs came on the turn. He tabled 10 of Hearts Jack of Hearts for the nut-straight, and only had to fade 3 outs to win against the Ace of Diamonds Jack of Spades of Jean-Philippe. The river was a brick (Queen of Spades), and that sealed the win for the local hero, who collected a cool $11,500 for his victory.

Congratulations Michael!

Event 4 Champion: Michael Korovine – $11,500

Event 4 Champion: Michael Korovine

Event 4 Champion: Michael Korovine

Last Hand of Play

Last Hand of Play in Event 4

Last Hand of Play in Event 4

Event 4 Runner-up: Jean-Philippe Lehoux – $8,490

Jean-Philippe Lehoux

Jean-Philippe Lehoux

Filed Under: Playground Winter Festival News, Event 4 - Day 2 Tagged With: Event 4 - $330 Freeze ($300 + $30 NL Hold'em)

Lehoux doubles up

2015/03/04 1:04am by
Tournament: Event 4 - $330 Freeze ($300 + $30 NL Hold'em)

After a long period of play in which the table was clearly tilting in Michael Korovine’s direction, Jean-Philippe Lehoux managed to find a double-up as he got it in with King of Clubs King of Spades, which Michael called quickly holding a pocket pair of his own: 5 of Diamonds 5 of Spades.

The board ran out 8 of Clubs 8 of Hearts Queen of Hearts 8 of Spades 7 of Clubs and Jean-Philippe’s Kings held.

The players are now on break, so we were able to get a precise count of both players’ stack:

  • Michael Korovine: 1.590M
  • Jean-Philippe Lehoux – 1.710M

Filed Under: Event 4 - Day 2 Tagged With: Event 4 - $330 Freeze ($300 + $30 NL Hold'em)

Heads-up action: Korovine vs Lehoux

2015/03/04 12:24am by Playground Poker
Tournament: Event 4 - $330 Freeze ($300 + $30 NL Hold'em)

We’ve just begun heads-up action here in Event 4, and although Michael Korovine started with just under a 4-1 chip lead, Jean-Philippe Lehoux has just doubled himself up to bring this match back to even.

Michael moved all-in from the small blind, and after a moment in the tank, Jean-Philippe made the call. Michael was in a good spot to end this tournament here, as his 6 of Spades 6 of Clubs had Jean-Philippe’s 2 of Clubs 2 of Diamonds crushed. However, a 2 of Hearts appeared on the turn to give Jean-Philippe a double up on his 769,000 stack.

Heads-up between Michael Korovine (left) and Jean-Philippe Lehoux (right)

Michael Korovine
Michael Korovine
Jean-Philippe Lehoux
Jean-Philippe Lehoux

Filed Under: Event 4 - Day 2 Tagged With: Event 4 - $330 Freeze ($300 + $30 NL Hold'em)

Khalil out 3rd

2015/03/04 12:21am by
Tournament: Event 4 - $330 Freeze ($300 + $30 NL Hold'em)

Joseph Abou Khalil was playing very aggressively all night, and for the most part he was the table captain at each table he joined. Although he was caught out a couple of times with the worst hand, his overall aggressiveness served him well and even when he got quite short, he managed to rebuild his stack in relatively short order.

At least that was true through the early levels tonight, past the bubble, and to the final table. Unfortunately for him, though, Michael Korovine just caught him – and Joe no longer has a stack to rebuild.

Joe was in the button and shoved, and was quickly called by Michael Korovine from the small blind. The cards were flipped and Joseph was at risk:

Joseph: King of Spades 9 of Clubs

Michael: 10 of Diamonds 10 of Hearts

The board runout brought no help for Joseph: 2 of Hearts Ace of Spades 5 of Diamonds 6 of Spades Queen of Hearts, and Joseph was eliminated in 3rd place.

3rd place: Joseph Abou Khalil, $6,350.00

Joseph Abou Khalil

Joseph Abou Khalil

Filed Under: Event 4 - Day 2 Tagged With: Event 4 - $330 Freeze ($300 + $30 NL Hold'em)

Loubounakis ends his run in 4th

2015/03/04 12:12am by Playground Poker
Tournament: Event 4 - $330 Freeze ($300 + $30 NL Hold'em)

Andreas Loubounakis moved in with his last 14 big blinds holding Ace of Diamonds 6 of Clubs, and Joseph Abou Khalil isolated him from the small blind with Ace of Spades Jack of Diamonds. With no help on the 2 of Diamonds 2 of Clubs Ace of Clubs 3 of Spades 5 of Spades board, Andreas was exited from the tournament in 4th place.

4th place: Andreas Loubounakis – $4,775

Andreas Loubounakis

Andreas Loubounakis

Filed Under: Event 4 - Day 2 Tagged With: Event 4 - $330 Freeze ($300 + $30 NL Hold'em)

Rough chip counts

2015/03/04 12:06am by Playground Poker
Tournament: Event 4 - $330 Freeze ($300 + $30 NL Hold'em)

We peaked over the shoulders of the players to get an estimate of their chip counts, and here is how they seem to be distributed:

Final Table

  • Seat 1:
  • Seat 2:
  • Seat 3:
  • Seat 4: Jean-Philippe Lehoux – 580,000
  • Seat 5:
  • Seat 6:
  • Seat 7: Joseph Abou Khalil – 770,000
  • Seat 8: Michael Korovine – 1,500,000
  • Seat 9: Andreas Loubounakis – 450,000
  • Seat 10:

Filed Under: Event 4 - Day 2 Tagged With: Event 4 - $330 Freeze ($300 + $30 NL Hold'em)

Xu takes 5th place

2015/03/04 12:02am by Playground Poker
Tournament: Event 4 - $330 Freeze ($300 + $30 NL Hold'em)

Rong Xu saw 364,000 of his chips get shipped to Jean-Philippe Lehoux in a battle of the blinds, as all the chips found themselves in the middle in a 60/40 flip.

Rong: Ace of Hearts Queen of Hearts

Jean-Philippe: King of Diamonds Jack of Spades

Board: 3 of Spades 7 of Spades 5 of Diamonds 2 of Spades 4 of Spades

After losing that pot, Rong moved his remaining chips in the very next hand, and picked up the blinds. He moved in yet again on the following hand, but this time found a call from Michael Korovine in the big blind.

Rong: King of Spades Queen of Diamonds

Michael: Ace of Diamonds 5 of Diamonds

The dealer rang out a board of Ace of Spades King of Clubs 10 of Clubs Ace of Clubs 4 of Spades, and Rong was eliminated in 5th place.

5th place: Rong Xu – $3,580

Rong Xu

Rong Xu

Filed Under: Event 4 - Day 2 Tagged With: Event 4 - $330 Freeze ($300 + $30 NL Hold'em)

Bodnar loses back to back, exits in 6th

2015/03/03 11:56pm by Playground Poker
Tournament: Event 4 - $330 Freeze ($300 + $30 NL Hold'em)

It took two hands for Peter Bodnar to go from 435,000 to 0. In the first hand, he opened to 52,000 from the cutoff, and called the all-in of 288,000 by Rong Xu on the button.

Peter: Ace of Hearts Queen of Clubs

Rong: Ace of Diamonds Jack of Clubs

Rong spiked a miracle jack with one card to come, and doubled up on the Ace of Spades 2 of Diamonds 9 of Diamonds 3 of Clubs Jack of Hearts board.

The very next hand, Peter moved in for his last 141,000, and was called by Michael in the big blind.

Peter: Ace of Diamonds 10 of Hearts

Michael: Ace of Clubs King of Spades

Peter failed to improve on the 7 of Clubs 4 of Clubs 4 of Diamonds King of Diamonds 9 of Hearts board, and made his way to the cashiers to collect his prize.

6th place: Peter Bodnar – $2,680

Peter Bodnar

Peter Bodnar

Filed Under: Event 4 - Day 2 Tagged With: Event 4 - $330 Freeze ($300 + $30 NL Hold'em)

Maxime Laberge gets rivered

2015/03/03 11:40pm by Playground Poker
Tournament: Event 4 - $330 Freeze ($300 + $30 NL Hold'em)

We missed the exact action, but we do know that Maxime Laberge was all-in preflop with AK versus the AQ of Andreas Loubounakis, and came in second-best as Andreas ran a broadway straight to win the pot.

7th place: Maxime Laberge – $2,020

Maxime Laberge

Maxime Laberge

Filed Under: Event 4 - Day 2 Tagged With: Event 4 - $330 Freeze ($300 + $30 NL Hold'em)

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    • Event 1 – Day 1a
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    • Event 1 – Day 1d
    • Event 1 – Day 2
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    • Event 1 – Results & Payouts
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    • Event 2 – Day 1
    • Event 2 – Day 2
    • Event 2 – Results & Payouts
  • Event 3 – $70 Deepstack Turbo ($60 + $10 NL Hold'em)
    • Event 3 – Results & Payouts
  • Event 4 – $330 Freeze ($300 + $30 NL Hold'em)
    • Event 4 – Day 1
    • Event 4 – Day 2
    • Event 4 – Results & Payouts
  • Event 5 – $60 Freeze ($50 + $10 NL Hold'em)
    • Event 5 – Results & Payouts
  • Event 6 – Mixed ($100 + $10 NL Hold'em/PL Omaha)
    • Event 6 – Results & Payouts
  • Event 7 – $70 Single Rebuy ($60 + $10 NL Hold'em)
    • Event 7 – Results & Payouts
  • Event 8 – Survivor ($200 + $20 NL Hold'em)
    • Event 8 – Results & Payouts
  • Event 9 – Main Event ($1,000 + $100 NL Hold'em)
    • Event 9 – Day 1a
    • Event 9 – Day 1b
    • Event 9 – Day 2
    • Event 9 – Day 3
    • Event 9 – Results & Payouts
  • Event 10 – NL Hold'em 3 Lives ($200 + $20 NL Hold'em)
    • Event 10 – Results & Payouts
  • Event 11 – 8-Max ($100 + $10 NL Hold'em)
    • Event 11 – Results & Payouts
  • Event 12 – $80 Deepstack Turbo ($70 + $10 NL Hold'em)
    • Event 12 – Results & Payouts
  • Event 13 – 6-Max ($150 + $15 NL Hold'em)
    • Event 13 – Results & Payouts
  • Event 14 – Ante Up ($60 + $10 NL Hold'em)
    • Event 14 – Results & Payouts
  • Event 15 – $25 Bounty ($90 + $10 + $25 NL Hold'em)
    • Event 15 – Results & Payouts
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