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
Michael Korovine
flop, and then check-called the all-in when the 
came on the turn. He tabled 
for the nut-straight, and only had to fade 3 outs to win against the 
of Jean-Philippe. The river was a brick (
), and that sealed the win for the local hero, who collected a cool $11,500 for his victory.
, which Michael called quickly holding a pocket pair of his own: 
.
and Jean-Philippe’s Kings held.
had Jean-Philippe’s 
crushed. However, a 
appeared on the turn to give Jean-Philippe a double up on his 769,000 stack.
. With no help on the 
board, and made his way to the cashiers to collect his prize.
