Bob T

Event #7: 6-Max Re-entry, cards are in the air

Level: 1
Small Blind: 25
Big Blind: 50
BB Ante: 0
Chip Average: 20K
Remaining: 29
Entries: 29

2019/02/25 - 12:16 by Bob T

Welcome to Event #7, a 6-Max Re-entry event that is sure to bring some great poker action on a Monday afternoon. There is a guaranteed prize pool of $5,000, players start with 20,000 chips, the blind levels are 20 minutes, and there is unlimited re-entry permitted right until the start of level 7, immediately following the 1st break. Late registration is open until 2:15 PM so there is still plenty of time to come join the action.

Twenty-nine players are already in their seats and the TD has just announced, “dealers, shuffle-up and deal”, so, it’s game on!

Event #5: Ahmad Baalbaki is the champion

2019/02/24 - 20:53 by Bob T

Event #5, a $200 + $20 Deepstack Freezeout, started at 11:00am, featuring a 30,000 chip starting stack and 20 minute levels. Although the weather was not the best today, 113 players made the trip to Playground to enjoy a Sunday afternoon of tournament poker. There was a guaranteed prize pool of $15,000 that ended up swelling to $21,922!

There were many local grinders mixed in with out of town players competing for a top prize of $5,252. The day played out slowly, with many players grinding similar sized stacks. Cameron Wilson from Kitchener, Ontario, had started to run away from the pack in the later stages. Mike Saragossi then started to build a monster stack heading into the final table. Ahmad Baalbaki was playing patiently, nursing a below average sized stack as we were down to the last 3 tables. he never gave up hope and was able to take a seat on the final table. After winning the huge hand against Mike Saragossi, it was almost impossible to stop him. Altough he was relatively card dead for a few hours through the afternoon, he was able to pick up some key hands when it really mattered on the finally table.

On the last hand of play, David Cadoch was short stacked so it looked like Ahmad was trying to take advantage of David as he had just shoved his monster stack. David decided to call it off and the hands were tabled:

Ahmad:
David:

With a board, David exited in 2nd place and we had our Event #5 champion.

1st place: Ahmad Baalbaki, $4,942

The last hand of play:

2nd place: David Cadoch, $3,000

Saragossi and Ahmed out in 3rd and 4th

Level: 22
Small Blind: 30K
Big Blind: 60K
BB Ante: 30K
Chip Average: 1.7M
Remaining: 2
Entries: 113

2019/02/24 - 20:21 by Bob T

Since the deal was made, we 1st saw Tanvir Ahmed fall to Ahmad Baalbaki when Tanvir shoved and was called by Ahmad holding . When the board came , we were now down to 3 players.

Next to go was Mike Saragossi, who had lost 895k when he ran into Ahmad’s . and had no help from the board: . Mike was crippled on this hand and ended up exiting the tournament when his went against David Cadoch’s .

Final four: A deal has been reached

Level: 23
Small Blind: 40K
Big Blind: 80K
BB Ante: 40K
Chip Average: 847.5
Remaining: 4
Entries: 113

2019/02/24 - 19:35 by Bob T

After losing Daniel Charette in 6th ($1,280), followed by Stephen Langlois in 5th ($1,690), the four remaining players asked the floor to pause the clock so that they can discuss a deal. As the players are all Playground regs who know and like each other, they decided to do a simple deal as follows:

Mike Saragossi (most dominant stack): $3,500
Ahmad Baalbaki : $3,000
Tanvir Ahmed:$3,000
David Cadoch: $3,000

There is also another $1,942 that has been left over that will go to the 1st place finisher.

Final table: Four fast bustouts

Level: 22
Small Blind: 30K
Big Blind: 60K
BB Ante: 30K
Chip Average: 847.5K
Remaining: 4
Entries: 113

2019/02/24 - 19:14 by Bob T

Our 1st casualty of the final table was Tania-Marie Stephen in 10th ($410), followed by Dave Jeanneau-Cyr in 9th ($550), with Tanvir Ahmed taking the chips from both of them with his .

The following hand Gianfranco Giordano shoved his against Tanvir’s and the board made a flush for Tanvir, knocking out Gianfranco in 8th ($720).

Cameron Wilson had a commanding lead earlier on and we missed how he lost a good percentage of his stack, but saw him all in against David Cadoch and Ahmed Baallbaki. Baalbaki had flopped a set of 6s for the win and Cameron exited in 7th ($960).

Hamelin out in 13th

Level: 20
Small Blind: 15K
Big Blind: 30K
BB Ante: 15K
Chip Average: 339K
Remaining: 10
Entries: 113

2019/02/24 - 18:36 by Bob T

With approximately 10 bb’s, Richard Hamelin open shoved in the cutoff position with , and was insta-called by Mike Saragossi on the button who woke up with .

The board run-out was: which was of no help to Richard who headed to the tournament desk to collect his payout slip, finishing in 13th. There have been two more bustouts since then:

Richard Hamelin 13th place $380
Jean-Yves Demers 12th place $380
Isaac Buswell 11th place $410