Event #6 - $100 + $10 8-Max Turbo Shootout | Playground Power Weekend July 2018

The Shootout Champion: Haralambos Margaritis

2018/07/30 - 1:02 by Jôle Simard

Event 6 was a shootout tournament, a fun format in which you need to win your table to earn a round 2 seat, where everybody gets a share of the prize pool. 120 players took part, indicating that our player base is fond of sit & gos! To succeed in it, you need to be able to adjust your game as players get eliminated.

17 players did just that, and showed up on the final 2 tables with a minimum prize of $220. Kristopher Chaykowski was very active in the early round 2 action. His stack was the most volatile, as he was trying to earn enough to indulge in big stack play. Down on his luck, he did not make the final table.

Alexandre Mongrain played a solid game, but got crippled by the eventual champion when a gutshot appeared out of the blue to pass the flopped set. Mongrain, despite tripling up to an almost playable stack, left shortly after, sharing 6th and 7th place with Andy D’Alessandro.

Five players agreed to a modified ICM calculation, and as is customary when only 2% of the pot remain, the events that followed were lightning fast and devoid of any deep strategy. When the dust settled, Haralambos Margaritis was left alone, with a suited ace in one hand and a beer in the other. His added $200 got him the biggest payday.

Congratulations!

The Shootout Champion: Haralambos Margaritis – $1910

Runner-ups: Patrick St-Onge (2nd), Diego Aguilar (3rd), Tanvir Ahmed (4th) and David St-Louis (5th)

Last hand of play:

The deal is signed

Level: 22
Small Blind: 10K
Big Blind: 20K
Button Ante: 10K
Chip Average: 510K
Remaining: 5
Entries: 120

2018/07/30 - 0:02 by Jôle Simard

After the double elimination, the remaining 5 players asked for the clock to be stopped n order to discuss a deal. The numbers that they agreed upon are derived from the ICM calculations, but some money was taken off the bigger stack and added to the smaller.

Play will surely accelerate, as there are now only $200 in play, in a winner-take-all fashion. Here are the secured prizes:

First Name \| Prénom	Last Name \| Nom	Stack \| Tapis	Prize \| Prix
Patrick	St-Onge	144,000	$1,055
David	St-Louis	768,000	$1,900
Haralambos	Margaritis	667,000	$1,710
Tanvir	Ahmed	189,000	$1,155
Diego	Aguilar	812,000	$1,900

A shared 6th place!

Level: 22
Small Blind: 10K
Big Blind: 20K
Button Ante: 10K
Chip Average: 510K
Remaining: 5
Entries: 120

2018/07/29 - 23:49 by Jôle Simard

In an extremely rare event, positions 6th and 7th were chopped! Alexandre Mongrain and Andy D’Alessandro both had exactly 101K when they fell under David St-Louis’ wrath. 303K were invested pre-flop.

Mongrain:
D’Alessandro:
St-Louis:

Board:

St-Louis was pretty happy with the flop. His hit held up nicely and Mongrain and D’Alessandro went home with $465 each. Excellent work!

Pruneau and Lecheminant expulsed

Level: 22
Small Blind: 10K
Big Blind: 20K
Button Ante: 10K
Chip Average: 364K
Remaining: 7
Entries: 120

2018/07/29 - 23:38 by Jôle Simard

Alexandre Mongrain suffered a brutal beat, losing almost all of his healthy stack after flopping top set. When he checked it, Haralambos Margaritis picked up a gutshot and decided to call the turn bet and rivered gin.

On the following hand, Mongrain, not in the best of moods, raised all-in. He was called by Diego Aguilar, and Alexandre Pruneau went all-in himself for 135K, with the best hand. Aguilar completed.

Mongrain:
Aguilar:
Pruneau:

Board:

A very fortunate turn for both Mongrain and Aguilar. Pruneau, however, was the first final table casualty, victim of a severe turn card. He got $330 for his final table appearance. Jérémy Lecheminant was eliminated shortly after in a hand that we missed and was handed a ticket worth $380. Nice run by both!

Margaritis send the shootout to the final table

Level: 20
Small Blind: 6K
Big Blind: 12K
Button Ante: 6K
Chip Average: 283K
Remaining: 9
Entries: 120

2018/07/29 - 23:18 by Jôle Simard

Haralambos Margaritis open-shoved with 195K, and it only took a second for Kristopher Chaykowski to make the call under with about 150K to his name.

Margaritis:
Chaykowski:

Board:

Two hands after, Margaritis raised and was shoved on by Janna Pedicelli from the big blind, for 165K. He made the call with ace-jack and found himself in a race against nines. The flop featured a set for the lady, but Margaritis’ gutshot came in, and the final table was formed!

First Name \| Prénom	Last Name \| Nom	Seat \| Siège
Patrick	St-Onge	Table 65 - Seat 1
Alexandre	Mongrain	Table 65 - Seat 2
Andy	D'Alessandro	Table 65 - Seat 3
David	St-Louis	Table 65 - Seat 4
Alexandre	Pruneau	Table 65 - Seat 5
Haralambos	Margaritis	Table 65 - Seat 6
Jérémy	Lecheminant	Table 65 - Seat 7
Tanvir	Ahmed	Table 65 - Seat 8
Diego	Aguilar	Table 65 - Seat 9

12 stacks

Level: 19
Small Blind: 5K
Big Blind: 10K
Button Ante: 5K
Chip Average: 213K
Remaining: 12
Entries: 120

2018/07/29 - 22:50 by Jôle Simard

The shootout finalists just took a short break, allowing the T500 chips to be raced off the tables. Recent events saw Tam Ho leave in 14th place and Maxime-Olivier Sevegny bust in 13th. Diego Aguilar is our current chip leader, with David St-Louis and Alexandre Mongrain not far behind.