Bob T

Late registration has now come to an end, there are a total of 78 players who have entered the tournament (including 17 re-entries), meaning that the tournament has well exceeded the $5,000 GTD prize pool (the prize pool and payout structure will be published shortly).

One player, Alexandre Menard, has taken a strong lead and is almost 3x the average, sitting on a stack of 83,800.  We will keep a close eye on his table as Alexandre Bedard, sitting a few seats over to his left, has also climbed to a little more than double the average with a stack of 66,200.

With still 49 players remaining, the leader board will surely change by the next break.

When we first arrived on table 20, there were a lot of chips in the middle as the river was being dealt. Matthew Willard fired a blue 5K chip when a 2nd King hit the river, and Alexandre Cousineau, a dealer here at Playground who has joined a few of his dealer colleagues to play today’s event, looked at him, then looked again at his hole cards, and then went deep into the tank. Finally, after thinking through the story being told to him, he made the call.

Willard opened up a pair of 4’s, and Alexandre then opened up his hand: he had hit the 5 on the flop, and with 4 over cards showing, he made the gutsy call and took down the pot.

Willard was left with only 3200 chips and open shoved the next hand. He had a call from both Sebastien Dion and Alexandre Cousineau. JF Stoycheff, was also itching to get into the hand, and whispered that he might regret having folded his cards.

The flop came and action between Cousineau and Dion went check-check. The turn brought the and again we saw check-check. The river was the , and one more time, check-check.

Willard smiled as he opened his hand: , having turned the flush and rivering the nuts. As short stacked players know, nothing can be funner than going runner-runner.

This put Willard back in position to continue on with a very playable stack.

The tables are filling up and the mood is casual, although there have been five bustouts and three re-entries so far. Walking around the room, we were able to get a few shots of some of the players in their seats.

Welcome to the last day of the March Power weekend, Event #7, a 6-max re-entry tournament. Players start with 20,000 chips, blind levels are 20 minutes in length, and unlimited re-entries are possible until the end of the late registration period, which is at 2:15 PM, so there is still plenty of time to come join the action! There is a GTD $5,000 prize pool as well.

There are 21 players already sitting in their seat and more are coming in minute by minute. Game on!

After losing Andre Faucher in 4th ($1,440), and then Gaetan Filteau in 3rd ($1,920), play started heads up with Boisvert sitting on approximately 75% of the chips in play.

At first neither player was taking an aggressive stance and flops were being seen. After a few more hands, they both decided to turn things up a notch. On the previous hand, Peter shoved 485k and was called by Boisvert.

Peter:
Patrick:

Patrick was clearly ahead, but all poker players know that being ahead pre-flop is one thing; staying ahead until the river is something else.

The flop was: and all of the sudden Peter took the lead. Patrick had a gut shot draw. The on the turn and on the river however didn’t help him out and Peter had a badly needed double-up.