Playground Poker

Cards are in the air

Level: 1
Small Blind: 50
Big Blind: 100
BB Ante: 0
Chip Average: 20,000
Remaining: 59
Entries: 59

2019/03/22 - 20:06 by Playground Poker

Play just got under way in this first flight of Day 1’s of the Playground 100.

Right now there are 59 players registered and the players are walking into the tournament hall ready for action.

Remember that players may elect to play more than one Day 1 even if they have survived a previous Day 1 with chips. For those players who qualify for Day 2 more than once, they will resume play on Day 2 with their largest qualifying stack; all other qualifying stacks will be forfeited.

So let the cards fly!

Event #4: $100 + $10 Playground 100 is here!

2019/03/22 - 19:55 by Playground Poker

The time is upon us for the amazing Playground 100. With unlimited re-entries and a guaranteed prize pool of $25,000 this is an event no one wants to miss.

Players will kick off with 20,000 chips and the blinds will go up every 20 minutes. The registration period will remain open until the beginning of level 7, at approximately 10:15pm. So there is plenty of time to make it down to Playground poker and get into the action.

There will be three Day 1 flights:

Day 1A: Friday March 22nd at 8:00PM
Day 1B: Saturday March 23rd at 12:00PM
Day 1C Saturday «march 23rd at 7:00PM

This is a 2-day event and Day 2 is set to get underway on Sunday March 24th at 1:00PM.

Expect to see HUGE numbers for this event, as well as wild action. Let the games begin.

Event #3 Final Results

2019/03/22 - 12:42 by Playground Poker

Event #3 of the March Power Weekend, the $150 + $20 + $50 PL Omaha Bounty Re-entry, attracted a field of 49 entries to build a prize pool of $7,056 that was paid out to the top seven finishers as follows:

Rank \| Pos	First Name \| Prénom	Last Name \| Name	City \| Ville	Prov	Country \| Pays	Prize \| Bourse
1	Jean-Rene	Gonzalez	Ile Bizard	QC	CA	$2,276
2	Harrison	Kaczka	Pittsford	NY	US	$1,610
3	Arthur	W	Montreal	QC	CA	$1,130
4	George	Wolf	Lasalle	QC	CA	$800
5	Robert	Gingras	Ottawa	ON	CA	$560
6	Nick	Nickoletopoulos	Lachine	QC	CA	$400
7	Maxime	Laberge	Stoneham Et Tewkesbury	QC	CA	$280

Jean-René Gonzalez wins Event #3

2019/03/22 - 6:27 by Playground Poker

After the players returned from their short break, play resumed. Unfortunately for Harrison Kaczka, his luck was not changing. He tried to grind, fold and squeeze some value from the little hands that were favorable to him, but to no avail.

Eventually, he just ran out of chips. He decided to go all in when he had 85,000 chips left, and Jean-René made the obvious call. In the end, all it took was a pair of jacks to crown Jean-René champion.

Jean-René Gonzalez:
Harrison Kaczka:

Board:

Event #3 Champion: Jean-René Gonzalez, $2,276

The last hand of play

Second Place: Harrison Kaczka, $1,610

David and Goliath

Level: 22
Small Blind: 15K
Big Blind: 30K
BB Ante: 0
Chip Average: 612,500
Remaining: 2
Entries: 49

2019/03/22 - 6:17 by Playground Poker

After the elimination of Arthur W., Jean-René Gonzalez and Harrison Kaczka settled in for what was probably going to be a pretty quick confrontation. The ratio of chips was approximately 5 to 1 in favor of Harrison.

Jean-René jokingly asked Harrison for an even chop, and got a small giggle from Harrison in response. As the head’s up action got under way, Harrison was seen stacking up chips from his previous wins for quite a few hands. Jean-René even took pity on the titan and asked the dealer to stop, so Harrison could finish stacking his chips.

The confrontation between the two players got of to an intense start. The action was quick, strong and fierce. Harrison was probably thinking that this would be over quickly, and no one could have blamed him for thinking that. But after six or seven hands, the tides were turning in Jean-René’s favor. The chip ratio was now 3 to 1, still in Harrison’s favor, but much more interesting for Jean-René now.

A few hands later, Jean-René was up to 500,000 chips and Harrison had approximately 700,000 in front of him. At this point, two things were obvious to any onlooker. First of all, Jean-René was merciless, making every hand count. Secondly, he was also in the midst of a great streak. Jean-René showed hand after hand to Harrison, demonstrating that he had hit two pairs, a flush, a straight, top-top; with no end in sight.

The two players took advantage of the scheduled break after level 22, which allowed us to perform a final chip count.
With no surprise, Jean-René was now chip leader with 900,000 chips, which left Harrison with 325,000.

Head’s up

Arthur W. gets 3rd position – Heads up!

Level: 21
Small Blind: 12K
Big Blind: 24K
BB Ante: 0
Chip Average: 612,500
Remaining: 2
Entries: 49

2019/03/22 - 5:53 by Playground Poker

Arthur was chip leader for a long time on the final table and all was going well. That is until the Harrison-tornado came to town. In the eye of Harrison’s whirlwind storm, Arthur had lost a lot of chips. A few hands before the elimination of George Wolf, Arthur had fallen victim to a monster cooler at the hands of Harrison. Both players had flopped sets; Arthur had a set of jacks and Harrison had the queens. That brush with Harrison a cost him most of his stack. In regards to Harrison’s streak, one player at the tabled compared him to a freight train with no brakes! Everyone seem to agree that it was a pretty accurate description.

Things were looking bad for Arthur. But a few hands later, George Wolfe got eliminated in fourth place, allowing Arthur got to climb another spot in the prize pool, his small stack notwithstanding.

In the next hand, Harrison bet the pot from the small blind, for 72,000. Big blind with already 24,000 in front, Arthur called. The hand went into head’s up action and the flop came out: .

First to act, Harrison bet the pot. This meant that Arthur could either fold or go all in. He chose the latter option and opened his hand: , top-top; not too bad. Harrison tabled his hand as well: for a pair of nines and a lot of outs for a straight. A popped up on the turn, giving both men two pairs, with Arthur in the lead. Then the came out on the river, giving a straight to Harrison, and sending Arthur to rail in 3rd position.

And then there were two: Jean-René Gonzalez and Harrison Kaczka get ready for heads up action.

3rd place: Arthur W, $1,130