Playground Poker

Keeping up with the eliminations is proving to be quite a challenge. The all-in cards are flying left and right, and the numbers are shrinking at an alarming rate.

There are now 3 tables left and there is no slowing down in the forecast.

Two back-to-back eliminations caught our eye.

On table #34, three players were all-in preflop

Kosta Papa:
Brigitte Korak:
Constantinos Psallidas:

Kosta was in very good shape, but the flop was not to his liking at all: . With another on the turn, Brigitte’s legendary smile lit up the table. But Kosta was not done; he absolutely needed a queen. Constantinos was already standing up when the river came: . This hand eliminated Psallidas in 33rd place but Kosta was okay since he had more chips than both his adversaries. Nice triple-up for Brigitte.

Turning around we caught the tail-end of an all-in situation on table #30 where, once again, all the action was preflop. Chip leader Jimmy Guervil was all-in with and he was facing in the hands of Pierre L’écuyer. The board ran without anyone hitting anything, so Jimmy eliminates Pierre in 32nd place and adds new chips to his loot.

The tournament is down to 45 players and there has been a steady stream of eliminations in the last few levels.

The pace is new, and so are the leaders. None of the chip leaders from the previous break made the new leaderboard. Jimmy Guervil now has a decent lead with 153,500 chips an is the only player above 150K. A little behind, but with few chips in between are Maxime Argento, Serge Roy, and Daniel Pépin.

There are 30 more eliminations to go before the players are in the money, and with the blinds increasing, so will the action.