The day started at 11 this morning in the 1st event of the March Power Weekend, a $100 + $10 freezeout, which attracted 60 players, allowing it to surpass the guaranteed prize pool of $5,000, generating a total of $5,820 to be paid to the top 8 finishers.
The final table saw the two who were the chip leaders all afternoon, Giovanni Petrella and Ron S., holding a substantial lead over the others. As expected, the short stacks shoved away and the field started to narrow down.
Ron S. went on a crazy roller coaster ride, seeing his stack drop to 8k, then go back up to almost 300k, before busting out in 4th place.
Dylan Thibault, a regular visitor from Ontario who likes to come play most of the Playground events, made a solid deep run, just as he often does, but ultimately busted out in 3rd place ($910).
As play went heads up between Petrella and Bombardier, both players kept shoving with random hands, until finally, Petrella got the best of Bombardier, and became the event #1 Champion.
On the final hand of play, Richard Bombardier shoved his suited gapped connectors, 
, and was called light by Petrella holding 
. Petrella announced “I’m not that strong”, but when he saw what he was up against, he then said “oh, I’m actually ahead”, and the dealer put out the board: 
. Giovanni flopped a 6 but Richard gave him some sweat having flopped a gutty. With no help to Richard on the turn or river, that brought the tournament to a close, with Giovanni Petrella hitting two pair on the river and becoming the Event #1 $100 + $10 Champion.
Event #1 Champion: Giovanni Petrella $1,670
Last Hand of Play:
Runner-up: Richard Bombardier, $1,230
flop, Ron put Giovanni all in with his 
, for flopped trip Aces! Unfortunately for Ron, this was a massive cooler as Giovanni snapped with 
for a flopped boat! Ron took it in stride, and like a true gentlemen, he exited in 4th place, smiling as he collected his $670 payout.
flop, Ron’s chips got into the middle when he hit top pair with his 
, but, he was snap called by Dylan who had pocket rockets. The run out of 
was of no help to Ron, who was left holding just 8k at the end of the hand.
board with Ron holding 
for a flopped set, while Richard had 
after hitting the turn with a pair and Ace kicker.
bested Ron who had 
for top-top on a 
, however as he was tabling his cards, Bombardier announced “I have an Ace”, and that sent Nick to the rail in 7th place ($270).