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Playground 200: 133 to return for Day 2

Level: 15
Small Blind: 1.5K
Big Blind: 3K
Button Ante: 3K
Chip Average: 122K
Remaining: 133
Entries: 635

2018/05/20 - 11:40 by

It’s a beautiful if somewhat blustery Sunday in the Montreal area, and with 4 Day 1s in the Playground 200 now in the rear-view mirror, the stage is set for Day 2 in the event. There are 133 players who will take to the felts at 12:00pm (noon) today, and all of them are competing for one of the 80 finishing spots in the money, ranging from the min-cash $350 all the way to the first place prize of $23,036! The total prize pool in the event is $123,346, and you can consult the entire payout chart in the Results tab here on the Playground Events Blog.

The chip leader to start today is Vincent Tremblay, who managed to bag an incredible 513,500 chips during Day 1C. That’s a 172bb starting stack – a truly remarkable figure and a total so high that he must already be considered a favourite to go very deep in the tournament. Mathieu Boucher also managed to bag more than 100bb through the online Day 1 – he was the overall chip leader all the way through until the end of Day 1C. Other players in the top 10 to start today include Joey Boczek (95bb), Grey Wolf aka Siamak (92bb).

The average stack to start the day is 121,500 chips – 41bb – and if we look at the players above this average, we find Brian Bond – a former champion of an event very similar to the Playground 200, and a few other experienced players as well, including Piotr Wielopolksi, Ben Menache, David Sorgente, Jason Conforti, Daune Fernandez, and Levon Dedayen – each of whom has the ability to make their mark on the event. And that’s not to discount players starting a little shorter – Yannick Kwan, Bill Kontaratos, Event #5 Champ Rong Xu, Sebastien Drolet-Poitras are all formidable poker talents and won’t go quietly! Even at the bottom of the list we find Charles-Eric Benoit, who is more than skilled enough to cause problems for the field even if he does start with just 10bb today!

Action gets underway in just minutes and play will continue today through 10 levels of 40 minutes each today. With just a few more than 50 eliminations before we reach the bubble, action should be extremely quick today to get started – good luck to everyone!

Playground 200 Day 2 seating draw (with counts)

2018/05/19 - 19:48 by

The three Live Day 1s and single online Day 1 in the May Playground 200 are now complete, and over the 4 starting flights there were a total of 635 entries. Of that total, 133 players qualified for Day 2 in the event. Although players had the right to play in multiple Day 1s and attempt to qualify for Day 2 multiple times, no one accomplished this in this edition of the Playground 200. Therefore, no “double stacks” have been retired from play and the restart will begin with all 133 players arranged at the tables according to this seating draw.

Day 2 gets underway at 12:00pm tomorrow and play will continue through 10 levels of 40 minutes each. Blinds will be 1,500/3,000 with a button ante of 3,000 when play resumes.

First Name \| Prénom	Last Name \| Nom	Seat \| Siège	Stack \| Tapis
William Cornelius	Johnston	Table 56 - Seat 1	117,000
Lily	Kornik	Table 56 - Seat 2	103,500
Andreas	Bancheri	Table 56 - Seat 3	103,500
Joel	Godin	Table 56 - Seat 4	152,000
Gianfranco	Giordano	Table 56 - Seat 5	145,000
Johnny	Akilian	Table 56 - Seat 7	105,000
Dat	Doan	Table 56 - Seat 8	88,000
Golnaz	Aghabeigi	Table 56 - Seat 9	112,000
Yannick	Kwan	Table 57 - Seat 1	113,000
Vincent	Trevisonno	Table 57 - Seat 2	93,000
Jahkheem	Polydore	Table 57 - Seat 3	64,000
Vonesavanh	Siphaengphet	Table 57 - Seat 4	174,500
Vera	G	Table 57 - Seat 5	125,500
Adam	Hussen	Table 57 - Seat 6	105,000
Tristan	Bernier	Table 57 - Seat 7	26,000
Alain	Zarka	Table 57 - Seat 8	178,000
Brett Gregory	Hart	Table 57 - Seat 9	84,000
Gabriel	Attiave	Table 58 - Seat 1	133,500
Bill	Kontaratos	Table 58 - Seat 2	99,000
Josef	Ares	Table 58 - Seat 3	115,000
Gil	Charles	Table 58 - Seat 4	159,000
Chris	B	Table 58 - Seat 5	45,000
Nicolas	Miron	Table 58 - Seat 6	160,500
William	Perrault	Table 58 - Seat 7	73,500
Peter	Koumoutseas Juhasz	Table 58 - Seat 8	81,500
Shawn	Konig	Table 58 - Seat 9	163,000
Charles-Eric	Benoit	Table 59 - Seat 1	27,500
Sebastien	Drolet-Poitras	Table 59 - Seat 2	75,000
Claude	Amar	Table 59 - Seat 3	112,500
Francis	Rivest-Beaudoin	Table 59 - Seat 4	93,000
Vsevolod	Malamud	Table 59 - Seat 5	106,000
Albert	Abitbol	Table 59 - Seat 6	149,000
Ranjeev	M	Table 59 - Seat 7	69,000
Pierre Olivier	Guay	Table 59 - Seat 8	69,500
Mathieu	Boucher	Table 59 - Seat 9	338,000
Patrick	Mailloux	Table 60 - Seat 1	55,000
Kathy	Sawers	Table 60 - Seat 2	57,000
Gheorghe	Palamariu	Table 60 - Seat 3	132,000
Mathew	Nichol	Table 60 - Seat 4	37,500
Eric	Guindon	Table 60 - Seat 5	49,500
Daune	Fernandez	Table 60 - Seat 6	137,000
Real	Cantin	Table 60 - Seat 7	78,000
Tedde	Ballanger	Table 60 - Seat 8	55,000
Christian	Larocque	Table 60 - Seat 9	79,500
Keven	Desgagne	Table 61 - Seat 1	79,000
Jean-Rene	Guay	Table 61 - Seat 2	136,000
Isabelle	Simard	Table 61 - Seat 3	125,500
Tyler	Carslaw	Table 61 - Seat 5	36,000
Michael	Khan	Table 61 - Seat 6	190,500
Prosper	Azoulay	Table 61 - Seat 7	125,000
Nick	Nickoletopoulos	Table 61 - Seat 8	116,500
Antoine	Simon	Table 61 - Seat 9	209,000
Christian	Cyr	Table 62 - Seat 1	117,000
Levon	Dedeyan	Table 62 - Seat 2	128,500
Jimmy	Tansery	Table 62 - Seat 3	78,000
Brian	Pinheiro Lopez	Table 62 - Seat 4	181,000
Michael	De Luca	Table 62 - Seat 5	92,500
Mathieu	Paquette	Table 62 - Seat 6	136,000
Mathieu	Brunet	Table 62 - Seat 7	252,000
Piotr	Wielopolski	Table 62 - Seat 8	182,000
Carl	Huard	Table 62 - Seat 9	37,500
Mathieu	Aymerich	Table 63 - Seat 1	96,500
Veasna	Nun	Table 63 - Seat 2	91,000
Joey	Boczek	Table 63 - Seat 3	283,500
Ben	Menache	Table 63 - Seat 4	182,500
Randy L	Ordway	Table 63 - Seat 5	56,500
Michael	Monteleone	Table 63 - Seat 6	90,000
Daniel	Fortier	Table 63 - Seat 7	77,500
Jonathan Marvin	Blaha	Table 63 - Seat 8	56,500
Sergei	Gurin	Table 63 - Seat 9	130,500
Michael Albert	Marinaro	Table 64 - Seat 1	54,500
Kenneth	Legue	Table 64 - Seat 2	229,500
Robert	Turcotte	Table 64 - Seat 3	48,000
Vincent	Tremblay	Table 64 - Seat 4	513,500
Yassine	El Fouladi	Table 64 - Seat 5	42,500
Andy	Carriere	Table 64 - Seat 6	71,500
Max	Fallon	Table 64 - Seat 7	205,500
Nicholas	Belanger	Table 64 - Seat 8	147,000
Ismail	Alaoui Fdili	Table 64 - Seat 9	90,000
Francois	Gauthier	Table 65 - Seat 1	91,000
Rong	Xu	Table 65 - Seat 2	78,500
Rodney	Raycroft	Table 65 - Seat 3	63,500
Christopher	Kokozaki	Table 65 - Seat 4	124,000
Francois Oliver	Dupuis	Table 65 - Seat 5	147,500
Brian	Bond	Table 65 - Seat 6	188,000
Maxime	Marcouiller	Table 65 - Seat 7	9,500
Makan	Salimi	Table 65 - Seat 8	239,000
Timmy	Richard	Table 65 - Seat 9	104,000
Lee	Chanwoo	Table 66 - Seat 1	160,000
Rottanak	Ly	Table 66 - Seat 2	125,000
James	Sinkovic	Table 66 - Seat 3	67,500
Aboud	Georgos	Table 66 - Seat 4	106,000
Daniel	Beaulieu	Table 66 - Seat 5	69,000
Vladimir	Nekrachevitch	Table 66 - Seat 6	49,500
David	Sorgente	Table 66 - Seat 7	161,000
Jean-Francois	Stoycheff	Table 66 - Seat 8	274,500
Gregory	Feuz	Table 66 - Seat 9	124,000
Sebastien	Morrissette	Table 67 - Seat 1	178,500
Samuel	Guillen	Table 67 - Seat 2	232,500
Alex	Barbosa	Table 67 - Seat 3	126,500
Andy	D' Alessandro	Table 67 - Seat 4	70,500
John	Karatambias	Table 67 - Seat 5	67,000
Tam	Ho	Table 67 - Seat 6	58,500
Paul	Hartman	Table 67 - Seat 7	275,000
Graig	William	Table 67 - Seat 8	110,000
Sebastian Jean	Robillard	Table 67 - Seat 9	57,500
Li	Ding	Table 68 - Seat 1	130,500
Jason	Conforti	Table 68 - Seat 2	151,500
Ghislain	Soucy	Table 68 - Seat 3	95,500
Francois	Dugas	Table 68 - Seat 4	207,000
Ken	Ransom	Table 68 - Seat 5	151,000
Eddie	Daldalian	Table 68 - Seat 6	51,000
Daniel	Mackay	Table 68 - Seat 7	146,000
Amirpasha	Emami	Table 68 - Seat 8	271,500
Michel	Leblond	Table 68 - Seat 9	170,500
Yvan	Gravel	Table 69 - Seat 1	59,000
Nicolas	Lareau-Lessard	Table 69 - Seat 2	282,500
Cedric	Dupuis	Table 69 - Seat 3	44,500
Christian	Brousseau	Table 69 - Seat 4	95,500
Kevin	Javier	Table 69 - Seat 5	105,500
Donald	Abdelhay	Table 69 - Seat 6	37,000
Brent	Wajcman	Table 69 - Seat 7	56,500
Ryan	Teixeira	Table 69 - Seat 8	35,000
Melanie	Ares	Table 69 - Seat 9	108,500
George	Siamoutas	Table 70 - Seat 1	165,500
Cedrick	Quenneville-Renaud	Table 70 - Seat 2	49,500
Siamak	S	Table 70 - Seat 3	275,500
Denis	Quirion	Table 70 - Seat 4	266,000
Marc Antoine	Cloutier	Table 70 - Seat 5	63,000
Mike	Mirand	Table 70 - Seat 6	150,500
Patrick	Williams	Table 70 - Seat 7	53,000
Steve	Berube	Table 70 - Seat 8	124,500
Jacques	Bigonesse	Table 70 - Seat 9	106,500

Final 4 hands of the day

2018/05/19 - 18:36 by

The Tournament Director has just stopped the clock in level 14 and announced that they field will play another 4 hands and then play will be suspended for the day. With just scraps left on the day, there are still 59 players at the tables, and while there are always one or two eliminations in the last few hands, very close to 135 players will return to start Day 2.

All of this information and more will be available soon when we publish the final results for today and add them to the Combined Day 1 Results page, and then a little later when we will publish the seating draw for Day 2.

View the full Combined Day 1 Results List

To the final stint in Day 1C

Level: 12
Small Blind: 800
Big Blind: 1.6K
Button Ante: 1.6K
Chip Average: 75.5K
Remaining: 91
Entries: 275

2018/05/19 - 17:25 by

There are still 91 players left in Day 1C as they return from their final break of the day and play resumes with 3 levels left to go. Today will wrap up at the end of level 14 – but there’s a long way to go between level 12 and the end of level 14!

The chip leader at the moment is none other than Joey Boczek, who is playing over 300K and threatens to take the overall chip lead into Day 2. Nicolas Lareau-Lessard has a ton of chips in 2nd place so far – he sits directly to Joey’s right.

First name \| Prénom	Last name \| Nom	Stack \| Tapis
Joey	Boczek	323,800
Nicolas	Lareau-Lessard	254,000
Denis	Quirion	219,000
Jahkeem	Polydore	197,600
Shawn	Konig	192,000

A few more shots going to the last break

Level: 11
Small Blind: 600
Big Blind: 1.2K
Button Ante: 1.2K
Chip Average: 70K
Remaining: 99
Entries: 275

2018/05/19 - 17:00 by

Here are a few more photos of the action in Day 1C.

Dramatic hand before the break

Level: 9
Small Blind: 400
Big Blind: 800
Button Ante: 800
Chip Average: 52.5K
Remaining: 131
Entries: 275

2018/05/19 - 16:03 by

Just as the clock came to the end of level 8, there was a very dramatic hand on Table 50 – the table and crowd surrounding were so animated, you would have thought there was Flip N Go happening or something – but in fact it was a normal hand of poker – an abnormally normal hand…

There were three players to the flop. One player was short-stacked and was all-in (Seat 1) and the other two had called. The flop came down: and all the rest of the chips got in as Ranjeev M bet the rest of his stack and Denis Quiron snap called.

The turn and river were – but pandemonium broke out when the hands were flipped over.

Seat 1:
Ranjeev M:
Denis Quirion:

All three players had flopped a set!

The board runout changed nothing, and Ranjeev stacked a very nice pot. However, even after this unlucky hand for Denis, he’s still 2nd place in chips at the moment for second on the leaderboard!