We are a level and a half into the night, and registration has climbed into the 3 digits! The board currently reads 120 entries, but players are still entering the club and jumping in to the tournament. Registration will remain open until roughly 9:45pm tonight.
Photographs from level 1:
The $250 Frenzy, which includes 6 starting flights and a $200,000 guaranteed prizepool, is currently underway with it’s second flight. For those interested in participating tonight, late registration will remain open through until the end of the first break, or roughly 9:45pm. Come on down and join us at Canada’s premiere poker destination: Playground Poker Club!
Event 3 – The $250 Frenzy – of the Playground Poker Spring Classic continues tonight with Day 1B, which has begun moments ago. This morning’s flight attracted 113 entries, but with a guaranteed prize pool of $200,000, this event will surely have an impressive field size.
Late registration will remain open until the end of the first break, or roughly 9:45pm. There are two more starting flights on Saturday (11am and 7:30pm), and also two on Sunday (11am and 7:30pm).
See you on the felts!
Here are the final chip counts for Day 1a of The $250 Frenzy, Event 3 of the Playground Poker Spring Classic 2015 presented by partypoker.net. There were a total of 113 entrants in this starting flight of Event 3. 24 of these players have qualified for Day 2, which will start on Monday, April 27th at 7pm.
Any player may play in one or more additional starting flights. In the event that a player qualifies in two or more Day 1s, only their largest stack will move forward to Day 2. We will provide detailed records of any such activity when the official seating draw for Day 2 is released.
Note that these are unverified player-counted chip counts. All chips have been sealed in bags until they return to play on Day 2.
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First Name,Last Name,Chip Count [attr sort=”desc”]
Adam,Cader,”68,000″
Alexander Joseph,Delormier,”45,000″
Charles,La Boissonniere,”44,000″
Dalton,Dawkins,”73,000″
Daniel,Boisvert,”254,500″
David,Gagnon,”17,000″
Eric,Thibodeau,”35,500″
Glen,Hammers,”86,500″
Janine,Bibb,”56,500″
Jean,Laviolette,”107,500″
Jean-Hugo,Robitaille,”34,500″
Joel,Malo,”118,000″
Linda,Huard,”85,500″
Mark,Fitzpatrick,”24,500″
Martin,Messier,”175,500″
Michel,Dubreuil,”219,000″
Micheline,Roberge,”92,500″
Nicolas,Bastien,”64,500″
Philippe,Plouffe,”112,500″
Richard,Catellier,”109,500″
Robert,Amireault,”155,000″
Stephane,Richer,”47,500″
Steven,Easson,”46,500″
William,Wright,”187,500″
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Play has begun in level 14, the last level that will be played in this starting flight of Event 3, The $250 Frenzy. There are just 30 players remaining in the action out of the 113 who started, and that number is sure to come down even more as players with big stacks put pressure on their table mates to try and build up their “ammunition” for Day 2!
A few minutes after this flight has concluded we’ll post full counts for the remaining players, and then tonight we do it all again for Day 1B!
The players in this first flight of The $250 Frenzy are on their second break of the day and the leaderboard at this time puts 2 players well out front of the pack with a few others following closely behind. All 5 have roughly double the chip average (or more) and 4x the starting stack (or more).
The players in Event 3 are taking their first break of the day and we have found some early leaders in the field.
Each of these players currently has over twice the starting stack after just 4 levels of play, so although there’s a long way to go in this flight (they’re playing 14 30-minute levels), these players have established a good base to work from.
Here are a few photos of the early action in Day 1A of The $250 Frenzy.
Photos from level 4
If you’re wondering whether to come out for Day 1A of the $250 Frenzy, today’s likely a good day to play as there are not quite 100 players in the field. You have almost an hour left to get to the Club and jump into this starting flight, which will almost certainly be the smallest starting flight of the six.
Event 3 in the Playground Poker Spring Classic sponsored by partypoker.net is called The $250 Frenzy, and it gets its name from that fact that there’s so much value in the tournament, players are in a frenzy to qualify for Day 2! This is the most “extreme” tournament we run in the sense that there are SIX Day 1s, and players may qualify for Day 2 by lasting to the end of any one of them!
Day 1s in the event are running today through the weekend, with one flight starting each morning at 11 and another flight every evening at 7:30pm. Players may play in any number of starting flights, whether or not they have qualified for Day 2 already – in the event that a player qualifies through multiple starting flights, only their largest stack will move to Day 2.
That being said, no one should be intimidated by the number of starting days – the last time we held this event, there were only 2 players who qualified more than once – so the playing field is definitely fair for everyone.
Good luck to all of the players in this event!
