Playground Poker Spring Classic 2015

Final 3 tables

  • Level: 16
  • Small Blind: 2K
  • Big Blind: 4K
  • Ante: 500
  • Chip Average: 158.3K
  • Remaining: 30
  • Entries: 190


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    The WPT Warm-Up has reached it’s final 3 tables of 10-players. Players are on their last level of the day, and the clock shows there are only 15-minutes left before the completion of the day. Shortly after players have bagged their chips, we will be publishing the full player-reported chip counts, as well as the seating assignments for tomorrow’s Day 2, which is scheduled for 12pm.

    Table 62

    Seat 1. Griffin Benger
    Seat 2. Zennawi Petros
    Seat 3. Hiyaw Gebreyohannes
    Seat 4. Edward Hislop
    Seat 5. Philippe Belley
    Seat 6. Alex Fortin Demers
    Seat 7. Robert Taylor
    Seat 8. Jean-Sebastien Gratton
    Seat 9. Kane Kalas
    Seat 10. Vlad Faubert

    Table 66

    Seat 1. Ami Alibay
    Seat 2. Geoffrey Robert McNeely
    Seat 3. Gregory Katayama
    Seat 4. Patrick Braga
    Seat 5. Alan Engel
    Seat 6. Jonathan Duhamel
    Seat 7. Michael Wang
    Seat 8. Andrew Graham
    Seat 9. Joe Gualtieri
    Seat 10. Joshua Keith Tucker

    Table 70

    Seat 1. Daniel Leduc
    Seat 2. Randy Khalil
    Seat 3. Gagandeep Singh
    Seat 4. Jeremy Lyons
    Seat 5. Alexandre James Allison
    Seat 6. Grant Fallis
    Seat 7. Joseph Andres
    Seat 8. Chanracy Khun
    Seat 9. Victor Artemenko
    Seat 10. Peter Papadakos

    Leaders after 14 levels

  • Level: 15
  • Small Blind: 1.5K
  • Big Blind: 3K
  • Ante: 500
  • Chip Average: 103.3K
  • Remaining: 46
  • Entries: 190


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    The WPT Warm-up is on it’s last break of the night, and will go on pause for the night upon the completion of two more 45-minutes levels. Those left with chips at this point will bag and tag them onto Day 2, which will take place tomorrow at 12pm. With only 46 players left, here is current leaderboard, entering level 15:

    1. Gagandeep Singh – 307,000
    2. Michael Wang – 284,000
    3. Joshua Keith Tucker – 277,000
    4. Joseph Andres – 219,000
    5. Kane Kalas – 207,000
    6. Alan ‘Ari’ Engel – 186,000
    7. Alex Fortin Demers – 173,000

    Photographs from levels 14:

    New leaderboard in Event 7!

  • Level: 13
  • Small Blind: 1K
  • Big Blind: 2K
  • Ante: 300
  • Chip Average: 79.2K
  • Remaining: 60
  • Entries: 190


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    A few players in the WPT Warm-up are starting to slightly pull away from the pack with just 60 players left in the tournament. Here are the top 8 players by chip count at this stage in the event:

    1. Alan Ryan (Ari) Engel – 219K
    2. Alex Fortin Demers – 200K
    3. Gagandeep Singh – 185K
    4. Joseph Anders – 177K
    5. Joshua Keith Tucker – 163K
    6. Randy Khalil – 151K
    7. Jonathan Duhamel – 125K
    8. Luigi Valente – 124K

    Some other players we’re following: Griffin Benger, 23K; Chanracy Khun, 48K, Matthew Salzberg, 41K

    Stacked tables

  • Level: 12
  • Small Blind: 800
  • Big Blind: 1.6K
  • Ante: 200
  • Chip Average: 75.4K
  • Remaining: 63
  • Entries: 190


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    The WPT Warm-up is down to 63 players as the tournament rolls right along with an average stack nearing 50 big blinds and a regular procession of players to the rail. We’ll be back with a leaderboard update during the next break, scheduled for the end of this level (in 20 minutes), but a quick overview of the tables in play shows two tables in particular – table 61 and table 66 – that have a LOT of chips on them, and action to match.

    A few of the players eliminated in the past hour or so: Alexandre Lavigne, early chip leader Jeff Rosenblatt, and Eric Afriat.

    Still in: Griffin Benger, Jonathan Duhamel, Matt Salsberg, Ari Engel, Kane Kalas, Ami Alibay, Chanracy Khun.

    Level 11 photos

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    Photographs form level 11:

    Colouring up the T25s

  • Level: 10
  • Small Blind: 500
  • Big Blind: 1K
  • Ante: 100
  • Chip Average: 50.5K
  • Remaining: 95
  • Entries: 190


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    Players have taken a break while tournament staff remove the green T25 chips from play. The leaders at the break are all over 100K in chips:

    1. Alex Fortin Demers – 145K
    2. Gagandeep Singh – 123K
    3. Joseph Andres – 118K
    4. Alan Ryan Engel – 116K
    5. Tam Ho – 112K
    6. Edward Hislop – 110K
    7. Kyle Chang – 100K

    Overall, the tournament is down to 95 players remaining. Some of the notable players still in the action:

    • Griffin Benger
    • Eric Afriat
    • Jonathan Duhamel
    • Chanracy Khun
    • Matthew Salsberg
    • Tim Ulmer

    Event 7 – Prize Pool & Payout Structure

  • Level: 9
  • Small Blind: 400
  • Big Blind: 800
  • Ante: 100
  • Chip Average: 44K
  • Remaining: 108
  • Entries: 190


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    Event 7 of the Playground Poker Spring Classic presented by partypoker.net is a $1000 + $100 NL Hold’em tournament. The tournament began on April 29, 2015 at 11:00am and is a two-day event. There were a total of 190 players in the event, which generated a prize pool of $184,300.00. This will be distributed according to the following table.

    [eztable width=”40%” tablesorter=”0″ colalign=”center|center”]
    Finish,Prize
    1,”$44,500.00″
    2,”$31,300.00″
    3,”$20,050.00″
    4,”$14,850.00″
    5,”$11,150.00″
    6,”$8,920.00″
    7,”$7,400.00″
    8,”$5,930.00″
    9,”$4,440.00″
    10,”$3,240.00″
    11,”$3,240.00″
    12,”$3,240.00″
    13,”$2,670.00″
    14,”$2,670.00″
    15,”$2,670.00″
    16,”$2,260.00″
    17,”$2,260.00″
    18,”$2,260.00″
    19,”$1,990.00″
    20,”$1,990.00″
    21,”$1,990.00″
    22,”$1,760.00″
    23,”$1,760.00″
    24,”$1,760.00″
    [/eztable]

    Chip leaders at the 2nd break

  • Level: 7
  • Small Blind: 250
  • Big Blind: 500
  • Ante: 75
  • Chip Average: 33,7K
  • Remaining: 141
  • Entries: 190


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    Players in Event 7 have just returned from their second break of the day. While they were absent from the tables, we found the current leaders in the tournament. Here are the top 6:

    1. Faisal Khan – 111K
    2. Joshua Abiscott – 99K
    3. Alan Ryan Engel – 95K
    4. Tam Ho – 92K
    5. Alex Fortin Demers – 89K
    6. Jeff Rosenblatt – 87K

    Registration is now closed in the tournament – the final number of players today is 190. We’ll make full prize pool information available shortly.

    A few more photos of the Warm-up

  • Level: 5
  • Small Blind: 150
  • Big Blind: 300
  • Ante: 50
  • Chip Average: 29.1K
  • Remaining: 159
  • Entries: 185


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    Event 7 of the Playground Poker Spring Classic presented by partypoker.net is now into level 5 and registration is up to 185 players.

    Here are some more shots of the field in today’s event, taken during levels 4-5.

    A couple of early leaders

  • Level: 4
  • Small Blind: 100
  • Big Blind: 200
  • Ante: 25
  • Chip Average: 27.2K
  • Remaining: 150
  • Entries: 163


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    The players have taken their first break of the day and we have taken the opportunity to find out who are the early leaders just 3 levels into the event.

    Looking around the room, there are just two players with stacks beyond a simple double-up – Randy Khalil with 82K and Jeff Rosenblatt with 70K. Randy has already had a fantastic series, having placed 5th in the $250 Frenzy last night.

    Meanwhile the numbers in the event continue to grow – there are now 163 players in the field with another 2 hours and 25 minutes of late reg available.