Playground Poker Spring Classic 2015

Event 10 – WPT Canadian Spring Championship

The Champion: Sheraz Nasir!

The blind levels had reduced to 30 minutes heads up as per the published event rules, and during the 3rd level of heads up play, […]

Zhang takes a blow

Lu Zhang just lost a good portion of her stack, as she check-called on three streets from the big blind, only to find out her […]

Short chip-up break

We’re on a short break here as the TDs are racing off the T5,000 chips. Sheraz has regained the lead in this heads-up battle, as he has […]

More news from this event

It’s time for a Shootout event!

  • Level: 1
  • Small Blind: 25
  • Big Blind: 50
  • Ante: 0
  • Chip Average: 15K
  • Remaining: 58
  • Entries: 58


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    Event 12 is just about ready to commence here at the Playground Poker Spring Classic, and as this tournament follows a ‘Shootout’ formula, players will have to win their table in Round 1 in order to move on to Round 2, which will be the final table. The tournament is capped at 100 entries, although there is still room to register. Late registration will be available until the end of the first break (roughly 7:30pm), or until the tournament sells out, however all stacks will be live from the start of the tournament, and blinded out accordingly.

    Good luck to all the players in this event!

    Level 16

  • Level: 16
  • Small Blind: 2K
  • Big Blind: 4K
  • Ante: 500
  • Chip Average: 165.7K
  • Remaining: 67
  • Entries: 370


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    Guillaume Rivet

    Level 16 began not long ago, and Eric Afriat and Ari Engel are currently sharing the chip lead, holding stacks of approximately 550,000 each. Play is scheduled for another 3 levels, or until the end of level 18, unless the money bubble has not been reached. In this case, play will continue until we are in the money, and then pause until Day 3.

    Photographs from level 15:

    Event 11 – Results & Payouts

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    Event 11 of the Playground Poker Spring Classic presented by partypoker.net was a $200 + $20 NL Hold’em 3 Lives tournament. The tournament began on May 2nd, 2015 at 8:00pm and was a one-day event. There were a total of 123 players in the event, which generated a prize pool of $23,862.00. This was distributed according to the following table.

    [eztable width=100% colwidth=10%|35%|35%|20% colalign=right|left|left|left]
    Rank [attr sort=asc],First Name,Last Name,Prize
    1,Johnson,Bui,”$6,000.00″
    2,Peter,Katsoulis,”$4,412.00″
    3,David,Dusome,”$3,300.00″
    4,Ramesh,Puradchithasan,”$2,500.00″
    5,Richard,Pothier,”$1,900.00″
    6,Martin,Gelinas,”$1,450.00″
    7,Shane,Spear,”$1,100.00″
    8,Stephane,Roquebrune,”$800.00″
    9,Fernando,Morgado,”$600.00″
    10,Lukasz,Hmura,”$500.00″
    11,Shane,Mackinnon,”$500.00″
    12,Daniel,Notice,”$400.00″
    13,Jean Guy,Pare,”$400.00″
    [/eztable]

    Eric Afriat in charge after 14 levels

  • Level: 15
  • Small Blind: 1.5K
  • Big Blind: 3K
  • Ante: 500
  • Chip Average: 138.8K
  • Remaining: 80
  • Entries: 370


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    Eric Afriat

    We’ve just come back from break here in Day 2 of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship, and here is an update on the current leaderboard:

    [eztable width=40% colwidth=60%|40% colalign=left|left]
    Name,Chip Count [attr sort=desc]
    Laurence Grondin,”255,000″
    Eric Afriat,”582,000″
    Dylan Wilkerson,”278,000″
    Nicholas Palma,”411,000″
    Kevin Singh,”366,000″
    Senthuran Vijayaratnam,”357,000″
    Rene Bourbeau,”342,000″
    Ari Engel,”412,000″
    [/eztable]

    A few other stacks worth noting:

    [eztable width=40% colwidth=60%|40% colalign=left|left]
    Name,Chip Count [attr sort=desc]
    Ami Alibay,”174,000″
    Pascal Lefrancois,”216,000″
    Jason Duval,”85,500″
    Guillaume Rivet,”74,000″
    Timothy Reilly,”137,000″
    Vlad Faubert,”103,500″
    Jeff Gross,”138,000″
    Lucas Greenwood,”90,000″
    Darryll Scott Fish,”70,500″
    Ratharam Sivagnanam,”155,000″
    Will Molson,”142,000″
    Marvin Rettenmaier,”158,000″
    Griffin Benger,”165,000″
    [/eztable]

    Photographs from level 14:

    A few more photos

  • Level: 14
  • Small Blind: 1.2K
  • Big Blind: 2.4K
  • Ante: 400
  • Chip Average: 126.1K
  • Remaining: 88
  • Entries: 370


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    Here are some photos from level 14. Eric Afriat continues to be the chip leader and has pierced the half-million-chip mark, while Ratharam Sivagnanam is also building up a considerable stack.

    Diana Shamshoum wins a big one

  • Level: 13
  • Small Blind: 1K
  • Big Blind: 2K
  • Ante: 300
  • Chip Average: 118.1K
  • Remaining: 94
  • Entries: 370


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    We arrived at the table on the turn with the following community cards showing: Jack of Clubs Ace of Clubs Queen of Diamonds Ace of Hearts. Diana Shamshoum checked to Francois Billard who laid out a substantial bet of around 45K – only to have Diana min-raise. Francois called. The King of Diamonds came on the river and Diana assessed how many chips Francois had behind – and then bet all in. Francois had just about 45K behind and he was covered. He went in the tank for a good 2 minutes before he folded – and Diana flipped over 5 of Clubs 9 of Clubs for a missed flush draw turned into a huge bluff.

    Diana is now up past 250K in chips.

    Shootout tonight, 6pm

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    Tonight’s event – the $135 + $15 NL Hold’em Shootout – has become one of the most popular events among all of the side events we offer. The shootout format is slightly different than a normal poker tournament. Each player will start on a table and must WIN that table to move on in the tournament. In a way, a shootout tournament is among the “purest” of tournament forms – you have to be successful in a full ring format and then, as players are eliminated, you have to be pretty good at shorthanded poker as well, until finally you are heads-up against your opponent – another distinct test of poker skills.

    The action gets underway at 6pm – and be sure to register early, because these events have often sold out in the past.

    Leaders into level 13

  • Level: 13
  • Small Blind: 1K
  • Big Blind: 2K
  • Ante: 300
  • Chip Average: 100K
  • Remaining: 111
  • Entries: 370


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    Eric Afriat has taken a big chip lead as players have returned from their first break of the day and play moves into level 13. There has been a lot of other movement on the leaderboard in the first two levels played today as well.

    1. Eric Afriat – 384K
    2. Nicholas Palma – 345K
    3. Ari Engel – 286K
    4. Rene Bourbeau – 276K
    5. Darryll Fish – 233K
    6. Pascal Lefrancois – 228K

    La Boissoniere picks up chips

  • Level: 12
  • Small Blind: 800
  • Big Blind: 1.6K
  • Ante: 200
  • Chip Average: 91.7K
  • Remaining: 121
  • Entries: 370


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    Omkar Deshmukh (button) open-raised playing a short stack, and Charles Le Boissoniere re-raised all in from the small blind. The big blind got out of the way and the button snap called and flipped over King of Spades King of Diamonds. Charles held 3 of Spades 3 of Clubs.

    The flop was safe enough: 2 of Spades 2 of Clubs 9 of Hearts but the turn brought a 3 of Hearts and the end of the tournament for Omkar as the river 8 of Clubs was dealt.