Playground Poker Spring Classic 2015

Kane Kalas opened to 50,000 from the cutoff, but then threw his hand into the muck once he saw Michael Wang (button) and Joshua Keith Tucker (small blind) both move in their stacks afterwards.

Michael:

Joshua:

Community cards:

Michael slid the 474,000 he owed after losing the hand, leaving him with a little under 300,000.

Counts beginning of level 24. All counts are approximate.

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First Name,Last Name,Seat [attr sort=”asc”],Count
Andrew,Graham,Seat 1,”1,280,000″
Kane,Kalas,Seat 3,”450,000″
Michael,Wang,Seat 4,”790,000″
Joshua Keith,Tucker,Seat 5,”370,000″
Alex,Fortin Demers,Seat 6,”300,000″
Alexander James,Allison,Seat 7,”870,000″
Philippe,Belley,Seat 8,”370,000″
Joe,Gualtieri,Seat 9,”175,000″
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Philippe Belley has some new ammunition in the tournament as he has just doubled through Alexander James Allison. Alexander open raised all-in from the small blind and to his surprise Philippe called with his smaller stack.

Philippe:
Alexander:

Philippe hit his Ace on the flop and didn’t lose his lead through the turn and river. He’s now playing approximately 325K in chips.

Peter Papadakos’ stack was down to 164K on his big blind when Michael Wang raised preflop from UTG+1 to 34K. Action folded around to Peter, who elected to shove. Michael thought for just a few seconds before making the call.

Peter:
Michael:

The community cards were no help to Peter – and he was eliminated from the event.

9th place: Peter Papadakos, $4,440.00

The remaining 9 players in Event 7 are on a scheduled break so we have updated chip counts as the event winds towards crowning a champion.

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First Name,Last Name,Seat [attr sort=”asc”],Count
Andrew,Graham,Seat 1,”1,140,000″
Peter,Papadakos,Seat 2,”170,000″
Kane,Kalas,Seat 3,”648,000″
Michael,Wang,Seat 4,”502,000″
Joshua Keith,Tucker,Seat 5,”300,000″
Alex,Fortin Demers,Seat 6,”521,000″
Alexander James,Allison,Seat 7,”688,000″
Philippe,Belley,Seat 8,”534,000″
Joe,Gualtieri,Seat 9,”243,000″
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Philippe Belley opened to 25,000 from middle position, and was quickly followed by an all-in from Daniel Leduc, two spots down. The rest of the table got out of the way, and Philippe announced the call.

Philippe:

Daniel:

Daniel was drawing-dead by the turn, as the dealer rung out a board of , and he saw 264,000 of his chips get send over to Philippe, leaving him with only 22,000 behind. He was eliminated on the very next hand.

10th place: Daniel Leduc – $3,240

Andrew Graham has eliminated Jonathan Duhamel in 12th place in Event 7. Jonathan’s stack had gone down to 91K recently but he had added a few chips to the point where he was holding 149K. He was holding in the small blind when Andrew open-shoved from the button – holding . Jonathan called and the cards were turned over. The board of spelled the end of the tournament for Jonathan.

Just two hands later, Greg Katayama went all-in for his last approximately 340K and Andrew found the call holding . Greg was playing and looked good for the double-up as the flop was dealt: . The turn was safe as well: . The river however sent Greg to the rail as well.

The tournament has now reached the final table with 10 players remaining. Full chip counts and the seating draw info coming in just a minute…

Play in the $1000 + $100 WPT Warm-up shows no signs of slowing down as players are being eliminated at a very quick rate. In just the last level and a half the field has diminished to 12 players and the final table is now in sight.

Here are the most recent eliminations:

• 17th place: Chanracy Khun, $2,260.00
• 16th place: Ami Alibay, $2,260.00
• 15th place: Grant Fallis, $2,670.00
• 14th place: Griffin Benger, $2,670.00
• 13th place: Ari Engel, $2,670.00

Griffin’s elimination was a little salty. On an 8-high board, he shoved holding pocket Jacks and was called by Alex Fortin Demers with top pair and a straight draw. Alex’s top pair came out on the turn and Griffin hit the rail.

Ari’s elimination was a two-part affair, with Andrew’s out-flopping Ari’s on a flop with no help in store from the turn or river. This took him down to 23K, and Andrew relieved him of that small stack on the following hand when his held up against Ari’s short-stack shove with .

Eliminated