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, […]
Satellite Day at Playground Poker Club
Today is a pretty special day in the Playground Poker Spring Classic presented by partypoker.net – it’s Satellite Day!
There are 3 satellite tournaments for the WPT Canadian Spring Championship today. The first is already well underway, and though it had 2 seats guaranteed, the massive participation means that 6 seats will actually be awarded in the tourney.
At 4pm there’s a second satellite – this one will be a $135 + $15 Turbo Re-entry Satellite and again 2 seats are guaranteed although we expect that many more than that will be awarded. And then tonight at 7:30pm is the “pièce de résistance” – a $350 + $30 Re-entry Satellite with a huge 10 seat guarantee!
All tolled, it’s 100% guaranteed that 18 additional satellite winners will be joining the fun in the WPT Canadian Spring Championship on May 1st or May 2nd – and almost certainly quite a few more than that! And once you add those seats to the 50+ satellite and other promotional seats that have already awarded here at Playground Poker Club, it’s clear there’s a ton of value to be had in the Big Event.
Taylor out 18th
Soon after the redraw, Robert Taylor was eliminated in 18th place.
18th place: Robert Taylor, $2,260.00
Robert Taylor
Redraw at 18
Here is the full seating redraw that occurred with 18 players remaining.
[eztable width=”100%” colwidth=”35%|35%|30%” colalign=”left|left|left”]
First Name,Last Name,Seat [attr sort=”asc”]
Ari,Engel,Table 35 – Seat 4
Alex,Fortin Demers,Table 36 – Seat 3
Alexander James,Allison,Table 36 – Seat 2
Ami,Alibay,Table 35 – Seat 5
Andrew,Graham,Table 35 – Seat 7
Chanracy,Khun,Table 36 – Seat 9
Daniel,Leduc,Table 35 – Seat 3
Grant,Fallis,Table 36 – Seat 8
Gregory,Katayama,Table 35 – Seat 1
Griffin,Benger,Table 36 – Seat 1
Joe,Gualtieri,Table 36 – Seat 4
Jonathan,Duhamel,Table 35 – Seat 8
Joshua Keith,Tucker,Table 35 – Seat 2
Kane,Kalas,Table 35 – Seat 9
Michael,Wang,Table 36 – Seat 7
Peter,Papadakos,Table 36 – Seat 5
Philippe,Belley,Table 36 – Seat 6
Robert,Taylor,Table 35 – Seat 6
[/eztable]
Action on 36
There was a passage of 4 hands on Table 36 that brought the field to 18 players and the redraw – although it was 3 hands after everyone initially thought.
Hand 1
Some blind-on-blind action to start. Ari Engel – who started the day short stacked and was still quite short – raised to 37K. Robert Taylor responded to the seeming steal attempt by raising all in, and Ari quickly called.
Robert: 
Ari: 
Ari’s King-high held up on the following board: 
.
Robert was convinced he’d been eliminated in the hand, and made it all of the way to the Tournament Desk to pick up his payout coupon before he was informed that he still had just over 20K in chips left – so he returned to the table to continue play.
Hand 2
Action folds around to Ari on the button and he opens all-in. Robert calls with his very short stack and the big blind folds. Ari holds 
while Robert has 
. The board runs out 
to give Robert virtually a quadruple up once the blinds and antes are considered.
Hand 3
There is a raise and everyone folds – and apparently Robert feels he has enough chips to fold.
Hand 4
Robert successfully ladders up at least one payout position as Geoffrey Robert McNeely gets it in on the 
flop against Michael Wang. However, Michael has the better kicker with his 
compared with Geoff’s 
. The turn and river are dealt: 
.
19th place: Geoffrey Robert McNeely, $1,990
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- Geoffrey Robert McNeely
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- Michael Wang
Leaders going into level 19
The players remaining in the Warm-up just took a break as tournament staff removed the purple T500 chips from play. Here is the current leaderboard in the event:
- Kane Kalas – 540K
- Joshua Keith Tucker – 460K
- Alex Fortin Demers – 420K
- Andrew Graham – 360K
- Gregory Katayama – 330K
Griffin Benger and Jonathan Duhamel both have healthy stacks near the chip average of 250K.
First few ITM
Action after the bubble burst has been pretty fast-moving and there have already been 5 eliminations.
- 24th place: Jeremy Lyons, $1,760
- 23rd place: Jean-Sebastien Gratton, $1,760
- 22nd place: Victor Artemenko, $1,760
- 21st place: Joseph Andres, $1,990
- 20th place: Gagandeep Singh, $1,990
We’re just one elimination away from a new table redraw as the tournament is reduced to 2 tables.
Photos of the Warm-up Day 2
Action has been brisk so this photo gallery includes a couple of players who have already been eliminated from the tournament.
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- Edward Hislop
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- Jeremy Lyons
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- Philippe Belley
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- Andrew Graham
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- Kane Kalas
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- Alexander James Allison
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- Joseph Andres
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- Joshua Keith Tucker
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- Robert Taylor
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- Daniel Leduc
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- Michael Wang
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- Geoffrey Robert McNeely
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- Chanracy Khun
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- Griffin Benger
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- Ari Engel
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- Jean-Sebastien Gratton
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- Alex Fortin Demers
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- Grant Fallis
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- Peter Papadakos
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- Gregory Katayama
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- Ami Alibay
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- Jonathan Duhamel
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- Joe Gualtieri
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- Gagandeep Singh
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- Victor Artemko
In the money
Edward Hislop has been eliminated in 25th place and is the bubble player in Event 7. We arrived on the turn with 
on the board. Kane Kalas was first to act and bet 56K. Edward made the call. The river was dealt: 
. Kane led out – this time with an all-in bet of his much larger stack than Edward’s was.
Edward went into the tank, but not for long – he made the call for his tournament life… and lost to Kane’s 
.
The very next hand, Jeremy Lyons was eliminated for a min-cash so there are now 23 players remaining.
Kraft out; the Warm-up is hand-for-hand
Brendan Kraft has been eliminated in 26th place, and so with 25 players remaining, the tournament is now hand-for hand. After the next elimination, everyone left is in the money!
Redrawn seats at 27 players
Here is the new seating chart with 27 players remaining. Note that since the redraw another player was eliminated, leaving just 26 players and an empty seat at table 35.
[eztable width=”100%” colwidth=”35%|35%|30%” colalign=”left|left|left”]
First Name,Last Name,Seat [attr sort=”asc”]
Ari,Engel,Table 36 – Seat 8
Alex,Fortin Demers,Table 39 – Seat 1
Alexander James,Allison,Table 35 – Seat 6
Ami,Alibay,Table 39 – Seat 5
Andrew,Graham,Table 35 – Seat 4
Brendan,Kraft,Table 36 – Seat 5
Chanracy,Khun,Table 36 – Seat 6
Daniel,Leduc,Table 36 – Seat 2
Edward,Hislop,Table 35 – Seat 1
Gagandeep,Singh,Table 39 – Seat 8
Geoffrey Robert,McNeely,Table 36 – Seat 3
Grant,Fallis,Table 39 – Seat 2
Gregory,Katayama,Table 39 – Seat 4
Griffin,Benger,Table 36 – Seat 7
Jean-Sebastien,Gratton,Table 36 – Seat 9
Jeremy,Lyons,Table 35 – Seat 2
Joe,Gualtieri,Table 39 – Seat 7
Jonathan,Duhamel,Table 39 – Seat 6
Joseph,Andres,Table 35 – Seat 8
Joshua Keith,Tucker,Table 35 – Seat 9
Kane,Kalas,Table 35 – Seat 5
Michael,Wang,Table 36 – Seat 4
Peter,Papadakos,Table 39 – Seat 3
Philippe,Belley,Table 35 – Seat 3
Robert,Taylor,Table 36 – Seat 1
Victor,Artemenko,Table 39 – Seat 9
,Empty Seat,Table 35 – Seat 7
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