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, […]
Figiel out in 8th, Mercier falls in 7th
Richard Figiel was eliminated shortly after the break, ending his deep run in 8th place, good for $4,740.
A few hands later, Frederic Mercier was auto-all-in from the big blind, as his stack dwindled to just 1BB. Jimmy Setna limped in from early position, but folded once Randy Khalil made it a flat 1 million from the small blind.
Frederic: 
Randy: 
Board: 
Frederic tried to grind his way to a win, but was blinded out in 7th place. He still collected $6,690 for his efforts.
8th place: Richard Figiel – $4,740
Richard Figiel
7th place: Frederic Mercier – $6,690
Frederic Mercier
Heads up in Event 5
There are just two players remaining in Event 5: John Paul Tabago and Francois Goulet. Francois has a dominant chip stack, holding a 4-1 advantage to start the heads up portion of the event.
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- Francois Goulet
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- John Paul Tabago
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- Heads up action
Lafleur out in 4th, Benoit out in 3rd
There are just two players remaining in Event 5 as Sammy Lafleur was eliminated in 4th place and just a few hands later Charles-Eric Benoit was eliminated in 3rd. It has been challenging for all of the players in the past couple of levels because Francois Goulet simply has a dominant chip lead – he has had over 40% of the chips in play since at least 6 players were left.
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- 4th place: Sammy Lafleur
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- 3rd place: Charles-Eric Benoit
Chip counts entering level 33
Here are the current chip counts of the final 8 players:
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Name,Chip Count [attr sort=desc]
Richard Figiel,”600,000″
Randy Khalil,”5,600,000″
Frederic Mercier,”925,000″
Jimmy Setna,”900,000″
Ko Maddock,”2,900,000″
Senthuran Vijayaratnam,”5,200,000″
Glen Hammers,”1,500,000″
Gerald Macleod,”4,300,000″
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Randy Khalil
Petsas turns the world, bricks the river
Nick Petsas was in the big blind facing a raise of 325,000 from Gerald Macleod when he elected to move all-in for 1,505,000. Gerald made the call, and the two players tabled their hands.
Nick: 
Gerald: 
Nick was drawing to a number of outs when the turn gave him an open-ended straight draw, and a flush draw, but the blank river on the 
board brought us down to 8 players.
9th place: Nick Petsas – $3,590
Nick Petsas
Event 6 – Prize Pool & Payout Structure
Event 6 of the Playground Poker Spring Classic presented by partypoker.net is a 50/50 Bounty ($100 + $20 + $100 NL Hold’em) tournament. The tournament began on April 28, 2015 at 7:30pm and is a one-day event. There were a total of 236 players in the event, which adds up to a prize pool of $22,892.00. This will be distributed according to the following table. Note that these payouts come from the main prize pool only, the Bounty prizes are not tracked or counted in these payouts.
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Finish,Prize
1,”$4,992.00″
2,”$3,700.00″
3,”$2,780.00″
4,”$2,100.00″
5,”$1,580.00″
6,”$1,190.00″
7,”$890.00″
8,”$670.00″
9,”$510.00″
10,”$380.00″
11,”$380.00″
12,”$350.00″
13,”$350.00″
14,”$320.00″
15,”$320.00″
16,”$300.00″
17,”$300.00″
18,”$280.00″
19,”$280.00″
20,”$260.00″
21,”$260.00″
22,”$240.00″
23,”$240.00″
24,”$220.00″
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Two more down
John Power (6th) and Gregory Katayama (5th) have been eliminated in Event 5, and there are just 4 players remaining in the event.
John had a very healthy stack for long periods today, and for some time was among the leaders, but when he reached the final table he soon lost half of his stack to Francois Goulet, and from then on was running on fumes. Gregory has been among the middle stacks for almost the entire tournament, but he too ended up short-stacked and shipped all of this chips to Francois.
There is a theme here, and it has been in force for some time – Francois Goulet gets all the chips. He is currently working with over half of the chips in play, and hasn’t made a single misstep.
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- 5th place: Gregory Katayama
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- 6th place: John Power
Mercier doubles, then triples his stack
Frederic Mercier seems to be a short-stack specialist, as he’s been grinding his short-stack this entire Day 3. He recently doubled his 2BB stack versus Randy Khalil in a battle of the blinds, and then found himself all-in in a three way pot versus Randy Khalil and Senthuran Vijayaratnam. The two chip leaders checked it down until showdown, where Frederic’s 
was best on a 
board, beating Randy’s and Senthuran’s 
. He is now a little over the 1,500,000 mark, which is the wealthiest he’s been all tournament!
Frederic Mercier
Khalil chips his way back into the chiplead
After seeing a decent portion of his overwhelming chiplead get shipped here and there, Randy Khalil has bounced back on this final table of The $250 Frenzy to find himself once again on top of the leaderboard.
He is currently sitting on roughly 4,800,000, which doubles the average stack. Senthuran Vijayaratnam is second in chips, holding a stack just shy of 4,000,000.
Randy Khalil
Yamani out 7th
Isham Yamani has been eliminated in 7th place. Isham had been very short as recently as the bubble – at one point he was down to 55K in chips – but he laddered up very well and managed not only to survive the bubble but make a few pay jumps as well. This is the second final table so far in the 2015 Playground Poker Spring Classic – he placed 3rd in The Wild $150.
7th place: Isham Yamani, $2,740
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