Playground Poker Spring Classic 2015

Here are the final chip counts for Day 1c of The $250 Frenzy, Event 3 of the Playground Poker Spring Classic 2015 presented by partypoker.net. There were a total of 175 entrants in this starting flight of Event 3. 29 of these players have qualified for Day 2, which will start on Monday, April 27th at 7pm.

Any player may play in one or more additional starting flights. In the event that a player qualifies in two or more Day 1s, only their largest stack will move forward to Day 2. We will provide detailed records of any such activity when the official seating draw for Day 2 is released.

Note that these are unverified player-counted chip counts. All chips have been sealed in bags until they return to play on Day 2.

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First Name,Last Name,Chip Count [attr sort=”desc”]
Vasilios,Sklavounos,”339,000″
Richard,Hardy,”337,000″
James,Slotegraaf,”321,500″
David,Skitt,”297,000″
Melanie,Ares,”183,000″
Jean-Francois,Marin,”159,000″
Richard,Figiel,”152,500″
Jonathan,Bussieres,”134,500″
Samuel,Leblanc,”108,000″
Patrice,Mailloux,”106,000″
Donald,Laing,”106,000″
Michael Albert,Marinaro,”98,000″
Robert,Di Trapani,”94,000″
Matthew,Hendler,”91,500″
Ramon,De La Cruz,”81,000″
Michael H,Dunn,”76,500″
Scott,Crane,”72,000″
Samuel,Shink,”70,500″
David,Guay,”70,000″
Scott,Shelvock,”69,000″
Maxime,Chabot,”67,500″
Noeung,Troeung,”64,000″
Yannick,Labattaglia,”63,500″
Michel,Gramigna,”60,000″
Danick,Landriault,”57,000″
Pierre,Gauthier,”53,000″
Andre,Hernandez,”36,500″
Buu,Nguyen,”34,500″
Sammy,Lafleur,”30,000″
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Players are taking their second break of the day – when they return they will be playing in level 10 with blinds of 500/1000/a100. There are 86 players left at the tables with 6 full levels yet to be played in this starting flight of Event 3.

During the break we put together an updated leaderboard at this point in the tournament.

1. David Skitt – 125K
2. Richard Figiel – 121K
3. Hugo Dumoulin – 97K
4. James Slotegraaf – 96K
5. Scott Crane – 88K
6. Tianshin Liu – 85K
7. Richard Hardy – 84K

There are solid and experienced players all over the place in today’s flight of The $250 Frenzy, but one table in particular seems to have a slight overload of players who have had success in the past in events at Playground Poker Club.

Table 64’s current roster starts with Chris McClung, better known as D0r1t0s, who is a Players Club member with over $600K in lifetime live earnings and a lot more than that online. His most recent big score was a victory in a 6-Max side event at the PCA. Seated with McClung, are these other players of note:

• Rodney Ramalho – scored a 6th place finish in the recent $1.1K Main Event in the Playground Winter Festival.
• Jay Srinivasan – most recent score was a 4th place in The Wild $150 during the Playground Winter Festival.
• Marko – a past winner of a similar event to The $250 Frenzy held in 2013.
• Isham Yamani – has had many deep runs in Playground events, most notably a 3rd place finish just the other night in The Wild $150.

Added to these names are several other experienced players – there’s not really a “spot” to be found!

It’s the second day of starting flights for The $250 Frenzy and this morning the action will get started with Day 1C in the event – the 3rd of 6 starting flights! Players are now making their way into the Tournament Hall to take their place for what is sure to be an intense day of poker action as players attempt to qualify for Day 2 in the event.

Late registration will continue through 4 30-minute levels plus the first 15-minute break, which means that you can join the tournament any time until 1:15pm. Late registrants start with a full stack, so don’t be shy!

Good luck to everyone today!