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The final chapter of The Wild $150
We’ve reached the final chapter of The Wild $150, and 24 players are back to battle it out on the felts, but only one will emerge as Champion of Event 1, which is accompanied with a Playground Poker Spring Classic bracelet, and a cool $28,780 cash prize!
Benoit Campeau (3,095,000) is coming in with the chip lead, and he holds quite the lead over the rest of the field, as second in chips is Stephane Chartrand with 1,980,000. Said Michailidis is also in very good shape to start day 3, as he bagged 1,785,00 chips last night.
Isham Yamani (1,350,000) is on his third deep run in “The Wild $150 series”, as he’s previously finished in 7th and 20th places in the last two festivals held at Playground Poker Club, and is surely looking to close the deal this time around.
There are many familiar faces left in the field as well, as many local regulars are still in contention. We will be bringing you live updates throughout the night, so stay tuned!
Good luck!
Tonight: Event 2
With all but the final day of Event 1 in the past, it’s time for the other side events of the 2015 Playground Poker Spring Classic to get underway. Tonight there’s a $200 + $20 NL Hold’em Freeze which will fit the bill perfectly.
The tournament is all set to get started at 7:30 tonight. Players will begin with 20K in chips and play 20 minute levels. It’s a one-day event, so the winner will be crowned tonight! Late registration will continue through the first 5 levels – in fact, registration is available until the end of the 10-minute break following the 5th level – so there’s lots of time to make your way to Playground Poker Club and join the fun!
Good luck to all who participate tonight!
Event 1 Day 3 – Seating Draw (with counts)
This is the official seating chart for Day 3 of The Wild $150, Event 1 in the Playground Poker Spring Classic 2015.
Day 2 began with 274 players and played through 13 30-minute levels. At the end of level 26 play was suspended for the day and just 24 players remained.
Play resumes in level 27 at 7pm on Thursday April 23rd.
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First Name,Last Name,Seat [attr sort=”asc”],Chip Count
Benoit,Campeau,Table 35 – Seat 3,”3,095,000″
Charles-Eric,Benoit,Table 31 – Seat 2,”810,000″
Christien,Beaudoin,Table 30 – Seat 5,”675,000″
Edward,Hakim,Table 35 – Seat 1,”820,000″
Fabian,Garzon,Table 35 – Seat 2,”755,000″
Isham,Yamani,Table 35 – Seat 6,”1,350,000″
Kathy,Sawers,Table 35 – Seat 4,”1,385,000″
Levi,Stevens,Table 31 – Seat 4,”1,080,000″
Marie,Tran,Table 35 – Seat 7,”870,000″
Mario,Page,Table 31 – Seat 5,”750,000″
Mathieu,Gagniere,Table 30 – Seat 3,”365,000″
Olivier,Millet,Table 30 – Seat 4,”925,000″
Pascal,Desbiens,Table 31 – Seat 1,”225,000″
Petros,Sakelliou,Table 30 – Seat 7,”1,070,000″
Philippe,Lauzon,Table 31 – Seat 7,”780,000″
Pierre-Olivier,Sauve,Table 35 – Seat 5,”750,000″
Randy,Khalil,Table 31 – Seat 8,”1,295,000″
Rick,Shamshoum,Table 30 – Seat 1,”705,000″
Roman,Mikhailov,Table 35 – Seat 8,”515,000″
Said,Michailidis,Table 31 – Seat 3,”1,785,000″
Sammy,Chao,Table 31 – Seat 6,”310,000″
Siamak,Soleimanian,Table 30 – Seat 2,”235,000″
Stephane,Chartrand,Table 30 – Seat 8,”1,980,000″
Stephane,Sevigny,Table 30 – Seat 6,”1,030,000″
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Final 3 tables
Just as Day 2 is nearing it’s end, two simultaneous eliminations brought the field to its final 26 players, which brings on a redraw. Only a few hands will remain before players bag and tag for Day 3. Here is the new seating distribution:
Table 53
Seat 1. Philippe Genequand
Seat 2. Yves St. Louis
Seat 3. Edward Hakim
Seat 4. Sammy Chao
Seat 5. Roman Mikhailov
Seat 6. Kathy Sawers
Seat 7. Randy Khalil
Seat 8. Petros Sakelliou
Seat 9. Fabian Garzon
Table 57
Seat 1. Siamak Soleimanian
Seat 2. Said Michailidis
Seat 3. Marie Tran
Seat 4. Olivier Millet
Seat 5. Mathieu Gagniere
Seat 6. Pascal Desbiens
Seat 7. Mario Page
Seat 8. Stephane Sevigny
Seat 9. Christien Beaudoin
Table 60
Seat 1. Isham Yamani
Seat 2. Pierre-Olivier Sauve
Seat 3. Benoit Campeau
Seat 4. Stephane Chartrand
Seat 5. Levi Stevens
Seat 6. Philippe Lauzon
Seat 7. Charles-Eric Benoit
Seat 8. Rick Shamshoum
Seat 9. empty seat
We will be publishing the full player-reported chip counts and seating assignments for Day 3 shortly after the day is over.
Last 2 levels of the night
Only 2 levels remain to this Day 2 of The Wild $150, and the 1,188 starting field has been shrunk to its final 5 tables. Upon the completion of these two levels, the tournament will go on break until tomorrow, where the remaining players will play down to a winner.
After peeking over the shoulders of the players, we concluded that Rick Shamshoum (~1,550,000) is currently in the lead, followed closely by Said Michailidis (~1,450,000), Isham Yamani (~1,425,000), Kathy Sawers (~1,400,000), Randy Khalil (1,250,000), Christien Beaudoin (~1,175,000) and Marie Tran (~1,100,000).
Day 3 is scheduled at 7pm tomorrow, Thursday April 23rd.
Photographs from level 24:
Leaderboard after 22 levels
Here is an update on the leaderboard heading into level 23:
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Name,Chip Count [attr sort=desc]
Said Michailidis,”1,280,000″
Steve Pouliot,”1,009,000″
Isham Yamani,”1,372,000″
Ricky Shamshoum,”1,355,000″
Kathy Sawers,”1,164,000″
Randy Khalil,”913,000″
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Photographs from level 22:
Last break of the night
Players are about to go on their last break of the night, and when they return, they will have 4 more 30-minutes levels to go before bagging for Day 3. In these last few levels, we’ve seen some huge stacks emerge, and we have a few players in the 7-digits, including Kathy Sawers, Said Michailidis and Rick Shamshoum. We will be doing some chips counts during this break, stay tuned for an update on the leaderboard!
Post-bubble update
As is often the case, we’ve seen a number of quick eliminations following the money-bubble, as play tends to open up now that players know they are guaranteed at least a min-cash. Rick Shamshoum (~1,250,000) is still sitting in the chip lead, and is the only player holding a stack over the 1 million mark.
We lost Alan Yifan Dong in 87th place, however that cash was worth a lot more for him than the $350 cash-prize he received, as he outlasted the other players participating in Prince Poker’s “Équipe de rêve PartyPoker-WPT”, earning himself a WPT Canadian Spring Championship Main Event ticket worth $3500! He was ‘heads-up’ versus Frederick Desjardins, who also made the money, but placed 98th.
Congratulations, and see you at the Main Event Alan!
Other notable eliminations include former chip-leader Christopher Tavares, Carla Sabini, Michael Malm, amongst others.
Photographs from level 20:
“Congratulations, you are all in the money!”
These were the words spoken by our TD just moments ago, announcing to the field that the remaining 117 players are now in the money! Well, all but Micheline Roberge, who placed in 118th place in The Wild $150, missing the money by just one spot. It only took two hands of hand-for-hand play before she found her all her chips in the middle on the losing end of a race. Now that this milestone is behind us, we can expect to see the action pick up a little, as many players fell short-stacked while trying to secure a spot in the money.
Congratulations to the players who have earned a cash prize in this opening event of the Playground Poker Spring Classic!
Photographs leading up to the money-bubble:
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- Siamak Soleimanian
Leaders heading into level 19
Only 8 eliminations separate us from the money bubble in The Wild $150, and the big stacks are ever growing! Players are finishing up a short chip-up break, and we took this time to update the leaderboard. These are the biggest stacks we came across at this point in time:
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Name,Chip Count [attr sort=desc]
Christopher Tavares,”465,000″
Philippe Lauzon,”540,000″
Charles-Eric Benoit,”495,000″
Maxime Doyon,”450,000″
Isham Yamani,”533,000″
Ricky Shamshoum,”860,000″
Kathy Sawers,”420,000″
Randy Khalil,”532,000″
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