Playground Poker Spring Classic 2015

Earlier tonight, here on the blog we focused on a couple of interesting tidbits as play began. We just updated the status of the last longer in play, and now the rest of the stories:

• The elder Peter Johnson is out of the tournament, but the younger Peter Johnson is still in, and has a healthy stack on an active table.
• Carla Sabini made an appearance on our recent leaderboard and has chipped up further to about 290K.
• Isham also continues to do well, and now has approximately 320K.
• Rick Shamshoum also made an appearance on the leaderboard, and looks to be playing about 400K at this time. Tina, although she started with a relatively short stack, continues to grind and has built up a stack of around 100K.

As part of their “Équipe de rêve PartyPoker-WPT” promotion, Prince Poker is giving away a seat to the WPT Canadian Spring Championship Main Event to the winner of the last longer they set-up for The Wild $150. Three players still remain, with Alan Yifan Dong (~380,000) far ahead of Frederick Desjardins (~92,000) and Jean-Luc Gauthier (~37,500). Stay tuned to find out who will be the winner!

Good luck to you gentlemen!

The players remaining in Event 1 have just returned from their first break of the day. During the break tournament staff removed the black T100 chips from play, and we took the opportunity to update the leaderboard.

Current chip leader Christopher Tavares

Quite a few players have already made huge gains on their starting stack today – chips that will serve them well as the tournament inevitably winds down towards the bubble.

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Name,Chip Count [attr sort=desc]
Christopher Tavares,”490,000″
Richard Catellier,”440,000″
Charles-Eric Benoit,”425,000″
Alan Yi Fan Dong,”420,000″
Isham Yamani,”327,000″
Ricky Shamshoum,”305,000″
Eric Fournier,”302,000″
Fabien Garzon,”297,000″
Daniel Johnston,”295,000″
Carla Sabini,”261,000″
Christien Beaudoin,”260,000″
Randy Khalil,”260,000″
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In any large field – and 274 players to start a Day 2 definitely qualifies – there are certain to be some interesting anecdotes and tidbits of information about the field.

Some of the interesting anecdotes about the remaining players:

• There is one father-son group left in the action. Peter Johnson and his son Peter Johnson are regular visitors to Playground, and both are experienced poker players. Usually, however, when one of the pair does well, the other doesn’t succeed, and vice-versa. They’re both in the field tonight!
• A frequent big-event player and something of a local star is Carla Sabini, who is most famous for running deep in the EPT London Main Event a couple of years ago – and using her winnings to buy directly into the High Roller event – which she final tabled! Unfortunately, Carla hasn’t had that much success here in the past – but she qualified for Day 2 with one of the top stacks, and she’s hoping the monkey is off her back!
• Prince Poker, an important locally-run poker news site (and more) has had a promotion called “L’équipe de rève PartyPoker-WPT” and a part of this is a last-longer between players in The Wild $150, with the winner receiving an entry in the partypoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship. There are just 3 players left in the running: Alan Yi Fan Dong, Jean-Luc Gauthier, and Frédéric Desjardins. As they say in French: à suivre!
• The chip leader to start the day, Isham Yamani, has been on an amazing run in these multi-day $150 tourneys. He was among the Day 2 chip leaders in the same event during the Playground Winter Festival and has final tabled the event in the past.
• There’s a husband-wife team left in the event as well. Rick Shamshoum and his wife Tina both started the day. Tina starts a little short-stacked, but she’s an experienced player, so… anything could happen…

The tournament hall is packed tonight at Playground Poker Club, as 274 players are back to continue this opening event of the Playground Poker Spring Classic. The Wild $150, which has become the traditional kick-off tournament for our recent series, attracted a total of 1,188 entries over four flights.

Leading the field is local hero Isham Yamani, who was the only player who bagged over 300,000, and he is closely followed by Charles-Eric Benoit and Christopher Tavares, who bagged 280,000 apiece. Only 5 other players find themselves above the 200,000 mark, but with the average at 86,200 and the blinds starting at 1.2K / 2.4K / a400, it is still anyones game.

The tournament is schedule to play for 13 levels of 30-minutes each tonight, and those that remain at the end of this will return tomorrow night for Day 3, where a champion will be crowned!

Good luck!

This is the official seating chart for Day 2 of The Wild $150, Event 1 in the Playground Poker Spring Classic 2015.

The four starting flights had a total of 1,188 entries, and of these, 278 entries qualified for Day 2. There were 4 players who qualified twice for Day 2 in this event (Michel Bergeron, Omkar Deshmukh, Scott Shelvock, and Ricky Campanelli). The smaller of each player’s two qualifying stacks have been removed, and removal of these double entries leaves 274 players who will take their seats to start Day 2.

Play resumes in level 14 (1.2K,2.4K,a400) at 7pm on Wednesday April 22nd. When the tournament resumes, play will be 9-handed on 31 tables. The money bubble will be reached at 117 players.

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First Name,Last Name,Seat [attr sort=”asc”],Chip Count
Adam,Cader,Table 33 – Seat 1,”51,300″
Adham,Francis,Table 64 – Seat 4,”40,100″
Alan Yi Fan,Dong,Table 54 – Seat 2,”192,000″
Alberto,Dumitru,Table 52 – Seat 4,”54,900″
Alberto,Scuderi,Table 63 – Seat 1,”100,200″
Alec,Brandstatter,Table 57 – Seat 7,”64,900″
Alex,Khanthavong,Table 59 – Seat 1,”113,800″
Alex,Zucco,Table 31 – Seat 3,”87,900″
Alexandre,Blanc,Table 54 – Seat 6,”134,500″
Alexandre,Fortin,Table 63 – Seat 5,”142,000″
Alexandrine,Charron,Table 34 – Seat 2,”57,500″
Ali,Razavi,Table 35 – Seat 8,”174,900″
Anderson,Frank-Graham,Table 34 – Seat 1,”109,600″
Andre,Bilodeau,Table 65 – Seat 7,”56,800″
Andre,Boyer,Table 49 – Seat 7,”56,300″
Andre,Hernandez,Table 61 – Seat 7,”142,500″
Andre,St-Jean,Table 70 – Seat 8,”120,800″
Andreas,Vassiliou,Table 59 – Seat 8,”23,000″
Andy,Carrierre,Table 68 – Seat 1,”65,800″
Anita,Halfpenny,Table 50 – Seat 9,”60,500″
Anthony,Carbery,Table 54 – Seat 7,”127,700″
Anthony,Ciambella,Table 52 – Seat 2,”103,500″
Armry,Senat,Table 28 – Seat 1,”60,000″
Atbin,Abbasianafrapoli,Table 28 – Seat 8,”109,900″
Behram,Antia,Table 67 – Seat 9,”67,300″
Behrooz,Salemi,Table 54 – Seat 1,”175,800″
Benoit,Campeau,Table 53 – Seat 1,”128,200″
Bianca,Perron,Table 63 – Seat 2,”41,000″
Bichr,Awad,Table 61 – Seat 3,”120,700″
Bill,Boyer,Table 64 – Seat 2,”88,200″
Brian,Hodhod,Table 55 – Seat 7,”36,200″
Carla,Sabini,Table 25 – Seat 7,”200,200″
Charan,Malhotra,Table 29 – Seat 6,”103,100″
Charles-Eric,Benoit,Table 27 – Seat 8,”280,000″
Charles,Normand,Table 26 – Seat 9,”103,200″
Christian,Dube,Table 61 – Seat 8,”108,400″
Christian,Soucy,Table 70 – Seat 1,”57,800″
Christien,Beaudoin,Table 27 – Seat 4,”91,600″
Christopher,Kokozaki,Table 68 – Seat 5,”108,500″
Christopher,Rassi,Table 60 – Seat 7,”198,700″
Christopher,Tavares,Table 26 – Seat 6,”280,000″
Christos,Sfyridis,Table 34 – Seat 8,”132,000″
Claude,Leclair,Table 62 – Seat 4,”82,100″
Collin,Scheckman,Table 68 – Seat 2,”96,500″
Constantinos,Psallidas,Table 68 – Seat 9,”23,700″
Costantino,Romeo-Boucher,Table 31 – Seat 8,”99,500″
Craig-William,Mboule,Table 62 – Seat 3,”65,300″
Danick,Landriault,Table 64 – Seat 3,”47,000″
Daniel,Fornara,Table 59 – Seat 6,”45,300″
Daniel,Johnston,Table 55 – Seat 4,”164,800″
Daniel,Ozanick,Table 50 – Seat 3,”91,900″
Daniel-Anthony,Romero-Moran,Table 61 – Seat 4,”144,600″
Danny,Freitas,Table 35 – Seat 2,”80,600″
Dany,Middleton,Table 32 – Seat 7,”84,900″
Darren,Roberts,Table 54 – Seat 8,”95,700″
David,Bolduc Hamel,Table 70 – Seat 4,”63,000″
David,Brunelle,Table 62 – Seat 9,”51,000″
David,Guay,Table 34 – Seat 7,”24,600″
David,Kovacic,Table 53 – Seat 6,”66,200″
David,O’Neill,Table 35 – Seat 7,”28,600″
David,Sorgente,Table 52 – Seat 9,”93,500″
David,Van Nus,Table 26 – Seat 7,”63,000″
Denis,Asselin,Table 68 – Seat 7,”130,900″
Denis,Dufour,Table 33 – Seat 5,”67,900″
Denis,Lebel,Table 66 – Seat 3,”51,100″
Devon,Morgan,Table 30 – Seat 3,”84,300″
Dimitri,Kokozaki,Table 27 – Seat 2,”48,300″
Dominique,Morin,Table 63 – Seat 6,”36,900″
Donald,Rathwell,Table 31 – Seat 7,”27,100″
Donald,Somers,Table 26 – Seat 2,”51,100″
Douli Elie,Rizkalla,Table 50 – Seat 6,”114,500″
Duncan,Dunham,Table 66 – Seat 1,”118,400″
Dwight L,Lafave,Table 30 – Seat 7,”26,500″
Edward,Hakim,Table 52 – Seat 7,”105,800″
Elias,Spiropoulos,Table 49 – Seat 2,”79,500″
Eric,Boire,Table 56 – Seat 2,”75,300″
Eric,Caron,Table 54 – Seat 5,”23,400″
Eric,Charette,Table 33 – Seat 6,”37,300″
Eric,Descostes,Table 53 – Seat 4,”81,100″
Eric,Fournier,Table 54 – Seat 9,”83,700″
Eric,Lauzon,Table 28 – Seat 4,”78,500″
Eric,Lavallee,Table 53 – Seat 9,”22,400″
Fabian,Garzon,Table 55 – Seat 9,”112,300″
Felix,Sides,Table 66 – Seat 2,”48,900″
Francesco,Presta,Table 49 – Seat 4,”80,900″
Francis,Dery,Table 55 – Seat 8,”56,700″
Franck,Di Scala,Table 67 – Seat 1,”82,100″
Franco,Sicondolfi,Table 52 – Seat 3,”187,600″
Frederic,Cossette,Table 68 – Seat 8,”81,600″
Frederic,Desjardins,Table 27 – Seat 7,”69,300″
Fu Qiang,San,Table 50 – Seat 5,”84,800″
Gabriel,Paquin,Table 67 – Seat 8,”41,300″
Galvin,Van Brussel,Table 65 – Seat 4,”33,000″
George,Karoubalis,Table 34 – Seat 5,”135,300″
George,Kazarian,Table 61 – Seat 1,”46,000″
Giovanni,Di Cosmo,Table 69 – Seat 9,”111,400″
Guillaume,Tremblay,Table 69 – Seat 3,”30,900″
Guillermo,Pureza,Table 67 – Seat 2,”32,100″
Guy Yvan,Bourgouin,Table 70 – Seat 9,”96,200″
Hichem,Rais,Table 66 – Seat 6,”76,700″
Hope,Stacey,Table 35 – Seat 6,”45,400″
Hugo,Dumoulin,Table 70 – Seat 5,”31,400″
Hugo,Poitras,Table 31 – Seat 2,”77,800″
Hugo,St-Cyr,Table 25 – Seat 3,”24,200″
Ian,Donald,Table 34 – Seat 6,”178,500″
Igor,Gamayunov,Table 65 – Seat 5,”26,400″
Irene,Tzanetopoulos,Table 32 – Seat 8,”228,600″
Irina,Tchakarova,Table 49 – Seat 8,”49,000″
Isham,Yamani,Table 57 – Seat 4,”304,400″
Ivan,Driard,Table 63 – Seat 3,”159,900″
Jacques,Gélinas,Table 30 – Seat 4,”97,000″
Jean Guy,Pare,Table 63 – Seat 7,”101,000″
Jean Pierre,Hetu,Table 64 – Seat 5,”45,400″
Jean-Francois,Bouchard,Table 69 – Seat 7,”92,700″
Jean-Francois,Santerre,Table 59 – Seat 2,”60,100″
Jean-Guy,Roy,Table 28 – Seat 6,”99,600″
Jean-Luc,Gauthier,Table 30 – Seat 9,”91,800″
JP,Beaulieu,Table 63 – Seat 4,”93,800″
Jean-Philippe,Caron,Table 25 – Seat 1,”132,400″
Jean-Philippe,Piquette,Table 49 – Seat 1,”48,200″
Jeff,Porter,Table 31 – Seat 5,”80,300″
Jeffrey,Glashan,Table 62 – Seat 2,”95,600″
Jeffrey,Maccuspey,Table 64 – Seat 8,”115,100″
Jessika,Beaudin,Table 29 – Seat 4,”50,000″
Jimmy,Setna,Table 56 – Seat 8,”33,900″
Joakim,Beaupre,Table 55 – Seat 1,”55,300″
Joey,Boczek,Table 56 – Seat 5,”80,900″
Johnny,Mazzaferro,Table 49 – Seat 6,”52,000″
Jonathan,Brazeau,Table 32 – Seat 6,”108,500″
Jonathan,Bussieres,Table 25 – Seat 9,”104,200″
Jonathan,D’Souza,Table 52 – Seat 5,”140,400″
Jonathan,Poissant,Table 56 – Seat 1,”120,600″
Jordan,Saccucci,Table 29 – Seat 7,”48,700″
Joseph,Abou Khalil,Table 33 – Seat 4,”37,000″
Julien,Sanscartier,Table 66 – Seat 4,”78,700″
Justin,Ticarico,Table 30 – Seat 1,”32,700″
Karim,Fakhri,Table 33 – Seat 3,”44,900″
Kathy,Sawers,Table 68 – Seat 3,”144,000″
Keith,Lacasse,Table 34 – Seat 3,”79,400″
Kevin,Daily,Table 53 – Seat 5,”83,000″
Khaled,Salem,Table 59 – Seat 4,”43,900″
Ko,Maddock,Table 32 – Seat 1,”108,500″
Kuong chhe,Kuoch,Table 56 – Seat 4,”117,400″
Leroy,Borba,Table 68 – Seat 4,”142,700″
Levi,Stevens,Table 27 – Seat 3,”94,100″
Lohe,Coiteux,Table 33 – Seat 8,”79,900″
Louis,Arpin,Table 64 – Seat 9,”105,800″
Luc,Benoit,Table 52 – Seat 1,”55,000″
Marc Antoine,Chadwick,Table 28 – Seat 3,”68,800″
Marc,Brisson,Table 70 – Seat 3,”34,800″
Marc,Champagne,Table 57 – Seat 6,”128,500″
Marc,Lacroix,Table 25 – Seat 4,”80,200″
Marc,Le Moignan,Table 62 – Seat 5,”50,600″
Marc-Andre,Racicot,Table 35 – Seat 1,”99,000″
Marcello,Simonetti,Table 30 – Seat 8,”67,300″
Marcelo,Urbina Kandler,Table 56 – Seat 7,”27,700″
Marco,Sousa,Table 59 – Seat 9,”58,400″
Marie,Tran,Table 69 – Seat 6,”72,100″
Mario,Lepine,Table 27 – Seat 9,”71,800″
Mario,Page,Table 29 – Seat 2,”73,600″
Marko,,Table 35 – Seat 5,”106,300″
Martin,Beaudin,Table 27 – Seat 1,”44,300″
Martin,Welch,Table 55 – Seat 2,”29,300″
Mathieu,Bergeron,Table 68 – Seat 6,”11,400″
Mathieu,Gagniere,Table 59 – Seat 5,”33,500″
Mathieu,Krivicky,Table 55 – Seat 6,”50,900″
Mathieu,Leclerc,Table 65 – Seat 9,”56,000″
Matt,Ranger,Table 64 – Seat 6,”58,300″
Matthew,Pascarella,Table 28 – Seat 9,”261,100″
Maxime,Doyon,Table 30 – Seat 5,”66,500″
Melanie,Viens,Table 57 – Seat 1,”96,700″
Michael,Carrington,Table 60 – Seat 3,”58,800″
Michael,Goldfluss,Table 65 – Seat 1,”75,100″
Michael,Korovine,Table 62 – Seat 6,”46,600″
Michael,Malm,Table 60 – Seat 9,”76,800″
Michael,Plante,Table 69 – Seat 4,”47,300″
Micheal Albert,Marinaro,Table 53 – Seat 2,”41,800″
Michel,Bergeron,Table 65 – Seat 2,”167,000″
Michel,Rajotte,Table 50 – Seat 1,”100,300″
Micheline,Roberge,Table 66 – Seat 9,”69,400″
Mikael,Abittan,Table 54 – Seat 3,”115,000″
Mike,Lafable,Table 69 – Seat 8,”85,100″
Milhail,Tzonev,Table 25 – Seat 8,”88,600″
Mohammed rachid,Bahaj,Table 53 – Seat 8,”115,500″
Natalia,Nogina,Table 29 – Seat 8,”63,500″
Nicolas,Bastien,Table 66 – Seat 7,”218,100″
Nicolas,Wart,Table 57 – Seat 2,”62,900″
Nicole,Lapierre,Table 67 – Seat 5,”75,500″
Nikolas,Blanchette,Table 61 – Seat 6,”76,800″
Noy,-,Table 70 – Seat 6,”54,500″
Odette,Tremblay,Table 60 – Seat 4,”65,700″
Oksana,Kuznichenko,Table 56 – Seat 3,”20,500″
Olivier,Millet,Table 66 – Seat 8,”170,000″
Olivier,Morin,Table 26 – Seat 1,”170,000″
Omkar,Deshmukh,Table 33 – Seat 7,”117,500″
Pascal,Desbiens,Table 26 – Seat 3,”117,200″
Pascal,Gregoire,Table 27 – Seat 6,”116,900″
Patrice,Primeau,Table 53 – Seat 3,”90,800″
Patricia,Prazeres,Table 25 – Seat 6,”74,300″
Patrick,Fournier,Table 55 – Seat 5,”89,600″
Patrick,Mailloux,Table 57 – Seat 9,”60,000″
Patrick,Pochyla,Table 27 – Seat 5,”75,300″
Peter,Bodnar,Table 29 – Seat 1,”20,700″
Peter,Johnson,Table 55 – Seat 3,”106,900″
Peter Jr,Johnson,Table 29 – Seat 3,”85,500″
Peter,Zhou,Table 64 – Seat 1,”46,600″
Petros,Sakelliou,Table 62 – Seat 7,”93,200″
Philippe,Genequand,Table 70 – Seat 7,”84,500″
Philippe,Lauzon,Table 61 – Seat 5,”43,200″
Phillipe,Beaudoin,Table 26 – Seat 4,”83,300″
Pierre,Duguay,Table 49 – Seat 3,”134,400″
Pierre,Tischuk,Table 59 – Seat 7,”53,700″
Pierre-Olivier,Sauve,Table 56 – Seat 6,”205,900″
Qiang,Dong,Table 49 – Seat 5,”63,200″
Randy,Khalil,Table 60 – Seat 2,”131,100″
Ray,Mahomed,Table 69 – Seat 2,”77,100″
Renato,Soldera,Table 31 – Seat 4,”140,500″
Richard,Bourgeois,Table 70 – Seat 2,”81,600″
Richard,Catellier,Table 66 – Seat 5,”177,100″
Rick,Shamshoum,Table 67 – Seat 6,”195,500″
Ricky,Campanelli,Table 25 – Seat 2,”49,000″
Robert,Dagenais,Table 59 – Seat 3,”161,100″
Robert,Gingras,Table 31 – Seat 6,”58,500″
Rodney,Ramalho,Table 28 – Seat 2,”60,000″
Roger,Boyer,Table 65 – Seat 3,”80,800″
Romain,Putz,Table 60 – Seat 8,”77,100″
Roman,Mikhailov,Table 50 – Seat 8,”86,500″
Sacha,Vidal,Table 50 – Seat 2,”50,800″
Said,Michailidis,Table 31 – Seat 1,”124,500″
Salvatore,Sanguedolce,Table 54 – Seat 4,”112,500″
Sammy,Chao,Table 57 – Seat 3,”52,200″
Sammy,Lafleur,Table 34 – Seat 4,”71,100″
Samuel Louis,Gagnon,Table 28 – Seat 7,”47,500″
Scott,King,Table 53 – Seat 7,”62,900″
Scott,Shelvock,Table 26 – Seat 5,”105,300″
Sebastien,Laviolette,Table 62 – Seat 8,”87,000″
Seeneevasen,Govindasawmy,Table 30 – Seat 2,”128,600″
Serge,Grenier,Table 29 – Seat 5,”170,000″
Shaun,Racine,Table 63 – Seat 8,”84,800″
Shelley,Rapp,Table 57 – Seat 8,”133,500″
Siamak,Soleimanian,Table 65 – Seat 8,”71,100″
Simon Cristobal,Yanez-Gula,Table 61 – Seat 9,”23,500″
Simon,Gosselin,Table 50 – Seat 7,”63,100″
Sourasay,Souvanh,Table 32 – Seat 2,”98,600″
Spencer,Stacey,Table 26 – Seat 8,”81,700″
Stephane,Charpentier,Table 52 – Seat 8,”110,300″
Stephane,Chartrand,Table 35 – Seat 3,”78,500″
Stephane,Houle,Table 67 – Seat 3,”96,700″
Stephane,Sevigny,Table 28 – Seat 5,”54,300″
Stephanie,Dery,Table 60 – Seat 5,”59,100″
Steve,Horic,Table 35 – Seat 4,”101,300″
Steve,Pouliot,Table 33 – Seat 2,”152,500″
Steve,Winters,Table 30 – Seat 6,”87,500″
Steven,Umansky,Table 60 – Seat 6,”28,400″
Terry,Flood,Table 29 – Seat 9,”52,400″
Theo,Psihogios,Table 25 – Seat 5,”106,400″
Theodore,Dimitroulas,Table 69 – Seat 5,”83,800″
Thomas,Cohen,Table 61 – Seat 2,”49,200″
Thomas,Lefort,Table 52 – Seat 6,”57,900″
Tina,Sigalos,Table 64 – Seat 7,”25,500″
Tommy,Coulombe,Table 32 – Seat 5,”55,200″
Traci,Horpestad,Table 67 – Seat 4,”34,700″
Trevor,Dixon,Table 60 – Seat 1,”169,400″
Tristan,Bergeron,Table 69 – Seat 1,”106,200″
Tyler,Petri,Table 62 – Seat 1,”125,800″
Vasilios,Sklavounos,Table 56 – Seat 9,”17,200″
Vincent,Gelinas,Table 67 – Seat 7,”41,700″
Vo Victor,Ly,Table 32 – Seat 3,”34,200″
William,Doucet,Table 50 – Seat 4,”19,800″
Yann,Beauchamp,Table 32 – Seat 4,”63,000″
Yowhan,Lauzon,Table 57 – Seat 5,”45,200″
Yvano,Viens,Table 65 – Seat 6,”37,400″
Yves,St-Louis,Table 63 – Seat 9,”56,000″
Yvon Robert,Blais,Table 49 – Seat 9,”42,000″
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