Charles-Eric Benoit has seen his stack fluctuate quite a bit in this Day 3 of The Wild $150, however he was crippled in a recent hand, and although he managed to rebuild himself a little, he was eventually eliminated as his 
couldn’t overcome the 
of Said Michailidis.
14th place: Charles-Eric Benoit – $1,410
Charles-Eric BenoitTh
The eliminations are coming fast in this final day of The Wild $150, and we’ve just lost two more players.
On the short end of the spectrum, Fabian Garzon moved in from utg, and found himself heads-up against Stephane Chartrand.
Fabian: 
Stephane: 
Board: 
16th place: Fabian Garzon – $1,100
Fabian Garzon
Moments later, Randy Khalil was all-in on the other table with AKo versus the pair of KK of Isham Yamani, and failed to improve to finish in 15th place.
15th place: Randy Khalil – $1,410
Randy Khalil
Kathy Sawers just took most of Christien Beaudoin’s chips and quite a few more than that, pushing her close to the 2M mark.
There was a UTG raise to 130K to start the action from Benoit Campeau. Kathy followed up by going all in for 820K, and Christien went all-in himself for 855K – building a very enticing pot for the three huge stacks left with live hands and some chips already committed in the form of the blinds.
One by one they folded, however, including Benoit, leaving just Kathy and Christien to battle it out.
Kathy: 
Christien: 
The flop was pretty safe for the pocket Kings: 
. The turn gave Kathy a couple of more outs and may have been an omen of what was to come – the on the river gave her the hand and an extra 1.1M (give or take) in her stack.
Edward Hakim just lost a huge flip versus Stephane Chartrand, as he found his last 1 million in chips in the middle with versus 
. With no help on the board, Edward’s deep run ended in 17th place.
17th place: Edward Hakim – $1,100
Edward Hakim
Philippe Lauzon started the day with just under 800K but after his double through Randy Khalil he was in a much better position and he has just eliminated Mario Page to move to among the chip leaders in Event 1.
Charles-Eric Benoit started the action by raising to 145K from middle position, following which Mario went all-in. Philippe didn’t have to think long before he went all-in for more, and Charles-Eric got out of the way.
Mario:
Philippe:
Community cards: 
18th place: Mario Page, $1,100
Mario Page
We’ve just lost Marie Tran in 19th place, which brings The Wild $150 down to it’s final two tables. Taking advantage of an unopened pot, Marie moved her last ~10 big blinds from the small blind. Unfortunately for her, she ran into a brick wall, as her 
was matched up versus the of Edward Hakim in the big blind. She burst out in laughter when the dealer rung out a board of 
, and made her way to the cashiers with still a smile on her face.
Here are the final two tables:
Table 30
Seat 1. Rick Shamshoum
Seat 2. Fabian Garzon
Seat 3. Kathy Sawers
Seat 4. Edward Hakim
Seat 5. Christien Beaudoin
Seat 6. Stephane Sevigny
Seat 7. Petros Sakelliou
Seat 8. Stephane Chartrand
Seat 9. Benoit Campeau
Table 31
Seat 1. Pierre-Olivier Sauve
Seat 2. Charles-Eric Benoit
Seat 3. Said Michailidis
Seat 4. Levi Stevens
Seat 5. Mario Page
Seat 6. Sammy Chao
Seat 7. Philippe Lauzon
Seat 8. Randy Khalil
Seat 9. Isham Yamani
19th place: Marie Tran – $930
By the time we got to the table it looked like a pretty straight forward situation: a relatively short-stacked Philippe Lauzon was all-in with against much-greater-stacked Randy Khalil, who had turned over .
The community cards didn’t cooperate, at least as far as Randy was concerned: 
gave Philippe a gutshot draw, and though the on the turn didn’t help, the on the river certainly did. Randy shipped 705K to his neighbour to his right on the hand.
Local player Siamak S has been the first player eliminated on Day 3 of The Wild $150.
Siamak S
Siamak was on the button, and in the fateful hand Christien Beaudoin open shoved his ~765K stack from under-the-gun. Action folded around to the button, and Siamak went all-in for less (~315K). Olivier Millet thought for a few seconds but elected to fold.
Christien: 
Siamak:
Christien’s dominant hand just got better on the flop of , and although the 
removed any chance that Siamak could win, it did add chop outs to the mix. It was not to be. The river was the and Siamak was eliminated in 24th place ($800).
Just one hand later, Olivier was also eliminated when his 
couldn’t draw out against Stephane Chartrand’s flopped set (holding 
) on a 
board. The didn’t bring the flush and Olivier was out in 23rd ($800).
Since then, we’ve also lost Pascal Destines, Roman Mikhailov, and Mathieu Gagniere.
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!
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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