Here is a quick look into the 2nd Chance Event, part of the Playground Poker Spring Classic presented by partypoker.net:
Hartwick doubles through Dunst; Gross out 44th
Doug Hartwick started the day with a stack on the small side – 102,000 – but he has just doubled through Tony Dunst to keep his tournament alive.
Brian Altman opened the action with a raise to 17K, and Tony called from the button. Doug then pushed his ~80K stack (he had lost some chips early) over the top. Brian folded and Tony called. The hands were tabled.
Doug: 
Tony: 
The flop had a little of what Tony needed: 
but the 
on the turn and river weren’t helpful and Doug stacked the chips.
While we were reporting on that hand, Jeff Gross and Poorya Nazari were eliminated in 44th and 43rd place, respectively.
Jeff Gross
Through level 1
The players in the Second Chance tourney are just about through level 1 and as usual, players continue to join at a fast clip – 30 were seated at the beginning of the level and there are already 63 seated now. Late registration will remain open until 4:00pm this afternoon, so there’s still lots of time to get to Playground and jump in the action.
The 2nd Chance event starts today!
Welcome to Event 14 of the 2016 Playground Poker Spring Classic presented by partypoker.net. In just minutes play will begin in the $1,500 + $150 NL Hold’em Second Chance tournament. This is an opportunity for everyone who played in the WPT Canadian Spring Championship to take another shot at a relatively high-buy-in tournament.
The Second Chance event is a little different than a WPT in that it’s a pure freezeout event. There is a single Day 1 – today – and players have to have their wits about them from right from the start of the hostilities!
Players will start with 25K in chips and blinds levels throughout the tournament will be 45 minutes long (or at least until the final 2 players are heads-up – then blinds levels will increase every 30 minutes). This is a 2 Day event and play will continue today for 14 levels.
Players have until the end of level 6 to register in the event, and as usual we expect a good number of players to take the opportunity to late reg.
Good luck!
Event 13 Champion: Jonathan Bussières
There were 161 players to start tonight’s $500 + $50 NL Hold’em Freeze, which ended up playing out over 9 hours with tons of action all the way, particularly on the final two tables. There was a wide range of skill and experience in the tournament and the action never ceased in Event 13.
The final table action was extremely quick and aggressive and a few players endured roller-coaster rides with respect to their stacks as the two chip leaders were attacked with no caution throughout: aggression, aggression, aggression.
Mike Saragossi dominated a good portion of the final table play and when he found himself heads-up against Jonathan Bussières he had a 3-1 chip advantage. However the first hand of heads-up play featured an all-in and a call which ended up giving Jonathan a double up as Mike ran his 
into the 
Jonathan held.
With the stacks even, the players ruled out a deal and after some give and take of chips, the fateful final hand arrived.
Mike: 
Jonathan: 
Board: 
When the hand was complete, Mike rose to shake Jonathan’s hand but before he got there the dealer announced that he still had chips left… well – one 5K chip. This chip found its way to the centre of the table on the next hand – and Jonathan finished the job.
Event 13 Champion: Jonathan Bussières – $18,400
2nd place: Mike Saragossi – $13,675
Last hand of play
Event 13 final results
Event 13 in the Playground Poker Spring Classic presented by partypoker.net was a $500 + $50 NL Hold’em Freeze that began on May 2, 2016. There were 161 players in the event which generated a prize pool of $78,085.00. This prize pool was distributed according to the following table.
| Rank | Pos | First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Prize | Bourse |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jonathan | Bussieres | $18,400.00 |
| 2 | Mike | Saragossi | $13,675.00 |
| 3 | Richard Edwin | Mask | $10,370.00 |
| 4 | James | Hughes-Scavone | $7,780.00 |
| 5 | Jason R | Helder | $5,850.00 |
| 6 | Jason | Clarke | $4,390.00 |
| 7 | Nimer | Ltaif | $3,290.00 |
| 8 | Felix | Sides | $2,470.00 |
| 9 | Patrick | M | $1,860.00 |
| 10 | Dov | Amzallag | $1,400.00 |
| 11 | Jonathan | C | $1,400.00 |
| 12 | Raffi | Ghazarian | $1,300.00 |
| 13 | Miltiadis | Mavrigiannakis | $1,300.00 |
| 14 | Malawai | Hoyer | $1,200.00 |
| 15 | Justin | Leeson | $1,200.00 |
| 16 | Joey | Boczek | $1,100.00 |
| 17 | Sebastien | Proulx | $1,100.00 |
Mask 3rd & Hugues-Scavone 4th
Richard Edwin Mask was on a roller-coaster ride in hands with players on the final table, including Mike Saragossi. After losing a huge hand that left him with just 250K (8bb), he went all in on the next hand holding only to find Mike ready to put his chips back in holding .
The 
kept the suspense alive but an Ace on the turn returned to his total of just one hand earlier. Then a few hands later, the Saragossi/Mask battle continued, again with Richard pushing and finding the call from Mike.
Mike: 
Richard: 
Richard was dominated and the board run-out of 
couldn’t bail him out. Richard was out in 3rd place.
3rd place: Richard Edwin Mask – $10,370
James Hugues-Scavone stayed around the chip average for the first half of the tournament, but in the later stages he moved to among the chip leaders for extended periods of time. Chatty and active at the table, he drove a lot of the action (and loved to have his photo taken). And when he got into a hand with 
he felt sure he would be able to take it to the very end… Jonathan Bussières made the call of the preflop bet holding 
.
The flop came 
and Jonathan check-called James’ flop shove having binked the improbable trip 9s and the turn and river couldn’t get James back into the lead.
4th place: James Hugues-Scavone – $7,780
5th place, Jason Helder
Jason Helder got it in holding 
only to find a call from James Hugues-Scavone and his 
. When the flop came 
James was drawing extremely thin, and when the came on the turn he was drawing dead and even the 
river was no help.
5th place: Jason R Helder – $5,850
Jason Clarke out 6th
We arrived at the table after the hand to find the following:
Jason Clarke: 
James Hugues-Scavone:
Board: 
Fortune was on James’ side when the Queen came on the flop and Jason’s tournament was over.
6th place: Jason Clarke – $4,390
Big hand between the leaders
One of the golden rules of final table play is to avoid huge hands with other big stacks. Mike Saragossi didn’t heed this advice when he raised to 90K from the cutoff only to run into the 600K shove from Richard Edwin Mask. Unafraid, Mike made the quick call.
Mike: 
Richard:
Board: 
Mike’s Aces held and he increased his holdings to around 1 Million chips.
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