In the second hand after their return from break, Jeffrey Cormier went all in for 290K. Darryl called from the big blind holding 
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Jeffrey: 
Community cards: 
Jeffrey couldn’t make a miracle happen and finished 4th.
4th place: Jeffrey Cormier – $3,500
Players are on break for 15 minutes while the tournament staff removes the T1,000 chips. Here are updated counts for the 4 remaining players.
Event 15 has just reached the money, and we now have 11 players left all competing for the Playground Poker Spring Classic Champion’s Trophy!
Here they are with their chip counts:
Good luck!
Three players were all in and Nicholas Palma had a stack that covered the other two. Joey Cournoyer was the small stack and was eliminated in the hand while Elie A won a side pot of 33,500 chips from Nicholas.
Joey: 
Elie: 
Nicholas: 
Board: 
A rash of quick eliminations has brought the tournament to its final 4 tables. Two players were all in preflop and the small pair caught to make a set, eliminating the larger pair, and another elimination came about due to a rivered nut flush against the nut straight.
There are still 33 players in the action and we’re keeping an eye on the players and stack sizes as the tournament moves into level 13 shortly.
Event 14 – the $1,500 + $150 Second Chance Event in the Playground Poker Spring Classic presented by partypoker.net started with 127 players and after 14 levels of play just 24 remained. These players have bagged their chips to return for the restart at 12:00pm on May 4th, 2016.
The following table is the official seating chart for the restart of the event. The chip counts included are provided by the players; the actual chips have been sealed in bags to return to play tomorrow.
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Seat | Siège | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brian | Morgan | Table 62 - Seat 1 | 52,500 |
| Kevin | O'Donnell | Table 62 - Seat 2 | 99,500 |
| Patrick | St-Onge | Table 62 - Seat 3 | 155,500 |
| Jordan | M | Table 62 - Seat 4 | 70,500 |
| Linda | Huard | Table 62 - Seat 5 | 205,000 |
| Kathy | Sawers | Table 62 - Seat 6 | 286,500 |
| David | Assouline | Table 62 - Seat 7 | 222,500 |
| Stephen James | Anger | Table 66 - Seat 1 | 42,500 |
| Hiroaki | H | Table 66 - Seat 2 | 243,000 |
| Senthuran | Vijayaratnam | Table 66 - Seat 3 | 20,000 |
| Jason R | Helder | Table 66 - Seat 4 | 168,500 |
| Marko | X | Table 66 - Seat 5 | 52,000 |
| Paul | El-Khouri | Table 66 - Seat 6 | 186,000 |
| Samuel Robert | Phillips | Table 66 - Seat 7 | 88,500 |
| Ian | Tang | Table 66 - Seat 8 | 95,000 |
| Richard Edwin | Mask | Table 66 - Seat 9 | 62,500 |
| Franco | Cupello | Table 70 - Seat 1 | 38,000 |
| Jason | Clarke | Table 70 - Seat 2 | 26,500 |
| Yannick | Gauthier | Table 70 - Seat 3 | 80,000 |
| Patrick | M | Table 70 - Seat 4 | 36,500 |
| Peter | Chien | Table 70 - Seat 6 | 156,500 |
| Benny | Chen | Table 70 - Seat 7 | 293,000 |
| Ari | Engel | Table 70 - Seat 8 | 417,500 |
| Chris | Arvanitis | Table 70 - Seat 9 | 77,500 |
There are now 53 players remaining of the 109 who started tonight’s tournament. 11 players will be paid in the tourney with a huge $8,200 up top for first place!
Photos taken during levels 9 and 10.
After a search for the big stacks in the $300 + $30 Freeze the results are similar to the last leaderboard: Gary Lucci is in the lead! He has slightly less of a lead than earlier, but he continues to let his chips do the talking.
The players in The Second Chance have just come off their last break of the night, and will play through 2 more 45-minute levels before calling it a night and bagging for Day 2.
Leading the field is Ari Engel, who has recently crossed the 200K mark. Below is a list of the top stacks during this final break of Day 1 in Event 14:
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|
| Ari | Engel | 222,500 |
| Senthuran | Vijayaratnam | 172,100 |
| Pavel | Kuzmin | 170,200 |
| David | Assouline | 154,400 |
| Marko | X | 139,500 |
| Pierre Paul | Paulin | 125,400 |
| Ian | Tang | 120,100 |
Ari Engel
The Second Chance field is down to 4 tables, and here are the players still in contention of becoming our Event 14 champion:
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Seat | Siège |
|---|---|---|
| Senthuran | Vijayaratnam | Table 62 - Seat 1 |
| Jason | Helder | Table 62 - Seat 2 |
| H | H | Table 62 - Seat 3 |
| Alessandre | Bordonaro | Table 62 - Seat 4 |
| Richard Edwin | Mask | Table 62 - Seat 5 |
| Stephen James | Anger | Table 62 - Seat 6 |
| Yannick | Gauthier | Table 62 - Seat 7 |
| Jordan | M | Table 62 - Seat 8 |
| Maxime | Lejeune Hebert | Table 62 - Seat 9 |
| Samuel Robert | Philips | Table 66 - Seat 1 |
| Kevin | O'Donnell | Table 66 - Seat 2 |
| Dejan | Kovinic | Table 66 - Seat 3 |
| Kathy | Sawers | Table 66 - Seat 4 |
| Brian | Beggs | Table 66 - Seat 5 |
| Paul | El-Khouri | Table 66 - Seat 6 |
| Nick | Nickoletopoulos | Table 66 - Seat 7 |
| Pavel | Kuzmin | Table 66 - Seat 8 |
| Ian | Tang | Table 66 - Seat 9 |
| Peter | Chien | Table 69 - Seat 1 |
| Elisabetta | Bertucci | Table 69 - Seat 2 |
| Felix | Sides | Table 69 - Seat 3 |
| Sebastien | Filion | Table 69 - Seat 4 |
| Ari | Engel | Table 69 - Seat 5 |
| Patrick | M | Table 69 - Seat 6 |
| Jason | Clarke | Table 69 - Seat 7 |
| Patrick | St-Onge | Table 69 - Seat 8 |
| Jean-Francois | Giguere | Table 69 - Seat 9 |
| Benny | Chen | Table 70 - Seat 1 |
| Chris | Arvanitis | Table 70 - Seat 2 |
| Brian | Morgan | Table 70 - Seat 3 |
| Pierre Paul | Paulin | Table 70 - Seat 4 |
| David | Assouline | Table 70 - Seat 5 |
| Linda | Huard | Table 70 - Seat 6 |
| Tomas | Larivee Magni | Table 70 - Seat 7 |
| Franco | Cupello | Table 70 - Seat 8 |
| Marko | X | Table 70 - Seat 9 |
