Spring Classic 2017

Jôle Simard

The $530 + $20 Flip ‘n Gos are back!

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For those of you who are looking for a quick and easy way into the Million North America, Flip ‘n Gos are your best bet! For $530 + $20, with a little bit of luck, you  can earn your seat for tomorrow’s Day 1B in a fun and dramatic fashion.

2 or 4 cards (most crowds agree to 4) are being dealt to every player, who keep them face down, and then the board is revealed. At that point, starting from seat 1, every player open 1 card at a time, until they beat the previous highest hand, or lose. When all players but one have mucked their cards, the winner is decided, and presents his player card to collect the Main Event seat.

Flip ‘n Gos will be running until the end of registration in Day 1B, tomorrow.

 

Dinner break in the Million North America – Leaderboard update

  • Level: 7
  • Small Blind: 10K
  • Big Blind: 20K
  • Ante: 2K
  • Chip Average: 1.6M
  • Remaining: 227
  • Entries: 372

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Players are now enjoying a much deserved dinner break in the partypoker Million North America Event. A warm buffet is displayed near the bar in the tournament hall, and our players are happily digging in.

Registration is now closed for Day 1A, and along with the 90 Phase 1 stacks that were placed on the tables before the start, 282 players registered today, for a total of 372 entries in this first of 2 flights.

During the dinner break, we updated the leaderboard, and found that recent changes allowed a transition in the leadership. Sylvain Siebert lost about 2M in the third stint, now working with just a little over 3M. The pole position now belongs to Srinivas Gottiparthi, who is sitting at the ”action table” of the Event (along with Guillaume Nolet and Karim Abdelhamid), where 3 of the top 10 stacks are going at it. It is one of the next tables to break, so these riches will soon be sprinkled over the hall.

Philippe D’Auteuil (title picture) has climbed to the second spot. He is seen in the photo below, collecting the fruits of one of his many wins.

The following table lists the top of the leaderboard, and is followed by some of their photos:

First Name | PrénomLast Name | NomStack | Tapis
SrinivasGottiparthi5,395,000
PhilippeD'Auteuil4,845,000
RobinHegele4,615,000
GuillaumeNolet4,550,000
KarimAbdelhamid4,515,000
AndrewWalter4,505,000
JustinDean3,930,000
JohnR3,805,000
StevenJoudry3,725,000

Sylvain Siebert towers above the field

  • Level: 5
  • Small Blind: 6K
  • Big Blind: 12K
  • Ante: 1K
  • Chip Average: 1.3M
  • Remaining: 265
  • Entries: 348

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Sylvain Siebert (title picture), a regular achiever here at Playground Poker Club, qualified into the Million North America through one of the Phase 1 tournaments. He pretty much destroyed his Phase 1 Event, and started today with a very cool 3M stack.

Anyone who played with him before knows that he wasn’t going to sit on those chips. In fact, he kept climbing during the first 4 levels of play today, and is now the owner of the biggest stack in the room, scanned at 5,125,000 a few moments ago, during the break following level 4.

Here is a look at the top of the leaderboard, as players keep coming in. The tally is now at 348 entries, 265 of which are still in line for a Day 2 seat.

First Name | PrénomLast Name | NomStack | Tapis
SylvainSiebert5,125,000
DilovanHussein4,095,000
TonyTran4,030,000
NiallFarrell3,450,000
AlexFortin Demers3,120,000
PhilippeD'Auteuil3,050,000
MatthewSalsberg2,890,000
Marie-JoséeDuguay2,850,000
GuillaumeNolet2,715,000

Photographs taken during level 4:

First break leaderboard in the partypoker Million North America

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After 2 one-hour levels of play in the Playground Poker Classic Main Event, the partypoker Million North America, players took a 15 minute break, allowing them to stretch their legs and focus on their game plan.

During that break, we surveyed the tables to create an early leaderboard. Of course, this list is filled with Phase 1 qualifiers who started the day with much more than a million in chips, but our current chip leader, Dilovan Hussein, is not one of them! That’s right, he managed to transform his 1M Day 1 starting stack into the 3.7M that is reigning in the tournament hall, sitting atop the leaderboard.

Below the table is a gallery of notables, taken during level 2.

First Name | PrénomLast Name | NomStack | Tapis
DilovanHussein3,710,000
Sylvain Siebert3,130,000
Marie-JoséeDuguay2,535,000
TonyTran2,385,000
MasoudTavangari2,250,000
MatthewSalsberg2,100,000
KarimAbdelhamid2,025,000
MatthewBrunskole2,015,000
JohnR1,995,000
GregoryHartwick1,965,000
DovMarkovich1,960,000
StevenJoudry1,930,000

Mike Sexton and Tony Dunst at the kick off

  • Level: 1
  • Small Blind: 2.5K
  • Big Blind: 5K
  • Ante: 500
  • Chip Average: 925.5K
  • Remaining: 217
  • Entries: 219

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As is customary at Playground Poker Club at the start of a partypoker Main Event, Mike Sexton, the voice and face of partypoker, made an announcement on the microphone.

This time, he was joined by Tony Dunst, famous poker player and spokesperson for partypoker. Sexton said a few kind words on the quality of the venue, and talked a little bit about the Event, before announcing the much expected words: ”Shuffle up and deal!”

Once these words were pronounced, the clock started ticking and the partypoker Million North America was underway! 215 players started on time, including 89 Phase 1 stacks, and more will join throughout the day. 146 more Phase 1 stacks are on the shelves and will come into play tomorrow, on Day 1B.

Good luck all!