TonyBet Winter Festival

TonyBet Winter Festival Main Event – prize pool & payout table

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Event 8 of the TonyBet Winter Festival was the Main Event, a $1,000 + $100 NL Hold’em tournament with 3 Day 1s, with the entire tournament scheduled to run over 4 days until February 10th. The tournament had a prize pool guarantee of $500,000. With 520 entries in the three day 1s, the actual prize pool surpassed this guarantee, reaching $504,400.00.

This prize pool will be distributed according to the following table. Day 2 begins tomorrow – Monday February 8th at 12pm (noon).

PosPrize
1st$100,000.00
2nd$70,000.00
3rd$44,000.00
4th$32,000.00
5th$24,500.00
6th$19,600.00
7th$16,400.00
8th$13,020.00
9th$9,800.00
10th-12th$7,200.00
13th-15th$5,850.00
16th-18th$5,050.00
19th-21st$4,500.00
22nd-24th$4,000.00
25th-27th$3,500.00
28th-36th$3,020.00
37th-45th$2,550.00
46th-54th$2,100.00
55th-63rd$1,750.00

Some photos from level 6

  • Level: 7
  • Small Blind: 500
  • Big Blind: 1K
  • Ante: 100
  • Chip Average: 37.2K
  • Remaining: 49
  • Entries: 73


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    Last break of the night; Update on leaderboard

  • Level: 12
  • Small Blind: 800
  • Big Blind: 1.6K
  • Ante: 200
  • Chip Average: 77.9K
  • Remaining: 77
  • Entries: 200


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    As promised, we brought an update to the leaderboard on this the last break of Day 1c. Christina Knot has recently taken over the chip lead, and has been consistently amongst the leaders since just before the dinner break, while Rodney Hollet holds the second largest stack.

    Players have two more levels left to complete before bagging their remaining chips onto Day 2, which will take place tomorrow February 8th at 12:00pm.

    Leaderboard as play enters level 12:

    First Name | PrénomLast Name | NomStack | Tapis
    ChristinaKnot206,600
    RodneyHollet175,300
    ReneGauvin169,600
    ScottShevlock169,500
    ReneBerube Sarginson169,300
    GrantPazarka159,700
    MarcoCannizzaro155,800
    AdamMizzi144,300
    SenthurnanVijayaratnam143,800
    SeanWindover135,700
    SethManning115,000

    The stage is set for Event 9 – $200 + $20 Deepstack Turbo

  • Level: 1
  • Small Blind: 50
  • Big Blind: 100
  • Ante: 0
  • Chip Average: 25K
  • Remaining: 34
  • Entries: 34


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    The dealers are seated, the cards are fanned and the players are starting to roll in and take their seats for this Event 9 of the TonyBet Winter Festival, which is a one-day Deepstack Turbo tournament. Players will start with 25K in chips, and the blinds will increase every 15 minutes of play – certainly leading to a more aggressive style of play.

    The tournament will begin at 8pm sharp, although late registration will remain open through the first 5 levels and break, so players will have until 9:30pm to jump into the action. Come on down and join us!

    See you on the felts!

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    3 levels remain

  • Level: 11
  • Small Blind: 600
  • Big Blind: 1.2K
  • Ante: 200
  • Chip Average: 68.2K
  • Remaining: 88
  • Entries: 200


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    Play has entered level 11, and following this round there will be the last break of the night, with two more final levels of play. Rodney Hollet is steadily growing his stack, and still maintains the chip lead with his 180,000 stack. Recent additions to the leaderboard include Goran Brestovac, Rene Gauvin and Senthuran Vijayaratnam, who have all surpassed the 6-figure mark in recent levels.

    We will bring a more detailed update on the leaderboard during the next break, in roughly 45 minutes.

    Photographs from level 10:

    Level 10

  • Level: 10
  • Small Blind: 500
  • Big Blind: 1K
  • Ante: 100
  • Chip Average: 57.1K
  • Remaining: 105
  • Entries: 200


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    Level 10 has just begun, and a little over 3 hours remain to this last flight of the Main Event. There has not been much movement in the leaderboard in the last level, as Rodney Hollet still leads the field, closely followed by Scott Shelvock, Christina Knot and Chrishan Sivasundaram.

    Photographs from level 9:

    Chip counts at dinner break

  • Level: 9
  • Small Blind: 400
  • Big Blind: 800
  • Ante: 100
  • Chip Average: 49.2K
  • Remaining: 122
  • Entries: 200


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    The dinner break is finishing up, and during the time players were enjoying a mid-day snack, we took a walk and did some chip counts. Below you will find a list of the current chip leaders, as well as a few additional counts of notable players.

    Leaderboard entering level 9:

    First Name | PrénomLast Name | NomStack | Tapis
    RodneyHollett168,000
    ChristinaKnot118,200
    ScottShelvock117,100
    ChrishanSivasundaram116,500
    GrahamLupton111,100
    MaximilianDroege97,600
    MichaelKorovine97,300
    AdamMizzi96,400

    Additional counts:

    First Name | PrénomLast Name | NomStack | Tapis
    WilliamMolson63,200
    AlexandreLavigne60,400
    PatrickBraga55,900
    StevenKerr48,700
    Jean-PhilippePiquette45,000
    DavidOrmsby42,900
    EmaZajmovic34,600
    IsabelleMercier20,100
    NoeungTroeung13,700
    SenthuranVijayaratnam12,400
    AzimPopatia7,900

    Pre-dinner photos

  • Level: 8
  • Small Blind: 300
  • Big Blind: 600
  • Ante: 75
  • Chip Average: 47.6K
  • Remaining: 126
  • Entries: 200


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    Dinner break is just around the corner here in Day 1c of the TonyBet Winter Festival Main Event, and we will soon be publishing an updated leaderboard. Around 1/3 of the filed has already been eliminated from this final flight of the Main Event, and players will have 5 more levels to play after dinner break before the bagging of the chips.

    Photographs from levels 7 and 8:

    More tweets from the field

  • Level: 7
  • Small Blind: 250
  • Big Blind: 500
  • Ante: 75
  • Chip Average: 41.7K
  • Remaining: 144
  • Entries: 200


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    This is the most active day so far in terms of players in the event who are also on Twitter – here’s a taste of some of the tweets we’ve noticed so far.

    Deepstack Turbo tonight!

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    Now that the three starting flights of the Main Event are wrapping up, it’s time for other events in the TonyBet Winter Festival. Tonight is one of the most beloved tournament formats ever run here at Playground Poker Club – the Deepstack Turbo.

    About the name: it’s called “Deepstack” because players start with 25K in chips, and “Turbo” because blinds are just 15 minutes long. This makes for an explosive combination in which players find themselves in critical situations very early in the tournament. Players must keep their wits about them from the very beginning of the tourney to make it deep.

    Action gets underway at 8pm and late registration is available until 9:30.

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