Event 3 of the Playground Winter Festival was The $250 Frenzy, a No Limit Hold’em event which included 6 starting flights and a guarantee of $200,000. A total of 1,052 entries took place which generated a prize pool of $229,599, of which the top 108 players secured a cash prize.
There was a player deal agreed to with 6 players remaining. They agreed to split the prize-pool based on an ICM chop, leaving an additional $4,500 and the trophy for the eventual tournament champion. This deal is reflected in the official results table below.
| Rank | Pos | First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Prize | Bourse |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Isaac | Buswell | $28,974.00 |
| 2 | Santiago | Plante | $22,325.00 |
| 3 | Presten | Cloutier | $23,395.00 |
| 4 | Naghibollah | Noori | $16,300.00 |
| 5 | Philippe | Belley | $13,850.00 |
| 6 | Michael | Malm | $23,395.00 |
| 7 | Gianfranco | Giordano | $6,400.00 |
| 8 | Jonathan | G | $4,650.00 |
| 9 | Pierre | Gauthier | $3,450.00 |
| 10 | Benoit | Lord | $2,600.00 |
| 11 | Jean Allan | Christine | $2,600.00 |
| 12 | Jordan | Saccucci | $2,600.00 |
| 13 | Stephen | Nahm | $2,100.00 |
| 14 | Said | Michailidis | $2,100.00 |
| 15 | Sandro | Grande | $2,100.00 |
| 16 | Endrit | Geci | $1,720.00 |
| 17 | Jason | Conforti | $1,720.00 |
| 18 | Gregory | Feuz | $1,720.00 |
| 19 | Mohamed | Ben Yahia | $1,460.00 |
| 20 | Shu Pui Philip | Tse | $1,460.00 |
| 21 | Kelvin | Tang | $1,460.00 |
| 22 | Lucian | Mariuta | $1,280.00 |
| 23 | Andrew | Boujaoude | $1,280.00 |
| 24 | Patrick | Mailloux | $1,280.00 |
| 25 | Pierre-Luc | Gaudreau | $1,150.00 |
| 26 | Kuong Chhe | Kuoch | $1,150.00 |
| 27 | Lee | Chanwoo | $1,150.00 |
| 28 | Genevieve | Dsouza | $1,050.00 |
| 29 | Jennifer | Brooks | $1,050.00 |
| 30 | Julian | Villanova | $1,050.00 |
| 31 | James | Cooke | $960.00 |
| 32 | Levon | Dedeyan | $960.00 |
| 33 | Randy | Khalil | $960.00 |
| 34 | George | Ciuciureanu | $880.00 |
| 35 | Maxime | Cloutier | $880.00 |
| 36 | Michael | Tremblay | $880.00 |
| 37 | Derek | Primeau | $810.00 |
| 38 | Marton | Szlavy | $810.00 |
| 39 | Tam | Ho | $810.00 |
| 40 | Jaered Daniel | Besse | $810.00 |
| 41 | Bart | Sieminski | $810.00 |
| 42 | Alexandre | Bergeron-Cyr | $810.00 |
| 43 | June | Jenkins | $810.00 |
| 44 | Nicholas | Pitre | $810.00 |
| 45 | Todor | Petkov | $810.00 |
| 46 | Alain | Toledano | $750.00 |
| 47 | Mike | Saragossi | $750.00 |
| 48 | Line | Desjardins | $750.00 |
| 49 | Steven | Collin | $750.00 |
| 50 | Ian | Modder | $750.00 |
| 51 | Georges | Hallak | $750.00 |
| 52 | Marco | Caza | $750.00 |
| 53 | Roy | Rochette | $750.00 |
| 54 | Jay | Srinivasan | $750.00 |
| 55 | Andrej | Bachynsky | $690.00 |
| 56 | Tomislav | Pavkovic | $690.00 |
| 57 | Joel | Thibeault | $690.00 |
| 58 | Daniel | Johnston | $690.00 |
| 59 | Colin | Scheckman | $690.00 |
| 60 | Ramnik | Singh | $690.00 |
| 61 | Laura | Farrell | $690.00 |
| 62 | Maurice | Langlois | $690.00 |
| 63 | Devon | Jones | $690.00 |
| 64 | Nicolas | Roch | $640.00 |
| 65 | Melanie | Ares | $640.00 |
| 66 | Janine | Bibb | $640.00 |
| 67 | Richard | Figiel | $640.00 |
| 68 | Michel | Arsenault | $640.00 |
| 69 | Peter | Zelmer | $640.00 |
| 70 | Jean-Francois | Santerre | $640.00 |
| 71 | Daniel | Renaud | $640.00 |
| 72 | Alexandre | Beaudette | $640.00 |
| 73 | Vincent | Deschatelets | $600.00 |
| 74 | Mark | Howie | $600.00 |
| 75 | Patrick | Boisvert | $600.00 |
| 76 | Paul | Brunet | $600.00 |
| 77 | Arnold | Yaxley | $600.00 |
| 78 | Ali | Awada | $600.00 |
| 79 | Hugo | St-Cyr | $600.00 |
| 80 | Hamid Reza | Ofogh | $600.00 |
| 81 | Gaurav | Arora | $600.00 |
| 82 | Serge | Denis | $560.00 |
| 83 | Albert | Bassal | $560.00 |
| 84 | Han | Qin | $560.00 |
| 85 | Luc | Gagne | $560.00 |
| 86 | Daniel | Le | $560.00 |
| 87 | Langis | Degrandpré | $560.00 |
| 88 | Aboud | Georgos | $560.00 |
| 89 | Sean | Grover | $560.00 |
| 90 | Donald | Abdelhay | $560.00 |
| 91 | Eric J C | Ylagan | $530.00 |
| 92 | Marie France | DuSablon | $530.00 |
| 93 | Tania Marie | Stephan | $530.00 |
| 94 | George Christopher | Gonzalez | $530.00 |
| 95 | Alain | Neveu | $530.00 |
| 96 | David | Saunders | $530.00 |
| 97 | David | Bolduc Hamel | $530.00 |
| 98 | Jacob | Lafleur | $530.00 |
| 99 | Richard | Lord | $530.00 |
| 100 | Joseph | Crivello | $500.00 |
| 101 | Pierre Marc | Chadi | $500.00 |
| 102 | Martin | Mc Manus | $500.00 |
| 103 | Nicolas | Majdalani | $500.00 |
| 104 | Grant | Ellis | $500.00 |
| 105 | Andre | Vezina | $500.00 |
| 106 | Carlos Alberto | Gerones Sanchez | $500.00 |
| 107 | Robert | Amireault | $500.00 |
| 108 | Derek Duane | Thibault | $500.00 |