Playground Winter Festival 2017

Event 1 prize pool & payout table

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Event 1 in the 2017 Playground Winter Festival – The Wild $150 – attracted a total of 1,197 entries, generating a total prize pool of $156,747.00 – far surpassing the $100,000 guarantee. A total of 117 players will be in the money, starting with a min cash of $280.00… and growing to a first place prize of a whopping $28,000.00! The following is the official payout table for the event.

Rank | PosPrize | Bourse
1st$28,000.00
2nd$18,952.00
3rd$13,600.00
4th$10,600.00
5th$8,000.00
6th$5,800.00
7th$4,100.00
8th$3,000.00
9th$2,100.00
10th-12th$1,750.00
13th-15th$1,450.00
16th-18th$1,200.00
19th-21st$1,050.00
22nd-24th$950.00
25th-27th$875.00
28th-30th$800.00
31st-33rd$740.00
34th-36th$680.00
37th-45th$620.00
46th-54th$560.00
55th-63rd$500.00
64th-72nd$440.00
73rd-81st$400.00
82nd-90th$360.00
91st-99th$330.00
100th-108th$300.00
109th-117th$280.00

Leaderboard after 8 levels of play

  • Level: 9
  • Small Blind: 400
  • Big Blind: 800
  • Ante: 100
  • Chip Average: 37.8K
  • Remaining: 180
  • Entries: 340

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While the players were enjoying their second break of the night, we took a walk around the room in search of big stacks to compile our leaderboard, found below. The current chip-leader Jacques Perron is miles ahead of the field, and his chip-count nears the 200K mark, around 5 times the average stack.

First Name | PrénomLast Name | NomStack | Tapis
JacquesPerron191,400
Carole-AnneFullum106,600
SimonPin-Disle101,600
JasonBarnoff97,100
RobertMuzzatti93,800
DavidSorgente91,500
PascalDerosiers89,300

Photographs from levels 7-8:

Some shots of the field

  • Level: 7
  • Small Blind: 250
  • Big Blind: 500
  • Ante: 75
  • Chip Average: 29.6K
  • Remaining: 230
  • Entries: 340

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We’ve just entered level 7 in Day 1D of The Wild $150 and over 100 players from tonight’s field have already hit the rail. 8 more 30-minute levels remain before the conclusion of this flight, and in 2 levels we will bring an update on the leaderboard.

Photographs from levels 5-6:

The Wild $150 sees 1,197 combined entries

  • Level: 5
  • Small Blind: 150
  • Big Blind: 300
  • Ante: 50
  • Chip Average: 24K
  • Remaining: 283
  • Entries: 340

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With the first break of Day 1D now behind us, we have our total amount of entries for this first event of the Playground Poker Winter Festival. This last flight attracted a huge 340 player-field, bringing the combined total through 4 flights in The Wild $150 up to 1,197 entries! Once the tournament staff crunches the numbers, we will release all the pertinent prize pool information. As a reminder, Day 2 will take place tomorrow night at 7pm, and qualifying players will need to present a valid piece of ID when they arrive at the table.

Photographs from levels 3-4:

Early Day 1D photos

  • Level: 3
  • Small Blind: 75
  • Big Blind: 150
  • Ante: 25
  • Chip Average: 21.1K
  • Remaining: 285
  • Entries: 301

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Level 3 is underway, and this 4th and final flight to The Wild $150 is proving to be a very popular one as attendance has just crossed 300 entries!

There is still around an hour left to register, as late registration closes at 9:15pm.

Photographs from levels 1-2:

Late registration open until 9:15pm

  • Level: 1
  • Small Blind: 50
  • Big Blind: 100
  • Ante: 0
  • Chip Average: 20.1K
  • Remaining: 240
  • Entries: 241

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Players wishing to participate in tonights Day 1D, the final flight to The Wild $150, will have until 9:15pm to jump into the action, after which the registration period will close.

With already well over 1,000 players registered in this kick-off event to the Playground Poker Winter Classic, this tournament will be a great value to the players, as the moderate buy-in of $135 + $15 can lead to a massive 5-figure score.

Those unable to make it tonight should take a peak at the Winter Festival schedule, as the next 16 days will be filled with action-packed events leading up to the partypoker.net WPT Playground, which features a huge $1 million guaranteed prize-pool.