Playground Winter Festival 2017

The last flight to The $250 Frenzy begins now

  • Level: 1
  • Small Blind: 50
  • Big Blind: 100
  • Ante: 0
  • Chip Average: 20K
  • Remaining: 86
  • Entries: 86

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After 5 starting flights to The $250 Frenzy, this 3rd event of the Playground Poker Winter Festival has seen a combined total of 839 entries. With over 80 players already registered in this final flight, the $200,000 guarantee has now been reached, and every additional entry will add to increasing it.

This will be the last chance to participate in this massive multi-flight event, and with late registration open until the end of the first break, players will have until 8:15pm to jump into the action.

Day 2 will take place tomorrow night at 7pm, while Day 3 is scheduled for 7pm on Tuesday night.

A full list qualifiers from the first 5 flights can be found here.

Good luck to all The $250 Frenzy players!

Endrit Geci leads 1e with 3 levels to go

  • Level: 12
  • Small Blind: 800
  • Big Blind: 1.6K
  • Ante: 200
  • Chip Average: 61.3K
  • Remaining: 60
  • Entries: 184

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Endrit Geci

Endrit Geci is comfortably sitting on top of our current leaderboard, and is the only player enjoying 100 blinds. Young Jae Kim, our leader at last break, shares the second spot with Andrej Bachynsky. Jordan Saccucci also managed to stay among the top dogs, having added about 30 to his stack in the last 3 levels. You can see Endrit on the right, all smiles, enjoying his day.

 

The table below lists our top 5 stacks:

First Name | PrénomLast Name | NomStack | Tapis
EndritGeci159,500
Young Jae Kim132,000
AndrejBachynsky132,000
JordanSaccucci115,500
SantiagoPlante114,500

Shawn Martell goes out on a bad beat

  • Level: 10
  • Small Blind: 500
  • Big Blind: 1K
  • Ante: 100
  • Chip Average: 42.3K
  • Remaining: 87
  • Entries: 184

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When we got to Shawn Martell’s table, he had just raised a 3K bet to 8.1K on a 9 of Spades 7 of Hearts 10 of Spades flop. Jeffrey Kennedy, the third player in the hand went all-in for 22.7K. After the initial better got out of the way, Shawn quickly called.

Shawn Martell:    10 of Hearts 9 of Diamonds
Jeffrey Kennedy: Queen of Spades 10 of Clubs

Shawn looked really good, in a great position to bump his stack to about 55K, but the run out decided otherwise.

Full board: 9 of Spades 7 of Hearts 10 of Spades King of Diamonds King of Hearts

Back to back kings were just enough to cripple Martell’s kingdom, and left with just 3K in chips, he walked away on the following hand. Sometimes, one needs a little more than to get it in good; sometimes, one needs a bit of luck on his side…

Leaders – Day 1E 2nd break

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The players in Day 1E have just completed their second break of the day and while they were away from the tables, tournament staff removed the green T25 chips from play and we surveyed the room for the current chip leaders.

There were 4 distinct leaders in the field at the moment, but in addition to these are a few players just shy of the 70K mark: Josip Zlomislic, Dmitri Tchakarov, and Dan Edery.

First Name | PrénomLast Name | NomStack | Tapis
EndritGeci159,500
Young Jae Kim132,000
AndrejBachynsky132,000
JordanSaccucci115,500
SantiagoPlante114,500
Young Jae Kim

A few photos from level 7

  • Level: 8
  • Small Blind: 300
  • Big Blind: 600
  • Ante: 75
  • Chip Average: 33.2K
  • Remaining: 111
  • Entries: 184

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Play has reached the end of level 7 – about the half-way mark – and during the level we got some additional shots of players in the field today.

The first break in Day 1E comes to a close

  • Level: 5
  • Small Blind: 150
  • Big Blind: 300
  • Ante: 50
  • Chip Average: 23.9K
  • Remaining: 154
  • Entries: 184

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The players in Day 1E have taken their first break of the day, and with the end of the break comes the end of late registration – there were a total of 184 entries today for a grand total so far of 839 entries.

It’s a little early to start putting together a meaningful leaderboard in the flight, but while quite a few players have built up 2x average stacks – in the 50K-60K range – Etienne Leduc has already accumulated over 76,000 in chips! So it’s safe to say he’s off to a decent start today.