Playground Winter Festival 2017

Cards are in the air for Day 1B

  • Level: 1
  • Small Blind: 50
  • Big Blind: 100
  • Ante: 0
  • Chip Average: 30K
  • Remaining: 129
  • Entries: 129

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The opening formalities are done and play has now begun in Day 1B of the WPT Playground. As expected, registration is bumped up significantly from Day 1A – there are already 129 players at the tables with a steady stream joining in every few minutes.

Play today will continue through 10 60-minute levels with breaks every second level and a 45-minute dinner break following level 6. The end of the dinner break is also the end of late registration – and the end of re-entries in the tournament as well.

Good luck to everyone playing today!

Next up is Day 1B of the WPT Playground

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In just under an hour, players will assemble in the Tournament Hall at Playground Poker Club to begin play in Day 1B of the WPT Playground. This is the second and final starting day in the event, and players are permitted one entry and one re-entry any time until the end of the dinner break after level 6.

Day 1A saw 134 total entries take their place in the tournament, and 54 players have booked their seat for Day 2 on Sunday. There are still a significant number of satellite seats that were won but have not yet been played, and between those seats and the general uptick in participation on the final Day 1 of any event, it should be a blockbuster today.

Players travelling from downtown Montreal should be aware that although some side streets are a little bit slippery, the highway to take to get to Playground Poker Club is in fine form today, and the snow clearing and salt trucks have been doing a very good job of making sure the drive is very smooth and safe today. We *do* snow well in the Montreal area!

Good luck!

Zinno bags the lead as Day 1A closes with 54 players

  • Level: 11
  • Small Blind: 600
  • Big Blind: 1.2K
  • Ante: 200
  • Chip Average: 74.4K
  • Remaining: 54
  • Entries: 134

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Day 1A of the partypoker.net WPT Playground has come to a close, and of the 134 entries that took place (116 players, 18 re-entries) 54 were left when it was time to bag chips. Through the 10 levels of play, Anthony Zinno managed to turn his 30,000 starting stack into a massive 209,200, claiming the chip-lead in this first of two flights.

Other big stacks from today include Jake Schwartz (163,100), Rayan Chamas (162,100), Ted Doukas (157,700) and Nicolas Le Floch (156,500). The full list of player-reported chip counts from Day 1A has been published and is available under the “Results” menu, above.

The second and final flight to this Main Event in the Playground Poker Winter Festival takes place tomorrow, with Day 1B kicking off at 11am. Late registration will be available through until the end of the dinner-break following level 6, and players will therefore have until 6:15pm to register (or re-enter, should they have the misfortune of being eliminated from play).

Don’t miss your chance at taking home a piece of the 7-figure prize-pool!

First Name | PrénomLast Name | NomStack | Tapis
AnthonyZinno209,200
JakeSchwartz163,100
RayanChamas162,100
TheodoreDoukas157,700
NicolasLe Floch156,500
Ryan TackYu149,100
DavidGraves137,800
DanielDvoress129,100
GarryJansen117,900
Marc AndreLadouceur106,400
Pierre PaulPaulin106,100
Zheng-YiXie99,200
CarlDes Granges97,400
Dean AllenBaranowski92,200
AlexDifelice92,000
Ha VanNguyen92,000
MatthewWilkins90,700
PatrickBlye89,900
MikeLeah89,500
ReneMorin84,100
DavidParedes80,000
Samuel Ka-FaiNgai74,300
DilovanHussein73,800
PatrickCartier72,600
KristenBicknell72,400
EdwardHislop68,700
SamuelChartier66,100
Jean-SebastienDubois65,600
ChristianHarder64,900
Michael GarryAron64,700
AllanPuzantian63,600
HarleyStoffmaker62,300
MattAffleck59,100
RobertGreenberg58,700
PascalLefrancois57,200
TonyDunst53,300
CarterSwidler50,900
JonathanGarneau47,000
IvanFazal Karim45,200
JamesYang43,100
StephenCaplan39,800
Randall DavidPfeifer39,100
MichaelEdward37,200
KevinMacDonald31,300
TonyWong30,000
KevinMacphee26,100
NektariosPapadedes25,700
PatrickBraga25,600
ChristopherHudson25,000
MatthewWantman20,000
MariaHo16,900
MikeSexton15,900
Jean FrancoisBouchard14,400
BennyChen13,600

Chamas finds a big double-up near the end of Day 1A

  • Level: 10
  • Small Blind: 500
  • Big Blind: 1K
  • Ante: 100
  • Chip Average: 73.1K
  • Remaining: 55
  • Entries: 134

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Rayan Chamas opened to 2,000 from under the gun, and was met with a 3-bet to 5,000 from Christopher Hudson. He 4-bet to 13,000, and called off his tournament life when Christopher 5-bet all-in.

Rayan: King of Hearts King of Diamonds
Christopher: Queen of Hearts Queen of Diamonds

Rayan locked it in on the turn on a Jack of Hearts 4 of Spades 2 of Hearts King of Clubs 2 of Diamonds board to find a full double-up of his 81,500 stack, propelling him up the leaderboard.

Only a few more hands separate us from the end of this flight.

Rayan Chamas

Last level of play in Day 1A

  • Level: 10
  • Small Blind: 500
  • Big Blind: 1K
  • Ante: 100
  • Chip Average: 65.9K
  • Remaining: 61
  • Entries: 134

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Level 10 has begun a few minutes ago, and this will be the last level of play for this first of two flights to the partypoker.net WPT Playground. Ted Doukas has taken over the chip-lead with 61 players remaining, as he nears 170,000 in chips.

Some recent eliminations towards the end of Day 1A include: Demosthenes Kiriopoulos, Marc-Olivier Carpentier-Perrault, Toby Joyce, Benoit Jean, Ramesh Puradchithasan, Salomon Ponte, and Upeshka De Silva

Once play has concluded and the surviving players have bagged their chips, we will publish the full list of player-reported chip counts from this flight.

Photographs from level 9:

Jansen maintains the lead with 2 levels to go

  • Level: 9
  • Small Blind: 400
  • Big Blind: 800
  • Ante: 100
  • Chip Average: 50.9K
  • Remaining: 79
  • Entries: 134

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The last break of Day 1A has just passed us, and the T25 chips were removed from play while the players were stretching their legs. Garry Jansen is still sitting atop the leaderboard as the flight returns from its last break of the night. Ted Doukas has chipped up into a healthy second place, while Jake Schwartz rounds the top 3.

The table below includes the top 10 stack in play to start level 9.

First Name | PrénomLast Name | NomStack | Tapis
GarryJansen150,200
TedDoukas145,000
JakeSchwartz128,900
CarlDes Granges117,800
EdwardHislop113,300
AnthonyZinno104,300
Zheng-YiXie99,700
ChristopherHudson99,400
NicolasLe Floch91,100
Pierre-PaulPaulin84,500

Photographs from levels 6 and 7: