Event #1 - $135 + $25 NL Hold'em | Page 13 of 14 | Playground Winter Festival 2018

Soucy maintains momentum

Level: 11
Small Blind: 600
Big Blind: 1.2K
Button Ante: 1.2K
Chip Average: 59.7K
Remaining: 58
Entries: 173

2018/01/14 - 17:04 by Shawn McCrory

Christian Soucy, who held the chip lead earlier in the tournament, showed no signs of slowing down as he busted yet another player. Christian was holding while Jonathan Hatch-Chenard had .

The seemingly innocuous flop of turned out to be a minefield. The action blew up when the appeared on the turn and the players got it all-in. The river brought out a harmless and Christian added to his already significant stack.

58 players now remain as we approach the final break of the afternoon.

Giguère out

Level: 9
Small Blind: 400
Big Blind: 800
Button Ante: 800
Chip Average: 47K
Remaining: 74
Entries: 173

2018/01/14 - 16:21 by Shawn McCrory

Joel Giguère has been eliminated during level 9 of today’s Day 1A. Giguère is a talented local player who has made some deep runs in recent events and is becoming increasingly well-known in the community of regular players.

Frederic Gagné opened the action from middle position to 2,400. Jacques Martineau, in the small blind, and Giguère, in the big blind, both made the call. The three players saw a flop of .

The flop play was standard: both players in the blinds checked to the original raiser who followed up with a c-bet of 2,500. Martineau found the fold button while Giguère made the call. The turn brought out the and set up some explosive action. Giguère checked to Martineau who continued his line with a bet of 5k.

Giguère then raised all-in and was quickly called; Gagné tabled for turned trips. Giguère knew he was drawing thin by the speed of the call and reluctantly showed his . The river was an irrelevant and Giguère hit the rail.

Event #1 allows for re-entries on subsequent day 1s so anyone who didn’t advance through Day 1A can try again this evening, tomorrow or Tuesday evening to compete for a share of the prize pool of no less than $100,000.

Leaders going into level 9

Level: 9
Small Blind: 400
Big Blind: 800
Button Ante: 800
Chip Average: 37.2K
Remaining: 93
Entries: 173

2018/01/14 - 15:34 by Shawn McCrory

As we enter the second break there are 93 players left out of a starting field of 173. 6 levels of play remain today. At the end of level 14, the players will bag their chips for Day 2, which runs Wednesday evening. There is still time for a lot to change this afternoon, but here’s a list of the current chip leaders.

A few more photos from Day 1A

Level: 8
Small Blind: 300
Big Blind: 600
Button Ante: 600
Chip Average: 37.2K
Remaining: 93
Entries: 173

2018/01/14 - 15:17 by Shawn McCrory

The action continues with 94 players remaining out of the 173 entries as we approach the second break.

Nguyen’s Ace can’t hold

Level: 8
Small Blind: 300
Big Blind: 600
Button Ante: 600
Chip Average:
Remaining:
Entries:

2018/01/14 - 15:02 by

Albert Nguyen a talented local player, but he has exited Day 1A quite a bit earlier than he would have wanted. He got it in from the sb, raising James Bedard’s preflop utg raise to 2,100. The cards were revealed.

Albert:
James:

Albert hit the flop – but James hit it a lot harder and Albert was in dire straits. The were not the miracle he was looking for and he hit the rail.

Ruest in the early lead

Level: 5
Small Blind: 150
Big Blind: 300
Button Ante: 300
Chip Average: 23.7K
Remaining: 146
Entries: 173

2018/01/14 - 13:31 by Shawn McCrory

As the first break ends on Day 1A of Event #1, 173 players have entered the field, but only 150 remain in the running.

As players left the room during the break, we had our chance to survey the room. While there is still a lot of poker left to be played, two players have emerged with more than twice their starting stack in chips. Alexandre Ruest leads the way with 51,500 and Patrick Gatfalvi is currently sitting on 43,100.