The main pot of a 3-way all-in went to Jerry Joseph Jaber, the favorite when the chips went in.
Jerry Joseph Jaber: 
Nicolas Majdalani: 
Kosta Papa: 
Board: 
Jaber’s pocket pair held nicely, and his short stack is now at a comfortable average. Papa Took down the side pot, assessed at over 50K, while Majdalani’s belongings remin in the 6 figures.
Level 17 photographs:
When Sharron Patenaude open-shoved about 75K from an early position, Louis-Charles junior Levros called instantly, 2 positions to her left. He had 65.5K.
Sharron Patenaude: 
Louis-Charles junior Levros: 
Board: 
Patenaude sighed at the sight of the flop. She is now left with less than 3 big blinds.
Some Day 2 qualifiers have made their way here with very few chips, which explains the early abundance of eliminations. It seems like the player who most profited from it is Peter Liakopoulos, who started the night with 277,000 and is now counting over 400,000 chips.
Some early wealth photographs:
After 4 Day 1s, Day 2 of Event 1 in the Winter Festival 2018 is finally here. All qualifiers are now merging into a single field, and will play 12 levels before bagging. 72 of them will make it to the money, which will be reached tonight.
Albert Nguyen and Justin Hung are in the lead, with over 300K each. Both of them qualified through Day 1B.
The introductory announcement has been made, and cards are in the air.
Good luck!
After a total of 670 runners took a spot at the table during one or more starting flights in Event #1 of the Playground Winter Festival, there were 128 stacks that qualified for Day 2 in the event. One player managed to qualify twice for Day 2 – Marcello Simonitti – so his smaller stack has been removed from play and there were 127 players in the seating draw for Day 2.
Here are the starting positions and chip counts for the 127 remaining players.
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Seat | Siège | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rami | Hammoud | Table 49 - Seat 1 | 56,000 |
| Martin | Nguyen | Table 49 - Seat 2 | 57,500 |
| Nicolas | Miron | Table 49 - Seat 3 | 106,000 |
| Jason | Guiley | Table 49 - Seat 4 | 50,000 |
| Frederic | Stlouis | Table 49 - Seat 5 | 40,000 |
| Yu Chen | Chen | Table 49 - Seat 7 | 197,500 |
| Martin | Dufour | Table 49 - Seat 8 | 77,000 |
| Ryan | Jensen | Table 49 - Seat 9 | 71,000 |
| Christian | Soucy | Table 50 - Seat 1 | 125,000 |
| Therlegrand | Faustin | Table 50 - Seat 2 | 88,000 |
| Yan | Nadeau | Table 50 - Seat 3 | 254,500 |
| Mitcheal | Ferguson | Table 50 - Seat 4 | 105,000 |
| Sebastien | Proulx | Table 50 - Seat 6 | 81,500 |
| Pascal | Gregoire | Table 50 - Seat 7 | 105,000 |
| Louis | Lam | Table 50 - Seat 8 | 92,500 |
| Jonathan | Bussieres | Table 50 - Seat 9 | 156,500 |
| Charanjeev | Malhotra | Table 51 - Seat 1 | 105,500 |
| Sebastien | Brazeau | Table 51 - Seat 3 | 45,500 |
| Richard | Sysko | Table 51 - Seat 4 | 86,500 |
| Gaetan | Perreault | Table 51 - Seat 5 | 53,000 |
| Todd | Des Biens | Table 51 - Seat 6 | 62,500 |
| Roy | Abras | Table 51 - Seat 7 | 97,500 |
| Pascal | Quirion | Table 51 - Seat 8 | 214,500 |
| Ricky | Campanelli | Table 51 - Seat 9 | 42,500 |
| Alexandre | Cote-St-Louis | Table 52 - Seat 1 | 136,500 |
| Natalia | Nogina | Table 52 - Seat 2 | 44,500 |
| Sylvain | Lacasse | Table 52 - Seat 3 | 128,000 |
| Jean Luc | Joseph | Table 52 - Seat 4 | 206,500 |
| Aaron Roy | Parsons | Table 52 - Seat 5 | 59,000 |
| Daniel | Thibodeau | Table 52 - Seat 6 | 81,500 |
| Nicolas | Laliberte | Table 52 - Seat 7 | 156,000 |
| Eric | Ranger | Table 52 - Seat 9 | 27,000 |
| Frederic | Gagne | Table 53 - Seat 1 | 82,000 |
| Cristian | Muset | Table 53 - Seat 2 | 78,500 |
| Christian | Barrett | Table 53 - Seat 3 | 150,000 |
| Dominick | Brunet | Table 53 - Seat 4 | 50,000 |
| Luc | Lavoie | Table 53 - Seat 5 | 78,500 |
| Hagay | Brener | Table 53 - Seat 6 | 129,000 |
| Joseph | Kennedy | Table 53 - Seat 8 | 85,000 |
| Steven Nicholas | Curkovic | Table 53 - Seat 9 | 117,000 |
| Pierre Olivier | Guay | Table 54 - Seat 1 | 43,000 |
| Jeff | Longpre | Table 54 - Seat 2 | 91,500 |
| Jean-David | Rivard | Table 54 - Seat 3 | 46,000 |
| Peter | Liakopoulos | Table 54 - Seat 4 | 277,000 |
| Mathieu | Guindon | Table 54 - Seat 5 | 12,500 |
| Patrick | Fournier | Table 54 - Seat 7 | 61,000 |
| Hashem Ghasem | Mohammad | Table 54 - Seat 8 | 38,000 |
| Daniel | Hamelin | Table 54 - Seat 9 | 29,000 |
| James | Bedard | Table 55 - Seat 1 | 135,500 |
| Charles | La Boissonniere | Table 55 - Seat 2 | 234,500 |
| George | Ciuciureanu | Table 55 - Seat 4 | 66,000 |
| Justin | Hung | Table 55 - Seat 5 | 324,000 |
| Carl | Des Granges | Table 55 - Seat 6 | 101,000 |
| Daniel | Lemay | Table 55 - Seat 7 | 50,000 |
| Nicolas | Majdalani | Table 55 - Seat 8 | 161,000 |
| Jerry Joseph | Jaber | Table 55 - Seat 9 | 89,500 |
| Chris | Arvanitis | Table 56 - Seat 1 | 62,500 |
| Brian | Hodhod | Table 56 - Seat 2 | 86,000 |
| Marc | Touloute | Table 56 - Seat 3 | 62,000 |
| Jesse | Brandow | Table 56 - Seat 4 | 69,500 |
| Mathieu | Fontaine Raposo | Table 56 - Seat 5 | 170,500 |
| Christopher | Tavares | Table 56 - Seat 6 | 288,000 |
| Mathieu | Daigneault | Table 56 - Seat 7 | 48,500 |
| Christopher | King | Table 56 - Seat 8 | 87,000 |
| Jason | Mota | Table 56 - Seat 9 | 88,000 |
| Jack | Penda | Table 57 - Seat 1 | 26,000 |
| Francis | Fortin Chevalier | Table 57 - Seat 2 | 155,500 |
| Frederick | Seiffert | Table 57 - Seat 3 | 80,500 |
| Marcello | Simonetti | Table 57 - Seat 4 | 55,000 |
| Franco | Sicondolfi | Table 57 - Seat 5 | 75,000 |
| Mario | Page | Table 57 - Seat 6 | 84,000 |
| Hicham | Hammoud | Table 57 - Seat 7 | 67,500 |
| Eric | Massie | Table 57 - Seat 8 | 64,000 |
| Maurice | Langlois | Table 57 - Seat 9 | 36,000 |
| Michael | Lawson | Table 59 - Seat 1 | 37,500 |
| Frederick | Lessard | Table 59 - Seat 2 | 88,000 |
| Stephane | Matteau | Table 59 - Seat 3 | 84,500 |
| Ali | Awada | Table 59 - Seat 4 | 61,500 |
| Richard | Gagnon | Table 59 - Seat 5 | 93,000 |
| Michel | Lamarche | Table 59 - Seat 6 | 90,000 |
| Patrick | Gatfalvi | Table 59 - Seat 7 | 42,000 |
| Simon | Bissonnette-Du-Cap | Table 59 - Seat 8 | 97,000 |
| Louis-Charles Junior | Levros | Table 59 - Seat 9 | 61,500 |
| Nabil | Nahoul | Table 60 - Seat 1 | 64,000 |
| Lee | Chanwoo | Table 60 - Seat 2 | 100,500 |
| Kevork | Bijian | Table 60 - Seat 3 | 87,000 |
| Maxime | Asselin Blain | Table 60 - Seat 4 | 56,000 |
| Francois | Gagne | Table 60 - Seat 5 | 88,000 |
| Francois | Jenin | Table 60 - Seat 6 | 44,000 |
| Sebastien | Drolet-Poitras | Table 60 - Seat 7 | 203,000 |
| Sharron | Patenaude | Table 60 - Seat 8 | 105,000 |
| Colin | Scheckman | Table 60 - Seat 9 | 111,500 |
| Daniel | Le | Table 63 - Seat 1 | 53,000 |
| Robert | Gariepy | Table 63 - Seat 2 | 263,500 |
| Adam | Hussen | Table 63 - Seat 3 | 92,000 |
| Catherine | St-Pierre | Table 63 - Seat 4 | 162,000 |
| Anderson | Frank-Graham | Table 63 - Seat 5 | 197,000 |
| Allan | Puzantian | Table 63 - Seat 6 | 204,500 |
| Ryan | Parsons | Table 63 - Seat 7 | 132,500 |
| Douglas | Best | Table 63 - Seat 8 | 165,000 |
| Michael | Macdonell | Table 63 - Seat 9 | 249,500 |
| David | Sorgente | Table 64 - Seat 1 | 168,000 |
| Francesco | Presta | Table 64 - Seat 2 | 124,000 |
| Peter | Zhou | Table 64 - Seat 3 | 52,000 |
| Andrew | Molotchko | Table 64 - Seat 4 | 55,500 |
| Jonathan Patrick | Marrie | Table 64 - Seat 5 | 285,500 |
| Francois | Bergeron | Table 64 - Seat 6 | 68,500 |
| Arnold | Yaxley | Table 64 - Seat 7 | 86,500 |
| Mario | Defoy | Table 64 - Seat 8 | 41,000 |
| Donald | Ridewood | Table 64 - Seat 9 | 30,500 |
| Pavel | Covaliov | Table 67 - Seat 1 | 75,000 |
| Scott | Woodard | Table 67 - Seat 2 | 241,000 |
| Albert | Nguyen | Table 67 - Seat 3 | 342,000 |
| Nick | Nickoletopoulos | Table 67 - Seat 5 | 168,000 |
| Guy | Lebrun | Table 67 - Seat 6 | 127,500 |
| Saad | Badreddine | Table 67 - Seat 7 | 102,000 |
| Michael | Chouinard | Table 67 - Seat 8 | 47,000 |
| Hugo | Marquis | Table 67 - Seat 9 | 152,000 |
| Nicholas | Soller | Table 68 - Seat 1 | 61,000 |
| Alain | Berard | Table 68 - Seat 2 | 120,000 |
| Kosta | Papa | Table 68 - Seat 3 | 108,000 |
| Janet | Humphreys | Table 68 - Seat 4 | 68,000 |
| Stephane | Lalancette | Table 68 - Seat 5 | 109,000 |
| Tony | Lei | Table 68 - Seat 6 | 50,500 |
| Andre | Boyer | Table 68 - Seat 7 | 76,500 |
| Etienne | Sauve | Table 68 - Seat 8 | 28,000 |
| Jean-Michel | Thibodeau | Table 68 - Seat 9 | 112,000 |
The last flight for Event 1 has played its last hand, and after 14 levels of tough poker, 44 players managed to bag chips. These players will be added to the Combined Day 1 Results list, found in the result section.
Jonathan Marrie sealed the biggest bag tonight, having accumulated 285,500 chips. He will be 4th in chips at the start of Day 2. Here is our top 4 for the night:
| First Name | Last Name | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|
| Jonathan | Marrie | 285,500 |
| Charles | Laboissonnière | 234,500 |
| Sébastien | Drolet-Poitras | 203,000 |
| Yu Chen | Chen | 197,500 |
128 players will come back tomorrow at 7pm for Day 2 of the Event. Tomorrow night, the money will be reached, and our Day 2 qualifiers will slug it out for a spot in Thursday night’s Day 3 and a chance to appropriate the treasure chest.
See you tomorrow!
