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    Playground Winter Festival 2018

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      • Event #1 – $135 + $25 NL Hold’em
      • Event #2 – The Crazy $80 Re-entry
      • Event #3 – $330 50/50 Bounty
      • Event #4 – The $250 Frenzy
      • Event #5 – $110 Deepstack Turbo
      • Event #6 – $110 50/50 Bounty
      • Event #7 – $220 PL Omaha Bounty Re-entry
      • Event #8 – $220 Survivor
      • Event #9 – $550 Freeze
      • Event #10 – $220 8-Max Freeze
      • Event #11 – $1,100 Playground 1000
      • Event #12 – $165 Seniors’ Tournament
      • Event #13 – $330 NL Re-entry
      • Event #14 – $1,100 50/50 Bounty
      • Event #15 – $220 Deepstack Turbo
      • Event #16 – $110 8-Max Freeze
      • Event #17 – $330 Bounty
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    The Champion of Event #6: Alain Lavoie

    2018/01/23 - 23:11 by

    Event #6 in the 2018 Playground Winter Festival was a $50 + $10 + $50 NL Hold’em 50/50 Bounty tournament that attracted a solid 115 players, generating a “traditional” prize pool of $5,577.00. The prize pool also included one $50 Bounty chip per player, but the distribution of bounty chips is not tracked.

    The day proved to be a long one and featured several huge chip runs by players along the way, but there was one player who was among the leaders throughout the day: Paul Brunet. He was in the first leaderboard after just 4 levels of play, and stayed near there all the way to the final table.

    At that time, Alain Lavoie was among the small stacks on the table, but after some favourable hands, Lavoie found himself at the top of the heap, playing heads up against Jean-François Santerre. Santerre’s journey was a little more direct – he was under the radar for much of the day, but as the tournament got deeper he chipped up considerably to the point that he was the chip leader with 7 players remaining.

    In heads up play, the two players were even for a while, but then Lavoie managed to win a few consecutive hands – one in particular made Santerre a big underdog… and then the final hand. Lavoie limped, prompting Santerre to shove all in and he found the call. The cards were turned over and Santerre was dominated.

    Lavoie: Ace of Diamonds 7 of Clubs
    Santerre: King of Hearts 7 of Diamonds

    The board ran out and didn’t hit either player: 4 of Hearts 4 of Diamonds Jack of Clubs 8 of Diamonds 4 of Spades and Lavoie was the champion!

    Champion of Event 6: Alain lavoie – $1,357.00 and the Champion’s Trophy

    Runner-up: Jean-François Santerre – $1,035.00

    Jean-François Santerre

    Last hand of play

    Alexandre Joly takes 3rd

    • Level: 25
    • Small Blind: 40K
    • Big Blind: 80K
    • Button Ante: 0
    • Chip Average: 1.2M
    • Remaining: 2
    • Entries: 115

    2018/01/23 - 21:29 by Jôle Simard

    Alexandre Joly was on the button, and he committed his chips with a nice suited ace, only to find out that Alain Lavoie had been dealt a nicer ace:

    Alexandre Joly: Ace of Diamonds 8 of Diamonds
    Alain Lavoie: Ace of Hearts Jack of Diamonds

    Board: 10 of Hearts Jack of Clubs 9 of Diamonds 6 of Spades 2 of Diamonds

    A nice flop for Joly (3rd place – $790), increasing his number of outs, but the run out was dry and he settled for 3rd place. Lavoie and Santerre are now heads-up.

    Alexandre Joly

    Alain Lavoie takes the lead

    • Level: 25
    • Small Blind: 30K
    • Big Blind: 60K
    • Button Ante: 30K
    • Chip Average: 767K
    • Remaining: 3
    • Entries: 115

    2018/01/23 - 21:12 by Jôle Simard

    Three players just took a short break, during which we took their count.

    • Alain lavoie – 1,125,000
    • Jean-François Santerre – 755,000
    • Alexandre Joly – 420,000

    Pierre-Luc Bourgeois (4th – $605) went down, leaving only 3. Play resumes at 25K/50K/a25K.

    Alain Lavoie
    Pierre-Luc Bourgeois

    4 players standing

    • Level: 23
    • Small Blind: 20K
    • Big Blind: 40K
    • Button Ante: 20K
    • Chip Average: 575K
    • Remaining: 4
    • Entries: 115

    2018/01/23 - 20:53 by Jôle Simard

    With Paul Brunet (6th – $350) and Alex Miron’s (5th – $460) eliminations, only 4 players remain in Event 6. Alain Lavoie and Jean-François Santerre share the lead, way ahead of Alexandre Joly and Pierre-Luc Bourgeois.

    Play continues 4-way, with the magnificent Champion’s Trophy on the table.

    Paul Brunet
    Alex Miron

    Final break in Event #6 (probably)

    2018/01/23 - 20:01 by

    The players left in today’s bounty tournament – the 7 who remain – have just taken a short break and play will resume and most likely play down to the end before another scheduled break comes up.

    Jean-François Santerre has a chip lead at the moment, but it’s not dominant as there are two players (Miron and Joly) right behind. On the other end of the spectrum, there’s Victor Rusu who will resume with just 119K left.

    First Name | PrénomLast Name | NomSeat | SiègeStack | Tapis
    AlexMironSeat 1460,000
    Paul BrunetSeat 2354,000
    AlexandreJolySeat 4452,000
    AlainLavoieSeat 5160,000
    Pierre-Luc BourgeoisSeat 6232,000
    VictorRusuSeat 8119,000
    Jean-FrancoisSanterreSeat 10524,000

    Fast forward, double time!

    • Level: 20
    • Small Blind: 10K
    • Big Blind: 20K
    • Button Ante: 20K
    • Chip Average: 287K
    • Remaining: 8
    • Entries: 115

    2018/01/23 - 19:37 by

    With the blinds going up and the extra incentive of the bounties, the action in Event #6 has continued at a completely frenetic pace – to the extent that the bubble burst, the final table came together, and the first two final table eliminations all occurred in a flurry of action.

    The final table, when it came together, looked like this:

    First Name | PrénomLast Name | NomSeat | Siège
    AlexMironSeat 1
    Paul BrunetSeat 2
    Simon CristobalYanez-GulaSeat 3
    AlexandreJolySeat 4
    AlainLavoieSeat 5
    Pierre-Luc BourgeoisSeat 6
    CharlesRoySeat 7
    VictorRusuSeat 8
    MaximeBoulaySeat 9
    Jean-FrancoisSanterreSeat 10

    Since play began on the final table, Maxime Boulay and Charles Roy have both been eliminated.

    Alex Miron
    Paul Brunet
    Simon Cristobal Yaniz-Gula
    Alexandre Joly
    Alain Lavoie
    Pierre-Luc Bourgeois
    Charles Roy
    Jean-François Santerre
    Victor Rusu
    Maxime Boulay
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