Playground Poker

The $5,000 + $300 Main Event is in full swing here at Playground Poker Club. This was the second of three days of live flights, and by the end of today’s Main Event Day 1B there had been a total of 172 entrants (including 28 re-entries), more than double the number of entrants than yesterday’s Day 1A.

The field is a very strong one, full of local and international poker pros of all stripes all vying for a piece of the guaranteed $5,000,000 prize pool. As the clock wound down, we made a quick pass around the remaining tables and took some photos of the chip leaders among the 88 players still playing.

The man of the hour remains Upeshka De Silva, who had the chip lead for most of the day, losing it only briefly in level 7 before regaining it in the 8th and final level. Congrats to all the players, we’ll see you on Day 2!

View the WPT Montreal Main Event Day 1 Combined Results page.

Mike Meskin raised to 600 preflop and Richard Alsup, Jordan Westmorland, and Khaly Dang all called. When the flop came down Richard bet 3,000. Khaly and Mike folded and Jordan called. After the turn was dealt both Richard and Jordan checked.  When the river was revealed , Richard bet 4,500, and Jordan called.
At showdown, Richard didn’t have the cards to beat Jordan’s and Jordan stacked the pot.

After almost 8 full levels of play, the Main Event Day 1B is almost at a close.

Michael Khan, playing at table 27, was running low on chips, and when we happened across his table, we saw that he was already all in for his tournament life. His opponent was the chip leader for most of the day Upeshka De Silva.

The board showed and there was only about 15,000 in the pot.

While it was not life or death for Upeshka, he took the hand seriously, just as he has every hand so far tonight. For Michael, it literally was his tournament life on the line, so when he shoved all in Upeshka had to take a lengthy pause to review his options. Ultimately he decided to call the bet.

It was a rare misstep, as Michael flipped over his , making a boat 6’s full of 2’s. Upeshka mucked his hand, and so we’ll never know if he had a pair of 10’s , was holding a smaller boat, or something in between. That’s poker!