Playground Poker Club wanted to make sure all the players in Montreal had all the poker action their hearts could desire, hosting the 3rd and largest of its sell-out DeepStack tournament poker events. This time bumping it up to $1,000 buy-in, players started with huge stacks of 30,000 chips and generous 45-minute levels for the two-day event. Attracting almost 200 players, Day 1 played well into the night with cash games of all sizes filling the poker room as fast as tournament tables broke.
WSOPE bracelet winner Erik Cajelais was among the 37 players who advanced to Day 2 but found himself crippled when the player he was running a bluff on tabled Pocket Aces. With a first prize set at just under $50,000, the final table was hard fought and eventually a 3-way deal was struck. The chip leader at the time Michael Lawson secured a sweet payday taking $33,500 leaving both Fuyuki Ikura and Levon Dedeyan $27,500 a piece. The game was far from over, however, as $9,000 and a kick ass bracelet were left in the middle to decide the true champion. The chop turned out to be just in time, as Lawson was then the next to go out.
Fuyuki and Levon went into Heads Up play with Mr. Ikura having about a 3-2 chip advantage, but the tables turned as they both got all-in with Levon holding Ace Nine to Fuyuki’s Ace Jack. Lady Luck can be cruel, however, and a nine on the flop changed things in a hurry. Now short-stacked, Fuyuki then got it all with A4 vs Levon’s K7, but it just wasn’t in the cards for Ikura as Dedeyan spiked his king to claim the bragging rights bracelet $36,500 total and the win!
Congrats to all the winners this weekend and if you missed out on this one don’t worry as Playground Poker Club is set to announce the Playground Poker Classic. Events at Playground Poker Club just keep getting bigger bolder and better this certainly will be a huge hit as well. Stay tuned for more details coming soon!
PLAYGROUND POKER CLUB Results
$1,000 NO LIMIT HOLD’EM FREEZEOUT
MARCH 26-27th/2011
Total Prize Pool: $167,400
Entrants: 186
| 1st | Levon Dedeyan | $48,750.00 (36.5% chop) |
| 2nd | Fuyuki Ikura | $29,250.00 (27.5% chop) |
| 3rd | Michael Lawson | $19,500.00 (33.5% chop) |
| 4th | Jimmy Dufour | $13,000.00 |
| 5th | Jean-Philippe Piquette | $10,000.00 |
| 6th | Francis Lavallee | $8,000.00 |
| 7th | Patrick Spinelli | $6,000.00 |
| 8th | Jean-Sebastien Bergeron | $4,000.00 |
| 9th | Ramon De La Cruz | $4,000.00 |
| 10th | Anthony Khoury | $4,000.00 |
| 11th | Martin Jacques | $2300.00 |
| 12th | Francois Cardinal | $2,200.00 |
| 13th | Steve Landry | $2,150.00 |
| 14th | Christopher McClung | $2,150.00 |
| 15th | Ted Doukas | $2,100.00 |
| 16th | Jamie Simons | $2,000.00 |
| 17th | Tony Stratopoulos | $2,000.00 |
| 18th | Eric Bergeron | $2,000.00 |
| 19th | Maxime Favre | $2,000.00 |
| 20th | Jason Hallee | $2,000.00 |
