Congratulations to Mike Lafable who battled hard all day to emerge victorious in Event 1, The Wild $150, at the 2014 Playground Poker Fall Classic. Ahmad Baalbaki worked equally hard and managed to come in 2nd place.

The player that Mike triumphed over was Ahmad Baalbaki. The two players’ voyage to the end could not have been more different. Where Ahmad was among the chip leaders from early on in Day 2, Mike was never among the leaders until the very end. And where Ahmad played a tight, aggressive game, Mike seemed to alternate between trying to open up the game by playing a lot of hands and then periods of extremely tight play as he needed to double up to survive. But, survive he did as did Ahmad and both players did very well to get to this point in the tournament.

For his victory, Mike won the top prize of $30,600.00 while Ahmad took home $20,500.00. Full results and prizes are available on the Playground Poker Live Event Blog.