Tommy Dion of Granby, QC has been crowned the Champion of the 8-Year Anniversary edition of the Playground 200! He outplayed, out-drew, and outlasted 706 players in the event to emerge as the Champion, and the final Playground 200 Champion of 2018. It was clear that something really special was happening relatively early in the day when Tommy took over a clear chip lead after having started with just 165,000 in chips – the equivalent of 6bb! Once he took the lead, although he took a few hits, Tommy stayed among the top 2 or 3 players the entire rest of the way. When the tournament dropped to 6 players, they chose to do an ICM chop (reserving $1,503 for 1st place) and Tommy was in 2nd place for a $14,315 score – and a chance at the additional prize. By the final hand of play the two remaining players […]

After a little more than eight hours of play, we have a winner in today’s tournament, Event #3 in the 8-Year Anniversary series, a $100 + $10 + $25 Bounty tournament. Congratulations to Benjamin Mathieu-Comptois on a tournament well played. After battling through a field of 121 entries (which included 30 re-entries), and collecting a whopping twelve $25 Bounties over the course of the day, Benjamin earned a prize of $2,126 plus those bounty chips. Well done! Event #3 Champion: Benjamin Mathieu-Comptois, $2,126 (plus bounties) Final hand of play The winner, along with the other five remaining final table players at the time, agreed on an ICM Chop, meaning that the purse was divided according to the players’ stack size at the time. They continued to play for bragging rights and a final prize of $241 after the deal was struck.  

Event #3 of the 2018 WPT Montreal was the $1,500 + $150 WPTDeepStacks event. Today was Day 3, and after 12 levels and more than 14 hours of play we finally crowned a champion. David Quang found himself in heads up play with Daniel Dubeau, with David Quang eventually taking it down and earning himself 1st place and $222,000 in cash. The final hand was a classic, with both players all in preflop. David had , while Daniel had . The flop was dealt , and with that, the tournament came to a close! Daniel Dubeau, our 2nd place finisher, earned himself a very respectable $150,000. His consistent, savvy play was evident throughout all three days of the event. However, while we congratulate both of our finalists for their excellent play, in the end, only one can be one winner. Well done David! you’ve earned the title of WPTDeepStacks Champion. […]

Event #6 was a $1,100 buy-in PLO 1-day event with unlimited re-entries until the beginning of level 9. 104 entries joined the tournament, 28 of which came from re-entries. The action was relentless. Players were going all out, gunning for one of the 13 prizes on the board. Piotr Siwiec came out of the gates like a thoroughbred and held on to his lead for the majority of the evening, until Frédéric Normand took it from him. Both players made the final table, but Siwiec left it early. Normand, however, after dwindling down to about 65K when 2 tables were left, came back with a vengeance and enjoyed the lead for a while at a 4-handed final table. Lynn Phan took that from him, and kept climbing, doing an excellent chip leader job. The pressure was constant, and she took out Frédéric Normand, then François Goulet. In the end, it was […]

Sasan Mehrabian has emerged qs the winner of Event #7 in the WPT Montreal Festival. He had already locked up a prize of $13,360 when the deal was made, but there was still another $7,500 to play for – plus a great WPT event trophy! Notwithstanding the deal that had been made, and the 5:1 chip advantage Sasan enjoyed, both players were working hard to secure the extra payout, and the heads up match between Sasan and Jean-Luc Desormeaux lasted for another 45 minutes. Eventually, though, Sasan called from the sb and Jean-Luc checked his bb. The flop came . Jean-Luc was first to act and decided to shove. Sasan covered him by a lot at this point, but it’s never good to double up your opponent when playing hu, so it took him a while to make the call. Jean-Luc: Sasan: The turn was perfect for Sasan’t flush draw: […]

The WPT Montreal High Roller Event saw a total of 97 entries take place, of which the top 13 players were awarded a payout. The tournament was spread across 3 full days of poker, with the money-bubble bursting at the end of Day 2. A number of poker phenomenons participated in this star-studded field, but in the end it was Ajay Chabra who was the last man standing. He and Tommy Nguyen duelled heads-up for the title, with Ajay starting with the slight chip advantage. Within a few hands Tommy took over the chip lead, and continued to slowly extend it through the first few orbits of play, until Ajay changed gears and chipped his way back to even stack. Ajay then won a huge pot after flopping a straight and letting Tommy take over the betting. He got maximum value out of the hand, finding a full double-up on […]

The first event of the WPT Montreal 2018 is now in the books, and Miguel Goncalo has claimed the title of WPT500 champion after 3 full days of poker. Through 10 total starting flights, including 3 online on partypoker, there were a total of 2,536 entries, forming a massive $1,229,960 prize pool. 513 players found a bag for Day 2, of which the top 323 secured a cash prize. Once the dust settled, there were only 35 players remaining coming back for Day 3. Trevor Argue had a strong start to his Day 3, and when the field was nearing the final table he managed to double-up his second biggest stack through the chip leader at the time, Vasilios Gerontakos, to take a massive lead on the field. He carried his lead onto the final table, however after a few unfortunate hands he found himself eliminated in 5th place. Following […]

Michael McKinnon has done it again! The winner of Event #4 in this October Power Weekend has now added a second Power Weekend Championship to his list of successes here at Playground Poker Club – he has won Event #12, today’s $90 + $10 + $25 NL Hold’em Bounty tournament. The event attracted 128 players, far surpassing the number required to meet the $5,000 guaranteed prize pool. The solid turnout for the event was matched by the speed it took to play – even with so many players to start, the tournament was in the money by about 5:30pm and the final two tables continued at a steady pace such that the whole tournament was over just after 8:00pm. Heads up play between Michael and Steve Daunier was very interesting, in that Steve had been among the chip leaders for most of the afternoon, and coming to 1-on-1 play, enjoyed […]

Heads up action between Theo Psihogios and Thohahente McComber lasted only one hand – that’s all McComber needed. No sooner had the dealer set up the table for the heads up action that Theo went all-in. He received a “call” before the echo of his all-in had even abated. Both men turned over their hands with a smile. Theo was by far the shortest stack and had obviously decided to gamble with any hand, before the blinds chewed through his stack. Both hands ended up being quite respectable: Theo: Thohahente: Theo was happy with his top pair on the flop: although he wasn’t thrilled with the hearts. His instincts would prove spot on as the remaining cards put an end to the tournament by giving Thohahente a flush. After a lightening fast heads up we have crowned our winner: Thohahente McComber! Congratulations to all our winners! Thohahente Mccomber – Winner […]

Heads up action lasted only for a short period, but all the team members got a chance to play. The final hand came when short stack Alexandre Morel was holding as he went all-in. He immediately got a call from Patrice Ravary who tabled The community cards reflected the luck Ravary/Demondehare had received throughout the final table: with the turn giving them an eight-high straight. And that put a close to the memorable Tag Team Event here in the October Power Weekend Event #10. Congratulations to all the winners. The champions: Patrice Ravary (left) and Martin Demondehare (right), $5,255 The winning hand Alexandre Morel and Maxime Turcotte finish in 2nd place with $4,655