Event #2

Day 2 Starts Now: John Pisani leads 152 qualifiers with 342,000 chips

Level: 15
Small Blind: 1.5K
Big Blind: 3K
BB Ante: 3K
Chip Average: 114.6K
Remaining: 152
Entries: 697

March 1, 2020March 1, 2020 | 1:06pm | Playground

Day 2 of the Playground 200 is starting now! With a total of 697 entries from five starting flights, 152 players managed to bag and tag for Day 2.

A total of 17,425,000 chips are in play and action resumes today with the blinds at 1,500/3,000, with an average stack sitting at 114,600 chips.

The field will play nine-handed (and move to eight-handed when only 32 players remain) through 10 40-minute levels today, and those left standing will move on to Day 3 which will play down to a winner tomorrow at 7:00pm.

The total prize pool grew to $135,218, with the top 88 players being paid. A min-cash in 82nd-88th position will pay $350, and all eyes are on the top prize of $24,500! The full prize pool will be published shortly.

Good luck to all of the competitors!

Day 2 Seating Draw

March 1, 2020 | 3:26am | Playground

The $200 + $20 Playground 200 featured a guaranteed prize pool of $100,000 but once all five starting flights were said and done, there were a total of 692 entries, creating a total prize pool of $135,218.

152 players will return tomorrow at 1:00pm for Day 2. The prize pool will be posted late in the morning on Sunday. Here is the seating draw for Day 2:

First Name	Last Name	Seat	Stack
John	Pisani	Table 32 - Seat 4	342,000
Sebastien	Proulx	Table 21 - Seat 3	316,000
Karim-Olivier	Kamal	Table 26 - Seat 7	314,500
Joseph	Mariutti	Table 19 - Seat 7	302,000
Sebastien	Drolet-Poitras	Table 29 - Seat 2	277,000
Jeremi	Kielian	Table 35 - Seat 9	263,500
Placide Junior	Sanon	Table 29 - Seat 3	253,000
Jean-Pascal	Gauthier	Table 26 - Seat 9	249,500
Saman	Saryazdi	Table 23 - Seat 8	243,500
Adam	Strulovitch	Table 18 - Seat 2	235,500
Michel	Vigneault	Table 18 - Seat 6	235,000
Marcel	Basset	Table 18 - Seat 4	219,500
Joseph	Silver	Table 19 - Seat 4	218,000
Alexandre	Patry	Table 17 - Seat 9	214,500
Alberto	Scuderi	Table 32 - Seat 3	209,000
Dominic	Tossings	Table 25 - Seat 1	206,000
Ahmad	Baalbaki	Table 32 - Seat 8	200,000
Blair	Miller	Table 23 - Seat 1	194,500
Antonio	Sozinho	Table 24 - Seat 2	192,500
Line	St-Pierre	Table 22 - Seat 8	188,000
Dylan	Thibault	Table 20 - Seat 5	186,500
John B	Grant	Table 32 - Seat 5	183,000
Christina	Gebrayel	Table 28 - Seat 7	179,000
Julien	Lemay	Table 19 - Seat 5	178,500
Philip	Jodoin	Table 21 - Seat 6	170,500
David	Bonneau	Table 24 - Seat 7	164,500
Levon	Dedeyan	Table 18 - Seat 5	162,000
Sylvain	Gosselin	Table 31 - Seat 9	161,000
Shailesh	Patel	Table 20 - Seat 4	159,000
Tamlyn	Campbell	Table 25 - Seat 3	158,500
Marcus	Ford	Table 21 - Seat 9	158,000
Simon	Bissonnette-Du-Cap	Table 21 - Seat 2	152,000
Krzysztof	Birecki	Table 23 - Seat 4	150,000
Samuel	Wong	Table 25 - Seat 6	150,000
Danick	Morin	Table 35 - Seat 2	149,000
Nicolas	Laliberte	Table 31 - Seat 6	146,000
Gary	Irvine	Table 20 - Seat 8	144,000
Tina	Howie	Table 32 - Seat 7	144,000
Leo	Hackenbroch	Table 26 - Seat 3	143,500
Danie	Lachance	Table 22 - Seat 4	142,500
Kassandra	Pouliot	Table 25 - Seat 8	140,000
Behrooz	Salemi	Table 25 - Seat 2	139,500
Steve	Pouliot	Table 30 - Seat 5	139,000
Philippe	Belley	Table 32 - Seat 6	138,000
Michael	Korovine	Table 23 - Seat 7	137,500
Richard	Catellier	Table 31 - Seat 2	137,000
Gregory	Feuz	Table 20 - Seat 1	133,500
Pavel	Covaliov	Table 26 - Seat 1	129,500
David	Cadoch	Table 31 - Seat 3	129,000
Ray	Mahomed	Table 28 - Seat 4	128,500
Vincent	Belliard	Table 27 - Seat 5	126,000
Christina	Gaulin	Table 18 - Seat 3	125,500
Peter	Liakopoulos	Table 17 - Seat 5	125,500
Paul	Manoian	Table 27 - Seat 2	122,500
Maxime	Theroux	Table 20 - Seat 2	121,500
Yaacoub	Gerges	Table 35 - Seat 4	120,000
Douglas	Roop	Table 27 - Seat 7	119,000
Haile Rafik	Kuo	Table 27 - Seat 9	119,000
Ian	Armorer	Table 28 - Seat 1	119,000
Yasser	Zaatar	Table 19 - Seat 8	119,000
Daniel	Mackay	Table 26 - Seat 6	117,500
Eric	Ranger	Table 17 - Seat 7	117,000
Nicolas	Miron	Table 19 - Seat 3	117,000
Christophe	Begel	Table 27 - Seat 4	116,000
David	Smith	Table 30 - Seat 6	115,500
Jeremy	Mussche	Table 19 - Seat 9	115,000
Michael	Fitzpatrick	Table 24 - Seat 9	113,500
Pierre	Lauze	Table 25 - Seat 4	111,500
Renaud	Conti	Table 31 - Seat 8	108,500
Steve	Fournier Bernier	Table 31 - Seat 4	107,500
Frederick	Maignan	Table 22 - Seat 6	107,000
Mohammed	Naceri	Table 24 - Seat 4	106,500
Denis	Quirion	Table 22 - Seat 5	104,500
Christian	Portmann	Table 24 - Seat 6	104,000
Sylvain	Lacasse	Table 20 - Seat 3	104,000
Paul-Olivier	Couvrette	Table 17 - Seat 6	103,000
Benoit	Martineau	Table 22 - Seat 2	101,500
John	Pentefountas	Table 29 - Seat 5	99,500
Samuel	Pouliot	Table 17 - Seat 4	98,500
Pierre-Hugues	Faulkner	Table 29 - Seat 1	97,000
Sebastien	Hendren	Table 27 - Seat 8	96,500
Michael	Gauthier-Rivard	Table 25 - Seat 7	95,500
Christopher	Tavares	Table 22 - Seat 1	94,500
Matthew	Monteschio	Table 17 - Seat 8	93,000
Dave	Jeanneau-Cyr	Table 19 - Seat 2	92,000
Haralambos	Margaritis	Table 21 - Seat 1	92,000
Rene	Morin	Table 31 - Seat 7	91,500
Roberto	Parent	Table 30 - Seat 7	86,500
Christopher	Plante	Table 18 - Seat 7	86,000
Patrick	Chartrand	Table 28 - Seat 8	86,000
Steve	Cordeiro	Table 23 - Seat 3	86,000
Daniel	Graton	Table 27 - Seat 1	85,500
Frederic	Gagnon	Table 32 - Seat 9	85,500
Etienne	Leduc	Table 22 - Seat 9	85,000
Martin	Dufour	Table 18 - Seat 9	84,500
Alon	Messica	Table 30 - Seat 3	84,000
George	Kazarian	Table 35 - Seat 3	84,000
Mark	Howie	Table 35 - Seat 6	83,500
Michele	Pengue	Table 28 - Seat 2	83,000
Norman	Messier	Table 23 - Seat 9	81,500
Xavier	Chayer-St-Germain	Table 29 - Seat 7	80,000
Brian	Tock	Table 28 - Seat 5	79,500
Nabil	Nahoul	Table 26 - Seat 5	79,500
Matteo	Carelli	Table 20 - Seat 7	77,500
Alain	Couture	Table 20 - Seat 9	77,000
Richard	Hamelin	Table 22 - Seat 3	77,000
Nicholas	Gardam	Table 24 - Seat 8	74,500
Charles	Letendre	Table 19 - Seat 6	73,500
Antonio	Boulay	Table 18 - Seat 1	72,500
Samuel	Creaney	Table 28 - Seat 9	72,500
Xin	Qi	Table 21 - Seat 8	72,500
Peter	Marco	Table 23 - Seat 2	71,500
Natalia	Nogina	Table 24 - Seat 5	71,000
Bastien	Muselli	Table 35 - Seat 5	70,500
Maxime-Olivier	Sevegny	Table 17 - Seat 3	68,000
Stephane	Arbour	Table 30 - Seat 8	63,500
Douglas	Paulson	Table 30 - Seat 4	62,000
Arthur	W	Table 25 - Seat 5	61,000
Brian	Hodhod	Table 35 - Seat 1	61,000
Martin	Peltier	Table 31 - Seat 5	61,000
Jean-Sebastien	Dagenais	Table 25 - Seat 9	60,500
Gabriel	Dt	Table 35 - Seat 7	58,500
Andrew	Boujaoude	Table 29 - Seat 8	57,500
Hamid Reza	Ofogh	Table 21 - Seat 5	57,500
Stefano	De Bellis	Table 23 - Seat 5	57,000
Shunn	Jacques	Table 35 - Seat 8	56,000
Eric	Al Halaby	Table 19 - Seat 1	55,000
Rene	Gauvin	Table 20 - Seat 6	54,000
Daniel	Pepin	Table 29 - Seat 9	52,000
Hicham	Hammoud	Table 28 - Seat 3	51,000
Frederic	Labelle	Table 18 - Seat 8	48,500
Nick	Nickoletopoulos	Table 26 - Seat 2	47,500
Paul	Nakhle	Table 24 - Seat 1	47,000
Jean-Rene	Guay	Table 32 - Seat 1	46,000
Karine	Bourdon	Table 17 - Seat 1	45,500
Ariane	V	Table 26 - Seat 4	45,000
Fernand	Gaudreault	Table 26 - Seat 8	45,000
Olivier	Arcand	Table 27 - Seat 6	44,500
Lucas Allen	Fisher	Table 28 - Seat 6	43,000
Maxime	Roby	Table 31 - Seat 1	43,000
Christopher	King	Table 29 - Seat 4	42,500
Stephane	Sevigny	Table 21 - Seat 7	41,500
Jean-Paul	Zeidan	Table 30 - Seat 9	40,500
Michel	Leblanc	Table 32 - Seat 2	40,000
Georges	Rombotis	Table 24 - Seat 3	37,500
Igor	Gamayunov	Table 30 - Seat 1	37,000
Adam	Hussen	Table 22 - Seat 7	34,000
Francis	Bouchard	Table 23 - Seat 6	32,500
Benoit	Landry	Table 27 - Seat 3	30,500
Lazaros	Papadopoulos	Table 30 - Seat 2	28,500
Daniel	Piperni	Table 29 - Seat 6	23,500
Valentino	Pedicelli	Table 17 - Seat 2	8,500

Pisani leads Day 1D and Mariutti leads Day 1E into Day 2

March 1, 2020March 2, 2020 | 3:03am | Playground

Day 1E of the $200 + $20 Playground 200 kicked off tonight at 7:00pm. The last starting flight of the tournament was able to attract 155 entries, including 24 re-entries, before the late registration period closed. The combined competitors from Day 1D and Day 1E were able to bring the event well beyond the $100,000 guaranteed prize pool.

The chips flew throughout the night as the stacks seemed to be relatively even. Krzysztof Birecki lead after the second and third breaks but it was Joseph Mariutti who ended the night on top with 302,000 chips. Mariutti leads 36 other competitors into Day 2.

Here are the chip leaders from Day 1E:

Joseph Mariutti – 302,000
Jeremi Kielian – 263,500
Jean-Pascal Gauthier – 249,500

Day 1D took place earlier in the day at 11:00am and attracted a total of 193 entries, including 25 re-entries. Danick Morin lead the field at the first break and was followed in second place by John Pisani. Morin was able to bag 149,000 chips but it was Pisani who stole the show today. By the second break, Pisani was on top of the leaderboard and stayed there for the remainder of the flight. He leads 43 other players into tomorrow.

Here are the chip leaders from Day 1D:

John Pisani – 342,000
Placide Junior Sanon – 253,000
Michel Vigneault – 235,000 .

Day 2 is set to begin tomorrow at 1:00pm. Congratulations to all qualifying players and good luck in Day 2.

Birecki maintains his lead

Level: 12
Small Blind: 800
Big Blind: 1.6K
BB Ante: 1.6K
Chip Average: 70.4K
Remaining: 55
Entries: 155

March 1, 2020 | 1:28am | Playground

Just two levels separate the remaining 55 players from a spot in Day 2. The chips are flying back and forth as the field has become more balanced since the last break. Krzysztof Birecki has been able to hold on to the top spot but he’s down about 20,000 chips since the last count. Birecki now has a stack of 165,000 which is good for 103 big blinds.

It’s definitely anyone’s game in this very even playing field.

First Name	Last Name	Stack
Krzysztof	Birecki	165,000
Jeremi	Kielian	155,000
Antonio	Sozinho	151,000
Joseph	Mariutti	141,000

11 levels down, 3 to go

Level: 11
Small Blind: 600
Big Blind: 1.2K
BB Ante: 1.2K
Chip Average: 57.9K
Remaining: 67
Entries: 155

March 1, 2020 | 12:42am | Playground

67 players continue competing for a spot in Day 2 after surviving the first 11 levels. The average chip stack is now 57,900 and the blinds are at 600/1,200. A lot of all-in calls are being heard from short stack players as they know it’s now or never if they want to keep their chances alive.

Here’s a look at some of the remaining players:

Birecki leads after the second break

Level: 9
Small Blind: 400
Big Blind: 800
BB Ante: 800
Chip Average: 60K
Remaining: 76
Entries: 155

February 29, 2020 | 11:47pm | Playground

76 players have returned to the floor following their second break and the tension is rising. The short stacks are definitely beginning to feel the pressure from a number of players who have built stacks significantly greater than the 51,000 chip average.

Krzysztof Birecki is the new chip leader with 184,000 in chips, he more than triples the stack average. Only one player, Kiril Martinov Gelev, has managed to remain in the leaderboard following the break. Gelev moves to second place with 150,500.

First Name	Last Name	Stack
Krzysztof	Birecki	184,000
Kiril Martinov	Gelev	150,500
Jean Pascal	Gauthier	134,000
Jeremi	Kielian	122,000

102 remain after late registration closes

Level: 7
Small Blind: 250
Big Blind: 500
BB Ante: 500
Chip Average: 38K
Remaining: 102
Entries: 155

February 29, 2020 | 10:24pm | Playground

There were a total of 155 entries, including 24 re-entries, before the late registration period closed at 10:15pm. There will be no further entries into the Playground 200 as this is the last starting flight. 102 players remain in contention to qualify for tonight’s flight if they are able to survive seven more levels. Day 1E has 3,875,000 chips in play and the average stack currently sits at 38,000.

Here’s a look at some shots from level seven:

Hamel leaps into first

Level: 5
Small Blind: 150
Big Blind: 300
BB Ante: 300
Chip Average: 32K
Remaining: 111
Entries: 141

February 29, 2020March 2, 2020 | 9:32pm | Playground

Players have resumed play into level five after the first break. The entries are up to 142, including 18 re-entries, with 45 minutes left in the late registration period. This is the last chance for competitors to enter, or re-enter, to try to qualify for a spot in Day 2.

Francis Hamel has taken the top spot by a landslide with a huge stack of 99,700, currently good for 332 big blinds. Allan Seng Fong has also built up a considerable stack of 75,500, he sits well above the chip average of 32,000.

First Name	Last Name	Stack
Francis	Hamel	99,700
Allan Seng	Fong	75.500
Kevin	Bergeron	73,000
Kiril Martinov	Gelev	64,500
Michael	Cohen	62,500

Day 1E Action

Level: 3
Small Blind: 75
Big Blind: 150
BB Ante: 150
Chip Average: 26.6K
Remaining: 93
Entries: 99

February 29, 2020 | 8:00pm | Playground

Two levels down with 99 entries so far for Day 1E. This is the last chance for players to qualify for Day 2 and compete for their chance at a piece of the $100,000 prize pool. Late registration will be open for another two hours until 10:15pm before the beginning of level seven. Don’t miss out!

Here’s a look at some early action:

Day 1D: John Pisani bags 342,000 chips to lead another 43 qualifiers into Day 2

February 29, 2020March 2, 2020 | 7:46pm | Playground

Day 1D of the Playground 200 attracted a total of 193 entries, bringing the event well beyond the $100,000 guaranteed prize pool. Danick Morin lead the field at the first break and was followed in second place by John Pisani. Morin was able to bag 149,000 chips but it was John Pisani who stole the show today, as by the second break he was on top of the leaderboard and he stayed there throughout the rest of the flight.

Level 14 saw some crazy swings and Michel Vigneault was able to capitalize from two key hands that he picked up in the last 20 minutes of play. He started the level with just over 40,000 chips and found a triple-up when he rivered a flush with pocket tens against pocket aces and pocket jacks. A few hands later he doubled up again when he hit top pair on the flop. With his good luck at the end of the day, he was able to bag the third largest stack in play.

The top three stacks are as follows:

John Pisani, 342,000 chips
Placide Junior Sanon, 253,000 chips
Michel Vigneault, 235,000 chips.

The last starting flight, Day 1E has just begun and players have until 10:15pm to join the action.

Day 2 will play at 1:00pm tomorrow, Sunday, and Day 3 will play down to a winner on Monday at 7:00pm.

Final starting flight begins now!

February 29, 2020March 2, 2020 | 6:54pm | Playground

Day 1E of the $200 + $20 Playground 200 is set to begin shortly at 7:00pm. This is the last of five starting flights for players trying to win a piece of the $100,000 guaranteed prize pool.

Competitors will start with a 25,000 chip stack and play 10-handed through 30-minute blinds. Each Day 1 plays through 14 levels, those that can survive will advance to Day 2, tomorrow at 1:00pm. This is a re-entry event with unlimited re-entries permitted until the end of the late registration period at the beginning of level seven. Re-entry is permitted for any player who loses all their chips or chooses to forfeit their stack. Players may play additional Day 1s even if they have survived a previous Day 1 with chips. Those who qualify for Day 2 more than once will resume play on Day 2 with their largest qualifying stack.

Good luck to all players!

AA vs JJ vs TT: Battle of the Short Stacks

Level: 14
Small Blind: 1.2K
Big Blind: 2.4K
BB Ante: 2.4K
Chip Average: 100.5K
Remaining: 48
Entries: 193

February 29, 2020March 2, 2020 | 6:39pm | Playground

Play is now in the last level of the flight and players are trying desperately to build their stacks so that they can find a decent bag for Day 2. On table 32, all the chips went into the middle by three of the short stacks.

Michel Vigneault:
Zuhair Al-Pachachi:
Hicham El Yamani:

Al-Pachachi was feeling great, expecting a nice triple-up deep in level 14. The flop fell . All of the sudden Vigneault picked up a flush draw. The turn was safe for Al-Pachachi, however, the river completed a flush for Vigneault who knocked out both opponents while tripling his stack at a critical time.