The temperature outside might be below freezing, but the poker action will be hotter than ever! Running from February 27 to March 10, 2015, Playground Poker Club is hosting the first Playground Winter Festival.
The festival kicks off with "The Wild $150," a reentry event with four starting flights and a $100,000 guarantee. It continues with 14 other events including a $330 two-day Freeze, a mixed hold’em/Omaha event, and a $220 Survivor tourney.
The $1,100 Main Event will begin on Friday, March 6 and feature two Day 1s (next-day reentry), and it has a massive $500,000 guaranteed prize pool!
Rob Davis got it all in pre-flop with versus John Kenney and his pocket jacks.
An ace on the turn gave Davis the checkmark, sent Kenney to the rail and started hand-for-hand play with the remaining 16 players now on the money bubble.
Hand-For-Hand play continues at a snail's pace here with no one really wanting to be the official bubble, despite the fact the players have already pooled together some cash to pay the next person out.
The tournament staff has cut hand-for-hand short deciding to simply let the players play it out.
In the meantime, a few of the shorter stacks have managed to double up and stay alive.
First, Alex Visbisky shipped it in for 73,000 facing a Johhny Vegas open that Michael Milewski called. Vegas re-shoved, Milewski folded and Visbisky needed help with against Vegas' queens. He got some with an ace on the flop.
A few hands later, Keith Macomber shoved his last 26,000 into Jerry Calvaneso's big blind and Calvaneso called without looking. Turned out he was way ahead with versus Macomber's , but a ten on the turn brought the double for Macomber.
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versus John Kenney and his pocket jacks.
against Vegas' queens. He got some with an ace on the flop.
, but a ten on the turn brought the double for Macomber.
but ran smack into Peter DeSantis' 
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