Main Event
Day 2 Completed
Main Event
Day 2 Completed
Day 2 was an exciting day at Playground Poker Club. The day began with 294 players returning to the tables for partypoker.net WPT Montreal, and only 63 players remained at the end of nine one-hour levels.
There is a total of $2,366,315 CAD in the prize pool, and some of that was distributed late in the day on Monday. The top 81 players are set to get paid, and the money bubble was burst in the second-last level of the day.
In a hand that saw Darryll Fish holding ![]()
to his opponent's ![]()
, Fish was responsible for taking the tournament into the money as he made a diamond flush on the ![]()
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board. Martin Bailey was the 82nd-place finisher and everyone remaining was guaranteed a payout.
When the tournament clock finally came to a stop for the night, Harpreet Gill had the most chips, bagging 993,000. Trevor Delaney was not far behind with 968,000. Rainer Kempe rounded out the top three with 840,000.
Others to make it through to Day 3 included Jason Mann (733,000), Darryll Fish (559,000), Brian Altman (423,000), Cornel Cimpan (415,000), Scott Davies (413,000), Marco Caza (390,000), Carter Swidler (317,000), David Quang (295,000), Mike Linster (278,000), Darren Elias (244,000), Anthony Zinno (166,000), Jeff Madsen (154,000), Freddy Deeb (150,000), and Marc-Etienne McLaughlin (121,000).
Those to collect their payout already in this tournament included Cate Hall (64th - $7,030), Liv Boeree (70th - $7,030), Mike McDonald (71st - $7,030), and Osman Soubra (80th - $5,860).
The remaining 63 players will return tomorrow for Day 3 and start playing into the bigger prizes. Play resumes at 12 noon and PokerNews will be back on the tournament floor for live updates of all the action. Until then, have a good night!
Here are the official chip counts for all 63 remaining players at the end of Day 2.
Here are some of the players who were still playing in the final level of Day 2.
In the second-last hand of the night, Cate Hall pushed all in and was called off by David Quang with a big hand.
Hall flipped over ![]()
and Quang held ![]()
. The flop came ![]()
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and the turn was the
. The river was a blank and Hall was eliminated late in the day, sending her chips to Quang.
Gregoire Denis raised to 18,000 and Carlos Sanchez came along to see a flop of ![]()
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.
Sanchez checked, Denis bet 25,000, and Sanchez called.
The turn card was the
and both players quickly checked. The river came
and Sanchez led out for 25,000. Denis made the call.
Sanchez turned over ![]()
and Denis shook his head in disappointment, flipping up ![]()
.
On a flop of ![]()
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, Mike Linster checked, Brian Altman checked, and Mike McDonald bet 35,000.
With action back on Linster, he called. Altman pushed all in to put his two opponents to a decision.
McDonald folded, as did Linster.
"Wish I'd checked that flop," McDonald said.
"Me too, man." Linster agreed. "Nice combo, bro," he said to Altman.
Level: 19
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 1,000
There are 77 players heading to the final break of the night. They'll play just one more level before bagging up for Day 3 tomorrow.
While they're away from the table, the dealers are colouring up the 500-denomination chips as the blinds will be 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 ante when they return.
The eliminations have been fast today, and the money bubble was no different. The tournament clock was reading 84 players remaining, then quickly dropped to 83. Before the play could even play a single round of hand-for-hand, two eliminations burst through the money bubble.
Martin Bailey got it all in preflop with ![]()
and Darryll Fish put his opponent's tournament life at risk when he forced him to a race with his ![]()
.
The board ran out ![]()
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and Fish knocked out Bailey with his turned diamond flush. All remaining players are now guaranteed a payout of at least $5,860.