Level: 11
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
bwin.be WPTN Brussels
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
bwin.be WPTN Brussels
Buy-in
€1,100
Prize Pool
€417,197
Entries
391
Level
30
Blinds
50,000 / 100,000
Ante
15,000
$600,000 in Guarantees at the Playground Winter Festival!
Level 11
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
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!
Visit the Playground Winter Festival site for details and to purchase your event tickets online.
Visit Playground Poker's live event blog for news and event updates throughout the festival.
Fechter Gets Shown Fist Pumps
Level 11
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
On a flop of 
, Jean Christophe Fechter made a bet of 7,500 and Jussi Matilla raised to 16,400. The Frenchman asked for a count of the reraise and then clicked it to 39,500. Matilla moved all in within a heartbeat for 99,100 and Fechter eventually folded after having the dealer cut out and count the shove.
As soon as the Frenchman had folded, Matilla jumped up, pumped his fists to a friend on the rail and said a few words in Finnish along with the "open ended" in English.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
150,000 | |
|
75,000
-35,000
|
-35,000 |
Garbarino With Aces
Level 11
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
Sameh El Bolok moved all in for 30,200 chips and Stefano Garbarino went over the top from one seat over. Behind them, Jean Marie Vandeborne as well as Yves Senterre both folded with their big stacks and El Bolok flipped over 
. He was already walking away from the table though as soon as he spotted the 
of the Italian.
There would be no upset on the 
board and Garbarino jumped well above average.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
170,000
170,000
|
170,000 |
|
130,000
95,000
|
95,000 |
|
85,000
36,000
|
36,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Throwback for de Clercq
Level 11
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
A player had just lost 30,000 chips with a race, failing to improve with 
against 
. Matthias de Clercq then had the unfortunate timing to find bottom set against the very same player on a flop of 
and paid off the 20,000-all in with 
only to see his opponent turn over the 
.
Neither the turn nor the 
river changed anything and de Clercq was thrown back to just over average stack.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
79,000
-46,000
|
-46,000 |
Hunting the Big Stacks
Level 11
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
184,000
69,000
|
69,000 |
|
165,000
165,000
|
165,000 |
|
163,000
163,000
|
163,000 |
Two Tables In the Outer Room
Level 11
: 600/1,200, 200 ante
Antoine Saout is among the few remaining well known names in the outer room, as only two tables remain. Bjorn Wiesler just three-bet to 5,800 from the small blind and then folded with his short stack after initial raiser Kevin Ayow had moved all in. One hand later, Wiesler raised to 6,500 after one opponent had limped and that won him the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
94,000
42,600
|
42,600 |
|
90,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
|
70,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
22,000
-60,000
|
-60,000 |
Level: 12
Blinds: 800/1,600
Ante: 200
Poor Rahnema Is Running Poor
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
In a battle of the PMU online qualifiers, Jean Baptiste Hall knocked out Matthieu Poor Rahnema with 
versus 
. The board ran out 
and Poor Rahnema was gone.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
165,000
38,000
|
38,000 |
|
|
Busted |
Getting Close to the Last 100
Level 12
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Kyne Elmouloua knocked out a short stack with pocket jacks versus pocket sevens and the same hand would be the last for another short stack on table 5, as a big stack with spiked a king to send yet another player to the rail. The screens show 102 participants remaining and this number will surely drop considerably in the last half an hour of day 1b still.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
200,000
35,000
|
35,000 |