The action has been non-stop at the WPT Montreal preliminary events making up the 2012 Playground Poker Fall Classic, with 5 events completed by Tuesday night and a $330 Pot Limit Omaha 8 or Better underway; so far every event has reached their field caps and added alternates. Thanks to the added seating capacity of a massive tournament hall that seated players for the first time in Event 1, it hasn’t been a problem to get everyone in on the excitement.
Throw in 17 to 21 cash tables running at peak hours, a more than $142,000 Bad Beat Jackpot that already hit and was auto reseeded at $75,000 as well as 5-10 cash tables that have running through the night, it goes with-out saying that the results are still making their way out as staff concentrates on delivering top quality poker.
Regardless, we can tell you who made the final tables and show you some pretty big smiles so far, as things ramp up to the $3,300 WPT Main Event that gets started on Thursday. Judging by the 895 entry field for Event 1, we can expect some massive prize-pools for this 2 starting day tournament.
The list of notables expected is something quite impressive on its own; Daniel Negreanu, Phil Laak, Antonio Esfandiari are few of pokers most recognized names, while various sources and tweets report that Canadians Greg Mueller, Simon Charette, Mark Radoja, Michael “SirWatts” Watson, Mike “Timex” McDonald, Xuan Liu, Isabelle Mercier, Jason Lavallee, Marc-Andre Ladouceur, Matthew Marafioti, John Lam and “Inheritance1 (aka “Wictor Glom”) will battle it out with the likes of expected visiting pros Allen Cunningham, Brian Hastings, Allen “Chainsaw” Kessler, Matt Salsberg, Christian Harder, Daniel Buzgon, Darryl Fish, David Diaz, Dwyte Pilgrim, Faraz Jaka, James St. Hilaire, Jason Koon, John Racener, Jon Aguiar, Joseph Cheong, Justin Zaki, Kyle Julius, Mohsin Charania, Seth Davies, Shannon Shorr, Shaun Deeb, Tom Marchese, Tommy Vedes, Dominik Nitsche and Nicky Evans and Yevgeniy Timoshenko…quite possibly the most talent packed field to ever gather in a Canadian poker venue!
CanadaPoker.com will be on site later this week to help bring you all the updates, while the players and staff at Playground Poker Club continue to pack the house and build the prize-pools; we’ll fill in the blanks below as things become available, but we do have some recent final table finisher’s names and results in the meantime for your perusal:
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Event 5 – $300 + $30 No Limit Hold’em Six Max – Bracelet Event
| 1st | Garry Lucci | $18,000.00 |
| 2nd | Pierre Routhier | $12,000.00 |
| 3rd | Patrick Leduc | $7,500.00 |
| 4th | Eli Israel | $5,000.00 |
| 5th | Rami Hammoud | $4,000.00 |
| 6th | Francois Cardinal | $3,000.00 |
| 7th | George Caragiorgas | $2,200.00 |
| 8th | Vlad Faubert | $1,605.00 |
| 9th | Siamak Soleimaniam | $1,200.00 |
| 10th | Setrak Sulouksf | $1,000.00 |
| 11th | Ami Alibay | $800.00 |
| 12th | Colleen Dureno | $750.00 |
| 13th | Zhao Kang Peng | $700.00 |
| 14th | Sinisa Stajic | $700.00 |
| 15th | Andrew Hansen | $650.00 |
| 16th | Oleg Boulchyi | $650.00 |
| 17th | Mike Fraser | $600.00 |
| 18th | Ron Farber | $550.00 |
| 19th | Oscar Ojeda Gomez | $550.00 |
| 20th | Jean-Sebastien Bergeron | $500.00 |
| 21st | Anthony Greco | $450.00 |
| 22nd | Mitch Tkatch | $450.00 |
Total Entries: TBA (Sell Out)
Event 1 (a,b,c) – 135$ + 15$ No Limit Hold’em Re-Entry – 50k Guaranteed
| 1st | Stephanie Daigle | $24,000.00 |
| 2nd | Peter Johnson | $16,000.00 |
| 3rd | Giovanni Perin | $12,000.00 |
| 4th | Lance Perkins | $9,000.00 |
| 5th | Jonathan G | $7,000.00 |
| 6th | Pierre-Alain Dubois | $5,500.00 |
| 7th | Alex Sauriol | $4,000.00 |
| 8th | Yousef El-Farawi | $2,800.00 |
| 9th | Sourasay Souvanh | $2,000.00 |
| 10th | Wesley St-Jean | $1,400.00 |
| 11th | Fany Auclair | $1,200.00 |
| 12th | Gabriel Perreault | $1,200.00 |
| 13th | Patrice Primeau | $1,200.00 |
| 14th | Yannick Kwan | $1,200.00 |
| 15th | Jesse Dee | $1,200.00 |
| 16th | Gilbert Eusebio | $900.00 |
| 17th | Hatem Battikh | $900.00 |
| 18th | Alain Blais | $900.00 |
| 19th | Nizar | $900.00 |
| 20th | Minh Luu | $900.00 |
| 21st | Michael Mellor | $600.00 |
| 22nd | Francis Lanthier | $600.00 |
| 23rd | Martin Leveillee | $600.00 |
| 24th | Nicolas Ronaude | $600.00 |
| 25th | Jeff Gariepy | $600.00 |
| 26th | Jonathan Poulin | $600.00 |
| 27th | Nelson Gagnon | $600.00 |
| 28th | Marco Ariesteo | $600.00 |
| 29th | Blair Haslam | $600.00 |
| 30th | Damian Guevara | $600.00 |
| 31st | Alois Korak | $400.00 |
| 32nd | Jean-Francois Marin | $400.00 |
| 33rd | Eric Theroux | $400.00 |
| 34th | Tommy Coulombe | $400.00 |
| 35th | Izo Tibagwa | $400.00 |
| 36th | Pablo Mariz | $400.00 |
| 37th | Jean-Francois Daunais | $400.00 |
| 38th | George Meny | $400.00 |
| 39th | Richard Shamshoum | $400.00 |
| 40th | Robert Renaud | $400.00 |
| 41st | Chris McGray | $350.00 |
| 42nd | Shawn Martell | $350.00 |
| 43rd | Ahman Baalbaki | $350.00 |
| 44th | Denis Quirion | $350.00 |
| 45th | Daniel Smouha | $350.00 |
| 46th | Gaston Groulx | $350.00 |
| 47th | Madison Glover | $350.00 |
| 48th | Brigitte Korak | $350.00 |
| 49th | Dong Yi Fan | $350.00 |
| 50th | Nagy G. | $350.00 |
| 51st | Martial Bonnaire | $300.00 |
| 52nd | Alain Neveu | $300.00 |
| 53rd | Yannick Lamarre | $300.00 |
| 54th | Glenn Dmytrowich | $300.00 |
| 55th | Kosta Pappa | $300.00 |
| 56th | Benoit Dagenais | $300.00 |
| 57th | noel aronson | $300.00 |
| 58th | Serge Girard | $300.00 |
| 59th | Pierre Routhier | $300.00 |
| 60th | Andrew Lalonde | $300.00 |
| 61st | Bob Taylor | $250.00 |
| 62nd | Mark Amar | $250.00 |
| 63rd | Maria A. | $250.00 |
| 64th | Danny D’Amour | $250.00 |
| 65th | Jerry F | $250.00 |
| 66th | Kevin Lavoie | $250.00 |
| 67th | Eugene Kim | $250.00 |
| 68th | Rebecca Sicurella | $250.00 |
| 69th | Robert Mandelzys | $250.00 |
| 70th | Melanie Ares | $250.00 |
| 71st | Michael Travis | $200.00 |
| 72nd | Frank Amorelli | $200.00 |
| 73rd | George Kazarian | $200.00 |
| 74th | Etienne Clement | $200.00 |
| 75th | Christian Beauchesne | $200.00 |
| 76th | Joe Pereira | $200.00 |
| 77th | Vito Bellezza | $200.00 |
| 78th | Angelo Amato | $200.00 |
| 79th | Nicholas Goldring | $200.00 |
| 80th | Tina Sigalos | $200.00 |
| 81st | Sean Balfour | $200.00 |
| 82nd | Guillaume Doyon | $200.00 |
| 83rd | Daniel Germain | $200.00 |
| 84th | Dustin Farber | $200.00 |
| 85th | Nicolas Soudre | $200.00 |
| 86th | Steven Collin | $200.00 |
| 87th | Danielle Dagenais | $200.00 |
| 88th | Steve Stelluti | $200.00 |
| 89th | Suzanne Poirier | $200.00 |
| 90th | Dale Manucdoe | $200.00 |
Total Entries: 895 Prize-Pool: ~ 120,000$ (221 advanced, 90 paid)
Event 2 – 100$ + 10$ – Win the Button 
| Name | Awarded To | Amount |
| 1st | Yohann Wagner | $5,100.00 |
| 2nd | Cory Dean Pipella | $3,000.00 |
| 3rd | Frederic Moss | $3,000.00 |
| 4th | Jonathan G | $1,600.00 |
| 5th | Sean Klein | $1,280.00 |
| 6th | Alexander Mac Innes | $950.00 |
| 7th | Benjamin David Armstrong | $650.00 |
| 8th | Michel Gauthier | $450.00 |
| 9th | Minh Luu | $350.00 |
| 10th | Sinisa Stajic | $325.00 |
| 11th | James Bruyere | $300.00 |
| 12th | Marc-Andre Racine | $300.00 |
| 13th | Kareem George | $275.00 |
| 14th | Maria A. | $275.00 |
| 15th | Robert Pouliot | $250.00 |
| 16th | Francois Brabant | $250.00 |
| 17th | Brett Balemti | $225.00 |
| 18th | Robert Leboeuf | $225.00 |
| 19th | Jesse Dee | $200.00 |
| 20th | Tanner Watkins | $200.00 |
Total Entries: TBA (Sell Out)
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Event 3 – 100$ + 10$ Ante Up – Bracelet Event
| 1st | Diana Shamshoum | $3,500.00 |
| 2nd | Steven McCallum | $2,200.00 |
| 3rd | Kyle Janisse | $2,200.00 |
| 4th | Stephanie Bouadana | $2,200.00 |
| 5th | Evan Hayden | $575.00 |
| 6th | Sebastien St-Onge | $575.00 |
| 7th | Han Quang Huynh*** | $575.00 |
| 8th | Vincent Tringle | $575.00 |
| 9th | Gary Yee | $575.00 |
| 10th | Stephane Mcgraw | $575.00 |
| 11th | Matt Ranger | $300.00 |
| 12th | Daniel Leddy | $250.00 |
| 13th | Luciano Iacovella | $250.00 |
| 14th | Jonathan Leizerovici | $235.00 |
| 15th | Sinisa Stajic | $225.00 |
| 16th | Robert Amireault | $225.00 |
Total Entries: TBA Total Prize Pool: TBA
Event 4 – 100$ + 10$ Satellite WPT – 6 Seats Guaranteed
| Daniel Schreiber | 3,300$ WPT Main Event Seat |
| Chris Murphy | 3,300$ WPT Main Event Seat |
| Alex Lariviere | 3,300$ WPT Main Event Seat |
| Ricardo Augustin | 3,300$ WPT Main Event Seat |
| Gabriel Vezina | 3,300$ WPT Main Event Seat |
| Joseph Hanna | 3,300$ WPT Main Event Seat |
| Brian Morgan | 3,300$ WPT Main Event Seat |
| Vijay Chand | 3,300$ WPT Main Event Seat |
| Albert Goyette | 3,300$ WPT Main Event Seat |
| John Sawers | 3,300$ WPT Main Event Seat |
| Gary Lucci | 3,300$ WPT Main Event Seat |
| Omar Nasrallah | 3,300$ WPT Main Event Seat |
| Colleen Dureno | 3,300$ WPT Main Event Seat |
| Claude Coulombe | 3,300$ WPT Main Event Seat |
| Jean-Pierre CloutierJean-Pierre Cloutier | 3,300$ WPT Main Event Seat |
Total Seats Awarded: 15 (49,500$ Cash Value ~ 495 entries)
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