The Playground Montreal Festival took place over the past couple of weeks at Canada’s largest poker club, Playground Poker Club located in Kahnawake, Quebec.
Many great events were on the schedule, all of them leading up to the massive $1 million guaranteed prize pool main event.
With a massive overlay looming after the first two of three Day 1’s, the $1,100 buy-in main event took off and not only reached break-even level, but surpassed the guarantee by getting 1,063 entrants with a final prize pool of $1,031,110 that would pay the top 117 players.
The six-day long event ended up with a heads up battle between Daniel Gagnon and Noeung Troeung. Gagnon managed to maintain his chip lead from the start of the final table of nine players and was more than 3 to 1 in chips against Troeung.
In the final deciding hand, Neoung opened up going all-in pre-flop holding :Kd :Js. Gagnon made the call holding :Ad :9s. The flop was dealt :As :Jh :6d and Noeung didn’t have many outs even with a :Td on the turn. With a :5h on the river, Gagnon won the championship and with it $190,750.
Congratulations to the winners!
Here are the Playground Montreal Festival main event results!
| Rank | First Name | Last Name | Prize |
| 1 | Daniel | Gagnon | $190,750.00 |
| 2 | Noeung | Troeung | $125,410.00 |
| 3 | Thi | Nguyen | $89,700.00 |
| 4 | Yannick | Lamarre-Delooz | $72,690.00 |
| 5 | John | Helou | $53,100.00 |
| 6 | Michael | Mellor | $40,720.00 |
| 7 | Daniel | Gagné | $28,350.00 |
| 8 | Alexandre | Lavigne | $20,620.00 |
| 9 | Lorne | Wechsler | $15,360.00 |
| 10 | Rick | Shamshoum | $11,440.00 |
| 11 | Chad | Gray | $11,440.00 |
| 12 | Gabriel | Vezina | $11,440.00 |
| 13 | Joakim | Beapré | $9,380.00 |
| 14 | Mike | Costa | $9,380.00 |
| 15 | Kamal | Hamai | $9,380.00 |
| 16 | Ami | Alibay | $7,320.00 |
| 17 | Amir | Babakhani | $7,320.00 |
| 18 | Derek | Lerner | $7,320.00 |
| 19 | Michael | Malette | $6,180.00 |
| 20 | Theodore | Doukas | $6,180.00 |
| 21 | Justin | Chung | $6,180.00 |
| 22 | Amine | Mouna | $5,360.00 |
| 23 | Nicola | Basile | $5,360.00 |
| 24 | Presten | Cloutier | $5,360.00 |
| 25 | Denis | Cyr | $4,740.00 |
| 26 | Dustin | Melanson | $4,740.00 |
| 27 | Alain | Jobin | $4,740.00 |
| 28 | Pierre | Daigle | $4,530.00 |
| 29 | Andrew | Pereira | $4,530.00 |
| 30 | Dean | Muphy | $4,530.00 |
| 31 | Carla | Sabini | $4,330.00 |
| 32 | Jano | Salbzian | $4,330.00 |
| 33 | Alain | Rondeau | $4,330.00 |
| 34 | Patrick | Braga | $4,120.00 |
| 35 | Saim | Mumal | $4,120.00 |
| 36 | Eric | Theroux | $4,120.00 |
| 37 | Jean-Philip | Kouri | $3,810.00 |
| 38 | Kevin | St-Martin | $3,810.00 |
| 39 | HongKong | Nguyen | $3,810.00 |
| 40 | Yannick | Harvey | $3,810.00 |
| 41 | Benoit | Jean | $3,810.00 |
| 42 | Geri | Casey | $3,810.00 |
| 43 | Kalpesh | Raichura | $3,810.00 |
| 44 | Hong Wei | Jin | $3,810.00 |
| 45 | Denis | Thibert | $3,810.00 |
| 46 | Ronald | Greig | $3,500.00 |
| 47 | Sammy | Chao | $3,500.00 |
| 48 | Alexandre | Nolin | $3,500.00 |
| 49 | Ruben | Perceval | $3,500.00 |
| 50 | Demo | Kiriopoulos | $3,500.00 |
| 51 | Jean-Philippe | Lehoux | $3,500.00 |
| 52 | Calogero | Graci | $3,500.00 |
| 53 | Jason | Mottershead | $3,500.00 |
| 54 | Patrick David | Hu-A-Kam | $3,500.00 |
| 55 | Mathieu | Parent | $3,190.00 |
| 56 | Philippe | Landy | $3,190.00 |
| 57 | Louis-Philippe | Arpin | $3,190.00 |
| 58 | Allyson | Bourgeois | $3,190.00 |
| 59 | Fraser | Swidler | $3,190.00 |
| 60 | Medhat | Ramzy | $3,190.00 |
| 61 | Marcelo | Guevara | $3,190.00 |
| 62 | Peter | Koumoutsidis | $3,190.00 |
| 63 | Patrice | Primeau | $3,190.00 |
| 64 | Charles | La Boissonniere | $2,880.00 |
| 65 | Samuel | Barre | $2,880.00 |
| 66 | Sean | Windover | $2,880.00 |
| 67 | Giovanni | Massa | $2,880.00 |
| 68 | Domenic | Durante | $2,880.00 |
| 69 | June | Roberts | $2,880.00 |
| 70 | Casey | Smith | $2,880.00 |
| 71 | Giancarlo | Santolin | $2,880.00 |
| 72 | James | Gibson | $2,880.00 |
| 73 | Mark | Defaria | $2,570.00 |
| 74 | Tom | Kim Tien | $2,570.00 |
| 75 | Andre | Bilodeau | $2,570.00 |
| 76 | Nimer | Ltaif | $2,570.00 |
| 77 | Tyler | Petri | $2,570.00 |
| 78 | Renmei | Liu | $2,570.00 |
| 79 | Vinh | Lieu | $2,570.00 |
| 80 | Jeff | Cote | $2,570.00 |
| 81 | Peter | Senecal | $2,570.00 |
| 82 | William | Blais | $2,370.00 |
| 83 | Simon-Pier | Belair-Grondin | $2,370.00 |
| 84 | Henry | Ngo | $2,370.00 |
| 85 | Chris | Doheney | $2,370.00 |
| 86 | Milton | Mavrigiannakis | $2,370.00 |
| 87 | Mark | Dietrich | $2,370.00 |
| 88 | Vincent | Cloutier | $2,370.00 |
| 89 | Glen | Hammers | $2,370.00 |
| 90 | David | St-Louis | $2,370.00 |
| 91 | Serge | Pouliot | $2,260.00 |
| 92 | Jonathan | Bussieres | $2,260.00 |
| 93 | Mike | Nolan | $2,260.00 |
| 94 | Samuel Bisrat | Tsehai | $2,260.00 |
| 95 | Senthuran | Vijayaratnam | $2,260.00 |
| 96 | William | Son | $2,260.00 |
| 97 | Ghislain | Bolduc | $2,260.00 |
| 98 | Gaetan | Miron | $2,260.00 |
| 99 | Frederick | Deguzman | $2,260.00 |
| 100 | Shahin | Norouzian | $2,160.00 |
| 101 | Sergio | Iannetti | $2,160.00 |
| 102 | Domenico | Scalamogna | $2,160.00 |
| 103 | Nicholas | Topfer | $2,160.00 |
| 104 | John | Blaha | $2,160.00 |
| 105 | John | Toth | $2,160.00 |
| 106 | Matthew | Johnson | $2,160.00 |
| 107 | Sylvain | Lepage | $2,160.00 |
| 108 | Josue | Sauvageau | $2,160.00 |
| 109 | Richard | Brinklow | $1,950.00 |
| 110 | Kendra | Bernard | $1,950.00 |
| 111 | Nicolas | Malo Majeau | $1,950.00 |
| 112 | Noy | $1,950.00 | |
| 113 | Tim | O’Grady | $1,950.00 |
| 114 | Charbel | Kanterjian | $1,950.00 |
| 115 | Carlo | Nini | $1,950.00 |
| 116 | Stuart | Zweig | $1,950.00 |
| 117 | Marc-Andre | Racine | $1,950.00 |
