During the break we were able to count the stacks in play.
We also have a new chip in play for the first time tonight: a beautiful 100K tournament chip. A full 20-stack is 2M chips!
Playground Poker’s 100K Tournament Chip.
The remaining 6 players are on a break. While they’re on break tournament staff will colour up and race off the orange 5K chips.
8th place: Wayal O., $3500
Wayal has played his short stack for most of the day and managed to step up several pay jumps along the way, but he finally got it in with 
– and Fuyuki snap called with 
. The board gave no help to Wayal and he’s out in 8th.
Players have been feeling each other out so far, but since the opening few hands there hasn’t been a lot of action. That changed just minutes ago.
Sascha raised UTG and Joey (UTG +1) 3-bets to 800K. Players fold around to Fuyuki, who thinks for a few moments before declaring, “All in.”
Sascha quickly folded. Joey went in the tank… but not for long. After about 30 seconds: “Call”.
Joey tabled 
… but Fuyuki turned over 
.
Unfortunately for Joey the flop was nothing but bad news: 
. The turn didn’t change anything – 
nor did the 
on the river. Fuyuki’s flopped set of Kings was good, and he chipped up to about 7.2M – the new chip leader.
Right away there was some action at the final table – relatively short-stacked Stephan Belisle tangled with Fuyuki Ikura and lost, sending him home with $2000 and shipping Fuyuki a very nice pot of over 1.2M chips.
Play continues in level 29 (50K/100K/a10K).
Here are some shots of the 9 left on the final table…
And we have a final table!
Two players busted in quick succession after the break:
Which leaves us with 10 players in the tournament.
Final table participants (with approximate stack sizes at the beginning of the action)
13th place: Sid Michaels, $1500
14th place: Maxim Fugere, $1500
15th place: Robin Clouatre, $1500
16th place: Sacha Vidal, $1250
17th place: Claudio Modesti, $1250
18th place: Sol Bergren, $1250
19th Place: Rene Gauvin, $1000
20th place: Jonathan D’Souza, $1000
Players are now on break, but since the redraw at 27 there have been a few more players to leave the tournament:
