And with the 11th place player to bust, we have a final table. The tournament has been playing 9-handed throughout Day 2, so that means the FT starts at 10 players who will return for Day 3 tomorrow evening at 7pm.
Chip counts and seat assignments coming in a little while.
11th place: G Man, $3000
12th place: Ryan Smith, $3000
13 place: Jeremy Smith, $2400
14th place: Bobby Cadillac, $2400.
Bobby Cadillac has been relatively short stacked for a while, and finally he shoved with 
. Philippe Plouffe to his left called with 
. The board ran out 
and Bobby’s tournament was over.
Players who busted from the tournament from 18 to 15:
Players are on break and there are 18 remaining on two tables. Here are approximate chip counts:
Table 23
Table 26
When players are back from break blinds will be 10K/20K/a2K with a 609.7K chip average.
Dimitri Feoktistovs has again stacked the player immediately to his right taking the tournament down to 27 players. The tournament seating has been redrawn and play will continue on 3 tables.
Currently there are three players with over a million in tournament chips – Andrew Graham, Ryan Smith, and Dimitri. There are several others around the 500K mark as well.
The schedule for today has changed slightly and there will be a break after every second level. That means that players are on their second break of the day. Between when the bubble burst and now another 10 players have busted out of the tournament.
When they return, the 35 players remaining will be be playing level 21 with blinds 6K/12K/a1K. The average stack is $313.6K. The payout for players who bust between now and 28th place is $1300 and then it jumps a bit to $1600 for positions 19-27.
There will be a full seat redraw at 27 players as usual.
So continuing the “trend” from Event 1, the bubble has proven to be a very short business. Playing hand-for-hand the money bubble burst on just the 3rd hand!
The player who was unfortunate enough to go out on the bubble? Mathieu Couture who had been playing on Table 22 Seat 1. We didn’t see the hand but reports are that it was Dimitri Feoktistovs directly to his left who won the hand.
The remaining 45 players are all in the money – congratulations to all!
Event 2 Bubble player Mathieu Couture.
Players are on the bubble with 46 runners still remaining in Level 20 of Event 2. Between the first break and now action has continued at a quick pace – we’ll see soon if this is destined to be a long or a short bubble.
The bubble-plus-one hand was one of those hands that is arguably more rare on the bubble, but often unavoidable regardless of where the tournament is at the moment.
Blinds were 5K/10K/a1K and the player in the cutoff makes a big preflop raise to about 5x the big blind. The player in the BB – local player Costa Psallidas – had just made a big fold to the same player a few hands previous, but looks down at 
and shoves. Jeremy Smith in seat 3 snap calls and flips over 
and Costa was in dire shape. The board ran out 
and the on the turn spelled the end of Costa’s day. The river was a blank 
.
We’ve reached the first break of the day and the early action was fierce. The 91 players who started the day has shrunk to just 54. Some of the early casualties were some good local players including Players Club member Chanracy Khun and Eric Afriat, who was among the chip leaders to start the day.
The money bubble for Event 2 is just 9 players away so action should slow considerably.
Here are some early photos from Event 2 Day 2. You can see the whole gallery at Facebook.
