The final 9 players back from their first break of the evening and based on the action during the first two levels of the day it was a well-earned respite. There were at least 10 all-ins and calls though only one player has been eliminated from the tournament.

Blinds are 15K/30K/a3K and levels are an hour long today.

Rough chip counts

• Noy Ung: 420K
• Jason Duval: 1.2M
• Christopher Annouza: 550K
• Kyle Zechner: 1.2M
• David Dineen: 520K
• Geoff McNeely: 600K
• Johnny Mazzaferro: 200K
• Nandam Subrahmanyam: 800K
• Sol Bergren: 620K

Update: Johnny just doubled through Kyle.

We’ve lost our first player of the final table.

10th place: Levon Demirdjian, $4,200

There have been a couple of players all-in and called so far, but to date the smaller stack has been winning. Geoff McNeely and most recently Noy Ung have both doubled through more “wealthy” adversaries. In any case there’s no lack of action on this final table so far.

Noy’s double up was very fortunate for him as he was down to 329K in chips, well below the current average of 630K and under some pressure with blinds at 10K/20K/a2K. Noy raised preflop in late position and Jason 3-bet a big amount. Noy tanked for a minute or two before quietly announcing, “All in”. Jason snap-called and flipped over and was way ahead of Noy’s .

The flop didn’t contain an Ace, but it was nevertheless fortunate for Noy. The added a gutshot draw to his A draw and the turn added some chop outs as well. Sure enough the came on the river – and Noy doubled up to over 700K.

Some photos from the beginning of tonight’s final table of Event 5.

Cards are in the air for Event 5 at the Playground Poker Spring Classic. Ten players have begun play on the final table of this $1000 + $100 No Limit Hold’em Deepstack event. We’ll be posting updates and photos all the way to the end.

Here are the seating assignments and chip counts for the 10 players who will start the final table on Day 3 of the $1000 + $100 No Limit Hold’em Deepstack event tomorrow at 3pm. The Feature Table is the table on the stage! There is room for a few friends to rail the final table so let them know you could use their support!