Short-stacked Selajtin Jakupovski is out in 35th place. He went all-in with his last 180K holding 
. Frederic Bunchan (button) re-raised to 360K to isolate, the blinds folded and he flipped over 
.
The board ran out 
and Selajtin is out of the tournament.
35th place: Selajtin Jakupovski, $5,442
When we arrived at the table both players were all-in with Andrew Humphrey covering Ruben Percival by just over 200K (both players were relatively short-stacked).
Ruben: 
Andrew: 
Community cards: 
The Ace on the river gave Ruben top pair and he doubled up. Andrew is left with about 5BB.
Action folded around to Danny Ayoub on the button who shoved his short stack (165K). Mario Lim (SB) folded but Xiao Peng in the BB called.
Danny: 
Xiao: 
The community cards came 
and Xiao won the hand with Ace high.
36th place: Danny Ayoub, $5,442
Jonathan Poissant raised from UTG to 70K. Action folded around to chip leader Mario Lim in the Big Blind, who shoved. Jonathan insta-called and flipped , which was stronger than Mario had anticipated – he held 
.
The flop was safe for Jonathan: 
but the 
on the turn was a terrible card and the on the river couldn’t save it for him. Jonathan leaves the tournament in 37th place.
With the tournament down to 36 players, a table has broken and play continues on 4 tables.
Edouard Dupuis has just been eliminated from the tournament. We didn’t catch the hand, but Samuel Chartier was stacking the chips and his pocket Aces were still tabled. Edouard has won $4,709.00 for his efforts in the tournament.
Ami Alibay has doubled up on the first hand of the day. Action was blind on blind and we arrived on the turn to a 
board. Ami was all in for the 385K that remained in his stack after the earlier action and James Nortcliff called.
Ami: 
James:
The river was a brick for James and Ami’s flush held. Ami is now holding just under 1M chips.
Congratulations to Ted Ly, winner of Event 8, an $80 + $10 No Limit Hold’em Win the Button event in the 2014 Playground Poker Spring Classic. Ted takes home the Spring Classic bracelet and $2,450.00 for his efforts.
1st place: Ted Ly, $2,450 plus the Spring Classic bracelet
Day 2 has concluded after 11 levels of play with 39 players left of the 311 who started the day and 1079 entries who began the event in one of the three starting flights.
As specified in the structure and rules of this event, seating for all players remaining has been redrawn. Players’ seats for Day 3 along with their self-reported chip count is detailed in the following table.
Play resumes at 12pm tomorrow (Monday March 31).
| First Name | Last Name | Seat | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexandre | Lavigne | Table 26 – Seat 2 | 658,000 |
| Alexender | Wong | Table 26 – Seat 1 | 1,402,000 |
| Ami | Alibay | Table 34 – Seat 3 | 450,000 |
| Andrew | Humphrey | Table 35 – Seat 2 | 995,080 |
| Brent | Wheeler | Table 27 – Seat 7 | 1,022,000 |
| Daniel | Cote | Table 27 – Seat 5 | 865,000 |
| Daniel | Gagne | Table 30 – Seat 3 | 648,000 |
| Danny | Ayoub | Table 34 – Seat 5 | 879,000 |
| David | Lanthier | Table 27 – Seat 6 | 1,099,000 |
| Edouard | Dupuis | Table 26 – Seat 4 | 266,000 |
| Eric | Afriat | Table 35 – Seat 8 | 1,700,000 |
| Eric | Davis | Table 26 – Seat 5 | 642,000 |
| Frederic | Bunchan | Table 30 – Seat 2 | 1,049,000 |
| Gaetano | Buda | Table 26 – Seat 8 | 901,000 |
| James | Nortcliff | Table 34 – Seat 2 | 1,002,000 |
| Jason | Comtois | Table 35 – Seat 7 | 677,000 |
| John Paul | Tabago | Table 34 – Seat 8 | 841,000 |
| Johnny | Mazzaferro | Table 27 – Seat 4 | 1,006,000 |
| Jonathan | Poissant | Table 34 – Seat 7 | 617,000 |
| Justin | Miller | Table 26 – Seat 6 | 390,000 |
| Kenneth | McFarlane | Table 35 – Seat 3 | 770,000 |
| Marc | Guerbilsky | Table 30 – Seat 1 | 500,000 |
| Marco | Caza | Table 30 – Seat 4 | 785,000 |
| Mario | Lim | Table 34 – Seat 6 | 1,706,500 |
| Mathieu | Roy Arbour | Table 30 – Seat 6 | 710,000 |
| Matthew | Brunskole | Table 34 – Seat 1 | 865,000 |
| Maxime | Theroux | Table 35 – Seat 4 | 528,000 |
| Nicholas | Petrina | Table 34 – Seat 4 | 663,000 |
| Osman | Soubra | Table 30 – Seat 5 | 490,000 |
| Pierre | Guenette | Table 27 – Seat 2 | 752,000 |
| Rodney | Lawrence | Table 27 – Seat 1 | 970,000 |
| Ruben | Perceval | Table 35 – Seat 1 | 508,000 |
| Sammy | Chao | Table 27 – Seat 3 | 398,000 |
| Samuel | Chartier | Table 26 – Seat 7 | 925,000 |
| Selajtin | Jakupovski | Table 35 – Seat 6 | 389,000 |
| Simon | Quintal | Table 35 – Seat 5 | 474,000 |
| Sylvain | Siebert | Table 27 – Seat 8 | 1,655,000 |
| Tyson | Erback | Table 26 – Seat 3 | 1,190,000 |
| Xiao | Peng | Table 30 – Seat 7 | 934,000 |
Ryan Higgins just took a terrible beat to be eliminated. We arrived at the table with a flop that had been dealt 
and Ryan had led out a 45K bet. His opponent, Mario Lim, tank-jammed (he had Ryan covered) after several minutes, prompting a quizzical reaction from Ryan, who finally called. The last aggressor showed first – 
while Ryan was in good shape with 
.
However the turn brought out the 
prompting an exclamation from Ryan. The insignificant 
didn’t change anything in his favour and he was eliminated while Mario gloated about his suck out and predicted victory in the tournament.
