Day 2 of the 5-Year Extravaganza has just come to a close, and 15 players will come back tomorrow for the conclusion of this event.

Leading the way into Day 3 is Kathy Sawers and her 3,575,000 friends, although Cynthia Paquette is right on her tail with 3,195,000. Third in chips is Jeremy Chandler, who bagged 2,600,000. The table below includes the player-reported chip counts at the end of Day 2, and in a few moments we will publish the seating assignments for Day 3.

Day 3 will take place tomorrow night, Tuesday the 22nd of December, at 7pm. You can follow updates throughout the night via our Playground Poker Club Blog.

See you tomorrow!

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Kathy	Sawers	3,575,000
Cynthia	Paquette	3,195,000
Jeremy	Chandler	2,600,000
Benjamin	Menard	2,315,000
Patrick	St-Onge	2,215,000
George	Kazarian	1,815,000
Samuel	Pouliot	1,615,000
Rejean	Labbe	1,105,000
Sebastien	St-Onge	1,080,000
Jason	Dupont	1,020,000
Jay	Srinivasan	850,000
Steve	Winters	820,000
Jonathan	Clavet-Grenier	600,000
David Alfonso	Martinez	575,000
Richard	Lord	575,000

Here is the payout structure for the 5-Year Extravaganza:

Pos	Prize
1st	$18,000.00
2nd	$12,013.00
3rd	$9,000.00
4th	$7,000.00
5th	$5,000.00
6th	$3,600.00
7th	$2,600.00
8th	$2,000.00
9th	$1,600.00
10th-12th	$1,200.00
13th-15th	$1,000.00
16th-18th	$800.00
19th-21st	$700.00
22nd-24th	$650.00
25th-27th	$600.00
28th-30th	$550.00
31st-33rd	$500.00
34th-36th	$450.00
37th-45th	$400.00
46th-54th	$350.00
55th-63rd	$310.00
64th-72nd	$280.00
73rd-81st	$250.00
82nd-90th	$220.00
91st-99th	$200.00
100th-108th	$190.00
109th-117th	$180.00
118th-126th	$170.00
127th-144th	$160.00
145th-163rd	$150.00

The 5-Year Extravaganza is now down to its final 3 tables, as only 27 players remain. These players have locked in a guaranteed minimum cash of $600, and are still in contention of winning the whopping top prize of $18,000!

Day 2 will end upon the completion of two and a half more level, at the end of level 27, and the remaining players will be back tomorrow night for the conclusion of the tournament.

Here is a look at the current seating assignments of the remaining 27 players:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège
Maxime	Paquette	Table 53 - Seat 1
Carl	Martel	Table 53 - Seat 2
Cynthia	Paquette	Table 53 - Seat 3
Louise	Guillemette	Table 53 - Seat 4
Jason	Dupont	Table 53 - Seat 5
Reginald	Charles	Table 53 - Seat 6
Sebastien	St-Onge	Table 53 - Seat 7
Kathy	Sawers	Table 53 - Seat 8
Patrick	St-Onge	Table 53 - Seat 9
Jeremy	Chandler	Table 54 - Seat 1
Benjamin	Menard	Table 54 - Seat 2
Kuong Chhe	Kuoch	Table 54 - Seat 3
Bashar	Raffi	Table 54 - Seat 4
Samuel	Pouliot	Table 54 - Seat 5
Jonathan	Clavet-Grenier	Table 54 - Seat 6
David Alfonso	Martinez	Table 54 - Seat 7
Rejean	Labbe	Table 54 - Seat 8
John Allan	Bushey	Table 54 - Seat 9
Alex	Arsenault	Table 61 - Seat 1
George	Kazarian	Table 61 - Seat 2
Roger	Lamarre	Table 61 - Seat 3
Dylan	Payne	Table 61 - Seat 4
Jay	Srinivasan	Table 61 - Seat 5
Steve	Winters	Table 61 - Seat 6
Marie-Josee	Duguay	Table 61 - Seat 7
Michel	Harvey	Table 61 - Seat 8
Richard	Lord	Table 61 - Seat 9

The 5-Year Extravaganza Day 2 is back from a short break, and the T1,000 chips were raced off. In the mean time, a new chip has been introduced: the T100,000 chip. Given this tournament is using a brand new set of chips, which marks the 5-year anniversary Playground is celebrating this weekend, this is the first time these stunning orange and black chips have been brought out in play!

During the break, the tournament director announced that Day 2 will resume upon the completion of 3 more 40-minute levels. Once time is up, the remaining players will bag and tag onto Day 3 tomorrow.

We brought an update to the leaderboard, and the following players have managed to accumulate over 1-million in chips so far! Here are the current leaders:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Jason	Dupont	2,390,000
Reginald	Charles	1,570,000
Jeremy	Chandler	1,520,000
Cynthia	Paquette	1,500,000
Rejean	Labbe	1,460,000
Benjamin	Menard	1,345,000
Kathy	Sawers	1,320,000
Richard	Lord	1,310,000

Photographs from levels 24 and 25:

The players in Day 2 of the 5-Year Extravaganza have just come off a short break, and during this time we took a walk around the room to see who the chip leaders are. Only one player has managed to breach the 1-million chip mark, as Jason Dupont has a stack worth 1,108,000 in front of him entering level 22.

Here is a look at the current leaderboard:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Jason	Dupont	1,108,000
Richard	Lord	813,000
Roger	Lamarre	780,000
Reginald	Charles	774,000
Kathy	Sawers	772,000
Samuel	Pouliot	766,000
Richard	Paradis	748,000
Rejean	Labbe	702,000
Marc-Antoine	Gaudreau	621,000

Photographs from levels 20 and 21:

As expected, action has been fast and furious here at the start of Day 2. We’ve already lost 44 players so far after only two levels of play, as many of the short stacks we relieved of the pressure of the bubble and were able to take some chances in an attempt to run up their stacks, knowing that they have already secured at least a minimum cash.

Here is a look at the leaderboard, as play enters level 19:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Miltiadis	Mavrigiannakis	600,000
Ghislain	Soucy	599,000
Jason	Dupont	551,000
Patrick	Leduc	529,000
Bernard	Auguste	514,000
Behrooz	Salemi	509,000
Patrick	St-Onge	497,000
Jeremy	Chandler	466,000
Bashar	Raffi	436,000
Vasilios	Zervos	421,000
Carl	Martel	408,000

Photographs from levels 17 and 18:

 

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After 10 starting flights of the 5-Year Extravaganza, the surviving players are back to continue the tournament, as Day 2 takes place tonight at 7pm. All players returning tonight have already earned a spot in the money, locking in at least $150, while the winner is looking to pocket a huge $18,000 cash prize!

163 players have made it through Day 1, but since 2 players have qualified twice (Roger Lamarre and Mario Page), only 161 will be taking their seats tonight, while these two players will earn themselves a minimum-cash for their extra stacks.

Play will be 9-handed tonight, and the tournament resumes at level 17. The plan is to play down until the final table of 10 players, who will then bag and tag their chips onto Day 3 tomorrow, where the tournament will play down until conclusion.

Good luck to all the players in Day 2!

There were a total of 1,603 entries in all 10 flights of Day 1 that ran on Saturday December 19th and Sunday December 20th. Based on the breakdown of the numbers per flight, this means that 163 entries qualified for Day 2. Two players qualified twice for Day 2 – Roger Lamarre and Mario Page. The smaller of their two qualifying stacks have been removed from play, as only each of their largest stack will be in the tournament when play resumes on Monday evening for Day 2. These two players will each receive a min-cash for their retired stack – they have cashed in 162nd and 163rd place ($150).

The chip average (including just the 161 top stacks for this calculation) is 147,500 chips.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Table-Seat | Table-Siège	Stack | Tapis
Kuong Chhe	Kuoch	Table 49 - Seat 1	135,000
Daniel	Lemay	Table 49 - Seat 2	144,000
Renaud	Conti	Table 49 - Seat 3	165,000
Kenneth	Ransom	Table 49 - Seat 4	101,000
Raphael	Ohayon	Table 49 - Seat 5	130,500
Steve	Christie	Table 49 - Seat 6	123,000
Jonathan	Hatch Chenard	Table 49 - Seat 7	114,000
Theo	Psihogios	Table 49 - Seat 8	108,500
Randy	Khalil	Table 49 - Seat 9	187,000
Goran	Brestovac	Table 50 - Seat 1	237,500
Mathieu	Jawirnycki	Table 50 - Seat 2	107,000
Daniel James	D'ilario	Table 50 - Seat 3	221,000
Francois	Tarrab	Table 50 - Seat 4	240,000
Yvon Robert	Blais	Table 50 - Seat 5	3,000
Alex	Arsenault	Table 50 - Seat 6	267,000
Yvon	Marceau	Table 50 - Seat 7	109,000
Hiroaki	Harada	Table 50 - Seat 8	150,500
Sebastien	Fortier	Table 50 - Seat 9	88,500
Yan	Primeau	Table 51 - Seat 1	284,000
Jean Francois	Beaulieu	Table 51 - Seat 2	73,000
Mathias	Lamothe	Table 51 - Seat 3	68,000
Philippe	Drouin	Table 51 - Seat 4	192,000
Roger Jr	Lamarre	Table 51 - Seat 5	155,000
David Alfonso	Martinez	Table 51 - Seat 6	86,000
Jason	Dupont	Table 51 - Seat 7	476,500
Michael	Plante	Table 51 - Seat 8	70,000
Richard	Moreau	Table 51 - Seat 9	173,500
Mario	Niro	Table 52 - Seat 1	97,000
Lyna	Proulx	Table 52 - Seat 2	69,000
Sebastien	Rioux	Table 52 - Seat 3	69,000
Yan	Gohier	Table 52 - Seat 4	102,000
Moise	Assouline	Table 52 - Seat 5	121,000
Thierry	Monarque-Marcoux	Table 52 - Seat 6	214,500
Jonathan	Caron	Table 52 - Seat 7	51,000
Carl	Martel	Table 52 - Seat 8	188,000
Tomer	Avraham	Table 52 - Seat 9	148,500
David Elliott	Marrache	Table 53 - Seat 1	36,000
Normand	Loyer	Table 53 - Seat 2	120,000
Eric	Fournier	Table 53 - Seat 3	86,500
Gabriel	Samson	Table 53 - Seat 4	139,000
Iustin-Stefan	Danulet	Table 53 - Seat 5	63,000
Nickolaos	Athanasopoulos	Table 53 - Seat 6	115,000
Arnold	Yaxley	Table 53 - Seat 7	163,000
Vasilios	Zervos	Table 53 - Seat 8	246,500
Patrick	St-Onge	Table 53 - Seat 9	365,000
Ghislain	Soucy	Table 54 - Seat 1	329,500
Daniel	Gates	Table 54 - Seat 2	10,500
Nicolas	Grenier	Table 54 - Seat 3	204,000
David	Bolduc Hamel	Table 54 - Seat 4	136,000
Rami	Hammoud	Table 54 - Seat 5	367,000
Antonio	Amaya	Table 54 - Seat 6	141,500
Giovanni	Moscato	Table 54 - Seat 7	268,000
ReJean	Labbe	Table 54 - Seat 8	289,500
Mathieu	Boulanger-Vaugeois	Table 54 - Seat 9	224,500
Gabriel	Beliveau	Table 55 - Seat 1	106,000
Said	Nehme	Table 55 - Seat 2	199,500
Reginald	Charles	Table 55 - Seat 3	401,500
Joel	Thibeault	Table 55 - Seat 4	80,000
Alberto	Scuderi	Table 55 - Seat 5	182,000
Daniel	Mackay	Table 55 - Seat 6	176,000
Nick	Frascarelli	Table 55 - Seat 7	83,500
Samuel	Pouliot	Table 55 - Seat 8	258,000
Dave	Jeanneau-Cyr	Table 56 - Seat 1	136,500
Miltiadis	Mavrigiannakis	Table 56 - Seat 2	213,000
Maxime	Macdougall	Table 56 - Seat 3	97,000
Steve	Pouliot	Table 56 - Seat 4	124,500
Andre	Hernandez	Table 56 - Seat 5	50,500
Alain	Mathieu	Table 56 - Seat 6	108,000
Miguel	Lefebvre	Table 56 - Seat 7	434,500
John Allan	Bushey	Table 56 - Seat 8	46,000
Marco	Circe	Table 56 - Seat 9	130,000
Andre	Pelletier	Table 57 - Seat 1	69,500
Cynthia	Paquette	Table 57 - Seat 2	175,000
Driss	Aber	Table 57 - Seat 3	101,500
Daniel	Fortier	Table 57 - Seat 4	79,000
Tanvir	Ahmed	Table 57 - Seat 5	191,000
Stephane	Arbour	Table 57 - Seat 6	335,000
Gino	Dinardo	Table 57 - Seat 7	88,000
Brigitte	Thomas	Table 57 - Seat 8	46,500
David	Jalbert	Table 57 - Seat 9	216,500
Joselito	Figuereo Lopez	Table 60 - Seat 1	40,500
Dwayne	Buckley	Table 60 - Seat 2	54,000
Mathieu	Pare	Table 60 - Seat 3	75,000
Alain	Lindsay	Table 60 - Seat 4	220,500
Maxime	Roby	Table 60 - Seat 5	31,000
Nicholas	Sheehy	Table 60 - Seat 6	59,000
Stephane	Boisvert	Table 60 - Seat 7	255,500
Eric	Schanck	Table 60 - Seat 8	74,500
Denise	Berkowitz	Table 60 - Seat 9	46,000
Samuel	Cantave	Table 61 - Seat 1	76,000
Andre	Landry	Table 61 - Seat 2	66,000
Fabian	Lacroix	Table 61 - Seat 3	56,000
Dylan	Payne	Table 61 - Seat 4	110,500
Jonathan	Rivest	Table 61 - Seat 5	87,500
Johanne	Harvey Rivest	Table 61 - Seat 6	33,000
Marie-Josee	Duguay	Table 61 - Seat 7	166,000
Jessica	Choi	Table 61 - Seat 8	112,500
Brandon	Gauthier	Table 61 - Seat 9	89,000
Jeff	Porter	Table 62 - Seat 1	75,800
Jean-Marc	Doucet	Table 62 - Seat 2	80,500
Edita	Gonzalez	Table 62 - Seat 3	95,000
Kevin	Daily	Table 62 - Seat 4	206,000
Alex	Normandin	Table 62 - Seat 5	85,000
Mario	Lepine	Table 62 - Seat 6	166,500
Maxime	Paquette	Table 62 - Seat 7	111,000
Stephane	Loranger	Table 62 - Seat 8	236,000
Bernard	Auguste	Table 62 - Seat 9	173,000
John	Karatambias	Table 64 - Seat 1	57,500
Richard	Lord	Table 64 - Seat 2	219,000
Mathieu	Boucher	Table 64 - Seat 3	235,000
Eric	Martin	Table 64 - Seat 4	120,000
Louise	Guillemette	Table 64 - Seat 5	75,500
Louis	Arpin	Table 64 - Seat 6	167,500
Jonathan	Clavet-Grenier	Table 64 - Seat 7	139,000
Thomas	Facette	Table 64 - Seat 8	83,000
Robert	Dagenais	Table 64 - Seat 9	86,000
Siamak	S	Table 65 - Seat 1	53,500
Patrick	Leduc	Table 65 - Seat 2	315,500
Terry	Trahan	Table 65 - Seat 3	168,500
Guy	Gagne	Table 65 - Seat 4	164,000
Raphael	De Rubeis	Table 65 - Seat 5	32,000
Jean	Laviolette	Table 65 - Seat 6	51,500
Richard	Paradis	Table 65 - Seat 7	191,000
Sebastien	St-Onge	Table 65 - Seat 8	201,500
Said	Michailidis	Table 65 - Seat 9	220,000
Jeffrey	Goldstein	Table 66 - Seat 1	55,500
Richard	Gagnon	Table 66 - Seat 2	205,000
Marc-Antoine	Gaudreau	Table 66 - Seat 3	153,500
Sebastien	Allain	Table 66 - Seat 4	36,000
Grant	Guevremont	Table 66 - Seat 5	83,500
Jimmy	Dufour	Table 66 - Seat 6	152,000
Michel	Harvey	Table 66 - Seat 7	50,000
Jacques	Iza	Table 66 - Seat 8	113,500
Stephane	Houle	Table 66 - Seat 9	57,000
Francois	Croteau	Table 68 - Seat 1	119,000
Marc-Andre	Landry-Ladouceur	Table 68 - Seat 2	68,000
Jocelyn	Blanchette	Table 68 - Seat 3	34,000
Amed	Pacho Sierra	Table 68 - Seat 4	76,500
David	Brillon	Table 68 - Seat 5	97,500
Anthony	Suire	Table 68 - Seat 6	381,000
Gilles	Belanger	Table 68 - Seat 7	107,500
Alexandre	Fortin	Table 68 - Seat 8	174,000
Chris	Arvanitis	Table 68 - Seat 9	60,000
Mario	Page	Table 69 - Seat 1	201,000
Vital	Cleary	Table 69 - Seat 2	161,500
Frederic	Normand	Table 69 - Seat 3	405,000
Marcello	Simonetti	Table 69 - Seat 4	37,000
Bill	Kontaratos	Table 69 - Seat 5	142,000
George	Kazarian	Table 69 - Seat 6	280,500
Kathy	Sawers	Table 69 - Seat 7	125,000
Bob	T	Table 69 - Seat 8	128,000
Steve	Winters	Table 69 - Seat 9	144,000
Jonathan Lamade	Fuentes	Table 70 - Seat 1	162,000
Jeremy	Chandler	Table 70 - Seat 2	407,500
Behrooz	Salemi	Table 70 - Seat 3	476,000
Benjamin	Menard	Table 70 - Seat 4	141,000
Michel	Ghaleb	Table 70 - Seat 5	114,000
Jay	Srinivasan	Table 70 - Seat 6	175,500
Alain	Rondeau	Table 70 - Seat 7	76,000
Jared	Newcombe	Table 70 - Seat 8	194,500
Bashar	Raffi	Table 70 - Seat 9	343,000