Players are on their first break of the evening on Day 1 of Event 11. The tournament staff is currently exchanging the extra “life” chips, and late registration ends at the end of this break as well.
There are already two players with over 100K in chips, and here are a few other photos taken before the break.
Here are some photos from players in the action in Event 11. There are 38 players so far with a level and a half left to late register.
The High Roller event is now on break and the 11 players remaining have stepped away from the tables for a few minutes while tournament staff removes the black T100 chips from play.
Here are some updated chip counts at the break.
Tuesday nights at Playground Poker Club are famous for Pot Limit Omaha tournaments, and beginning Event 11 on a Tuesday follows in this tradition.
Players start with 30K in chips – but they can start with just 10K in play and get 10K more for each of 2 additional “life” chips that may be used during the first 4 levels of play. At the break, all remaining “life” chips are converted to tournament chips and the event continues as usual.
Play will continue for 12 levels tonight and then resume tomorrow for Day 2.
With the recent eliminations of Logan Dunn, Lucas Greenwood, and Jean-Manuel Estrala, the High Roller event is down to 16 players – time for a redraw!
Table 69
Table 70
With Edward Hislop out of the tournament, there are just 10 players remaining which means that the players will come together on one table, which will be managed via a full seating redraw.
Unofficial Final Table
The 21 players remaining in the High Roller tournament (Event 9) in the Playground Poker Fall Classic are on break and we took the opportunity to refresh the tournament leaderboard.
Samuel Chartier has a healthy stack but he was among the leaders until he doubled up two players in two successive hands.
In the first hand, Sheraz Nazir went all in over Alexandre Blanc’s opening raise to 80K. Samuel asked Alexandre how much he was playing total, and hearing the answer he wanted went all in over Sheraz.
Sheraz: 
Samuel: 
There was little suspense as the board ran out 
and Sheraz doubled up.
The very next hand, Mukul Pahuja shoved over an opening raise by Jonathan Jaffe and again Samuel went in, forcing Jaffe to fold.
Mukul: 
Samuel: 
:jd
Again there wasn’t too much suspense on the flop of 
and the and 
didn’t change anything.
The High Roller is down to 24 players, which means that there has been a full seating redraw.
Table 66
Table 69
Table 70
Maurice Hawkins was down to 65K before the hand after having tried – unsuccessfully – to regain some momentum after taking some hits today.
On his final hand, Sam Chartier opened preflop to 65K, Lonnie Hallett called and Maurice went all-in for that last 65K. Sheraz Nasir came along for the ride from the big blind.
The flop came 
and Sheraz and Samuel both checked. Lonnie then bet 100K and succeeded in folding out the other two players in the hand.
Maurice: 
Lonnie: 
The river was the and the turn was the 
and that was the end of the road for Maurice.
13th place: Maurice Hawkins, $26,410.00
