Here are the final chip counts following Day 2 of The $250 Frenzy, Event 3 of the 2014 Playground Poker Fall Classic. 285 players started Day 2, and after 12 levels of play just 28 remain and have qualified for Day 3 on Tuesday, November 18th at 7pm.

In addition to these counts, we’ll publish the seating draw for Day 3 in the morning on Tuesday.

Note that these are unverified player-counted chip counts. All chips have been sealed in bags until they return to play on Day 3.

With 10 minutes left in this last level of play of Day 2, the Tournament Director has announced that only 5 hands remain until the tournament goes on break until tomorrow. Once these have been completed, the remaining players will bag and tag their chips on to Day 3, which will be the final chapter of Event 3.

We will be bringing you the final chip counts, as well as the seating arrangements for Day 3, shortly after the completion of the day.

Day 2 of Event 3 is nearing completion, with around a level and a half left to go before it goes on pause until Day 3. The surviving players will be back for the conclusion of the tournament tomorrow night, at 7pm. Blinds will switch to 40-minute levels, and we will play down until there is a champion.

Tomorrow is also Day 1 of Event 4 – $1,100 No limit Hold’em ‘Warm-Up’, which is scheduled for 12pm. This being the first big buy-in event of the series, we are expecting to see a few notables players begin making their appearance at this 2014 edition of the Playground Poker Fall Classic.

In addition, there is also Event 5 – $100 + $20 + $100 No Limit Hold’em ’50/50′ Bounty – which is scheduled to start at 7:30pm.

Level 24 photographs

Play has just entered level 23 here in Day 2 of Event 3, and 3 players are holding stacks that amount to more than 1 million in chips. Here is the look at the top 5 stacks:

1. Thomas Winterlands – 1,705,000
2. Rick Shamshoum – 1,365,000
3. Jean- Francois Lescadres – 1,140,000
4. Rostand Asselin – 935,000
5. Tyler St Clair – 830,000

Day 2 will conclude upon the completion of 4 more levels.

Some level 22 photographs

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Vince Dwyer had his opponent Rostand Asselin right where he wanted, but ran into some unfortunate luck to get eliminated from Event 3.

Both players, who started the hand with fairly even stacks, found themselves with all their chips in the middle on a board showing . Vince and his were far ahead of Rostand’s , but the turn and river changed all that, as two hearts fell ( ) to improve Rostand’s hand to the nut flush. Rostand collected what was the biggest pot so far in the tournament, and he now sits somewhere over the 1.4M chip mark, making him our current chip leader.

We will be back shortly with a more detailed leaderboard.

As expected, there were a number of quick eliminations that occurred after the money bubble burst here in Event 3. The field is now below 100 players midway through level 21, and at this stage a min-cash is worth $490. Day 2 will continue through until the end of level 26, at which point the remaining players will bag and tag their chips onto Day 3. There will be a break in a little more than 30 minutes, and we will be brining you an update on the top stacks at that point.

With a few simultaneous eliminations, the tournament dropped from 139 players down to 135, which means that Event 3 is now in the money! We noticed a number of short stacks scattered around the room, and we can therefore expect to see a lot of all-in situations in the next few orbits.

Congratulations to those who made it in the money!

After 4 levels of play in this Day 2 of Event 3, the players have earned themselves a 15-minute break. The field has dropped down to 150 players, which means we are but 15 eliminations away from being in the money. Here is a look at the current leaderboard, with their approximate chip counts:

1. Joseph Abou-Khalil – 735,000
2. Jason Mandanici-Turcot – 670,000
3. Thomas Wintermans – 480,000
4. Terence Lai – 425,000
5. Charles-Eric Benoit – 420,000
6. Rawad Haddad – 395,000
7. J-F Lescadres – 380,000

Level 18 photographs

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Day 2 of Event 3 is progressing quickly, as the field has dropped down to just under 200 players from the 285 that started the day. The money bubble is not too far away, with 135 players set to be paid, and at this stage of the tournament we can expect to see a number of players emerge from the field and grow their stacks far beyond the average. Players will be on break in roughly 45 minutes, at which point we will bring you an update on the leaderboard.

Photographs from levels 15 and 16

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