Eric Afriat opened to 9,500 from middle position, and was 3bet by Charles-Alexandre Sylvestre to 24,000 from the big blind. Eric then pulled the trigger and moved his 88,500 stack into the middle, which was matched by Charles-Alexandre.
Eric: 
Charles-Alexandre: 
The board stayed clean for Eric, showing 
, doubling him up to just over 170,000.
With only around 10 big blinds left, Matthew Marafioti found himself all-in preflop versus Matthew Jarvis.
Marafioti: 
Jarvis: 
Marafioti managed to hit the flush on the turn, but that same card gave Jarvis a set, which then improved to a full house on the 
board.
9th place: Matthew Marafioti – $19,206
The High-Roller field has been reduced to one table of 9 players, which means we are now in the money! Every player is now guaranteed at least $19,206, but we all know very well that they will not be satisfied unless they walk out with the $192,060 first prize, which is accompanied by a Playground Poker Fall Classic High-Roller Champion’s belt!
Here is the final table:
Final Table
Seat 1. Kyle Myers
Seat 2. Matthew Marafioti
Seat 3. Darren Elias
Seat 4. Shaan Siddiqui
Seat 5. Nicholas Petrangelo
Seat 6. Charles-Alexandre Sylvestre
Seat 7. Matthew Jarvis
Seat 8. Pascal Lefrancois
Seat 9. Eric Afriat
Congratulations on making the final table!
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.
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
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.
The High Roller is down to 24 players, which means that there has been a full seating redraw.
Table 66
Table 69
Table 70
With two levels completed today already, we’ve seen 6 players hit the rail today in this High-Roller event: Robert mero, Shannon Shorr, Micah Raskin, Frank Bruno, Pratyush Buddiga and Brian Rast.
Here are the current chip leaders:
Three more players have been eliminated as Frank Bruno, Micah Raskin, and Shannon Shorr have all hit the rail in the tournament. As we mentioned earlier, the redraw will be at 24 players remaining not 27, as the tournament is being played 8-handed.
The High Roller tournament has been reduced to 4 tables as Brian Rast (who started the day with just 800 chips) was eliminated in the same hand as Pratyush Buddiga. This brought the tournament to 31 players and table 66 was closed and its remaining players distributed throughout the field.
The next scheduled redraw will take place at 24 players remaining (play is 8-handed in this event).
