Daniel Mackay has been eliminated in 16th place after a huge hand between he and Albert Bassal.

Isham Yamani opened the action to 200K from UTG and Daniel 3-bet to 400K from middle position. Action folded around to Albert (SB) and he 4-bet shoved his (covering) stack. Isham folded, and Daniel snap-called by throwing a chip at the 400K he had already put in front of him.

Albert:
Daniel:

The flop was relatively safe: but the turn gave Daniel an open-ended straight draw – but the on the river wasn’t what he was looking for and he shipped his whole 2.9M chip stack to Albert, who is now the chip leader in the tournament.

The pace of Event 1 has continued to be relatively quick as players continue to be eliminated and make their way to the tournament desk to pick up their payout coupons.

This table lists all of the players who have been eliminated since the beginning of the action today.

Here are some shots of the players left after the redraw at 27.

Isham Yamani

Jason Robineault

Albert Bassal

Kaven Fontaine Bernier

Jeremie Meynard

Hassan Hares

Jean-Sebastien Labonté

Maxime Auger

Alberto Scudari

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Robert Amireault has been eliminated in 28th place which means it’s time for a full seating redraw with the tournament down to 3 tables.

Table 27

1. Daniel Mackay
2. Jonathan Poulin
3. Michael Mellor
4. Pierre Gauthier
5. Robert Di Trapani
6. Bichr Awad
7. Yann Beauchamp
8. Thomas Harnois
9. Samuel Barre

Table 30

1. Theo Psihogios
2. Nimer Ltaif
3. Stephane Durocher
4. Nicholas Soller
5. Ahmad Baalbaki
6. Maurice Simard
7. Alex Chiasson
8. Mike Lafable
9. Yves Aubin

Table 31

1. Alberto Scuderi
2. Maxime Auger
3. Jean-Sebastien Labonte
4. Hassan Hares
5. Jeremie Meynard
6. Kaven Fontaine Bernier
7. Albert Bassal
8. Jason Robineault
9. Isham Yamani

Right out of the box there have been four eliminations!

• 29th place: Khang Can, $820.00
• 30th place: Arun Kumar Singh, $820.00
• 31st place: Pascal Roberge, $790.00
• 32nd place: Tina Frascarelli, $790.00

Play has begun on Day 3 of Event 1 as the 32 players have taken their seats around 4 tables. There was a very slight delay to start the action as tournament staff coloured up the yellow T1000 chips – the smallest denomination now in play are the orange T5000 chips.

Event 1 in the Playground Poker Fall Classic has now reached its third and final day. Play will begin in 30 minutes. There are just 32 players left in contention for the championship – and for the big prizes. Tonight one of these players will be taking home $34K – a fantastic first prize for a $150 (total) tournament!

Even though the day is starting with 32 players, there will be a full seating redraw at 27 players. There will be a final redraw at 10 players as the final table is set.

Play tonight is 9-handed, although with 32 players in the field, the tables are currently balanced at 8 players each. Blind levels have gone up from 30 minutes to 40 minutes and blinds tonight will start at 25K/50K/a5K. Blinds levels will revert to 30 minutes once play reaches the heads up phase of the tournament.

Good luck!

Play in Event 1 began today with 325 players and after 13 levels of play, just 32 players remain. The following 32 players will return for Day 3, Thursday November 13th at 7pm.

Here is the most recent list of chip leaders in the tournament during the last level of Day 2.

1. Stephane Durocher – 2.32M
2. Robert Amireault – 1.34M
3. Daniel Mackay – 1.2M
4. Jean-Sébastien Labonté – 2.1M
5. Jason Robineault – 1.36M

There are 46 players left and the tournament is just about to begin its last level of the day. There is a lot of action, but in particular on two tables. On the first, there are 3 players with over a million chips each, and the fighting is fierce. Right next to that table, 2 new large stacks have joined the leaders in the tournament. Photos to come…