Chanso Munn’s elimination in 11th place means we now have our ten finalists for Event 4 – The $1000 + $100 WPT Warm-up. The tournament is on pause for the day, and play will resume tomorrow afternoon at 3pm, at which point we will play down until we have our champion.

Here is the final table:

Final Table

Seat 1. Faisal Khan
Seat 2. Daniel Jason Streitz
Seat 3. Mike Lafable
Seat 4. Vlad Faubert
Seat 5. Julien Fauteux Delorme
Seat 6. Jonathan Barrette
Seat 7. TJ Ulmer
Seat 8. Edouard Dupuis
Seat 9. Graham Lupton
Seat 10. Domenico Scalamogna

Player reported chip counts will be made available shortly.

Congratulations, and good luck tomorrow!

Mike Lafable continues to have a leading stack and he has increased his holdings to near 1.5M chips as he eliminated Gary Lucci in 12th place. We missed the preflop action in the hand, but Lucci shoved on a board only to see Mike turn over the for the set.

Day 2 will continue only until the next player is eliminated. Then, the remaining 10 players will bag up their chips and return for Day 3, tomorrow.

12th place: Gary Lucci, $4,480

Faisal Khan is on a huge rush, as he just eliminated 3 players in 3 separate hands, all in one orbit. Nikki Price, Francois Goulet and Kuo Hui-Chen just saw all of their chips get swallowed by Faisal, who has now taken over the chip lead. His stack sits somewhere just over 1,800,000, which represents slightly more than 1/4 of the chips in play.

Players are now on a short break before heading into level 22, and we took this time to count the stacks of the remaining 15 players. Here they are:

Table 30

Seat 1. Domenico Scalamogna – 195,000
Seat 2. empty seat
Seat 3. Edouard Dupuis – 372,000
Seat 4. empty seat
Seat 5. TJ Ulmer – 998,000
Seat 6. Mike Lafable – 1,262,000
Seat 7. Daniel Jason Strelitz – 224,000
Seat 8. Vlad Faubert – 260,000
Seat 9. Garry Lucci – 458,000

Table 31

Seat 1. Julien Fauteux Delorme – 290,000
Seat 2. Kuo Hui-Chen – 281,000
Seat 3. empty seat
Seat 4. Jonathan Barrette – 212,000
Seat 5. Nikki Price – 210,000
Seat 6. Faisal Khan – 1,000,000
Seat 7. Francois Goulet – 242,000
Seat 8. Graham Lupton – 427,000
Seat 9. Chanso Munn – 295,000

Mike Lafable, who took down the first event of this edition of the Playground Poker Fall Classic, has been steadily growing his stack over the course of this Day 2.

He recently eliminated Ioannis Pentefountas to take over the chip lead of the tournament. We missed the action, but with a considerable amount of chips already in the pot before the river, Ioannis found himself all-in on a board showing . He table for three of a kind, but lost to Mike’s straight, who was holding .

With that pot, Mike has climbed well over the 1 million chip mark, sitting on approximately 1,350,000 chips. He is directly to the left of TJ Ulmer, who owns roughly 770,000 chips, good for 3rd in chips. Faisail Khan is currently second on the leaderboard with around 840,000 chips.

Erik Lemarquand opened from the button, and was 3bet by Mike Lafable from the big blind. Holding roughly 15 big blinds, Erik decided this was the right time for him to move all-in, but unfortunately for him he was in bad shape.

Erik:

Mike:

Erik almost got the help he needed, but inevitably fell short on the , ending his deep run in this WPT Warm-up event.

Moments later, Fabio Lungo was sent to the rail from on the other table.

17th place: Fabio Luongo – $3,130

18th place: Erik Lemarquand – $3,130

With the recent elimination of XX in 19th place, Event 4 has now reached it’s final two tables. Here are the current seating arrangements:

Table 30

Seat 1. Domenico Scalamogna
Seat 2. Ioannis Pentefountas
Seat 3. Edouard Dupuis
Seat 4. Erik Lemarquand
Seat 5. TJ Ulmer
Seat 6. Mike Lafable
Seat 7. Daniel Jason Strelitz
Seat 8. Vlad Faubert
Seat 9. Garry Lucci

Table 31

Seat 1. Julien Fauteux Delorme
Seat 2. Kuo Hui-Chen
Seat 3. Fabio Luongo
Seat 4. Jonathan Barrette
Seat 5. Nikki Price
Seat 6. Faisal Khan
Seat 7. Francois Goulet
Seat 8. Graham Lupton
Seat 9. Chanso Munn

Recent eliminations

19th place: Asem Alsaadi – $2,730
20th place: Jessie Wheatley – $2,730
21st place: David Barter – $2,730
22nd place: Lonnie Hallett – $2,450
23rd place: Louis Boutin – $2,450

Online phenomenon TJ Ulmer, better known as his online alias ‘1bigacehole’, has just taken over the chip lead deep in this WPT Warm-up Event.

In a recent hand, he called an all-in on the turn by Douglas James. TJ tabled for aces up on a board, and was far ahead of Douglas’s . The river was a meaningless , and TJ added over 150K in new chips to his already impressive stack.

TJ now sits with around 650K, and is definitely a force to be reckoned with.

Recent eliminations include:

24th place: Douglas James – $2,450
25th place: Joshua Abiscott – $2,160
26th place: Dustin Centanni – $2,160
27th place: Sasa Stancic – $2,160

Event 4 has been reduced to just 27 player, which means a redraw was put in place. Here are the new seating arrangements:

Table 27

Seat 1. Chanso Munn
Seat 2. Julien Fauteux Delorme
Seat 3. Daniel Jason Strelitz
Seat 4. Jonathan Barrette
Seat 5. Mike Lafable
Seat 6. Vlad Faubert
Seat 7. Fabio Luongo
Seat 8. Nikki Price
Seat 9. Ioannis Pentefountas

Table 30

Seat 1. Douglas James
Seat 2. Louis Boutin
Seat 3. Edouard Dupuis
Seat 4. Erik Lemarquand
Seat 5. TJ Ulmer
Seat 6. Lonni Hallett
Seat 7. Graham Lupton
Seat 8. Jessie Wheatley
Seat 9. Garry Lucci

Table 31

Seat 1. Asem Alsaadi
Seat 2. Kuo Hui-Chen
Seat 3. David Barter
Seat 4. Joshua Abiscott
Seat 5. Domenico Scalamogna
Seat 6. Faisal Khan
Seat 7. Francois Goulet
Seat 8. Sasa Stancic
Seat 9. Dustin Centanni

After about 10 hands of hand-for-hand play – interrupted by a break in the middle – Xin Qi has been eliminated in 28th place in Event 4. Xin had been short for a few levels already but he came back from the break with under 3 BB and as the blinds came around to his position in Seat 5. He folded both of his blinds as well as the Cutoff and Hijack positions, but with just 14K remaining he called Graham Lupton’s preflop raise to get his last chips in the middle.

Graham:
Xin:

The board started out pretty well for Xin when the were dealt, but the turn and River didn’t give Xin his flush and he was out of the tournament.

The rest of the players are now in the money and tournament staff has performed a full redraw with just 3 tables remaining. Play continues in level 19.