With 32,000 left, and the blinds just around the corner, Patrick David Hu-A-Kam moved in with , and was called by Sammy Chao with . The board was not what Patrick was hoping for, and he was eliminated in 14th place.

On the very next hand, Manfred Gunther was eliminated in 13th, good for $1,552, and with that, the tournament was over!

Here are our 12 survivors, who each earned a $1,940 prize for their finish!

• Armen Afarian
• Terry Forestell
• Frederic Mercier
• Mihai Christian Prisecaru
• Maxime Robidoux Labelle
• Stephane Houle
• Alexander Riedl
• Miguel Goncalo
• Sammy Chao
• Dan Hugues
• Corey Walker
• Danny Mccarthy

Congratulations!

The Survivors of Event 8

We are now hand-for-hand in Event 8. The next player eliminated will walk out of here empty-handed, and the next elimination after will receive a $1,552 prize. The other 12 players, our survivors, will earn $1,940 for their win.

Photos from level 18

Level 15 is about to start here in Event 8 – Survivor, and we are getting close to the money. Once the field drops to it’s final 12 players, the tournament will end, and 1st through 12th place will all receive a prize of $1,940 regardless of stack sizes. The player who finishes in 13th will receive the remaining funds, equal to $1,552, while the rest will go home empty handed.

Normally at this stage of the tournament, we would bring you an update on the top stacks. However, given the formula of this event, we thought it would be interested to publish a ‘reverse leaderboard’. Here are the players who are most at risk of not surviving until the money, currently holding 10 big blinds or less:

32. Pierre Provost – 27,000
31. Jim Loyens – 29,500
30. Fabio Cuneo – 33,000
29. Ara Kataroyan – 35,000
28. Elizabeth Bennett-Martin – 37,000
27. Shawn Sperber – 38,500
26. Frederic Mercier – 42,500
25. Manfred Gunther – 44,000
24. Alstair Melville – 50,000
23. Stephane Houle – 52,500
22. Thomas Wintermans – 54,000
21. Craig Einarson – 57,000

Photographs from levels 13 and 14

Here are the leaders of the Survivor event at the second break.

1. Danny Mccarthy – 167,000
2. James Gibson – 96,000
3. Corey Walker – 94,000
4. Sonja Smirnov – 87,000

Photos from before the break

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The Survivor is now in it’s 7th level of the night, and the field has dropped from 128 entries down to 87.

Tonight is Event 8 of the Playground Poker Fall Classic, and is a $200 + $20 No Limit Hold’em Survivor tournament. This follows a similar structure to a satellite tournament, where play ends once the money is reached, and all remaining (or surviving) players receive the same prize, regardless of their stack size at the time. In this particular tournament, the top 10% of the field will get payed out roughly 10 times the buy-in.

There are currently 84 players registered, and this tournament does have a cap of 100 players, but will be accepting alternates up until the first break.

Good luck!