In a few moments, Day 2 of Event 9 – $10,000 + $400 No Limit Hold’em High-Roller will begin. We saw 66 players register in this 3-day tournament, including many big names in the poker world such as Jason Mercier, Scott Clements, the Greenwood brothers (Lucas, Max and Samuel), Mike Yeah, Eugene Katchelov, just to name a few.

33 players have made it through to day 2, and play is scheduled for 10 levels of 1-hour today. Leading the field is WSOP-bracelet and WSOP-C ring winner Charles-Alexandre Sylvestre, who bagged an impressive 291,250 chips yesterday. Darren Elias is not too far behind, with 219,250 chips, and the rest of the field falls below the 120,000 mark. With blinds starting at 400/800/a100 today, there is still a lot of poker to be played!

Stay tuned as we will be bringing you up-to-date coverage on this Event!

Good Luck!

6 levels have come and gone here in Event 8 – High-Roller, and with late registration now closed, we saw a total of 66 players take their seats today. Here are the current chip leaders, and their approximate counts:

1. Darren Elias – 130,000
2. Charles-Alexandre Sylvestre – 113,500
3. Lucas Greenwood – 94,500
4. Brian Rast – 92,000
5. Pascal Lefrancois – 81,000
6. Shaan Siddiqui – 77,000
7. Jean-Manuel Estrala – 76,500

Day 1 of this event will conclude upon the completion of two more levels, and the remaining players will return tomorrow at 1pm for Day 2.

The High-Roller event is now mid-way through level 6, which means late registration will be closing soon. Players have until the end of the break after this level to jump in, so don’t miss your chance to participate in this unique event!

Photographs from level 5

Max Greenwood

Anthony Zinno

Mike McDonald

Jason Mercier

Ahmad Hasan Omar

Martin Rauss

Ankush Mandavia

Jiachen Gong

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The High-Rollers are back from their second break of the night, and the field is lead by the following three players:

1. Spencer Stacey – 79,800
2. John Xenos – 66,050
3. Stephen Celluci – 65,775

Registration will remain open for 2 more levels.

Event 9 – $10,000 + $400 is now up to 61 total entries! The most recent players to buy-in to this star-studded field are Scott Clements, Jason Mercier and Christian Harder, who have just taken their seats moments ago.

Registration will remain open for just under 3 more hours, up until the end of the break following level 6.

After 2 hours of play, the following players have managed to already separate themselves from the field:

1. Stephen Celluci – 75,800
2. Shaan Siddiqui – 55,375
3. Mike Leah – 55,100
4. Yann Dion – 42,675

Registration is up to 55 players, with still 4 levels left to enter. There have been no eliminations yet, but a few players are down to under 10,000.

Here are some of the players participating in Event 9 – $10,000 + $400 No Limit Hold’em High Roller, the biggest buy-in of this Playground Poker Fall Classic.

Mike Watson

Byron Kaverman

Shannon Shorr

Vincent Jacques

Matthew Marafioti

Jason Lavalle

Jean-Manuel Estrala

Pascal Lefrancois

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While the WPT Montreal plays down from 27 to 18 players this afternoon, Playground Poker is also hosting the beginning of the $10,000 + $400 High Roller tournament. There are already 34 players at the tables with late registration set to continue for over 6 hours, so that number will definitely go up, and possibly quite significantly.

Players start the event with 30K in chips. Play will be 8-handed from the beginning of the tournament, and blind levels are one hour in length for the whole event.

Good luck to all of the players!