Santos Ciulla took a big hit to his stack moments ago before regaining some momentum and scoring an elimination.

In the first hand, Santos open-shoved his massive stack from early position, and found a snap call from Andonios Papageorgiou next to act. Santos and his finished second best to Andonios and his , forcing him to slide over 3,400,000 chips to his neighbour.

On the very next hand, Santos opened to 500,000, and called off the all-in from Andrew Boujaoude in late position.

Santos:
Andrew:

This time Santos came out the winner, as the board ran , and he picked up almost 2 million more chips.

9th place: Andrew Boujaoude – $4,820

Andrew Boujaoude

Norman Messier came to this final table as the short stack, and it didn’t take long before he found himself with all his chips in the middle.

Once action folded around to him in the cutoff, he moved in his remaining 850,000 with , and found a call from Santos Ciulla on the button. Both players in the blinds folded their cards, leaving the two heads-up.

The board of brought no help to Norman, who was awarded $3,925 for his 10th place run.

10th place: Norman Messier – $3,925

Norman Messier

Andre Pelletier was grinding the shorter end of the leaderboard in the last few orbits, and managed to pick up some blinds here and there to keep him in the running.

In a recent hand, he moved all-in for under 10 big blinds from the button, and found a call from Rami Hammoud in the big blind.

Andre:
Rami:

Andre didn’t find the board he was looking for, as the cards ran in favour or Rami, showing .

With that elimination, The $250 Frenzy is now down a the final table of 10 players!

11th place: Andre Pelletier – $3,925

Andre Pelletier

Fabrice Levi opened the action from early position by raising to 250,000, and went into the tank when Bryce Potter moved all-in from the button. He eventually made the call for his tournament life, but found himself needing much help if he wanted to survive.

Fabrice:

Bryce:

He didn’t improve on the board and was eliminated in 12th place, collecting $3,925 for his deep run in this 3rd event of the Playground Poker Fall Classic.

12th place: Fabrice Levi – $3,925

Fabrice Levi

Frank Truong was down to only 2 big blinds when he called off his stack from the big blind, facing a raise from Andre Pelletier in the small blind.

Frank:

Andre:

Board:

They both caught a piece of the board, however Andre went on to score the elimination as his straight won him the pot.

13th place: Frank Truong – $3,200

Frank Truong

When Haralambos Margaritis looked down at under the gun, he happily moved all-in for 7.5 big blinds. That all changed when he found a call from Rami Hammoud, who tabled a pair of to go heads-up in the hand.

The pair of kings saw no threat on the , and Rami chipped up to just over 4 million in chips, sending Haralambos home in the process.

14th place: Haralambos Margaritis – $3,200

Haralambos Margaritis

In a battle of the blinds, Nicolas Martel and his 1,500,000 betting units found themselves all-in preflop from the small blind versus Shane St John in the big blind.

Nicolas:

Shane:

It was all but over for Nicolas, as Shane flopped a set on the board to take over the chip lead. He now holds over 4.5 million, while Nicolas is in line at the cashiers to collect his 15th place payout.

15th place: Nicolas Martel – $3,200

Nicolas Martel