Here is an update on the chip counts of the final 8 players, counted during the break following level 22.
| First Name | Last Name | Seat | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jason | Mandanici-Turcot | Table 62 - Seat 1 | 541,000 |
| Tony | To | Table 62 - Seat 2 | 117,000 |
| Andrew | Tai | Table 62 - Seat 4 | 294,000 |
| Benny | Chen | Table 62 - Seat 5 | 348,000 |
| Philippe | Kerri | Table 62 - Seat 7 | 380,000 |
| Behram | Antia | Table 62 - Seat 8 | 788,000 |
| Giancarlo | Santolin | Table 62 - Seat 9 | 210,000 |
| Noy | U | Table 62 - Seat 10 | 723,000 |
The 16 remaining players of Event 14 are on a short chip-up break, as the T500 chips are being raced off. The tournament is now hand-for-hand, as we are on the money-bubble, and Marco Caza is the current big stack, sitting on 488,000.
Here is a look at full chips counts of the final 16 players:
| First Name | Last Name | Seat | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| Giancarlo | Santolin | Table 62 - Seat 1 | 200,000 |
| Andrew | Macdonald | Table 62 - Seat 2 | 121,000 |
| Benny | Chen | Table 62 - Seat 3 | 225,000 |
| Alex | Guerrera | Table 62 - Seat 4 | 57,000 |
| Noy | U | Table 62 - Seat 5 | 373,000 |
| Pierre-Paul | Paulin | Table 62 - Seat 6 | 174,000 |
| Michael | Noor | Table 62 - Seat 7 | 191,000 |
| Behram | Antia | Table 62 - Seat 9 | 269,000 |
| Garen | Galanti | Table 66 - Seat 1 | 117,000 |
| Marco | Caza | Table 66 - Seat 2 | 488,000 |
| Jason | Mandanici-Turcot | Table 66 - Seat 3 | 276,000 |
| Darryl | Beal | Table 66 - Seat 5 | 275,000 |
| Tony | To | Table 66 - Seat 6 | 35,000 |
| Andrew | Tai | Table 66 - Seat 7 | 215,000 |
| Philippe | Kerri | Table 66 - Seat 8 | 303,000 |
| Sergio | Iannetti | Table 66 - Seat 9 | 75,000 |
Erwan Palanque
Erwan Palanque was holding only a few short blinds when he found himself in the big blind, facing a button-open from Pierre-Paul Paulin. He looked down at a pair and committed the rest of his chips.
Erwan: 
Pierre-Paul: 
The board was not favourable for the small pair, and Pierre-Paul scooped the pot on the 
board to bring Event 14 on the bubble.
Paul Sokoloff
Sergio Iannetti opened to 20,000 from middle position, to which Jason Mandanici-Turcot responded with a 3bet all-in of 84,500. Paul Sokoloff quickly followed up with an all-in for 127,000 from the button, forcing the original raiser out of the hand.
Jason: 
Paul: 
The board of 
stayed clean for Jason and his pair of jacks, and picked up a pot of roughly 200,000 to keep him in the game as we near the bubble.
Paul Sokoloff was left quite short after the hand, and was eliminated in the following hands.
With the recent eliminations of Francois Goulet and Marc-Olivier Carpentier-Perrault, Event 14 has dropped to 18 players, bringing on a full seating redraw. 15 players are scheduled to be paid in this event, so the money bubble is close!
Here are the final two tables of this Second Chance tournament:
| First Name | Last Name | Seat |
|---|---|---|
| Giancarlo | Santolin | Table 62 - Seat 1 |
| Andrew | Macdonald | Table 62 - Seat 2 |
| Benny | Chen | Table 62 - Seat 3 |
| Alex | Guerrera | Table 62 - Seat 4 |
| Noy | U | Table 62 - Seat 5 |
| Pierre-Paul | Paulin | Table 62 - Seat 6 |
| Michael | Noor | Table 62 - Seat 7 |
| Erwan | Palanque | Table 62 - Seat 8 |
| Behram | Antia | Table 62 - Seat 9 |
| Garen | Galanti | Table 66 - Seat 1 |
| Marco | Caza | Table 66 - Seat 2 |
| Jason | Mandanici-Turcot | Table 66 - Seat 3 |
| Paul | Sokoloff | Table 66 - Seat 4 |
| Darryl | Beal | Table 66 - Seat 5 |
| Tony | To | Table 66 - Seat 6 |
| Andrew | Tai | Table 66 - Seat 7 |
| Philippe | Kerri | Table 66 - Seat 8 |
| Sergio | Iannetti | Table 66 - Seat 9 |
Photographs of final 21 players left in Event 14 – Day 2, taken during level 16:
Event 14 is off its third break of the night, and level 10 has just begun. Although the original plan was to play 16 levels today, the TD decided to cut it back by one level to 15 total for today. The players still left holding chips at the end of this will return tomorrow for the conclusion of the event.
Tony To, better known by his alias “GameBoy”, has been making heads turn in this edition of The Playground Poker Fall Classic, as he not only won Event 5 – $1,000 + $100 NL Hold’em, but then ran deep the WPT Montreal, where he made a huge comeback on the final 3 tables from 1/2 a big blind to over 150 times that amount, before finally crashing near the end of Day 3.
He currently leads this Event 14, as his stack approaches 4 times the average stack. Here are the top stacks entering level 10:
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|
| Tony "GameBoy" | To | 195,300 |
| Trung Hieu | Hoang | 158,500 |
| Marco | Caza | 146,200 |
| Andrew | Tai | 137,600 |
We will bring you full coverage of this event once it reaches Day 2, starting tomorrow at 12pm. You will be able to find the full list of player-reported chip counts shortly after the completion of Day 1, as well as tomorrow’s new seating assignments.
Shortly after doubling his stack up through AJ Gambino, Chris Arvanitis got involved in another huge pot as a big favourite.
He opened to 160,000 from the cutoff, and was called by Brian Altman in the big blind. On a flop of , Brian check-raised Chris’s bet of 250,000 up to 625,000. Chris then quickly responded with an all-in, and Brian made the call.
Chris: 
Brian: 
Chris was in a great spot to win the pot of roughly 4-million, and with the 
peeling off on the turn, he had but one more street to fade. Unfortunately for him, the river brought the 
, eliminating him 7th place, one spot shy of the official final table of the WPT Montreal.
His deep run earned him a payday of $72,510, while the other six players locked in their seat for tomorrow’s final table.
7th place: Chris Arvanitis – $72,510
Chris Arvanitis
Reiner Kempe placed a min-raise from under the gun, and AJ Gambino flat-called from the button. Chris Arvanitis then (quite messily) 3bet to 330,000 from the small blind, triggering a fold from Reiner. AJ came over the top with a quick all-in, which found an even quicker call.
AJ: 
Chris: 
Chris flopped a set to take a stranglehold of the hand, as the board ran out 
, and doubled his 875,000 stack to nearly 2-million.
Another level has passed us on this final table, and we are still but one elimination away from having our official final table of 6 players in the WPT Montreal. Brian Altman has continued to maintain control of the table, and has chipped up to 7,600,000, but Darryll Fish is slowly creeping up on him, having accumulated 4,580,000 in chips so far.
Here are the current standings, as the tournament enters level 28:
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|
| Brian | Altman | 7,600,000 |
| Darryll | Fish | 4,580,000 |
| AJ | Gambino | 2,935,000 |
| Carter | Swidler | 2,080,000 |
| Rainer | Kempe | 1,875,000 |
| Chris | Arvanitis | 1,135,000 |
| Jared | Mahoney | 650,000 |
