Day 2 of The Wild $150 will get underway at 7pm tonight with 339 players returning to the tables, having qualified for Day 2 by surviving one of the four Day 1s that ran from Sunday to Tuesday evening. Day 2 will feature 30 minute blinds and play will continue this evening through another 13 levels.
135 players will cash in this event, which means that just about 60% of today’s starting field must be eliminated before the bubble is reached. This means that there will be a significant amount of play before the bubble hits, and a lot of time for short or medium stacks to build up and join the leaders – or for some of the current leaders to move back to the pack.
Mathieu Boulanger-Vaugois
Duy Toan Pham is the chip leader to start Day 2, playing a 264,100 chip stack, with Mathieu Boulanger-Vaugeois right behind him playing a stack of 262,300 tournament chips. Both players are extremely deep (approximately 110bb each), but through a quirk in the random seating they will find themselves starting on the same table, with Mathieu two seats to the left of Pham. There are two other big stacks on the table as well – Simon Assouline will start with 185,600 (77bb) and Said Michailidis starts with 181,300 (75bb). They’re all starting on table 67, which will definitely be a table to watch tonight.
There are a few other players to watch in the field tonight.
- Isham Yamani – Isham is a skilled player who has had some great success in events at Playground Poker Club in the past two years, wtih several final tables and other deep runs under his belt. Isham starts Day 2 with 185,400 chips (77bb).
- Cherif Si Hadj Mohand – Cherif is starting Day 2 with 129,100 chips (54bb), which is more than enough to enable him to make a deep run, perhaps rivalling his 2nd place finish in a very similar event this past August in the Montreal Poker Expo.
- Jason Conforti – Jason starts with 120,700 (50bb) and will hope to use that healthy stack as a springboard to a second big win at Playground Poker Club following his win in the $1500 + $150 Second Chance event last spring during the Playground Poker Spring Classic.
- Guy Carbonneau – Guy doesn’t enter tournaments just for a few laughs, he’s a patient and skilled player who will start today with a solid 43bb stack (103,300 chips).
- Others – Some other players in the field to watch include Ryan Higgins, Charles-Eric Benoit, Yohann Wagner, Michael Korovine, Rodney Ramalho, Bob Amireault, and many more…
Good luck to everyone tonight!
