The Wild $150 shifts to Day 3, the final day of the event, and by the end of the action tonight we’re sure to have a winner in the first event of the 2015 Playground Poker Fall Classic presented by Partypoker.net. As mentioned in the title, there are 31 players left competing for over $144K in the prize pool that remains, including an impressive $34K slated for the winner!
The chip leader going in to Day 3 is Anesti Kocini, who is playing a 51bb stack and is 865,000 chips ahead of the second-place player, Scott Shelvock. His lead is just a hair under the average stack in the tournament – which is to say that Anesti is in a very strong position to start the day.
In third place to start the day is another very capable player, Siamak S, who starts with 1,660,000 chips (33bb). Primarily a cash game player, Siamak has nevertheless had a lot of success in the past at Playground Poker Club tournaments and brings a lot of late-tourney experience to the table.
In fact, looking over the field, for a tournament at a $150 buy-in, the remaining players include some very accomplished and experienced poker players. Just in terms of players who have won or gone deep in past events at Playground Poker Club, you can look at Jason Conforti, Michael Aflalo, Karyn Gemmill, Said Michailidis, Fabian Garzon, Charan Malhotra, and Tanvir Ahmed who are all still in the field. A dark horse to start the day is Marcello Iacovella, who starts with a small stack but has proven time and again to have some talent for the game… so you never know…
Good luck to everyone playing Day 3. With a chip average near the 20K mark and at least 6 or 7 short stacks the action is sure to take off quickly once play restarts at 7pm tonight!
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- Karyn Gemmill
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- Anesti Kocini
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- Jason Conforti
