Play on Day 2 of The $250 Frenzy began with 307 players and continued through 12 30-minute levels before 33 players bagged up their chips to return for Day 3. Along the way the money bubble burst when Georges Hallak and Shaun Bowring went out on the same hand, sharing the min-cash of $460, and then another 109 players were eliminated in the money.

Play resumes with 33 players in level 27. Blinds will be 40 minutes long on Day 3 and there will be seating redraws at 27 players remaining and 10 players remaining. Play will continue to the end of the tournament when a Champion will be crowned.

Note that these are player-recorded chip count totals. The actual chips have been sealed in bags which will be opened by the players to be returned to play on Day 3.

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First Name	Last Name	Seat	Stack
Richard	Caron	Table 35 - Seat 1	775,000
Bryce	Potter	Table 35 - Seat 2	2,560,000
Susan	Wiley	Table 35 - Seat 4	885,000
Haralambos	Margaritis	Table 35 - Seat 5	1,000,000
Andre	Pelletier	Table 35 - Seat 6	765,000
Benoit	Pesant	Table 35 - Seat 7	300,000
Ioannis	Pentefountas	Table 35 - Seat 8	965,000
Andonios	Papageorgiou	Table 35 - Seat 9	1,490,000
Jeremy	Galin	Table 36 - Seat 1	765,000
Roger	Thibault	Table 36 - Seat 2	840,000
Frank	Truong	Table 36 - Seat 3	2,250,000
	None	Table 36 - Seat 4	290,000
Marc	Guerbilsky	Table 36 - Seat 5	540,000
Alec	Brandstatter	Table 36 - Seat 7	1,360,000
Felix	Bigras	Table 36 - Seat 8	825,000
Yannick	Labattaglia	Table 36 - Seat 9	515,000
Nicolas	Martel	Table 39 - Seat 1	1,970,000
Rami	Hammoud	Table 39 - Seat 2	1,085,000
Norman	Messier	Table 39 - Seat 3	690,000
Alain	Mathieu	Table 39 - Seat 4	325,000
Andrew	Boujaoude	Table 39 - Seat 5	585,000
Olivier	Beaulieu	Table 39 - Seat 6	800,000
Tomas	Larivee Magni	Table 39 - Seat 8	630,000
James	Wesley	Table 39 - Seat 9	700,000
Ken	Stutz	Table 40 - Seat 1	605,000
Fabrice	Levi	Table 40 - Seat 2	1,000,000
Jaroslaw Zbigniew	Jaskiewicz	Table 40 - Seat 3	320,000
Michael	Korovine	Table 40 - Seat 4	725,000
Jason	Williams	Table 40 - Seat 5	250,000
Shane	St John	Table 40 - Seat 6	635,000
Andrew	Hansen	Table 40 - Seat 7	330,000
Santos	Ciulla	Table 40 - Seat 8	1,850,000
Richard	Gauthier	Table 40 - Seat 9	825,000

After 26 levels of play combined over 2 days, the starting field of 1,475 entries has been reduced to just 33 players.

We saw the balance in chip leads switch drastically in the last level of the night, as the two top stacks at the start of the level, Santos Ciulla and Alec Brandstatter, both lost huge pots and dropped down the leaderboard. It was finally Bryce Potter who bagged the chip lead, and he will return with 2,560,000 chips tomorrow. Second in chips is Frank Truong, who doubled up in the very last hand of the night to end Day 2 with 2,250,000.

As soon as the tournament staff is done crunching the numbers, we will be publishing the full list of player-reported chip counts, as well as the new seating assignments for tomorrow’s Day 3, which is scheduled to start at 7pm. Below is a table with the top stacks as Day 2 closed.

Be sure to tune in to the blog tomorrow night to follow all the action, as we bring you up-to-date coverage of the conclusion of this 3rd event in the Playground Poker Fall Classic.

See you tomorrow!

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Bryce	Potter	2,560,000
Frank	Truong	2,250,000
Nicolas	Martel	1,970,000
Santos	Ciulla	1,850,000
Andonios	Papageorgiou	1,490,000
Alec	Brandstatter	1,360,000

Photographs from the last two levels of the night:

Players are off their first break of the night, and with only 166 players left in the tournament, we are quickly approaching the money bubble. 144 are scheduled to be paid, and hand-for-hand will begin shortly before we reach this number.

Here is a look at the current leaderboard, as play enters level 19. You can also follow updated chip counts by clicking the “Live Counts – Event 3 Day 2” link near the top right of the page.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Nick-Real	Seide	614,000
Norman	Messier	605,000
Ruben	Perceval	521,000
Tomas	Larivee Magni	452,000
Nicolas	Martel	451,000
Aaron	Czaja	432,000
Adam	Farnley	427,000
Claudemir	De Oliveira	424,000
Driss	Aber	405,000
Alec	Brandstatter	386,000
Richard	Gauthier	380,000
Yannick	Labattaglia	380,000
Jeremy	Galin	360,000

Nick-Real Seide is well-known as a talented player and someone who can accumulate chips in a hurry, but his build up to start Day 2 of The $250 Frenzy is pretty extreme – in less than one level of play – and without just stacking a single player and taking those chips – he has managed to change around 245K into 545K in tournament chips, and is now the massive chip leader in the tournament.