Manig Loeser has been eliminated by Cate Hall in 9th place, leaving the final table 8-handed again as play winds towards the money bubble.

Cate opened from early position to 7.5K in chips and Manig raised all in but was instantly called.

Manig:
Cate:

It was all over for Manig after the board of was dealt.

The High Roller tournament – Event 15 in the Playground Poker Fall Classic presented by partypoker.net – has reached the final table as Dean Murphy was eliminated in 10th place.

Dean was all in holding and he was facing the held by Ari Engel. Unfortunately for Dean, Ari got all the way in front with a flopped set and turned quads: : .

There has now been a full redraw and the players have taken their seats around the final table.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège
Peter	Chien	Seat 1
Mark	Radoja	Seat 2
Lucas	Greenwood	Seat 3
Cate	Hall	Seat 4
Ari	Engel	Seat 5
Anthony	Zinno	Seat 6
Martin	Raus	Seat 7
Manig	Loeser	Seat 8
Pascal	Lefrancois	Seat 9

Play in the High Roller tournament is just one elimination away from the final table, which will come together with 9 players remaining (it’s an 8-handed tournament). Pascal has led the way for most of the day today, and at this point has retained his lead although there are several players that are just a little more than a double-up away.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège	Stack | Tapis
Pascal	Lefrancois	Table 66 - Seat 1	296,500
Mark	Radoja	Table 62 - Seat 5	217,000
Lucas	Greenwood	Table 66 - Seat 2	156,000
Cate	Hall	Table 66 - Seat 8	138,500
Ari	Engel	Table 62 - Seat 3	121,000
Anthony	Zinno	Table 62 - Seat 1	87,000
Peter	Chien	Table 66 - Seat 3	79,000
Manig	Loeser	Table 62 - Seat 7	60,000
Martin	Raus	Table 66 - Seat 6	41,500
Dean	Murphy	Table 62 - Seat 4	30,500

With the simultaneous eliminations of George Caragiorgas and Darren Elias on different tables, and previously the elimination of Keven Michael Stammen in 18th, the High-Roller field was reduced to just 15 players, bringing on a final 2 tables redraw.

The final table will begin once we reach the final 9 players, of which the top 6 will secure a cash prize.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège
Cate	Hall	Table 66 - Seat 8
Dylan	Wilkerson	Table 66 - Seat 5
Ryan David	McEathron	Table 66 - Seat 4
Peter	Chien	Table 66 - Seat 3
Lucas	Greenwood	Table 66 - Seat 2
Senthuran	Vijayaratnam	Table 66 - Seat 1
Martin	Raus	Table 66 - Seat 6
Gerald	Karlic	Table 62 - Seat 8
Manig	Loeser	Table 62 - Seat 7
Samuel Robert	Phillips	Table 62 - Seat 6
Mark	Radoja	Table 62 - Seat 5
Dean	Murphy	Table 62 - Seat 4
Ari	Engel	Table 62 - Seat 3
Pascal	Lefrancois	Table 62 - Seat 2
Anthony	Zinno	Table 62 - Seat 1

Pascal Lefrancois continues to lead the High-Roller Event, and has chipped up to 191,000. Marc Radoja has chipped up nicely since the start of the day as well, while Senthuran Vijayaratnam dropped down the leaderboard. Caitlin Hall is up above the 100,000 mark as she kicked off Day 2 with a bang.

Day 2 saw the early exit of Marc-Etienne McLaughlin, who was followed by Jack Gong and Michael Garry Aron.

Here are the full counts of the final 18 players as they begin play in level 13:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège	Stack | Tapis
Pascal	Lefrancois	Table 70 - Seat 1	191,000
Mark	Radoja	Table 66 - Seat 5	153,900
Lucas	Greenwood	Table 62 - Seat 7	106,300
Cate	Hall	Table 70 - Seat 5	104,200
Darren	Elias	Table 66 - Seat 8	101,000
Anthony	Zinno	Table 62 - Seat 6	81,000
Dylan	Wilkerson	Table 66 - Seat 3	78,700
Samuel Robert	Phillips	Table 66 - Seat 4	67,800
George	Caragiorgas	Table 62 - Seat 5	67,600
Ryan David	McEathron	Table 70 - Seat 4	46,600
Martin	Raus	Table 66 - Seat 1	46,200
Senthuran	Vijayaratnam	Table 70 - Seat 2	37,000
Gerald	Karlic	Table 62 - Seat 3	35,900
Dean	Murphy	Table 70 - Seat 8	34,100
Keven Michael	Stammen	Table 62 - Seat 8	27,300
Manig	Loeser	Table 70 - Seat 7	23,200
Ari	Engel	Table 62 - Seat 1	14,600
Peter	Chien	Table 66 - Seat 2	12,600

Play has resumed in today’s final day in the High Roller tournament with 21 players left in the action. With only 6 places slated to pay, this event is a long way from the money bubble, but with stakes this high, no one is going to let any pot go easily.

Brian Altman saw his High-Roller run cut short as he was eliminated in 25th place in a two-part process.

On the first hand (level 9 – 400/800/a100), he opened to 1,800 from utg+1, and found calls from Anthony Zinno (utg+2), Keven Stammen (button) and Marc-Etienne McLaughlin (small blind) before being 3bet to 11,300 from Ari Engel in the big blind. He went into the tank for a few minutes before finally moving in his whole stack, which prompted folds from all three flat-callers. Ari, having invested nearly 50% of his stack, made the quick call and hands were tabled.

Ari:
Brian:

Ari smashed the board to double his 25,000 stack, leaving Brian with under 10,000 behind.

A few hands later, Brian moved in for 9,100 from utg and found a call only from Anthony Zinno, next to act. Brian tabled and was in great shape to double-up versus , until the community cards were dealt – .

Other eliminations from levels 9 and 10 include Shankar Pillai, Jeff Gross and Srinivas Gottiparthi.

Here is the seating assignment for the final 3 tables. Only one level remains to Day 1, and once the clock runs out the surviving players will bag their chips onto Day 2. Shortly after the completion of the day, we will publish a full list of player-reported chip counts.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège
Ari	Engel	Table 68 - Seat 1
Samuel Robert	Phillips	Table 68 - Seat 2
Gerald	Karlic	Table 68 - Seat 3
Dylan	Wilkerson	Table 68 - Seat 4
George	Caragiorgas	Table 68 - Seat 5
Anthony	Zinno	Table 68 - Seat 6
Lucas	Greenwood	Table 68 - Seat 7
Keven Michael	Stammen	Table 68 - Seat 8
Martin	Raus	Table 69 - Seat 1
Peter	Chien	Table 69 - Seat 2
Pierre Paul	Paulin	Table 69 - Seat 3
Igor	Kurganov	Table 69 - Seat 4
Mark	Radoja	Table 69 - Seat 5
Jiachen	Gong	Table 69 - Seat 6
Michael Garry	Aron	Table 69 - Seat 7
Darren	Elias	Table 69 - Seat 8
Pascal	Lefrancois	Table 70 - Seat 1
Senthuran	Vijayaratnam	Table 70 - Seat 2
Jason	Mann	Table 70 - Seat 3
Ryan David	McEathron	Table 70 - Seat 4
Caitlin	Hall	Table 70 - Seat 5
Marc-Étienne	McLaughlin	Table 70 - Seat 6
Manig	Loeser	Table 70 - Seat 7
Dean	Murphy	Table 70 - Seat 8