In the early flurry of activity, a few of the already-strong stacks have managed to chip up and join Serge Pouliot (who remains one of the big stacks) up over 350K in tournament chips. Some of the players who have made strong gains so far include Eric Afriat (400K), Amir Babakhani (350K), Frederic Pierre (360K), and Andrew Knowles (355K).

Play continues at a relatively fast pace as another 11 players have been eliminated.

15 minutes of Day 2 have passed and there have already been a few eliminations, taking the field down to 135 players. Table 49 has now broken and play continues on 15 9-handed tables.

The dealers are seated and the players’ sealed bags have been placed at the tables. Tournament staff is waiting at the entrance of the Tournament Hall to direct players to their seats. A few players have begun to file in to take their place as well…

And so Day 2 of the Main Event of the Playground Winter Festival is ready to go.

There are 139 players left in the tournament of the 494 players who began the event in one of the two starting flights. Play today is scheduled for 10 levels of 60 minutes each, and play will continue on 9-handed tables all day today. The big moment today will be reaching the money bubble, which will come after the player in 55th place has been eliminated.

Good luck to everyone still in the event!

This is the official seating chart for Day 2 of the $1,000 + $100 Main Event in the Playground Winter Festival.

Days 1a and 1b had a total of 494 entries, and of these, 52 players qualified through Day 1a and 87 through Day 1b, for a total of 139 players remaining in the event. This was a next-day re-entry tournament in which players could bring their best stack forward to Day 2, but no players qualified through both starting flights.

Play resumes in level 14 at 12pm on Sunday March 8th. The chip average of the players remaining is 107,000.

We would like to remind players that Daylight Savings Time comes into effect overnight tonight and they are advised to be careful to arrive on time on Sunday.

Click (or tap) on any column header in the following table to sort.

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First Name,Last Name,Seat [attr sort=”asc”],Chip Count
Alex,Difelice,Table 57 – Seat 3,”37,500″
Alex,Fiorani,Table 55 – Seat 7,”52,800″
Alex,Fortin Demers,Table 54 – Seat 9,”110,400″
Amirmasoud,Babakhani,Table 56 – Seat 4,”253,500″
Andrew,Knowles,Table 52 – Seat 1,”304,700″
Anthony,Khoury,Table 62 – Seat 5,”108,400″
Anthony,Kokin,Table 60 – Seat 3,”83,500″
Armry,Senat,Table 61 – Seat 3,”99,500″
Belal,El Bizri,Table 54 – Seat 5,”57,200″
Ben,Menache,Table 64 – Seat 8,”83,300″
Bill,Germanis,Table 63 – Seat 3,”32,000″
Carter,Swidler,Table 56 – Seat 7,”42,300″
Chanracy,Khun,Table 63 – Seat 8,”105,500″
Charles-Eric,Benoit,Table 55 – Seat 4,”128,300″
Charles,La Boissonniere,Table 64 – Seat 4,”52,200″
Charles,Macdonald,Table 52 – Seat 2,”45,000″
Chris,McClung,Table 64 – Seat 3,”91,000″
Chrishan,Sivasundaram,Table 65 – Seat 4,”85,200″
Conrado,Corpus,Table 52 – Seat 9,”140,800″
Daniel,Belisle,Table 54 – Seat 7,”41,900″
Daniel,Charette,Table 63 – Seat 1,”267,100″
Daniel,Fortier,Table 59 – Seat 6,”35,300″
Daniel,Hamelin,Table 62 – Seat 4,”141,000″
Danny,Boyaci,Table 56 – Seat 2,”51,200″
Danny,Lauzon,Table 53 – Seat 4,”97,800″
Dashmir,Zyli,Table 60 – Seat 9,”119,800″
Dave,Harvey,Table 63 – Seat 5,”32,300″
Denis,Quirion,Table 49 – Seat 1,”131,100″
Denis,Scott,Table 61 – Seat 4,”151,500″
Dominic,Champagne,Table 50 – Seat 2,”20,300″
Dominique,Prefontaine,Table 66 – Seat 4,”157,000″
Dustin,Melanson,Table 53 – Seat 3,”93,600″
Ema,Zajmovic,Table 61 – Seat 1,”71,200″
Eric,Afriat,Table 54 – Seat 3,”301,500″
Etienne,Leduc,Table 65 – Seat 6,”92,500″
Faisal,Khan,Table 60 – Seat 6,”214,900″
Franco,Sicondolfi,Table 59 – Seat 8,”57,100″
Frederic,Mercier,Table 65 – Seat 3,”129,600″
Frederic,Pierre,Table 55 – Seat 2,”250,400″
Gabriel,Vezina,Table 60 – Seat 8,”214,000″
Garen,Galanti,Table 66 – Seat 6,”115,700″
Geoffrey,Hum,Table 61 – Seat 6,”36,400″
George,Caragiorgas,Table 59 – Seat 5,”99,700″
Georges,Hallak,Table 49 – Seat 7,”192,100″
Geri,Casey,Table 52 – Seat 4,”35,700″
Giovanni,Massa,Table 59 – Seat 3,”183,000″
Guy,Chateauneuf,Table 49 – Seat 3,”88,000″
Hamid,Askarzada,Table 54 – Seat 6,”94,500″
Hiyaw,Gebreyohannes,Table 49 – Seat 8,”55,200″
Hubert,Paquet Moisan,Table 57 – Seat 7,”41,600″
Hugo,Fontaine,Table 55 – Seat 5,”155,200″
Ibrahim,Almalhi,Table 53 – Seat 9,”112,700″
Jacques,Iza,Table 62 – Seat 6,”58,200″
James,Rubin,Table 50 – Seat 7,”65,100″
Jamey,Allen,Table 62 – Seat 3,”146,200″
Jason,Comtois,Table 56 – Seat 8,”26,300″
Jason,Duval,Table 56 – Seat 9,”146,800″
Jason,Rivkin,Table 54 – Seat 8,”59,300″
Jay,Srinivasan,Table 64 – Seat 5,”116,700″
Jean Francois,Bouchard,Table 59 – Seat 1,”114,600″
Jean Louis,Forino,Table 56 – Seat 3,”135,800″
Jean-Philippe,Piquette,Table 62 – Seat 7,”26,300″
Joel,Moreau,Table 53 – Seat 5,”59,200″
Joey,Silver,Table 49 – Seat 4,”49,000″
Johnny,Mazzaferro,Table 52 – Seat 6,”45,700″
Jonathan,Brule,Table 66 – Seat 7,”113,500″
Jonathan,Bussieres,Table 60 – Seat 4,”44,000″
Jonathan,Cheung,Table 65 – Seat 2,”103,500″
Jonathan,Meyer,Table 59 – Seat 2,”302,900″
Jonathan,Poissant,Table 60 – Seat 2,”150,000″
Jonathan,Theriault,Table 55 – Seat 6,”36,000″
Jordan, Miraglia,Table 64 – Seat 9,”189,200″
Julian,Volpe,Table 64 – Seat 2,”123,700″
Kevin,Dawe,Table 49 – Seat 5,”75,900″
Kieu Hoa,Lam,Table 66 – Seat 5,”42,000″
Levi,Stevens,Table 66 – Seat 9,”34,700″
Levon,Dedeyan,Table 60 – Seat 7,”57,800″
Louis,Lam,Table 59 – Seat 7,”59,000″
Luciano,Iacovella,Table 52 – Seat 7,”53,800″
Lukas,Pasek,Table 66 – Seat 3,”80,800″
Mackenzie,McDonald,Table 49 – Seat 6,”126,000″
Marc Gabriel,Cyr,Table 53 – Seat 8,”91,300″
Marco,Lang,Table 56 – Seat 5,”68,100″
Marie-Pier,Simard,Table 53 – Seat 7,”63,800″
Mario,Lepine,Table 63 – Seat 4,”49,000″
Mathieu,Parent,Table 50 – Seat 5,”206,600″
Matthew,Brunskole,Table 55 – Seat 8,”35,500″
Maximilian,Droege,Table 53 – Seat 6,”122,100″
Michael,Antimisiaris,Table 66 – Seat 1,”297,000″
Michael,Bernard,Table 61 – Seat 8,”89,100″
Michael,Bryon,Table 50 – Seat 1,”135,700″
Michael,Noor,Table 65 – Seat 8,”83,100″
Mohammad,Vayani,Table 50 – Seat 6,”152,100″
Nabil,Assaff,Table 65 – Seat 7,”148,600″
Nader,Ammar,Table 62 – Seat 8,”69,000″
Nicholas,Soller,Table 63 – Seat 7,”120,300″
Nick,Nickoletopoulos,Table 57 – Seat 6,”41,200″
Nicola,Basile,Table 55 – Seat 3,”87,000″
Nicolas,Bastien,Table 57 – Seat 9,”179,100″
Nicolas,Belcourt,Table 57 – Seat 4,”228,200″
Norman,Doucette,Table 53 – Seat 2,”94,000″
Norman,Dowdall,Table 61 – Seat 9,”65,900″
Norman,Gauthier,Table 50 – Seat 4,”61,000″
Omid,Shahbazian,Table 55 – Seat 1,”46,400″
Omkar,Deshmukh,Table 56 – Seat 6,”35,000″
Osman,Soubra,Table 54 – Seat 1,”77,000″
Patrick,Atallah,Table 62 – Seat 1,”26,600″
Philip Richard,Elliot,Table 53 – Seat 1,”123,100″
Philippe,Lefrancois,Table 54 – Seat 4,”134,800″
Pierre Marc,Chadi,Table 64 – Seat 6,”212,900″
Quyen,Dao,Table 64 – Seat 7,”98,000″
Rick,Shamshoum,Table 65 – Seat 9,”142,000″
Rodney,Hollett,Table 50 – Seat 3,”35,700″
Rodney,Lawrence,Table 66 – Seat 2,”82,300″
Rodney,Ramalho,Table 49 – Seat 2,”222,400″
Ron,G,Table 63 – Seat 2,”271,600″
Ron,Shepherd,Table 57 – Seat 1,”274,300″
Rong,Xu,Table 50 – Seat 8,”70,200″
Samuel,Chartier,Table 57 – Seat 5,”115,900″
Samuel,Picard,Table 64 – Seat 1,”56,600″
Sean,Windover,Table 65 – Seat 5,”88,400″
Sebastien,beaulieu-Amyot,Table 63 – Seat 6,”24,900″
Serge,Pouliot,Table 60 – Seat 5,”369,500″
Sergio,Vigano,Table 61 – Seat 7,”44,600″
Shaan,Siddiqui,Table 61 – Seat 2,”45,000″
Shakeeb,Kazemipur,Table 57 – Seat 8,”74,900″
Shane,Flewelling,Table 66 – Seat 8,”195,500″
Shawn A,Martell,Table 60 – Seat 1,”258,700″
Siamak,Soleimanian,Table 62 – Seat 9,”142,500″
Stephanie,Hubbard,Table 59 – Seat 4,”45,200″
Stephen R,Smith,Table 57 – Seat 2,”61,300″
Stephen,Baker,Table 54 – Seat 2,”61,000″
Steve,Toulch,Table 52 – Seat 8,”66,300″
Tianshu,Liu,Table 56 – Seat 1,”127,000″
Tom,Kim Tien,Table 62 – Seat 2,”75,700″
Tony,Stratopoulos,Table 61 – Seat 5,”39,100″
Troy,Hamilton,Table 65 – Seat 1,”110,800″
Vince,Dwyer,Table 52 – Seat 5,”24,000″
Yan,Touchette,Table 52 – Seat 3,”56,400″
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