The tournament hall is eerily quiet, after the departure of the 19 players that have just qualified for Day 2 of the Playground 200. There were some intense moments tonight as the players kept pushing towards their goal of bagging chips after 14 levels.
After all was said and done, Mohammadamin Khalilian bagged the most chips tonight with a final count of 343,500 chips. This performance has placed him in the pole position of the combined qualified players for Day 2. His closest rival tonight is Bill Kontaratos, who managed to bag 236,500 chips. Questioned about his final chip count when he was exiting the tournament hall, Bill informed us that had he not lost a huge pot in the last few hands with pocket Queens, he would have secured more than 400K! But it was not meant to be.
Any player may play additional Day 1’s even if he/she has survived a previous Day 1 with chips. Players who qualify for Day 2 more than once will resume play on Day 2 with their largest qualifying stack; all other qualifying stacks will be forfeited.
There are two Day 1 flights remaining, both of them Friday February 22nd, at 1:00pm and 7:00pm. You can see the updated list of the combined Day 1’s here.
