Mohammadamin Khalilian had been rolling well all day until fateful hand with a not-so-shortstacked Jahkheem Polydore, whose out-drew Mohammedamin’s on a board that read . This left Mohammedamin with under 200,000 in chips and he was in trouble.

With the big blind (and its ante) coming around, Mohammedamin decided to get it all in from utg, and his stack was small enough that he got four callers: Jean-François Stoycheff, Stephane Blouin-Verroeulst, and Alexandre Mongrain.

The flop came out and the action was checked around between the three non-all-in players. The turn was the and this time the action went check-check-bet 225K… fold-fold and Stephane, the players who had made the bet, flipped over his for flopped two pairs. Mohammadamin showed and left the table.

8th place: Mohammadamin Khalilian, $2,670
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The remaining 8 players in the Playground 200 have just taken their first break of the day and we took the opportunity to get counts of the remaining field. Alexandre Mongrain remains the chip leader, followed closely by Jahkheem Polydore. Adam Cader has had a challenging day so far and find himself the current short stack with just 820,000 in his stack.

The final table of 9 players has now been set in the Playground 200. Robert Turcotte and Alexandre Mongrain – who started the day with the two smallest stacks – have both made the final 9, and Alexandre seems to be the current chip leader.

Update: Robert was eliminated almost as soon as play resumed on the final table.

Griffin Mason is a well-known local tournament player with obvious skills and a history of deep runs, but even a skilled player can’t overcome a glut of bad luck at the wrong time. He started the day relatively short-stacked and in early play managed to chip up quite a bit, but eventually lost a few hands in a row as the favourite and found himself short and in trouble.

He was playing on the button when he chose to open shove his final 600K in chips, only to get a quick call from Stephane Blouin-Verroeulst.

Griffin:
Stephane:

Griffin was looking good on the flop, and the turn was no bother – but the on the river was all Stephane needed to eliminate Griffin and get a needed stack-boost as well.

10th place: Griffin Mason, $1,660

There were two more quick eliminations in level 26 as Joseph Abou-Khalil and John Araujo were sent to the rail, and when Adam Cader was relocated to table 20, both remaining tables settled into 5-handed action. With the next elimination will come a full redraw as the final 9 players are brought together on the final table. Play has now moved into level 27.