After 10 levels of play in Day 2 of the Playground 200, 21 players still had chips. 7 of them will start Day 3 as millionaires, and are listed below. Co Tran had a great last lap, and bagged 1,470,000 chips, the leading stack. Sébastien “Seabass” Drolet-Poitras follows with 1,325,000. Dave Jeanneau-Cyr missed the million mark by a hair, as he finished with 990K.

Day 3 is set to start at 7:00PM sharp tomorrow night. Three tables of 7 will take on the final day of this very successful edition of the Playground 200, where $24,792 awaits the champion. Don’t miss it!

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Co	Tran	1,470,000
Sébastien	Drolet-Poitras	1,325,000
Jean-René	Guay	1,245,000
Maxime	Marcouiller	1,065,000
Gregory	Ducharme	1,055,000
James	Mcdermott	1,050,000
David	Bolduc Hamel	1,015,000

When Richard Berenbaum raised all-in, Co Tran did not call right away. Richard was not stacked high enough for Tran to try and discourage other players to come in. Despite pretending like he had a tough decision, he found himself in a duel – a very uneven one.

Tran:
Richard:

Board:

When Berenbaum failed at hitting a second king, despite the chanting, he had to walk away. There are less than 15 minutes to Day 2, after which the survivors will happily bag their chips, only to reunite with them tomorrow night at 7PM.

Sébastien Drolet-Poitras made it 30K to go. Pierre Lauzé called from the small blind, interested in playing that hand. When the flop appeared, he led with a 50K bet, which was raised to 115K by Seabass. Pierre called, checked the turn, and gained some confidence when Seabass also checked, enough to lead the river with 100K.

Seabass put him all-in for about 400K. Pierre thought for a while, and finally called.

Seabass:
Pierre:

Board:

Great turn check from behind. Seabass climbed to over 1.5M, but has since dropped back to just over a million. He tried the driver’s seat for a while, but like a gentleman, gave it right back to Dave Jeannot-Cyr.

Players are now on break, and will play 2 more levels before bagging. Here are the current top stacks:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Dave	Jeannot-Cyr	1,232,000
Sébastien	Drolet-Poitras	1,024,000
Sébastien	Robillard	993,000
Maxime	Marcouiller	971,000

With just 44 players remaining of the 698 that began this journey, there are already 2 players with stacks of over 1 Million chips and the top 4 players all have double the current average chip stack. The leader, as we noticed a few minutes ago, is currently Dave Jeanneau-Cyr, but Dominic Boucher is following closely behind. A new entry on the leader’s list is local hotshot Sebastien Drolet-Poitras, with 854K in this stack.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Dave	Jeanneau-Cyr	1,186,000
Dominic	Boucher	1,005,000
Sebastien	Robillard	897,000
Sebastien	Drolet-Poitras	854,000
Co	Tran	791,000

An escalation of bets got 3 players fully invested on table 69. Sébastien Robillard only had to fade a jack to dodge Sébastien Proulx’s outs, and a a horrific combination of cards that would give Benoit Larochelle Legrand the desired upset.

Robillard:
Proulx:
Legrand:

Board:

Proulx was covered and forced to walk away, while Legrand took a serious hit.

In a 3-day tournament it’s hard to call any day “moving day” – it’s more accurate to say that the levels following the bubble are “moving levels”. That applies to chip stacks as well as the movement of players as they circulate the room as tables break and balancing occurs.

Random seating often leads to some interesting meetings at this stage in the tournament, and for the past few minutes, two of today’s top 3 by chip count have been seated just one player away from the other on the same table – Dominic Boucher was moved to table 69 on seat 2, where Benoit Larochelle Legrand has been seated all day (in seat 4). Both of them are currently playing over 800K stacks and are among the top 5.

Leading the way in the tournament, however, is none other than Dave Jeanneau-Cyr, who is already playing a stack of over 1.1M in chips. Players will be on break in several minutes and we’ll be able to produce a new leaderboard at that time.