With the average stack sitting around 14-15 big blinds, we are seeing a lot of all-ins taking place across the 4 tables still in play.

There was a 3 way all-in on table 31, Playground regular Mike Pateneude, Alan Shields, and Costa Psallidas all had there chips in the middle when we arrived at the table.

Mike:
Alan:
Costa:

When no Ace or 5 hit the board, Costa scooped the pot with a big smile on his face and nice increase to his stack.

On Table 34, Shawn S. open shoved UTG for about 10 bb’s and was called by Tam Ho in late position.

Before the two hands were tabled, Shawn announced “let the fish who open shoved win the hand”. The hands were then tabled:

Shawn:
Tam:

Flop: , and Shawn was ahead, Tam needed to hit now for that to change.
Turn: , River: and Shawn scooped the pot. As the pot was being sent his way, he was heard saying “and the fish wins!”.

Players have just had their 2nd break of the day and the field has thinned out somewhat, and stacks are continuing to grow.

Patrick Boisvert has jumped ahead of the pack and is the only player north of 200k as he is currently nursing a stack of 218,400, followed by James Maxwell who is still running good and is now in 2nd place with 163,500.

With a total of 155 players, the prize pool in today’s $100+$10 Deepstack turbo has swelled to $15,035.  The top 20 spots will be paid, with a min cash $180 in 20th, and a top prize in 1st place of $3,385!

Late registration is now closed, there were a total of 155 players who entered the tournament, and there are still 131 in contention for the final table.

During the break we had a chance to survey the stacks on the tables, and one player, James Maxwell, has taken a commanding lead and is running away from the pack. With the chip stack average at 35,500, Maxwell is sitting on 121,800, almost 30,000 chips more than the player in 2nd place.

The prize pool grew to a sweet $15,035; in just a little bit we will post the payouts.

Action on table 22 was heating up as Shawn S. shoved his stack on the turn on a board, and looked up and said “please don’t take my photo if I lose the hand”.

Maxime Argento, seated to his direct left, looked at Shawn, then looked back at his hole cards, shook his head and folded. Shawn asked him “did you have the 5?”, and Maxime said “of course I had the 5, I had 55”.  Shawn said “then you were good” as he showed AJ

With already 129 players registered in today’s Deepstack event, and still growing, the GTD $10K prize pool has already been smashed and continues to get larger and larger.  There is still another 35 minutes of late registration available, so if you were on the fence and undecided about playing today, there is still time to jump into the action!

Walking around the room, we were able to take a few shots of some of the players already in their seats.