Through the first level and a half of play, the Playground 200 has already dropped by 34 players – just over half of the number that must be eliminated before the bubble arrives today. The pace of play has, has usual, been very quick, but things seem to have slowed down a little bit as the smaller stacks have been eliminated – or on the case of Charles-Eric Benoit – grown to more than respectability.
The players’ first break of the day will come following the next level, which is to say in about 40 minutes, and it’s quite likely that the bubble will be reached shortly after the break.
Vincent Tremblay is still the chip leader in the tournament, and he has grown his stack up to well over 600K at this point. The player who started second in chips – Mathieu Boucher – is also now seated at Table 64, which looks to have an overload of large stacks on it.
