Tournament staff gave the command to the dealers to “Shuffle up and deal” and almost immediately Patrick Braga was eliminated from the event. He arrived to Day 2 with the 2nd shortest stack in the tournament and was unable to make the quick double up he needed to make a run in the event.

There will be a seating redraw following the next elimination.

There are 29 players left in the $1000 + $100 WPT Warm-up, which is Event 7 in the Playground Poker Spring Classic presented by partypoker.net. The players are starting to arrive in the Tournament Hall to play down to the Champion, and in about 10 minutes the tournament will resume.

It’s sure to start with a bang, because right off the bat today the players are hard up against the money bubble. 24 places will pay in this event, so just 5 eliminations will get us to the bubble. In addition, there’s a redraw scheduled for 27 players remaining (when players will fill 3 9-handed tables), so a player not comfortable with his Day 2 draw can – in theory – wait for a better result after just 2 eliminations!

The event still has some international stars of the game participating – in particular Jonathan Duhamel and Griffin Benger, both of whom start the day with relatively healthy stacks. In addition to them there are some players who have had a lot of past success here at Playground Poker Club over the years (Ami Alibay, Andrew Graham). But the field is strong from top to bottom – it’s completely reasonable to think that any one of the remaining 29 players could emerge as the Champion!

Good luck to all!

This is the official seating chart for Day 2 of the $1,000 + $100 NL Hold’em WPT Warm-up, Event 7 in the Playground Poker Spring Classic presented by partypoker.net.

190 players started the tournament, and after 16 levels of play, 29 players remain in contention for the $184,300.00 in the prize pool. Play will resume on April 30th at 12pm.

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First Name,Last Name,Seat [attr sort=”asc”],Chip Count
Alan Ryan,Engel,Table 40 – Seat 3,”70,500″
Alex,Fortin Demers,Table 36 – Seat 7,”179,000″
Alexander James,Allison,Table 39 – Seat 4,”85,000″
Ami,Alibay,Table 35 – Seat 6,”268,000″
Andrew,Graham,Table 36 – Seat 5,”303,500″
Brendan,Kraft,Table 35 – Seat 5,”39,000″
Chanracy,Khun,Table 36 – Seat 1,”104,000″
Daniel,Leduc,Table 39 – Seat 1,”223,000″
Edward,Hislop,Table 39 – Seat 7,”233,500″
Gagandeep,Singh,Table 35 – Seat 7,”406,500″
Geoffrey Robert,McNeely,Table 35 – Seat 4,”129,000″
Grant,Fallis,Table 35 – Seat 3,”153,000″
Gregory,Katayama,Table 35 – Seat 1,”77,000″
Griffin,Benger,Table 36 – Seat 3,”242,000″
Jean-Sebastien,Gratton,Table 40 – Seat 7,”90,000″
Jeremy,Lyons,Table 36 – Seat 2,”98,000″
Joe,Gualtieri,Table 39 – Seat 6,”167,500″
Jonathan,Duhamel,Table 39 – Seat 5,”190,000″
Joseph,Andres,Table 40 – Seat 5,”66,500″
Joshua Keith,Tucker,Table 40 – Seat 2,”221,000″
Kane,Kalas,Table 36 – Seat 6,”450,000″
Michael,Wang,Table 40 – Seat 1,”82,500″
Patrick,Braga,Table 39 – Seat 3,”43,000″
Peter,Papadakos,Table 40 – Seat 4,”115,000″
Philippe,Belley,Table 36 – Seat 4,”275,500″
Robert,Taylor,Table 35 – Seat 2,”76,000″
Victor,Artemenko,Table 39 – Seat 2,”126,000″
Vlad,Faubert,Table 35 – Seat 8,”62,500″
Zennawi,Petros,Table 40 – Seat 6,”226,500″
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