Vlad Faubert was also short-stacked coming into the day, and he got it in holding 
but was instantly called by Gregory Katayama holding 
.
The board ran out 
to let Gregory fade Vlad’s outs and stack the chips.
The redraw at 27 players is happening now – we’ll have an updated seating chart shortly.
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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The WPT Warm-Up has reached it’s final 3 tables of 10-players. Players are on their last level of the day, and the clock shows there are only 15-minutes left before the completion of the day. Shortly after players have bagged their chips, we will be publishing the full player-reported chip counts, as well as the seating assignments for tomorrow’s Day 2, which is scheduled for 12pm.
Table 62
Seat 1. Griffin Benger
Seat 2. Zennawi Petros
Seat 3. Hiyaw Gebreyohannes
Seat 4. Edward Hislop
Seat 5. Philippe Belley
Seat 6. Alex Fortin Demers
Seat 7. Robert Taylor
Seat 8. Jean-Sebastien Gratton
Seat 9. Kane Kalas
Seat 10. Vlad Faubert
Table 66
Seat 1. Ami Alibay
Seat 2. Geoffrey Robert McNeely
Seat 3. Gregory Katayama
Seat 4. Patrick Braga
Seat 5. Alan Engel
Seat 6. Jonathan Duhamel
Seat 7. Michael Wang
Seat 8. Andrew Graham
Seat 9. Joe Gualtieri
Seat 10. Joshua Keith Tucker
Table 70
Seat 1. Daniel Leduc
Seat 2. Randy Khalil
Seat 3. Gagandeep Singh
Seat 4. Jeremy Lyons
Seat 5. Alexandre James Allison
Seat 6. Grant Fallis
Seat 7. Joseph Andres
Seat 8. Chanracy Khun
Seat 9. Victor Artemenko
Seat 10. Peter Papadakos
The WPT Warm-up is on it’s last break of the night, and will go on pause for the night upon the completion of two more 45-minutes levels. Those left with chips at this point will bag and tag them onto Day 2, which will take place tomorrow at 12pm. With only 46 players left, here is current leaderboard, entering level 15:
Photographs from levels 14:
A few players in the WPT Warm-up are starting to slightly pull away from the pack with just 60 players left in the tournament. Here are the top 8 players by chip count at this stage in the event:
Some other players we’re following: Griffin Benger, 23K; Chanracy Khun, 48K, Matthew Salzberg, 41K
The WPT Warm-up is down to 63 players as the tournament rolls right along with an average stack nearing 50 big blinds and a regular procession of players to the rail. We’ll be back with a leaderboard update during the next break, scheduled for the end of this level (in 20 minutes), but a quick overview of the tables in play shows two tables in particular – table 61 and table 66 – that have a LOT of chips on them, and action to match.
A few of the players eliminated in the past hour or so: Alexandre Lavigne, early chip leader Jeff Rosenblatt, and Eric Afriat.
Still in: Griffin Benger, Jonathan Duhamel, Matt Salsberg, Ari Engel, Kane Kalas, Ami Alibay, Chanracy Khun.
Photographs form level 11:
Players have taken a break while tournament staff remove the green T25 chips from play. The leaders at the break are all over 100K in chips:
Overall, the tournament is down to 95 players remaining. Some of the notable players still in the action:
