Here is the full seating redraw that occurred with 18 players remaining.

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First Name,Last Name,Seat [attr sort=”asc”]
Ari,Engel,Table 35 – Seat 4
Alex,Fortin Demers,Table 36 – Seat 3
Alexander James,Allison,Table 36 – Seat 2
Ami,Alibay,Table 35 – Seat 5
Andrew,Graham,Table 35 – Seat 7
Chanracy,Khun,Table 36 – Seat 9
Daniel,Leduc,Table 35 – Seat 3
Grant,Fallis,Table 36 – Seat 8
Gregory,Katayama,Table 35 – Seat 1
Griffin,Benger,Table 36 – Seat 1
Joe,Gualtieri,Table 36 – Seat 4
Jonathan,Duhamel,Table 35 – Seat 8
Joshua Keith,Tucker,Table 35 – Seat 2
Kane,Kalas,Table 35 – Seat 9
Michael,Wang,Table 36 – Seat 7
Peter,Papadakos,Table 36 – Seat 5
Philippe,Belley,Table 36 – Seat 6
Robert,Taylor,Table 35 – Seat 6
[/eztable]

The players remaining in the Warm-up just took a break as tournament staff removed the purple T500 chips from play. Here is the current leaderboard in the event:

1. Kane Kalas – 540K
2. Joshua Keith Tucker – 460K
3. Alex Fortin Demers – 420K
4. Andrew Graham – 360K
5. Gregory Katayama – 330K

Griffin Benger and Jonathan Duhamel both have healthy stacks near the chip average of 250K.

Action after the bubble burst has been pretty fast-moving and there have already been 5 eliminations.

• 24th place: Jeremy Lyons, $1,760
• 23rd place: Jean-Sebastien Gratton, $1,760
• 22nd place: Victor Artemenko, $1,760
• 21st place: Joseph Andres, $1,990
• 20th place: Gagandeep Singh, $1,990

We’re just one elimination away from a new table redraw as the tournament is reduced to 2 tables.

Edward Hislop has been eliminated in 25th place and is the bubble player in Event 7. We arrived on the turn with on the board. Kane Kalas was first to act and bet 56K. Edward made the call. The river was dealt: . Kane led out – this time with an all-in bet of his much larger stack than Edward’s was.

Edward went into the tank, but not for long – he made the call for his tournament life… and lost to Kane’s .

The very next hand, Jeremy Lyons was eliminated for a min-cash so there are now 23 players remaining.

Brendan Kraft has been eliminated in 26th place, and so with 25 players remaining, the tournament is now hand-for hand. After the next elimination, everyone left is in the money!

Here is the new seating chart with 27 players remaining. Note that since the redraw another player was eliminated, leaving just 26 players and an empty seat at table 35.

[eztable width=”100%” colwidth=”35%|35%|30%” colalign=”left|left|left”]
First Name,Last Name,Seat [attr sort=”asc”]
Ari,Engel,Table 36 – Seat 8
Alex,Fortin Demers,Table 39 – Seat 1
Alexander James,Allison,Table 35 – Seat 6
Ami,Alibay,Table 39 – Seat 5
Andrew,Graham,Table 35 – Seat 4
Brendan,Kraft,Table 36 – Seat 5
Chanracy,Khun,Table 36 – Seat 6
Daniel,Leduc,Table 36 – Seat 2
Edward,Hislop,Table 35 – Seat 1
Gagandeep,Singh,Table 39 – Seat 8
Geoffrey Robert,McNeely,Table 36 – Seat 3
Grant,Fallis,Table 39 – Seat 2
Gregory,Katayama,Table 39 – Seat 4
Griffin,Benger,Table 36 – Seat 7
Jean-Sebastien,Gratton,Table 36 – Seat 9
Jeremy,Lyons,Table 35 – Seat 2
Joe,Gualtieri,Table 39 – Seat 7
Jonathan,Duhamel,Table 39 – Seat 6
Joseph,Andres,Table 35 – Seat 8
Joshua Keith,Tucker,Table 35 – Seat 9
Kane,Kalas,Table 35 – Seat 5
Michael,Wang,Table 36 – Seat 4
Peter,Papadakos,Table 39 – Seat 3
Philippe,Belley,Table 35 – Seat 3
Robert,Taylor,Table 36 – Seat 1
Victor,Artemenko,Table 39 – Seat 9
,Empty Seat,Table 35 – Seat 7
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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!