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

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:

1. Alan Ryan (Ari) Engel – 219K
2. Alex Fortin Demers – 200K
3. Gagandeep Singh – 185K
4. Joseph Anders – 177K
5. Joshua Keith Tucker – 163K
6. Randy Khalil – 151K
7. Jonathan Duhamel – 125K
8. Luigi Valente – 124K

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.

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:

1. Alex Fortin Demers – 145K
2. Gagandeep Singh – 123K
3. Joseph Andres – 118K
4. Alan Ryan Engel – 116K
5. Tam Ho – 112K
6. Edward Hislop – 110K
7. Kyle Chang – 100K

Overall, the tournament is down to 95 players remaining. Some of the notable players still in the action:

• Griffin Benger
• Eric Afriat
• Jonathan Duhamel
• Chanracy Khun
• Matthew Salsberg
• Tim Ulmer

Players in Event 7 have just returned from their second break of the day. While they were absent from the tables, we found the current leaders in the tournament. Here are the top 6:

1. Faisal Khan – 111K
2. Joshua Abiscott – 99K
3. Alan Ryan Engel – 95K
4. Tam Ho – 92K
5. Alex Fortin Demers – 89K
6. Jeff Rosenblatt – 87K

Registration is now closed in the tournament – the final number of players today is 190. We’ll make full prize pool information available shortly.