Event 4 has reached the final 2 tables, as only 18 players remain in action from the 136 that started the day. The structure pays 14 places, meaning the tournament bubble is nearing us very fast. The $220 prize for 14th place is an interesting compensation, however we all know that most of the players are only looking at that top prize worth $3,182 – which of course is accompanied by a stunning Playground Poker Spring Classic Champion’s Trophy to immortalize the win.

Below is the seating arrangements for the final 18 players, with their full chip counts at the break following level 18:

Event 4 is finishing up a short chip-up break, where the staff is removing the T100 chips from play. A few stacks have considerably shot up in the past few levels, as the ever-increasing pressure of the blinds in this Deepstack Turbo is in full-effect. Anish Kumar Sood leads the final 43 players as play enters level 14, and the current leaderboard looks like this:

@parkaaaat @PlaygroundPoker absolute chip leader pic.twitter.com/bgyiWn4W3R

— Anish Kumar Sood (@DarthKumar) 25 April 2016

The players in the Deepstack Turbo are taking their first break of the day, and while they are on break, the last of the late registrants will be permitted to join the tourney. The final number for the tourney should be around the current 130 players, which will add up to a tidy prize pool for a Monday morning!

The structure of this tournament is a little different than other Spring Classic tourneys in that antes start a little later – they’ll start in level 6 when players return from break, and the initial ante will be 100 chips. This marks the first real “inflection point” in the tournament, as pots will get bigger, and faster, with antes at stake and not just the blinds. Experienced players in this format will take that into account and some significant accumulations should result.

We expected a lot of players to register late for this event – this is a very common practice in all Playground Poker Club tournaments – but not necessarily to this extent! With another 45 minutes of late registration left there are already 119 players seated at the tables – and more coming in every few minutes.

Play has just begun in level 1 of today’s Deepstack Turbo event with 60 players seated to get the action started and probably about that many due to show up during the late registration period. Late reg is permitted until the end of the first break, but due to the 15-minute blind levels in this event, there are 5 levels before the break – which means that you can register until 1:30pm.

Players have started with 25K in chips and as we mentioned in the into post, the action is certain to be super fast today with 15-minute blind levels for the entire tournament.