Today is the 2nd and final day in the Playground Poker Spring Classic Second Chance event, a $2,300 + $200 NL Hold’em Freezout event that began yesterday with a total of 92 players and now restarts with just 16 players remaining. The Second Chance event is slated to pay 12 players, which means that bubble play will effectively begin immediately upon restart.

Even so, we expect the pace of the tournament to start relatively quickly – and we’ll be covering all of the action until a champion is crowned sometime later today.

There are just 16 players remaining of the 92 who began today’s Day 1 in the $2,300 + $200 Second Chance event. Just 12 places will pay in the tournament, so the players will be immediately “in the juice” when play resumes tomorrow (May 9th) at 12:00pm.

The following table is the official seating draw for the Day 2 restart along with player-provided chip counts. Click (or tap) on a column header to sort the table.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège	Stack | Tapis
Harpreet Singh	Gill	Table 66 - Seat 1	114,000
Andrew	Macdonald	Table 66 - Seat 2	100,000
Oren	Haziza	Table 66 - Seat 3	250,000
Nick	Nickoletopoulos	Table 66 - Seat 4	58,000
David	Valcourt-Dube	Table 66 - Seat 5	134,000
Frank	Szelepcsenyi	Table 66 - Seat 6	96,000
Martin	Finger	Table 66 - Seat 7	473,500
Jonathan	Duhamel	Table 66 - Seat 8	317,000
Thomas	Lefort	Table 70 - Seat 1	95,500
Ryan Tack	Yu	Table 70 - Seat 2	181,500
Bronson	Tran	Table 70 - Seat 3	60,500
Alexander	Villa	Table 70 - Seat 4	109,000
Feizal	Satchu	Table 70 - Seat 5	79,500
Barry	Kruger	Table 70 - Seat 6	120,000
Jacob	Snider	Table 70 - Seat 7	85,500
Andre	Lettau	Table 70 - Seat 8	59,500

Martin Finger is a super high stakes tournament player, with $6,790,644 in live earnings. He won a £48,500 + 1,500 No Limit Hold’em – Super High Roller Event in London in 2013 for £821,000, and a €25,000 + 500 No Limit Hold’em – High Roller 8Max Event in Barcelona in 2015 for €865,900. He is considered to be one of the best European tournament players. He currently has a little over 400K in chips, which is twice as much as his closest rival.

In second place, with about 200K in chips, is Jonathan Duhamel, local pro and former World Champion. He has $17,650,458 in live earnings. His greatest feat is obviously his win at the 41st World Series of Poker Main Event in 2010, where he pocketed $8,944,310 and the World Championship title. Since then, he also won the $111,111 No Limit Hold’em High Roller for One-Drop Event at the WSOP for $3,989,985, as well as other money finishes, some of which were from super high stakes tournaments.

These are our 2 Second Chance chip leaders right now… right here at Playground Poker Club. There are now 2 tables left, one for each of our top dogs, and 30 minutes left to this day.

A list of Day 2 qualifiers with counts will be published shortly after this level.

The Second Chance Event is now on its last stint of the day, and will resume tomorrow at 12pm. We used the break to bring you full counts for all 27 players. Martin Finger has a whopping 363K, or 4 times the 27-player average. To have a visual of how big his stack his, you can sort the following table by stack size by clicking on the column header. His closest rival is none other than former world champion Jonathan Duhamel, with 181,500, or half of Finger’s chips!

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège	Stack | Tapis
Thomas	Lefort	Table 33 - Seat 1	69,000
David	Valcourt-Dubé	Table 33 - Seat 2	83,500
Alexander	Villa	Table 33 - Seat 3	112,500
Paul	Petten	Table 33 - Seat 4	41,000
Salim	Harji	Table 33 - Seat 5	48,000
Nick	Nickoletopoulos	Table 33 - Seat 6	33,500
Peter	Chien	Table 33 - Seat 7	48,000
Martin	Finger	Table 33 - Seat 8	363,000
Anne-Marie	Findlay	Table 33 - Seat 9	79,500
Pierre-Paul	Paulin	Table 34 - Seat 1	32,500
Andre	Lettau	Table 34 - Seat 2	26,500
Ryan	Godson	Table 34 - Seat 3	29,000
Bronson	Tran	Table 34 - Seat 4	67,000
Oren	Haziza	Table 34 - Seat 5	153,000
Jake	Labonté	Table 34 - Seat 6	51,500
Jonathan	Vanfleet	Table 34 - Seat 7	84,500
Eric	Lemarquand	Table 34 - Seat 8	24,000
Marco	Sousa	Table 34 - Seat 9	22,000
Jonathan	Duhamel	Table 35 - Seat 1	181,500
Ryan	Tack Yu	Table 35 - Seat 2	123,000
Feizal	Satchu	Table 35 - Seat 3	108,000
Andrew	Mason Dixon	Table 35 - Seat 4	36,500
Khaly	Dang	Table 35 - Seat 5	35,500
Harpreet	Singh Gill	Table 35 - Seat 6	142,000
Andrew	Macdonald	Table 35 - Seat 7	92,000
Frank	Szelepcsenyi	Table 35 - Seat 8	65,000
Barry	Kruger	Table 35 - Seat 9	141,500

Only 27 players still have chips in the Second Chance Event, which prompted the tournament staff to perform a 27-player redraw. Here are the new seating assignments:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège
Thomas	Lefort	Table 33 - Seat 1
David	Valcourt-Dubé	Table 33 - Seat 2
Alexander	Villa	Table 33 - Seat 3
Paul	Petten	Table 33 - Seat 4
Salim	Harji	Table 33 - Seat 5
Nick	Nickoletopoulos	Table 33 - Seat 6
Peter	Chien	Table 33 - Seat 7
Martin	Finger	Table 33 - Seat 8
Anne-Marie	Findlay	Table 33 - Seat 9
Pierre-Paul	Paulin	Table 34 - Seat 1
Andre	Lettau	Table 34 - Seat 2
Ryan	Godson	Table 34 - Seat 3
Bronson	Tran	Table 34 - Seat 4
Oren	Haziza	Table 34 - Seat 5
Jake	Labonté	Table 34 - Seat 6
Jonathan	Vanfleet	Table 34 - Seat 7
Eric	Lemarquand	Table 34 - Seat 8
Marco	Sousa	Table 34 - Seat 9
Jonathan	Duhamel	Table 35 - Seat 1
Ryan	Tack Yu	Table 35 - Seat 2
Feizal	Satchu	Table 35 - Seat 3
Andrew	Mason Dixon	Table 35 - Seat 4
Khaly	Dang	Table 35 - Seat 5
Harpreet	Singh Gill	Table 35 - Seat 6
Andrew	Macdonald	Table 35 - Seat 7
Frank	Szelepcsenyi	Table 35 - Seat 8
Barry	Kruger	Table 35 - Seat 9

There are just 41 players left now in the Second Chance event as play has moved into level 10. Only 4 of the players have managed to build up a stack of at least 2x the average, however, so the leaderboard is still relatively short. The leader so far is Alexander Villa, a player well-known for deep runs and skilful play from past big events hosted here at Playground Poker Club.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Alexander	Villa	206,800
Mac	Donnell	151,000
Martin	Finger	134,400
Ryan	Yu	116,100