Since the deal that was made at the beginning of the final table, the rate of elimination accelerated significantly. 3 players have hit the rail in the first level of play – Jeff Rosenblatt, Brian Morgan and Shneor Zalman Hus were the first three victims.

The action slowed down a little when there were just 4 players remaining, but finally the match was left to just 2 participants – Marco Cannizzaro and Nicolas Aubut.

Here are a few photos of the action in Event 3.

Tonight’s Bounty tournament has begun and part-way through the first level of play there are already 100 players at the tables! This is a popular event, and with late registration being common at Playground – particularly on weekday evenings – this number is sure to grow by quite a bit before registration closes.

Tonight sees one of the all-time favourite tournament formats at Playground Poker Club – a bounty tournament! Every player will buy in to the event as usual, but along with their starting stack of 20K in chips, they will also receive a special $25 Bounty chip. This bounty chip stays with a player as long as he or she is in the tournament – but when the player is eliminated, his or her bounty chip goes to the player who did the deed. Meanwhile, if that player has eliminated others, he or she can take those bounty chips and exchange them for cash them in at the end of the evening.

Event 3 will begin at 7:30pm and late registration will be available until 9pm – so there’s still lots of time to get out to Playground and join in the fun!