The 6 starting flights to The $250 Frenzy are now behind us, and the qualifying players from each flight are back tonight for Day 2 of this Event 3 in the Playground Poker Winter Festival.
224 stacks are laid out across the tournament hall waiting for their counterparts, and action will be underway in just a few moments. Leading the field is Randy Khalil, who managed to bag an impressive 368,500 through the first 14 levels of play. Lucian Mariuta (349,500) and Ali Awada (345,000) also bagged hefty stacks, and these three players lead the pack by quite a margin – so big that 4th in chips Gianfranco Giordano (250,500) is nearly 100,000 behind the top 3 players.
The plan of action for tonight is to play through 12 levels of 30-minutes each before bagging onto tomorrow’s grand finale. All eyes are on the sweet $43,000 top prize, however the top 108 will lock in a cash prize of at least $500. A final table appearance secures $2,600, while the top 30 will earn a 4-figure payday.
Follow all the action from tonight’s Day 2 via our own Playground Poker Blog, where we will be publishing live updates, chip counts and photographs from the night.
Good luck to the Day 2 players!
Day 2 seating assignments (with player-reported chip counts)
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Seat | Siège | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arif | Bhuiyan | Table 31 - Seat 1 | 94,500 |
| Derek Duane | Thibault | Table 31 - Seat 2 | 46,000 |
| Giuseppe | Anello | Table 31 - Seat 3 | 30,500 |
| Jason | M | Table 31 - Seat 4 | 28,500 |
| Devon | Jones | Table 31 - Seat 5 | 128,000 |
| Ian | Duggins | Table 31 - Seat 6 | 60,000 |
| Robert | Gariepy | Table 31 - Seat 7 | 49,000 |
| Daniel | Hughes | Table 31 - Seat 8 | 28,500 |
| Jonathan | G | Table 31 - Seat 9 | 175,500 |
| David | Dastoli | Table 32 - Seat 1 | 61,500 |
| Sean | Grover | Table 32 - Seat 2 | 95,000 |
| Paul | Brunet | Table 32 - Seat 3 | 97,500 |
| Michel | Naggar | Table 32 - Seat 4 | 83,000 |
| Melanie | Ares | Table 32 - Seat 5 | 59,000 |
| Michelle | Reyes | Table 32 - Seat 6 | 53,500 |
| Josip | Zlomislic | Table 32 - Seat 7 | 94,500 |
| Jason | Conforti | Table 32 - Seat 8 | 87,500 |
| Jacques | Pare | Table 32 - Seat 9 | 46,000 |
| Noy | U | Table 35 - Seat 1 | 154,500 |
| Pierre Olivier | Guay | Table 35 - Seat 2 | 80,000 |
| Andrej | Bachynsky | Table 35 - Seat 3 | 72,000 |
| Richard | Lajeunesse | Table 35 - Seat 4 | 34,500 |
| Frederick | Charland | Table 35 - Seat 6 | 127,000 |
| Roy | Rochette | Table 35 - Seat 7 | 179,000 |
| Steven | Collin | Table 35 - Seat 8 | 89,500 |
| Etienne | Ouellette | Table 35 - Seat 9 | 59,000 |
| Lee | Chanwoo | Table 49 - Seat 1 | 133,500 |
| Young Jae | Kim | Table 49 - Seat 2 | 133,500 |
| Evangelos | Kamperis | Table 49 - Seat 3 | 98,500 |
| George | Ciuciureanu | Table 49 - Seat 4 | 129,000 |
| Leor | Wasserman | Table 49 - Seat 5 | 28,500 |
| Eric | Ranger | Table 49 - Seat 6 | 131,500 |
| Joseph | Crivello | Table 49 - Seat 7 | 53,500 |
| Laura | Farrell | Table 49 - Seat 8 | 82,000 |
| Steven | Tran | Table 49 - Seat 9 | 97,000 |
| Patrick | Dattilo | Table 50 - Seat 1 | 52,000 |
| Mathieu | Laforce | Table 50 - Seat 2 | 35,500 |
| John | Araujo | Table 50 - Seat 3 | 137,500 |
| Mitchell | Dredge | Table 50 - Seat 4 | 23,000 |
| Eric J C | Ylagan | Table 50 - Seat 5 | 76,500 |
| Fraser | Swidler | Table 50 - Seat 6 | 59,000 |
| Dave | Pelletier-Bremner | Table 50 - Seat 7 | 112,500 |
| Albert | Bassal | Table 50 - Seat 8 | 26,000 |
| Julian | Villanova | Table 50 - Seat 9 | 111,500 |
| Alexander | Matveev | Table 51 - Seat 1 | 84,000 |
| Tam | Ho | Table 51 - Seat 2 | 144,500 |
| Chadi | Kaddar | Table 51 - Seat 3 | 101,500 |
| Benoit | Perras | Table 51 - Seat 4 | 38,500 |
| Simon | Pin-Disle | Table 51 - Seat 5 | 106,500 |
| Stephen | Nahm | Table 51 - Seat 6 | 165,000 |
| Kamal | Hamai | Table 51 - Seat 7 | 90,500 |
| Glen | Hammers | Table 51 - Seat 8 | 85,000 |
| Georges | Hallak | Table 51 - Seat 9 | 153,000 |
| Leo | Mantas Ragusa | Table 52 - Seat 1 | 162,000 |
| Daniel | Le | Table 52 - Seat 2 | 139,000 |
| Fayez | Assouad | Table 52 - Seat 3 | 53,000 |
| Marie France | DuSablon | Table 52 - Seat 4 | 75,000 |
| Jean-Francois | Santerre | Table 52 - Seat 5 | 90,500 |
| Jean Allan | Christine | Table 52 - Seat 6 | 156,000 |
| Jaered Daniel | Besse | Table 52 - Seat 7 | 135,000 |
| David Peter | Conolly | Table 52 - Seat 8 | 37,000 |
| David | Simard | Table 52 - Seat 9 | 106,500 |
| Gianfranco | Giordano | Table 53 - Seat 1 | 250,500 |
| Richard | Figiel | Table 53 - Seat 2 | 64,000 |
| Nelly | Miranda | Table 53 - Seat 3 | 97,500 |
| Dimitri | Tchakarov | Table 53 - Seat 4 | 64,000 |
| Donghai | Lu | Table 53 - Seat 5 | 171,500 |
| Lance | Perkins | Table 53 - Seat 6 | 33,500 |
| Presten | Cloutier | Table 53 - Seat 7 | 155,000 |
| Emile | H | Table 53 - Seat 8 | 65,000 |
| Marie | Tran | Table 53 - Seat 9 | 36,500 |
| David Joseph Don | Gionet | Table 54 - Seat 1 | 57,500 |
| Benoit | Lord | Table 54 - Seat 2 | 89,500 |
| Ali | Awada | Table 54 - Seat 3 | 345,000 |
| Michael | Chouinard | Table 54 - Seat 4 | 50,000 |
| Han | Qin | Table 54 - Seat 5 | 69,000 |
| Tanvir | Ahmed | Table 54 - Seat 6 | 43,000 |
| Isaac | Buswell | Table 54 - Seat 7 | 169,000 |
| Grant | Ellis | Table 54 - Seat 8 | 91,000 |
| Mike | Saragossi | Table 54 - Seat 9 | 101,500 |
| Philippe | Belley | Table 55 - Seat 1 | 74,500 |
| Patrick | Charron | Table 55 - Seat 2 | 40,500 |
| Albert | N | Table 55 - Seat 3 | 183,500 |
| Georges Jacob | Alemkunnapuzha | Table 55 - Seat 4 | 56,000 |
| Lisa | Pedicelli | Table 55 - Seat 5 | 34,500 |
| Bart | Sieminski | Table 55 - Seat 6 | 116,000 |
| Janine | Bibb | Table 55 - Seat 7 | 90,000 |
| Pascal | Gregoire | Table 55 - Seat 8 | 88,500 |
| Endrit | Geci | Table 55 - Seat 9 | 161,000 |
| Matthew | Hendler | Table 56 - Seat 1 | 44,000 |
| Andre | Landry | Table 56 - Seat 2 | 79,500 |
| Anderson | Frank-Graham | Table 56 - Seat 3 | 77,500 |
| Remi | Robitaille | Table 56 - Seat 4 | 32,500 |
| Timothy | Deering | Table 56 - Seat 5 | 75,000 |
| Damien | Gozzi | Table 56 - Seat 6 | 52,000 |
| Ben | Menache | Table 56 - Seat 7 | 62,500 |
| Vo Victor | Ly | Table 56 - Seat 8 | 28,500 |
| Michael | Malm | Table 56 - Seat 9 | 109,000 |
| Shane | Cloutier | Table 57 - Seat 1 | 51,000 |
| William | Blais | Table 57 - Seat 2 | 100,000 |
| Kevin | Lee | Table 57 - Seat 3 | 40,000 |
| Todor | Petkov | Table 57 - Seat 4 | 64,000 |
| Jaroslaw Zbigniew | Jaskiewicz | Table 57 - Seat 5 | 53,000 |
| Rong | Xu | Table 57 - Seat 6 | 49,500 |
| Bryan | Henriques Ferreira | Table 57 - Seat 7 | 104,000 |
| Carlos Alberto | Gerones Sanchez | Table 57 - Seat 8 | 107,000 |
| Andre | Vezina | Table 57 - Seat 9 | 103,500 |
| Pierre | Gauthier | Table 58 - Seat 1 | 143,500 |
| Maxime | Asselin Blain | Table 58 - Seat 2 | 35,500 |
| Jay | Srinivasan | Table 58 - Seat 3 | 188,000 |
| Naghibollah | Noori | Table 58 - Seat 4 | 52,500 |
| Nicholas | Pitre | Table 58 - Seat 5 | 72,000 |
| Richard | Lord | Table 58 - Seat 6 | 65,000 |
| Luc | Gagne | Table 58 - Seat 7 | 61,500 |
| Adam | German | Table 58 - Seat 8 | 33,500 |
| Vincent | Deschatelets | Table 58 - Seat 9 | 210,000 |
| Jennifer | Brooks | Table 59 - Seat 1 | 87,000 |
| Hamid Reza | Ofogh | Table 59 - Seat 2 | 76,500 |
| David | Bolduc Hamel | Table 59 - Seat 3 | 162,000 |
| Kuong Chhe | Kuoch | Table 59 - Seat 4 | 75,500 |
| George Christopher | Gonzalez | Table 59 - Seat 5 | 51,000 |
| Cole Spencer | Neufeld | Table 59 - Seat 6 | 24,500 |
| Santiago | Plante | Table 59 - Seat 7 | 156,000 |
| Frederic | Gagne | Table 59 - Seat 8 | 76,000 |
| Marc | Bourgeois | Table 59 - Seat 9 | 61,500 |
| Alexandre | Beaudette | Table 60 - Seat 1 | 140,000 |
| Nicholas | McEwen | Table 60 - Seat 2 | 31,500 |
| Marco | Caza | Table 60 - Seat 3 | 101,000 |
| Peter | Zelmer | Table 60 - Seat 4 | 125,000 |
| Jordan | Revel | Table 60 - Seat 5 | 45,500 |
| Patrick | Mailloux | Table 60 - Seat 6 | 145,000 |
| Kevin Christopher | Truelove | Table 60 - Seat 7 | 66,500 |
| Said | Michailidis | Table 60 - Seat 8 | 72,500 |
| David | Saunders | Table 60 - Seat 9 | 47,500 |
| Yoan | Poulin | Table 61 - Seat 1 | 63,000 |
| Alain | Toledano | Table 61 - Seat 2 | 140,500 |
| Maxime | Cloutier | Table 61 - Seat 3 | 97,000 |
| Joseph | Kennedy | Table 61 - Seat 4 | 80,000 |
| Martin | Mc Manus | Table 61 - Seat 5 | 200,000 |
| Daune | Fernandez | Table 61 - Seat 6 | 106,500 |
| Max | Zeppetelli | Table 61 - Seat 7 | 52,000 |
| Alexandre | Bergeron-Cyr | Table 61 - Seat 8 | 90,500 |
| Alexandre | Fortin Patoine | Table 61 - Seat 9 | 65,500 |
| Sandro | Grande | Table 62 - Seat 1 | 107,000 |
| Stephane | Berthelet | Table 62 - Seat 2 | 93,000 |
| Frederick | Pynn | Table 62 - Seat 3 | 60,000 |
| Pierre Marc | Chadi | Table 62 - Seat 4 | 123,500 |
| Pierre-Luc | Gaudreau | Table 62 - Seat 5 | 139,000 |
| Kelvin | Tang | Table 62 - Seat 6 | 39,000 |
| Charles-Eric | Benoit | Table 62 - Seat 7 | 45,000 |
| Joel | Thibeault | Table 62 - Seat 8 | 34,500 |
| Nick | Nickoletopoulos | Table 62 - Seat 9 | 82,000 |
| June | Jenkins | Table 63 - Seat 1 | 95,500 |
| Lucian | Mariuta | Table 63 - Seat 2 | 349,500 |
| Arnold | Yaxley | Table 63 - Seat 3 | 70,500 |
| Patrick | White | Table 63 - Seat 4 | 88,000 |
| Anthony-Paul | Belle-Isle | Table 63 - Seat 5 | 62,000 |
| Genevieve | Dsouza | Table 63 - Seat 6 | 109,000 |
| Mohamed | Ben Yahia | Table 63 - Seat 7 | 31,000 |
| Maurice | Langlois | Table 63 - Seat 8 | 120,000 |
| Robert | Amireault | Table 63 - Seat 9 | 94,500 |
| Mahmut | Zor | Table 64 - Seat 1 | 64,000 |
| Stephane | Bisson | Table 64 - Seat 2 | 160,000 |
| Yan | Gohier | Table 64 - Seat 3 | 92,500 |
| Gaurav | Arora | Table 64 - Seat 4 | 226,500 |
| Imran | Hussain | Table 64 - Seat 5 | 75,000 |
| Carlos | Rivas | Table 64 - Seat 6 | 97,500 |
| Line | Desjardins | Table 64 - Seat 7 | 63,500 |
| Nicolas | Roch | Table 64 - Seat 8 | 118,000 |
| Donald | Abdelhay | Table 64 - Seat 9 | 117,000 |
| Alberto | Scuderi | Table 65 - Seat 1 | 155,000 |
| Joey | Boczek | Table 65 - Seat 2 | 1,000 |
| Jacob | Lafleur | Table 65 - Seat 3 | 90,000 |
| Maxime | Boulais | Table 65 - Seat 4 | 172,000 |
| Behrouz | Ghaedi | Table 65 - Seat 5 | 127,000 |
| Jordan | Saccucci | Table 65 - Seat 6 | 240,000 |
| Kevin | Bentz | Table 65 - Seat 7 | 134,000 |
| Derek | Primeau | Table 65 - Seat 8 | 38,500 |
| Samuel | Jaramillo | Table 65 - Seat 9 | 30,000 |
| James | Cooke | Table 66 - Seat 1 | 124,000 |
| Aboud | Georgos | Table 66 - Seat 2 | 40,500 |
| Franco | Casarcia | Table 66 - Seat 3 | 134,000 |
| Alain | Neveu | Table 66 - Seat 4 | 74,000 |
| Mark | Howie | Table 66 - Seat 5 | 172,000 |
| Real | Cantin | Table 66 - Seat 6 | 56,500 |
| Darrin | Oremba | Table 66 - Seat 7 | 74,500 |
| Langis | Degrandpre | Table 66 - Seat 8 | 157,500 |
| Levon | Dedeyan | Table 66 - Seat 9 | 59,000 |
| Francesco | Presta | Table 67 - Seat 1 | 28,500 |
| Ilya | Plaksienko | Table 67 - Seat 2 | 41,000 |
| Marc | Saddik | Table 67 - Seat 3 | 44,500 |
| Yvan | Arsenault | Table 67 - Seat 4 | 105,000 |
| Daniel | Renaud | Table 67 - Seat 5 | 75,000 |
| Denyse | Mignault | Table 67 - Seat 6 | 77,000 |
| Hugo | St-Cyr | Table 67 - Seat 7 | 45,500 |
| Serge | Denis | Table 67 - Seat 8 | 84,500 |
| Daniel | Johnston | Table 67 - Seat 9 | 105,500 |
| Charles | Normand | Table 68 - Seat 1 | 41,000 |
| Tania Marie | Stephan | Table 68 - Seat 2 | 204,500 |
| Gregory | Feuz | Table 68 - Seat 3 | 102,500 |
| Richard | Myron | Table 68 - Seat 4 | 38,500 |
| Ramnik | Singh | Table 68 - Seat 5 | 112,000 |
| Pierre | Bernier | Table 68 - Seat 6 | 93,500 |
| Tomislav | Pavkovic | Table 68 - Seat 7 | 152,500 |
| Marton | Szlavy | Table 68 - Seat 8 | 101,000 |
| Marco | Sousa | Table 68 - Seat 9 | 157,000 |
| Sylvie | Belair | Table 69 - Seat 1 | 23,000 |
| Sinisa | Vujic | Table 69 - Seat 2 | 24,000 |
| Ghislain | Chabot | Table 69 - Seat 3 | 81,000 |
| Patrick | Boisvert | Table 69 - Seat 4 | 130,500 |
| Shu Pui Philip | Tse | Table 69 - Seat 5 | 75,500 |
| Michel | Arsenault | Table 69 - Seat 6 | 29,500 |
| Charles | La Boissonniere | Table 69 - Seat 7 | 14,000 |
| Justin | Leblanc | Table 69 - Seat 8 | 34,500 |
| Michael | Tremblay | Table 69 - Seat 9 | 65,000 |
| Kaven | Marcoux-Thanvilay | Table 70 - Seat 1 | 60,000 |
| Colin | Scheckman | Table 70 - Seat 2 | 54,000 |
| Michael | Macdonald | Table 70 - Seat 3 | 66,500 |
| Randy | Khalil | Table 70 - Seat 4 | 368,500 |
| Andrew | Boujaoude | Table 70 - Seat 5 | 240,000 |
| Yohann | Wagner | Table 70 - Seat 6 | 160,500 |
| Nicolas | Majdalani | Table 70 - Seat 7 | 114,000 |
| Dwayne | Scott | Table 70 - Seat 8 | 109,500 |
| Ian | Modder | Table 70 - Seat 9 | 93,500 |