The first 11 minutes of action have just passed and there have already been 3 eliminations. In the first, Roger Thibault got it in pre and found a call from Manon Dallaire and the cards were flipped:

Thibault: Dallaire: Dallaire had a big lead, and it only grew larger on the flop: . The turn and river didn’t change the outcome and Thibault left in 29th place ($800). A few minutes later there were almost simultaneous eliminations on tables 40 and 36. First up – by a hair – was table 36. In the hand, action folded around to Martin Dyotte on the button who elected to go all-in with his last 320K. Tanvir Ahmed made the call from the big blind. Dyotte: Ahmed: The flop eliminated much of the suspense: and the on the turn and river eliminated the rest – and the player, who was out in 28th place ($800). The 3rd of the 3 early eliminations was Rene-Philippe Noel, who started the day with just 160K and by the time of his elimination was playing a single big blind. In his final hand the action folded to him, but following his action (from the hijack), the button raised to 150K behind and the bb called.

The flop came and the two players with action both checked. On the turn , the early position player bet 100K and the bb folded. The remaining live cards were tabled: Noel: Big blind: The river was the and Noel was eliminated. There has now been a redraw with 26 players remaining. This was added by the tournament director before play tonight – and there will also be another redraw at 18 players remaining (and at 10 players remaining as well, as originally scheduled). Here is the new seating arrangement:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège
Antoine	Chuzeville	Table 36 - Seat 1
Simon	Bissonnette-du-Cap	Table 36 - Seat 2
Nimer	Ltaif	Table 36 - Seat 3
Richard	Myron	Table 36 - Seat 4
Olivier	Theriault-Boudreau	Table 36 - Seat 5
Bart	Sieminski	Table 36 - Seat 6
Karim	Idrissi	Table 36 - Seat 7
Patrick	Trinh	Table 36 - Seat 8
Daniel	Campbell	Table 39 - Seat 1
Mathieu	Boucher	Table 39 - Seat 2
Arnold	Yaxley	Table 39 - Seat 3
Brent	Mccue	Table 39 - Seat 4
Christopher	King	Table 39 - Seat 5
Manon	Dallaire	Table 39 - Seat 6
Frederic	Trudel	Table 39 - Seat 7
Daniel	Le	Table 39 - Seat 8
Jean-Guy	Larosiliere	Table 39 - Seat 9
Jocelyn	Poirier	Table 40 - Seat 1
Christopher	Kokozaki	Table 40 - Seat 2
Nicholas	Belanger	Table 40 - Seat 3
Jonathan	Bourdages	Table 40 - Seat 4
Yan	Nadeau	Table 40 - Seat 5
Simon	Pin-Disle	Table 40 - Seat 6
Alexandre	Gaudreau	Table 40 - Seat 7
Tanvir	Ahmed	Table 40 - Seat 8
Jacques	Perron	Table 40 - Seat 9

After a brief announcement from our tournament director, followed by the traditional “Shuffle up and Deal”, Day 3 of The Wild $150 is now officially underway!

29 players are here to battle it out on the felts on their quest to becoming the next The Wild $150 Champion! There is a full redraw scheduled for when the field drops to 27 players, as well as once we reach the 10-handed final table.

Stay tune via our own Playground Poker Blog for full coverage of tonight’s event, including chip counts, live updates and photographs.

Good luck to our Day 3 players!

In just under an hour, play is set to resume in Event $1, The Wild $150. There are 29 players remaining and play will continue tonight until a Champion is crowned and someone lays claim to the sweet Playground Winter Festival Champion’s Trophy.

Daniel Le and Yan Nadeau start the day as chip leaders – and they also start as table-mates. In fact, of the top 10 players left in the event, 6 of them will start the night on Table 35. This has upsides and downsides – obviously it’s more challenging to pit your big stack against so many other big stacks. On the other hand – there are more chips on the table to win! In any case, table 35 is scheduled to be the first table to break during the evening, so all of these super-stacked players will be distributed among the other tables reasonably soon tonight.

Action will resume in level 27 – blinds 25K/50K/a5K and with a chip average of 825,000, the two small stacks (Olivier Theriault-Boudreau and Rene-Philippe Noel at 160K each) will be under pressure from the start of the night, and there are 5 others playing sub-10-bb stacks, so expect the action to be fast… at least to start!

Good luck to all those who remain in the action!

With just 29 players left, Day 3 action in Event 1, The Wild $150 in the Playground Winter Festival will get under way at 7:00pm on Thursday February 2nd. The following table is the official seating chart for the Day 3 restart.

The 29 players will start divided into 4 tables, which will reduce to 3 after the first two eliminations tonight. A seating redraw is expected with 10 players left (final table), and tournament staff will be on their toes throughout play on Day 3 to keep the tables balanced along the way.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège	Stack | Tapis
Antoine	Chuzeville	Table 35 - Seat 1	980,000
Simon	Pin-Disle	Table 35 - Seat 2	1,315,000
Nimer	Ltaif	Table 35 - Seat 3	1,115,000
Brent	Mccue	Table 35 - Seat 4	950,000
Karim	Idrissi	Table 35 - Seat 5	1,095,000
Daniel	Le	Table 35 - Seat 6	2,090,000
Yan	Nadeau	Table 35 - Seat 7	1,475,000
Christopher	Kokozaki	Table 36 - Seat 1	405,000
Jocelyn	Poirier	Table 36 - Seat 2	955,000
Daniel	Campbell	Table 36 - Seat 3	1,045,000
Simon	Bissonnette-du-Cap	Table 36 - Seat 4	475,000
Martin	Dyotte	Table 36 - Seat 5	420,000
Jacques	Perron	Table 36 - Seat 6	590,000
Richard	Myron	Table 36 - Seat 7	660,000
Tanvir	Ahmed	Table 36 - Seat 8	740,000
Olivier	Theriault-Boudreau	Table 39 - Seat 1	160,000
Jonathan	Bourdages	Table 39 - Seat 2	730,000
Alexandre	Gaudreau	Table 39 - Seat 3	970,000
Frederic	Trudel	Table 39 - Seat 4	600,000
Nicholas	Belanger	Table 39 - Seat 5	625,000
Mathieu	Boucher	Table 39 - Seat 6	1,185,000
Jean-Guy	Larosiliere	Table 39 - Seat 7	615,000
Christopher	King	Table 40 - Seat 1	1,415,000
Patrick	Trinh	Table 40 - Seat 2	925,000
Arnold	Yaxley	Table 40 - Seat 3	655,000
Manon	Dallaire	Table 40 - Seat 4	560,000
Bart	Sieminski	Table 40 - Seat 5	455,000
Rene-Philippe	Noel	Table 40 - Seat 6	160,000
Roger	Thibault	Table 40 - Seat 7	435,000

After a very strong last few levels, Daniel Le bagged the chip-lead to close Day 2 of The Wild $150. He will return to the felts tomorrow night with a stack worth 2,090,000.

Other big stacks include Yan Nadeau (1,475,000), Christopher King (1,415,000) and Simon Pin-Disle (1,315,000)

Action resumes tomorrow night at 7pm with 29 players remaining, and will not stop until our Event 1 champion is crowned! Everyone in Day 3 has locked in $800, with a massive $28,000 reserved for the eventual winner.

Follow all the action via our own Playground Poker Blog, where we will be publishing live updates, chip counts and photographs from the night. Below you can find the chip counts of the final 29 players, and in a few moments we will publish the new seating assignments for Day 3.

See you tomorrow!

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Chip Count | Tapis
Daniel	Le	2,090,000
Yan	Nadeau	1,475,000
Christopher	King	1,415,000
Simon	Pin-Disle	1,315,000
Mathieu	Boucher	1,185,000
Nimer	Ltaif	1,115,000
Karim	Idrissi	1,095,000
Daniel	Campbell	1,045,000
Antoine	Chuzeville	980,000
Alexandre	Gaudreau	970,000
Jocelyn	Poirier	955,000
Brent	McCue	950,000
Patrick	Trinh	925,000
Tanvir	Ahmed	740,000
Jonathan	Bourdages	730,000
Richard	Myron	660,000
Arnold	Yaxley	655,000
Nicholas	Belanger	625,000
Jean-Guy	Larosiliere	615,000
Frederic	Trudel	600,000
Jacques	Perron	590,000
Manon	Dallaire	560,000
Simon	Bissonnette-du-Cap	475,000
Bart	Sieminski	455,000
Roger	Thibault	435,000
Martin	Dyotte	420,000
Christopher	Kokozaki	405,000
Olivier	Theriault-Boudreau	160,000
Rene-Philippe	Noel	160,000

Photographs from level 26:

Day 2 of The Wild $150 is on it’s last leg of the night as only 1 level remains. The field is now down to just 4 final 9-handed tables. Once time runs out in this final level of play, we will publish the full list of player-reported chip counts from the end of the night, as well as the new seating assignments for tomorrow’s Day 3.

Photographs from levels 24-25: