After 7 and a half hours of play, the 8-max is now down to 2 tables, the field having dropped from 272 to just 16 players. They are all guaranteed $640, but share the same goal of landing the 11K first prize.

Here are the survivors:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège
Adam	Hussen	Table 54 - Seat 1
Richard	Sysko	Table 54 - Seat 2
Francesco	Pestra	Table 54 - Seat 3
Martin	Peltier	Table 54 - Seat 4
Damien	Gozzi	Table 54 - Seat 5
Mihail	Tzonev	Table 54 - Seat 6
Marc -Antoine	Lévesque	Table 54 - Seat 7
Simon	Tremblay	Table 54 - Seat 8
Charan	Malhotra	Table 55 - Seat 1
Nicholas	Pitre	Table 55 - Seat 2
Nectarios	Lazaris	Table 55 - Seat 3
Leo	Hackenbroch	Table 55 - Seat 4
Stuart	Taylor	Table 55 - Seat 5
François	Gagné	Table 55 - Seat 6
Alexandre	Beaudette	Table 55 - Seat 7
Pierre-André	Prévost	Table 55 - Seat 8

 

Taylor’s table is by far the heaviest of the 4, having 4 of the top 10 players on it. Taylor’s stack is so big that only 10 of the remaining 27 players are above average. Of course, anything can happen, but this man sure knows what he’s doing, and he has a lot to do it with.

Here is our chip leader, behind his pyramid of wealth, followed by our current top ten:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Stuart	Taylor	759,000
Simon	Tremblay	560,000
Damien	Gozzi	348,000
Jean-François	Stoycheff	279,000
Charan	Malhotra	278,000
Francesco	Presta	272,000
Pierre-André	Prévost	267,000
Marc-Antoine	Lévesque	247,000
Leo	Hackenbroch	210,000
Phil	Diamantakos	200,000

Stuart Taylor is definitely the new tournament captain, after taking out Emmanuel Francoeur. When a short stack went all-in for 30K, he just called from the button, and Emmanuel made it 75K, in the hopes of isolating the initial raiser. But he was in for an unpleasant surprise, as Stuart came over the top for almost 200K all-in. Emmanuel tanked for a while, and decided to call with nines, only to realize that Stuart had set a major trap, and that he was the bait. Stuart’s aces held smoothly, and he even added to his stack since then, sky-rocketing his chips to over 500K.

 

Some photographs of the remaining 5 tables:

Emmanuel Francoeur, a well-know cash game player here at Playground Poker Club, is just a few chips short of 200K, good for the lead after 12 levels of play. He is know for his ”no back down” approach to the game, which can serve well in a tournament of this type. We’ll see if he can continue to make law at his table.

 

He is a list of our top 5 stacks at the moment of the break, all over 150K.

 

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Emmanuel	Francoeur	197,500
Damien	Gozzi	171,500
François	Gagné	161,000
Simon	Tremblay	155,500
Martin	Peltier	150,500

 

Photographs of healthy stacks:

 

The field is dropping quite steadily, and is now under the 100-player mark. Lots of chips are moving from one hand to another, and quite a few players now have more than 100K. In about 10 minutes, players will take another short break, during which the leaderboard will be updated. Stay tuned!

As advertised, the prize pool for the 200$ + 20$ is massive! 30 players will get paid tonight. At the top, $11,000.00, and over $1,000.00 for all final table participants! This one-day tournament has proven to be a major Event. Just under 130 players are still in the race, which will go on until breakfast.

See the table below for detailed payouts:

Rank | Pos	Prize | Bourse
1st	$11,000.00
2nd	$8,188.00
3rd	$6,150.00
4th	$4,615.00
5th	$3,465.00
6th	$2,600.00
7th	$1,950.00
8th	$1,465.00
9th	$1,095.00
10th-12th	$820.00
13th-15th	$725.00
16th-18th	$640.00
19th-21st	$565.00
22nd-24th	$500.00
25th-27th	$440.00
28th-30th	$390.00