The table on which second-biggest stack Jean-Pascal Savard was seated on has just broken, and in a interesting turn of events he has been seated directly to the right of chip-leader Kelly Kellner on table 58. Both players are currently flirting with the 200K mark.
This table is set to break in around 30 eliminations – we will see if anything interesting happens in the mean time!
Day 1B is into level 8, and 165 players remain from the 246 that started the day. Kelly Kellner and Jean-Pascal Savard kept passing each other for the chip-lead in level 7, however Kelly has recently taken the lead as he passed the 200K mark.
Photographs from level 7:
The dinner break is over in Day 1B, and players are back at the felts for the second portion of the day as 4 levels separate them from bagging onto Day 2.
The registration period is now closed for Day 1B, which attracted 246 entries (including 30 re-entries). This brings the total number of entries for the WPT Playground up to 380 entries – well surpassing the $1,000,000 guarantee boasted for the event! The tournament staff is crunching all the prize-pool information as we speak, and once it’s been released we will publish it here.
Day 1B of the partypoker.net WPT Playground is now on a 45-minute dinner break, and the late registration period will close once action resumes in level 7.
Leading the field after 6 levels of play is Kelly Kellner, who went on a heater leading up to the break, building a stack of 168,150 in the process. He tweeted about his big double-up hand near the start of level 6, where he flopped a set of 5s versus the top-pair of chip-leader at the time Marco Casa. Marco turned top-two and all the money went in, resulting in a 110,000 pot that was sent in Kelly’s direction. Kelly then went on to win a few more pots on his road to the top of the leaderboard.
Jean-Pascal Savard is in a close second in chips with 161,900, and he and Kelly have a distinct lead over the rest of the field, as third in chips Thundup Ringpa currently sits on 118,125.
The top counts at the dinner break can be found in the table below.
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|
| Kelly | Kellner | 168,150 |
| Jean-Pascal | Savard | 161,900 |
| Thundup | Ringpa | 118,125 |
| Upeshka | De Silva | 115,275 |
| Doug | Hartwick | 105,300 |
| Shaan | Siddiqui | 85,150 |
| Samuel Louis | Gagnon | 80,200 |
| Taran Signh | Parmar | 78,175 |
| Michel-Claude | Baroud | 77,300 |
| Jeffrey | Cormier | 75,350 |
| Alexander | Villa | 74,875 |
| Josue | Sauvageau | 74,725 |
| Benny | Chen | 70,050 |
Kelly Kellner is the new chip leader in Day 1B, and the best reporting comes from his own Twitter feed!
Aces vs AK. Up to 145,000 @PlaygroundPoker @WPTlive #KelsterMania #FeelThePower pic.twitter.com/UtJYr12yP6
— Kelly Kellner (@KelsterMania) February 11, 2017
Flop top set of kings vs tourney chip leader. All in on the turn vs Broadway draw. Up to 110,000 @WPTlive @PlaygroundPoker #KelsterMania pic.twitter.com/E82cuPKnhq
— Kelly Kellner (@KelsterMania) February 11, 2017
Photographs from level 5:
