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Zajmovic leads the final table into Day 4

Level: 25
Small Blind: 15K
Big Blind: 30K
Ante: 5K
Chip Average: 1.1M
Remaining: 10
Entries: 380

2017/02/13 - 21:35 by Playground Poker

The 5 levels of play scheduled for Day 3 are now complete, and in the last few minutes of the day the field reached the unofficial 10-handed final table of the WPT Playground.

Ema Zajmovic leads the field as she nears her second consecutive WPT official final table here at Playground Poker Club, after finishing 5th in the WPT Montreal in November 2016. She would need a top 3 finish to best her previous cash, however we know her eye is on first place, and first place only.

The road will be difficult for our future champion, as the finalists are a fierce group of poker players who have each demonstrated they have what it takes to become a WPT Champion. One of them, Eric Afriat, has already claimed victory in a WPT Main Event in the past, having taken down the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown back in April 2014 for a 7-figure score.

Local wizard Carter Swidler may not have bagged the biggest stack, but he is no stranger to final tables and is looking to improve on his 5th place finish in the 2015 WPT Montreal, and add another score to his impressive resume.

Henry Tran has also proven over the years that he is a force to be reckoned with, and although he had a rough end of Day 3, he is sure to come out swinging tomorrow.

Players will keep the same seating draw as they ended the day in, and action will resume at 12pm. Follow live updates from the final table via our own Playground Poker Blog, as well as on the WPT Live Updates.

See you tomorrow!

First Name \| Prénom	Last Name \| Nom	Seat \| Siège	Stack \| Tapis
Tam	Ho	Seat 01	1,700,000
Eric	Afriat	Seat 02	1,135,000
Ryan Tack	Yu	Seat 04	520,000
Jean-Pascal	Savard	Seat 05	2,095,000
Carter	Swidler	Seat 06	615,000
Ema	Zajmovic	Seat 07	2,985,000
Henry	Tran	Seat 08	525,000
Danny	Li	Seat 09	495,000
Jean Francois	Bouchard	Seat 10	1,005,000

The unofficial 10-handed WPT Playground final table

Level: 24
Small Blind: 12K
Big Blind: 24K
Ante: 4K
Chip Average: 1.1M
Remaining: 10
Entries: 380

2017/02/13 - 20:54 by Playground Poker

The partypoker.net WPT Playground has reached the unofficial final table as action is down to 10 players. Ema Zajmovic leads the field with an impressive 2.9 million chip stack, which is around 1 million more than any other player in the field.

Only 17 minutes remain in the last level of Day 3, and once the time runs out they players will bag and tag their chips onto tomorrow’s final. At this point we will publish the full list of chip counts.

Congratulations on reaching the final table!

partypoker.net WPT Playground 10-handed final table

First Name \| Prénom	Last Name \| Nom	Seat \| Siège
Tam	Ho	Seat 01
Eric	Afriat	Seat 02
Ryan Tack	Yu	Seat 04
Jean-Pascal	Savard	Seat 05
Carter	Swidler	Seat 06
Ema	Zajmovic	Seat 07
Henry	Tran	Seat 08
Danny	Li	Seat 09
Jean Francois	Bouchard	Seat 10

11th place: Pascal Lefrancois ($20,160)

Level: 24
Small Blind: 12K
Big Blind: 24K
Ante: 4K
Chip Average: 1.2M
Remaining: 10
Entries: 380

2017/02/13 - 20:40 by Playground Poker

Pascal Lefrancois saw his stack get whittled down to around 350,000 after a series of unfortunate hands. Action folded around to Ema Zajmovic, who open-shoved versus Pascal in the big blind.

Ema:
Pascal:

With no help on the board, Pascal was eliminated one spot shy of the 10-handed final table.

Play will continue for 17 more minutes before bagging onto Day 3.

Afriat leads entering the last level of play

Level: 24
Small Blind: 12K
Big Blind: 24K
Ante: 4K
Chip Average: 1M
Remaining: 11
Entries: 380

2017/02/13 - 19:20 by Playground Poker

The top of the leaderboard is quite close, and players keep passing around the chip-leader torch from one pot to another. At the break following level 23, it is Eric Afriat who holds the biggest count with 1,648,000, with Pascal Lefrancois in second and Ema Zajmovic in third.

One more level remains to this Day 3 of the WPT Playground, after which the surviving players will bag and tag onto the finale tomorrow. We are but one spot away from reaching the unofficial final table of 10.

First Name \| Prénom	Last Name \| Nom	Stack \| Tapis
Eric	Afriat	1,648,000
Pascal	Lefrancois	1,573,000
Ema	Zajmovic	1,291,000
Ryan Tack	Yu	1,238,000
Nghi Van	Tran	1,227,000
Tam	Ho	1,145,000
Jean-Pascal	Savard	969,000
Jean Francois	Bouchard	960,000
Carter	Swidler	560,000
Danny	Li	510,000

12th place: Alexandru Baron ($20,160)

Level: 23
Small Blind: 10K
Big Blind: 20K
Ante: 3K
Chip Average: 1M
Remaining: 11
Entries: 380

2017/02/13 - 18:58 by Playground Poker

Alexandru Baron fell quite short stacked, and with well under 10 big blinds he open-shoved from the cutoff and went heads-up versus Ema Zajmovic.

Alexandru:
Ema:

Ema caught the river to send Alexandru out in 12th on a board, increasing her stack to around 1.3 million. The field is now one elimination away from the unofficial 10-way final table.

13th place: Patrick Blye ($17,160)

Level: 23
Small Blind: 10K
Big Blind: 20K
Ante: 3K
Chip Average: 950K
Remaining: 12
Entries: 380

2017/02/13 - 18:29 by

Patrick Blye is out in 13th place from the WPT Playground.

He was eliminated in a blind-on-blind hand after it folded around to his small blind and he chose to shove into his neighbour, Ryan Tack Yu. Ryan squeezed his cards one at a time, and saw a King first – but upon seeing it’s companion Ace he laughed by way of apology and made the call.

Patrick:
Ryan:

Ryan was in the driver’s seat and the flop of provided no assistance to Patrick. The turn and river finished the job and Patrick was sent to the Tournament Desk to pick up a payout coupon.