Players have taken another break in the Playground 1000 and we took the opportunity to build a full list of chip counts for the 14 players remaining. The tournament chip leader at the moment is Daune Fernandez, who is playing a stack of approaching 6.5M in chips. David Sorgente is hot on his heels, playing currently with 5.8M in chips.

David Sorgente has re-emerged among the chip leaders after winning a huge pot with plenty of action preflop to add to the total he stacked at the end.

Omid Shahbazian got things started with a raise to 180K from utg+1. John Helou was interested and flat called from two seats over. Action then turned to Griffin Benger, who 3-bet shoved for just over a million in chips.

David Sorgente was the next to act, and surprised people a little by just calling Benger’s all-in – and action returned to Shahbazian. He thought about things, and asked Sorgente how much he was playing behind (around 2.8M), and somewhat reluctantly folded. Helou didn’t take long to fold either and the cards were exposed.

Griffin:
Sorgente:

The flop was solid for the Jacks: and didn’t bring any flush problems with it. The turn came next and all the was left was the river… and the spelled the end of Benger’s tournament.

15th place: Griffin Benger

Here are a few shots of the final 15 players in the tournament. Martin Dej was the most recent player eliminated, after just a couple of hands on his new table.

Play in the Playground 1000 has resumed a relatively rapid pace, and the tournament is already down to just 16 players remaining – 2 tables. As per the rules of the tournament, there has been a full seating redraw, and play now continues on tables 62 and 70 in the back corner of the Tournament Hall.

We were late for most of the action, but Francois Goulet has eliminated Philippe Belley when a rivered Heart brought on a flush-over-flush situation. Goulet was the first to act on the river and his bet was greater than Belley’s remaining stack – and he got the call holding the nut flush compared with a lower flush for Belley. The pot vaults Goulet – a dangerous player – up to somewhere close to 4.3M in chips, good enough for 2nd overall.

The remaining 20 players in the Playground 1000 just took a break and while they were away from the table, we managed to get full counts for the entire field. The table below lists the players by table and seat, but if you click or tap on the column header you can re-sort by chip count (or by name).

The current chip leader is Ruben Perceval, who took most of Rayan Chamas’ chips (at least the ones that Santiago Plante hadn’t already taken) during the last part of level 23.