The 8 players remaining after last night’s dramatic dual elimination have assembled around table 66 in the Tournament Hall at Playground Poker Club and action is set to begin. The minimum payout today is $11,905.00 for the player who is eliminated in 8th place, and the payouts go up every spot all the way to $93,930.00 for the Champion!

Blinds today will continue to be 60 minutes in length until the event reaches heads-up, when they will go down to 30 minutes. Action will start in level 28, with blinds 75,000/150,000 and a button ante of 150,000. When the number of players goes down to 6, the button ante will go down to 75,000.

Good luck to all 8 players today!

About 8 minutes in to the final level to be played of the night, hands developed on both tables that would instantly take the tournament down to 8 players and suspend action for the night.

First up was Eric Schanck against Elaine Rawn on table 70. Schanck opened with a raise to 325K from the cutoff and action folded around to Rawn on the sb who raised to 875K. Schanck made the call and a flop was dealt: . Rawn checked, Schanck went all in, sending Rawn deep into the tank…

Meanwhile…

At the other table, table 62, a hand developed very quickly between Ruben Perceval and David Sorgente. Ruben was on the button and raised to 350K (with a huge stack behind) and David insta-shoved. Action folded back to Ruben who made the call.

At the other table, Rawn was still thinking – and seemed to not be paying attention to what was happening at the neighbouring table…

Ruben:
David:

The flop settled things quickly for Perceval: to give him the set, and there were no miracle running cards for Sorgente – turn river . Sorgente was out in 10th place.

Back at table 70 – Rawn made the call and the cards were exposed.

Rawn:
Schanck:

The turn was dealt and changed everything – – Rawn had re-taken the lead! All she had to do was fade a club….

River:

Eric wins the pot and Rawn was sent to the rail.

9th place: Elaine Rawn, $9,395.00

10th place: David Sorgente, $9,395.00

Just as players were headed to their final break of the day, Aaron Roy Parsons was eliminated by Omid Shahbazian in 11th place for $7,505.00. This left 10 players still in the tournament with one level left to play on the day.

Players will have the option to play the entire final level of the day or to stop play as soon as the next elimination has occurred (which will bring the tournament to 9 players, enough for the final table).

Here are the counts at the break.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège	Stack | Tapis
Santiago	Plante	Table 62 - Seat 1	2,400,000
Omid	Shahbazian	Table 62 - Seat 2	8,500,000
Ruben	Perceval	Table 62 - Seat 3	7,125,000
David	Sorgente	Table 62 - Seat 6	2,675,000
David	Bertrand	Table 62 - Seat 7	3,225,000
Eric	Schanck	Table 70 - Seat 1	6,675,000
Jaered Daniel	Besse	Table 70 - Seat 2	8,375,000
Nick	Nickoletopoulos	Table 70 - Seat 3	1,995,000
Elaine	Rawn	Table 70 - Seat 6	3,150,000
Said	Michailidis	Table 70 - Seat 7	5,750,000

11th place: Aaron Roy Parsons, $7,505.00

Daune Fernandez has been eliminated for the tournament on a hand that he rated to double as Eric
Schanck’s managed to crack Fernandez’s .

Nick Nickoletopoulos opened the action with a raise to 275K, and Fernandez followed with 3-bet shove. Schanck made the call, Nickoletopoulos folded.

The flop meet with Fernandez’s approval: but Schanck – and everyone else at the table – let out an audible “ugh” when the came on the turn. The river wasn’t re-suck material and that was the end of the road for Daune in this tournament.

12th place, Daune Fernandez, $7,505.00

The Playground 1000 is now down to 12 players remaining as François Goulet and John Helou have both been eliminated in near-simultaneous hands on the two tables left in play. Unfortunately we missed the action on both tables, but both players have earned $6,065.00 for the efforts in the tournament.

13th place: François Goulet, $6,065.00

14th place: John Helou, $6,065.00