Play has just resumed following the first break of the evening. The field is now down to 16 players, and three of them-Jonathan Marrie, Daniel Pepin and Alexandre Blais Briere-are battling it out for the chip lead.

Here is the full leader board:

First Name	Last Name	Chip Count
Alexandre	Blais Briere	238,000
Jonathan	Marrie	235,000
Daniel	Pepin	227,000
Arthur	W	211,000
Isham	Yamani	169,000
Kathy	Sawers	145,500
Kosta	Papa	141,000
Richard	Sysko	117,500
Benoit	Forcier	115,000
Daniel	Hughes	100,000
Rong	Xu	92,500
Vsevolod	Malamud	81,500
Manfred	Gunther	70,500
Andy	D'alessandro	55,500
Mitchael	Ferguson	52,500
Alain	Jobin	44,000

Event #14 in the Playground Winter Festival is a $500 + $100 + $500 NL Hold’em 50/50 Bounty tournament. The event is taking place over two days, and the 18 players remaining will re-start at 7:00pm tonight. When play resumes, the remaining players will be seated according to the following seating table.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège	Stack | Tapis
Isham	Yamani	Table 39 - Seat 1	113,300
Vsevolod	Malamud	Table 39 - Seat 2	84,300
Daniel	Hughes	Table 39 - Seat 3	120,900
Andy	D'Alessandro	Table 39 - Seat 4	68,100
Alain	Jobin	Table 39 - Seat 5	108,000
Benoit	Forcier	Table 39 - Seat 6	46,000
Jonathan	Marrie	Table 39 - Seat 7	253,000
Tu Kham	Tran	Table 39 - Seat 8	20,100
Rong	Xu	Table 39 - Seat 9	81,700
Kosta	Papa	Table 40 - Seat 1	187,000
Mitcheal	Ferguson	Table 40 - Seat 2	87,000
Richard	Sysko	Table 40 - Seat 3	125,600
Manfred	Gunther	Table 40 - Seat 4	144,400
Arthur	W	Table 40 - Seat 5	131,100
Alexandre	Blais Briere	Table 40 - Seat 6	172,800
Kathy	Sawers	Table 40 - Seat 7	162,700
Daniel	Pepin	Table 40 - Seat 8	111,400
Graham	Ivany	Table 40 - Seat 9	86,000

Day 1 has finished, and the players have bagged their chips for tomorrow’s Day 2 of the 50-50 Bounty.

Frequent showdowns and lots of tense moments were the theme of the evening. The 84 players who made it out for Day 1 were clearly in the mood to gamble for bounties; multi-way all-in situations were a regular occurrence. Virtually every time a bounty chip was in play there was at least one caller. So it comes as no surprise that only 18 players survived the 13 levels played this evening. Most players who survived this flight have already captured several bounties, which puts most of them in the poker player’s dream situation: free rolling for a chance to get a piece of a $100,000 prize pool.

The current chip leader, who had the biggest stack for most of the evening, is Jonathan Marrie with 253,000.

Day 2 kicks off at 7:00pm on Tuesday. Good luck to all!

Here is the full list of Day 2 qualifiers:

First Name	Last Name	Chip Count
Jonathan	Marrie	253,000
Kosta	Papa	187,000
Alexandre	Blais Briere	172,800
Kathy	Sawers	162,700
Manfred	Gunther	144,400
Arthur	W	131,100
Richard	Sysko	125,600
Daniel	Hughes	120,900
Isham	Yamani	113,300
Daniel	Pepin	111,400
Alain	Jobin	108,000
Mitcheal	Ferguson	87,000
Graham	Ivany	86,000
Vsevolod	Malamud	84,300
Rong	Xu	81,700
Andy	D'Alessandro	68,100
Benoit	Forcier	46,000
Tu Kham	Tran	20,100

 

The 50-50 Bounty field has continued to shrink at a steady pace. As we enter the last level of the evening, 18 players remain. With Day 2 and the prize money in sight, expect the bounty hunting to take a back seat to more conservative, traditional tournament poker.

Here are some of the remaining players: