Playground Poker

At the beginning of level 16 (the fourth 60-minute level of the evening), Michael Ferrer ate up a piece of Michael Blair’s stack on table 37. When we arrived the hand was already in progress.

Flop:

With several thousand already in the pot, Blair made it 12,000 to go. Ferrer called. A came down on the turn. Both players checked, leading to a on the river.

Blair checked utg, after which Ferrer raised 24,000. Blair couldn’t help his curiosity, eventually calling. But when Ferrer flipped over his , Blair mucked, losing the pot of approximately 80,000 chips. And he wasn’t able to fight for his chips back as luck would have it, as he was switched to another table by one of the floor managers immediately afterwards.

Mohsin Charania opened to 2,500 from middle position, and Ari Engel moved in for a little over the full starting stack of 30,000. After tanking for a minute Mohsin elected to make the call, putting his opponent at risk.

Mohsin:
Ari:

Mohsin found some diamonds on the board, eliminating Ari from the field.

As we walked by table 25 we noticed that there were quite a few chips in the pot, and most of the cards were on the table. The board was showing  .

Upon closer inspection it was evident that the only two players left in the hand, Gabriel Attiave and Frederic Normand, were heads up. Gabriel had just bet 27,500 on the river, only to be re-raised 86,000 by Normand.

After some introspection, Gabriel threw away his cards, forfeiting the possibility of winning the hand. Frederic scooped up the chips, which must have numbered at least 60,000.

After two 60-minute rounds in today’s WPTDeepStacks Day 2, Francois Sauve sits comfortably at the top of the leaderboard with 558,000 chips. There are also several other players with over 400,000, enumerated in the list below.

Considering the fact that we have lost more than 70 players over the first two of today’s levels, the next chip leader promises to have an even bigger stack!

Registration is still slowly climbing in the High Roller event, with 88 entries now in the books. Players will have until just past 7pm to jump into this star-studded event, which features some heavy hitters such as Darren Ellias, Kristen Bicknell, David Peters and Joseph Cheong, among others.

Photographs from level 11: