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Three flights up, three flights down. A combined total of 828 players took their shot across the three starting flights in Event #8: $1,700 No Limit Holdem Main Event at the World Series of Poker Playground. Today at 11 a.m. local time the remaining 131 players will return to battle through 10 hour-long levels in hopes of finding a bag so they can return on Day 3 to crown a champion. The Playground staff will be announcing how the $2,490,000 prize pool will be broken out before the start of the Day but for now, the returning players can rest easy knowing they have some pocket change locked up and are in the money.
Rami Hammoud
Your current chip leader is Tarik Mazari with a huge stack of 1,330,000 which is almost a full 40 big blinds more than Rami Hammond who sits in second with 953,000. The chip leader from Day 1a, Khaly Dang, currently sits in third with 945,000. There are still plenty of other crushers hanging around to makes moves though. Local crusher Senthuran Vijayaratnam (834,0000) is healthy and will be a force, WSOP Main Event Final Tablaist Griffin Benger (153,000) found a bag, and Bracelet winner Mike Leah (526,000) will be a force on Day 2 with a very above-average stack.
The players will be making a move from the tent outside into the upstairs poker room on the third floor for Day 2 of the main. They will kick the day off at the 5,000/10,000/10,000 level and each one will now be bumped up to a full hour.
Khaly Dang
Top 10 Chip Counts
Place
Player
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Tarik Mazari
1,330,000
133
2
Rami Hammoud
953,000
95
3
Khaly Dang
945,000
95
4
Philippe Beaudoin-Pellerin
940,000
94
5
Xing He
915,000
92
6
Jimmy Setna
914,000
91
7
Senthuran Vijayaratnam
834,000
83
8
Vadym Sienichkin
806,000
81
9
Matthew Paplyk
800,000
80
10
Jaered Besse
790,000
79
All In
Registration may be closed but in reality, the real tournament is just beginning. Day 2 is moving day and its about time the players move up, or move out. At the end of Level 27 only a select few players will be finding a bag for Day 3 and it won't be the ones who played timid on Day 2. Who will win the ring, the money, and the glory at Playground? By the end of Sunday, we will have a much clearer picture of who it could be.
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