The last starting flight of the Playground 100 saw 155 entries battle it out with the hopes of finding a bag for day 2. With over 3 million chips in play, as the evening progressed the stacks started to climb to the ceiling .
There were to be 16 qualifiers moving on to day 2, however the night ended in dramatic fashion with a super cooler that bolted George Kazarian to top of the pack just as another all in hand played out on the other table left in play. With at least three super short stacks as well as a few other very low stacks still in play, Peter Liakopoulos and George Kazarian who each had very healthy sized stacks had both picked up premium monsters and got their chips into the middle pre-flop.
Liakopoulos: 
Kazarian: 
The board ran out 
and since Kazarian had Liakopoulos covered, he was sent home just shy of the money. This is for sure a super cooler.
As there were knockout hands on both remaining tables at the same time, it also resulted in only 15 players qualifying for Day 2, instead of 16.
All players who have bagged chips for Day 2 are now in the money and guaranteed a min-cash. The three largest stacks from 1F are:
- George Kazarian, 657,000 chips (131 big blinds)
- Goran Brostovac, 583,000 chips (117 big blinds)
- Rene-Philippe Noel, 268,000 chips (54 big blinds)
For a list of all of the combined Day 1 qualifiers, click here. (NB: Tonight’s qualifiers as well as the Day 2 seating chart will be added to the list sometime on Sunday)
Here are photos of some of the players found a bag tonight:
