The players have returned from another break and there are now 140 players still grinding it out from the 283 entries in Day 1M.

The chip average is now 202,100 (58 big blinds) and none other than Tu Kham Tran leads the way with 689,000 chips (197 big blinds). As a note of interest, Tran has been seen playing many of the starting flights in the Grand Prix Canada and it seems to be paying off in dividends for him as he has taken advantage of the tournament structure and has already bagged chips in three of the flights. Each bag has earned him a min-cash of at least $400. So far his largest Day 2 stack is 850,000 in chips. He used the same strategy earlier this year when he fired three bullets during the $2,000 + $200 No Limit High Roller this past summer during the WSOP-C at Playground and earned the championship ring for the event.

Trevor Strutt, another highly skilled player who is a regular at all of the Playground events is only 2,500 chips behind Tran, so it is obviously still anyone’s game.