The Playground 200, staple of the club’s Power Weekends, has dwindled down to its last 14 players. These players have bagged and tagged their chips and will only see them again tomorrow afternoon at 1:00pm at the start of Day 3, the conclusion of this 3-day event.

Today’s Day 2 started with 117 players, led by Ami Alibay, a local shark who is having an amazing poker year, having collected handsome amounts in Hollywood and Las Vegas. Alibay suffered a brutal beat mid-day and had to relinquish the driver’s seat, but his stack was still about average after the ordeal and he went right back to work, climbing the leaderboard inexorably. He finishes the day once again on top with 2,150,000 chips.

It was a close call however, because Noy U made a run for it, coming back from just a few blind to the astonishing stack of 2,085,000. His last-level ascent was fast and furious, and he will bring his vast deep-run experience to tomorrow’s grand finale.

These two players fully deserve their spot in the final day lineup. Their nearest rival has about 1.4M, with the average stack at just over a million chips.

Will we see a Noy-Ami showdown? Tune in tomorrow to find out! 1:00pm sharp. Here are the Day 3 qualifiers: