LIVE EVENTS

The players are about to return from their latest break, and only eight players remain.

Adam Mateus made his exit in ninth place shortly before the break and collected $2,150 for his final table appearance. The chip counts of the remaining players are listed in the table below.

Name	Stack
Jason Hallee	1,480,000
Fadi Haddad	865,000
Jean-Serge Baril	800,000
Francois Goulet	685,000
Chrishan Sivasundaram	640,000
Pinto S	500,000
Martin Kozlov	425,000
Em Brand	110,000

What started with 213 entries is down to only nine players after 23 levels of play. The last two players to exit the field – Zahir Gilani and John Cayler – were eliminated in back-to-back hands and will each collect $1,750 for their efforts.

The nine finalists are Pinto S, Em Brand, Francois Goulet, Chrishan Sivasundaram, Jason Hallee, Adam Mateus, Martin Kozlov, Fadi Haddad and Jean-Serge Baril. Jason Hallee currently has the chip lead, but with blinds at 12K/24K that could change at any moment.

The remaining field has been holding steady at 11 players. The stacks are still fairly deep at this point, as the chip average provides slightly more than 24 big blinds. The pay jumps will begin to get a lot more enticing once the final table arrives, but the remaining players have victory in mind rather than simply laddering up so they are maintaining their focus and determination.

The following table lists the payouts that have already been awarded tonight.

Name	Rank	Prize
Dallas Larson	31st	$1,000
Ben Menache	30th	$1,000
Andrew Macdonald	29th	$1,000
Pirooz Bayat	28th	$1,000
John Huynh	27th	$1,000
Joel Sheres	26th	$1,000
Ivan Driard	25th	$1,000
Ambrose Ng	24th	$1,000
Zheng-Yi Xie	23rd	$1,250
Steven Martin	22nd	$1,250
Nick Nickoletopoulos	21st	$1,250
Mike Leah	20th	$1,250
James Gall	19th	$1,250
Larry Mansfield	18th	$1,250
Kurtis Ruhl	17th	$1,250
Jesse Grill	16th	$1,250
Kris Steinbach	15th	$1,500
Duff Charette	14th	$1,500
Valon Gruda	13th	$1,500
Bradley Ellis	12th	$1,500

Following the latest break in the action, the remaining players have been moved to the main tournament hall, and Jean-Serge Baril has the chip lead. Baril is playing a stack of 885,000, which is over 70 big blinds at this point, while the second largest stack, held by Martin Kozlov, is 815,000.

The current chip average provides roughly 30 big blinds so even the shorter stacks in the field have some room to maneuver, but the margin for error remains razor thin for all involved.

Here is an updated look at the field from level 20:

The Pot Limit Omaha event is now in the late stages, with over 10 hours of play already in the books.

The mood has been lively and friendly while remaining highly competitive throughout the afternoon. And that is still the case in level 19. All the remaining players have secured a payout from this event but none will be satisfied with anything less than the WSOP-C Playground ring and that prize money that comes with it. So while there are still plenty of jokes and laughs going around the table, everyone still in the running is finding ways of maintaining their focus whenever they play a hand.

The money bubble has come and gone in the Pot Limit Omaha event. After some relatively brief hand-for-hand play, one player fell victim to double-suited aces.

Noeung Troeung was (un)fortunate enough to pick up , and a multi-way pot ensued. His opponent, Valon Gruda, had , and all the chips went in on a flop of . Gruda’s draw came in on the turn and there was no board pair to be found for Troeung with the river.

The remaining players are each assured of a cash of at least $1,000 from this event, but everyone is gunning for the five-figure payouts at the top of the prize list.

The players have just returned from their latest break to hand-for-hand play on the money bubble.

The chip lead changed hands several times during the last few levels, and several new names have made their way on to the latest leaderboard.

Here are the current chip leaders:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Jason	Hallee	306,000
Kris	Steinbach	248,000
Duff	Charette	288,000
John	Cayley	195,000
Francois	Goulet	297,500

As previously mentioned, this event smashed the prize pool guarantee thanks to the healthy turnout and huge number of re-entries.

The total prize pool came in just above double the guaranteed amount, with $103,305 up for grabs for the top 31 finishers in addition to the highly coveted WSOP-C Playground championship ring.

Here is the full prize pool breakdown:

Rank	Prize
1st	$22,500
2nd	$15,305
3rd	$11,000
4th	$8,000
5th	$6,000
7th	$3,550
8th	$2,750
9th	$2,150
10th-11th	$1,750
12th-15th	$1,500
16th-23rd	$1,250
24th-31st	$1,000

The massive field of 213 entries has been reduced to only 49 players after 12 levels of play. The remaining players are led by Karim Abdelhamid with a stack of more than triple the current chip average.

In many tournaments, there is a change of approach by many players following the end of the late registration and re-entry period, but that was not the case this evening. The players have kept up their aggression and continued to play big pots during the last four levels.

Here are the chip leaders at the last break:

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The players have just returned following their second break of the day, which means that the late registration and re-entry period has ended. But before then, there was time to take in 213 entries to this event, enough to more than double the prize pool guarantee.

The chip leader at the second break was Kris Steinbach with over 230 big blinds at his disposal. Steinbach won a huge pre-flop all in where he took out three players in a single blow during the early stages and has not looked back since. He is closely followed by the chip leader at the first break, Matthew Witterick.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Kris	Steinbach	188,000
Matthew	Witterick	174,000
Karim	Abdelhamid	156,000
Fadi	Haddad	131,000
Alexandre	Lajoie	126,500
Sopheak	Heang	115,500

There is only one hour left in the late registration and re-entry period. There have been 49 re-entries so far, with just over one hundred players remaining. The large number of re-entries helped push the total amount of chips in play beyond four million and created some monster stacks in the process.

This event has already gathered enough entries to smash the $50,000 prize pool guarantee, and it will likely reach double that amount by the time late registration closes.

Here is a look at the field from level 6: