The play going on is definitely serious but one player can be heard having all kinds of fun tonight. Denise Pratt, from Olive Branch, Mississippi, is having a great time playing the WPT500. But make no mistake; according to the Hendon Mob, she has lots of cashes (*almost $200,000 USD) on her resume, including a 1st place finish in the 2017 $500 + $50 Wynn Summer Classic ($47,769 USD) and a deep run in the 2019 WSOP main event in Las Vegas (624th for $22,190). She can play some serious poker while having fun at the same time! Nice to have a player like this on your table.

Across the room, Jessie Wheatley, a regular visitor to Playground events from PEI, is fresh off of a 1st place finish in the Playground200 earlier this week and she is pulling in lots of chips here in flight 1G.

While watching her table, she just won three hands in a row and keeps building her stack.

The players are about to go on another break which will allow us to update the chip counts on the leaderboard. Late registration and re-entry comes to a close when the players return for level nine.