LIVE EVENTS

After 10 one-hour levels, players can finally bag their chips and go enjoy a well-deserved night of sleep. From the 316 players that started the day only 38 remain and will come back tomorrow at 13h00 for the 4th and final day of the WSOP-C Playground Main Event.

Day 3 was an all-Roussy-Majeau affair, as the young man led the way from 2:00pm and until the last level of play when he dropped a couple of positions. Philippe Sousa, second at the last break, will enjoy the pole position when the action resumes.

There will be a full redraw before tomorrow, and the seat assignment, along with full counts, will be posted here some time before the restart.

Tomorrow, we crown a champion. This person will take $300,000, the Main Event circuit ring, and an entry into WSOP-C Monterrey. See you tomorrow!

Danielle Bracy had a great day at the tables, not quite making the top of the leaderboard but constantly building and staying close to the leading pack. With 30 minutes left to Day 3, she caught an amazing break. She was already pretty invested against Frédéric Normand on a board, looking at a pot of a couple million chips. The river fell, and she checked. Normand put out an 800K bet.

Bracy shoved, which stunned Normand. On the river, he bet more than half of what he had left, so he was looking at a rather small amount to call relatively to the total pot. However, it was his tournament life, and he had a strong feeling that his rival improved on the last street even more than he did. After a very long tank, he called.

Bracy:
Normand:

A new player enters the 6M club.

Qi Hu, who has been on our radar all day, continued doing well and he is on the 3rd step of the podium. Philippe Sousa more than doubled his belongings in the last 2 levels and is now sitting in 2nd place with over 6M. The leader is none other than Samuel Roussy-Majeau, the player who’s been sitting in the driver’s seat for nearly 10 hours. Six players are currently enjoying over 4M in chips, and are listed below:

Blinds are now at 25K/50K/a50K, and pots of 1M can be easily reached pre-flop. It is only a matter of time before 2 big stacks collide, resulting in a separation of the leading pack.

Some recent shots:

Anoop Jugurnath was the biggest earner in the last stint, gaining almost 2 million chips, good for 2nd place overall. The current chip leader is still Samuel Roussy-Majeau, who also gained quite a bit of chips on his new table. He shares that table with Dannick Landriault, who has been looking to crack the 3M mark for a while. Here is a list of all players who did just that:

A few more recent shots:

The following photos show some of the biggest stacks in the field:

Main Event Day 3 players are enjoying a 45-minute dinner break after 5 levels of play. 5 more levels will be played after our top 104 players are satiated with some of The Rail’s buffet offering. Roussy-Majeau is still in the driver’s seat, the only player above the 3M mark.

Here are the full counts:

Players are back at the tables after the second break of the day. The next break will be a 45-minute pause to allow players to enjoy a nice dinner.

Our new chip leader is a young local by the name of Samuel Roussy-Majeau. He is sitting on 2,733,000 chips, enough to hope for a deep run and his first major break in tournament poker.

Our current leaders:

The field is now down to 138 players. They will be able to take a break soon, at which point we will update the leaderboard. Below this gallery of photos taken at the beginning of level 21, you will find a re-post of the prize pool, which has $300,000 in reserve for the winner of this great event! Today plays until the end of level 27, which will be just before midnight, and tomorrow will play down to a winner.

For those of you who don’t know him yet, meat Armand King, known in the poker world as The Oyster King. The man owes his nickname to his decades of seafood trade. The King celebrated his 83rd birthday yesterday, and today he is playing Day 3 of the WSOP-C Playground Main Event, high-fiving his fans on neighbouring tables, looking lively as a 20-year-old.

His first feat at Playground was in 2016 when he came in the runner-up in the infamous Quantum, a month-long tournament with multiple price entry points, part of the inaugural World up of Cards. That netted him $33,000. Since then, he played nearly every festival hosted at Playground. His best result at our club since the Quantum was in May of this year. He finished 4th in the Playground 1000, part of the MILLIONS North America festival, for $20,060.

It is always a pleasure to have him over, to hear his cheerful remarks and to watch the joy that he inspires in others. If you see him in the room, make sure to give him a shout out, or even just a smile!

The first stint saw a lot of chip movement and created quite a few deep stacks. Jishant Sapra continued his hard work and would have snatched back the top spot if it wasn’t for Tony Lei’s last minute jump on a nearby table.

Lei, on the button, open raised with 23K. Jonathan Schaler made it 90K to go. Tony raised again to 273K, called Jonathan’s shove, which was close to 800K, and showed . Schaler had . Aces prevailed.

Here is a list of our millionaires at the break:

The first level of play has gone by and 73 players of the 316 starters could not get passed it. Most of the short stacks who got into the money with a chip and a chair are now eliminated, and the pace of bust outs will slow down as the day progresses.

Here is our first Main Event round of photos: