Hayk Hartounian Leads Final 16 players into Final Day of WPT Prime Playground Championship

Photo: Hayk Hartounian

Day 2 started with 200 players, all guaranteed at least a min-cash of $1,445. Hayk Hartounian ended with the chip lead when the final 16 players bagged at the night’s end, finishing with 8,900,000. He is most closely followed by Kevin Rivest who bagged 6,625,000 while Zeyu Huang rounds out the top three with 6,000,000.

Here are the official chip counts for the remaining 16 players

1. Hayk Hartounian – 8,900,000 (89 bb)
2. Kevin Rivest – 6,625,000 (66 bb)
3. Zeyu Huang – 6,000,000 (60 bb)
4. David Quang – 5,500,000 (55 bb)
5. Raymond Carter – 5,150,000 (52 bb)
6. Senthuran Vijayaratnam – 5,050,000 (51 bb)
7. Scott Carragher – 4,450,000 (45 bb)
8. Robin Wezelenburg – 3,400,000 (34 bb)
9. Alexander Wong – 3,100,000 (31 bb)
10. Yunkyu Song – 2,905,000 (29 bb)
11. Matwej Troitschanski – 2,900,000 (29 bb)
12. Rishi Makkar – 2,450,000 (25 bb)
13. Michael Farrow – 2,150,000 (22 bb)
14. Rene Gauvin – 1,825,000 (18 bb)
15. Bradley Dudeck – 1,700,000 (17 bb)
16. Baron Ha – 1,375,000 (14 bb)

Day 3 begins tomorrow (Friday, October 25) at noon local time with 51 minutes and 24 seconds on Level 27, with the blinds at 50,000/100,000 and a 100,000 big blind ante. The plan is to play down to a winner. Like today, Day 3 will feature 60-minute levels. All remaining players have locked up at least CAD $12,700 (~US $9,178) while the winner will take home the top prize of CAD $227,270 (~US 164,251)*.

Stay tuned to WPT.com for all the updates for this event as it plays down to a winner.

* First-prize amount includes the winner’s US $10,400 seat into the season-ending WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas.