The action started at 7:00pm in the $100 + $10 Playground 100 Day 1A and by the time late registration came to a close, 161 players had jumped in (including 24 re-entries). Action started right out of the gate and three or four players seemed to always be at the top of the leader board as the night moved along. Play was scheduled to last until the field shrunk down to 10% of the total entries, meaning it would come to an end once there were only 17 players remaining with chips to bag. All players who bagged are now in the money and are guaranteed a min-cash, but of course everyone is looking for a final table finish and hoping to be crowned champion and take home the top prize.

Jason Teurquety played a great game and in the end, he was able to bag a massive 792,500, which is double the second place finisher, Andrew Kristoff, who bagged 346,500.

As play was down to 19 players, all of the short stacks were looking at the other two other tables, hoping to see even smaller stacks than their own, so that they would be able to maybe squeak into the money should another two players bustout. Marc-Andre St-Pierre was the first casualty after being taken out by Benoit Desbiens. Once the field was reduced to 18 players, the remaining players on the third table merged with the other two tables and with the final 18 players now on the bubble, play went hand for hand.

Hand for hand lasted a few orbits until all of the sudden, there were all ins on both tables. Once  the floor gave the go ahead to open the hands, the cards were tabled. On table 34, Mike Patenaude was all in with and was facing the monster hand of Andrew Kristoff, the and Patenaude was in a very tight spot. The board ran out which was of no help Patenaude, and as Kristoff had his stack covered, Patenaude was sent to the rail as the bubble boy and will not be returning for day 2.

Andrew Kristoff

Mike Patenaude

On the other table, Marc-Antoine Coté, who was also one of the chip leaders all night, was all in against Jason Teurquety. Coté had suffered a few big losses late in the evening and was down to around 150,000, and when he looked down at , his chips went in against Teurquety, who was holding the . The board ran out , which was clean for Coté, and he received a badly needed double up on the very last hand of the evening. Luckily for Teurquety, he had almost 1,000,000 chips, so after his loss, he was still able to bag an outstanding 792,500.

Jason Teurquety

Marc-Antoine Coté

Other top stacks include Joseph B. (322,500) and Paul El-Khoury (310,500). The results page will be updated on Saturday and will show the chip stacks of all of the players who bagged for Day 2.

Here are some of the players who will be returning for Day 2:

There are still more starting flights so you can still join in on the action in this affordable buy in event:

• Day 1B: Friday July 19 at 12:00pm
• Day 1C: Friday July 19 at 7:00pm
• Day 1D: Saturday July 20 at 11:00am
• Day 1E: Saturday July 20 at 7:00pm
• Day 2: Sunday July 21 at 3:00pm