Day 1 of the Playground 1000 brought out an impressive field of 260 entries. The huge field built a prize pool that went far beyond the $100,000 guarantee and created a top prize of $55,430 for the eventual champion.
The action was fast and loose throughout most of the day, leading to 49 players to exercise their option to re-enter during the first nine levels of play. When the dust settled at the end of the flight, there were 82 players remaining.
The story of Day 1 was Eric Afriat’s seemingly insurmountable chip lead. Afriat sprinted out of the gate and quickly multiplied his starting stack to take the lead at the first break. From there, he seemed to only add chips to his stack. Afriat managed to not only maintain the top stack in play but also increase the size of his lead at both the second and third breaks. It was only in the late stages that other players started closing in on Afriat. Eventually, Ali Keshavarz managed to reel him in and finished the day as the only player with more than a million in chips waiting for Day 2.
The players will return for for Day 2 tomorrow at 12:00pm for 12 levels of 8-handed play.
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|
| Ali | Keshavarz | 1,079,000 |
| Eric | Afriat | 930,000 |
| Karim | Chatur | 781,000 |
| Jesse | Johnston | 755,000 |
| Aaron Roy | Parsons | 712,000 |
| Ariel | Silveira Celestino | 697,000 |
| Patrick | Clarke | 630,000 |
| Anoop | Jugurnath | 602,000 |
| Frank | Szelepcsenyi | 583,000 |
| Jair | Beltran | 544,000 |
| Carlos | Hey De Lima | 530,000 |
| Armand | King | 514,000 |
| Gil | Levy | 500,000 |
| Mark | Dube | 484,000 |
| Chanracy | Khun | 482,000 |
| Andres | Korn | 468,000 |
| Lily | Kornik | 465,000 |
| Yvan | Gravel | 452,000 |
| Tam | Ho | 450,000 |
| Karim | Abdelhamid | 443,000 |
| Robert | Gariepy | 434,000 |
| Marc | Bourgeois | 416,000 |
| Christopher | Conley | 411,000 |
| Kathy | Sawers | 406,000 |
| Mohammed | Tatar | 396,000 |
| Mark | Bradley | 338,000 |
| Alain | Chenel | 336,000 |
| Stuart | Taylor | 324,000 |
| Luke | Netherton | 320,000 |
| Dejan | Kovinic | 320,000 |
| Yirui | Zhang | 314,000 |
| Suhail Waleed | Al-Nasrawi | 310,000 |
| Daune | Fernandez | 310,000 |
| Bradley | Smith | 302,000 |
| Marc | Saddik | 298,000 |
| Eric | Al Halaby | 291,000 |
| Pierre | Sirois | 288,000 |
| Mike | Sexton | 287,000 |
| Raphael | Duval | 270,000 |
| Thomas | Cemm | 262,000 |
| Chad | Coombs | 256,000 |
| Rishi | Makkar | 256,000 |
| Jean-Simon | Giguere | 252,000 |
| Christopher | Taylor | 248,000 |
| Medhat | Ramzy | 239,000 |
| Joseph | Abou Khalil | 239,000 |
| Christopher | Lau | 238,000 |
| David | Bolduc Hamel | 236,000 |
| Steven | Tripp | 235,000 |
| Drew | Doiron | 225,000 |
| Alemu | Makonen | 221,000 |
| Michael | Korovine | 216,000 |
| Jason Philip | Lake | 214,000 |
| Daniel | Mackay | 212,000 |
| Sopheak | Heang | 209,000 |
| Wayne | Derouchie | 209,000 |
| Patrick | Blye | 204,000 |
| Jason | Remshardt | 193,000 |
| Pascal | Baumgartner | 180,000 |
| Lukas | Soucek | 179,000 |
| Andy | D' Alessandro | 169,000 |
| Kevin | Rivest | 168,000 |
| Mitchell | Dredge | 167,000 |
| Alex | Arsenault | 166,000 |
| Amir | Babakhani | 163,000 |
| Pierre Olivier | Guay | 159,000 |
| Shawn | Daigle | 157,000 |
| Samuel | Bantock | 152,000 |
| Richard Thomas | Mullen | 152,000 |
| Jimmy | De Barros Livramento | 150,000 |
| Paol | Orio | 149,000 |
| Frederic | Cossette | 141,000 |
| Vladislav | Gulii | 138,000 |
| Kenrick | Beharry | 133,000 |
| Mitcheal | Ferguson | 116,000 |
| Justin | Grady | 114,000 |
| Hui Ming | Zhu | 102,000 |
| Adam | Cader | 101,000 |
| Jonathan | Marrie | 94,000 |
| Nick | Nickoletopoulos | 78,000 |
| Stephen | Smith | 54,000 |
| John | Pihlak | 51,000 |
