Welcome to the second live Day 1 of the $200 + $20 Grand Prix Canada, the marquee event of the Playground’s 9-Year Anniversary series. This event offers incredible value with it’s $500,000 guaranteed prize pool. Players have 19 Day 1s from which to choose, both live and online.

Players start the Grand Prix Canada with 100,000 chips. As tonight’s Day 1B is a turbo flight, the blind levels are 20 minutes long. The play is 10-handed on Day 1. Day 2 starts 9-handed and moves to 8-handed as soon as possible.

This is a re-entry event with unlimited re-entries permitted until the end of the late registration period on each Day 1 , which will be at 10:50pm. Re-entry is permitted for any player that loses all their chips or chooses to forfeit their stack (online flights do not offer the forfeit option). A player may play additional Day 1s even if they have survived a previous Day 1 with chips. Players who qualify for Day 2 more than once will resume play on Day 2 with their largest qualifying stack; all other qualifying stacks will be forfeited. Players would, however, retain the associated cash prize for every forfeited stack.

The starting flights will play down to when one in seven players remain, at which point the players will be in the money and bag their chips for Day 2.

There were 214 players in today’s Day 1A. Day 1B is off to a strong start, with 33 players seated and grinding away.

Good luck to all competitors!