96 players have returned to level 10 indicating the end of the late registration and re-entry period. The total entries were able to reach 174, including 34 re-entries, to round out the last day of starting flights for the Playground 1000. The prize pool will be announced shortly.

Sebastien Vezina has maintained his lead after building a huge stack worth 574,000 chips. Vezina’s stack is good for 229 big blinds and is more than triple the chip average of 181,250.

Here’s a look at the current leaderboard: