Day 1A in the MILLIONS North America Main Event begins today at 12:00pm, and history will begin to be made as the largest tournament in Canadian poker history gets underway in the Tournament Hall at Playground Poker Club. The event features a massive $10,000,000 guaranteed prize pool, and the first 3 places are guaranteed to pay at least $1M each!

The tournament features 4 “normal” Day 1s plus a fifth Turbo Day 1, and registration is open throughout the day for each of these starting flights. In fact, players also have the option to enter or re-enter (or both) until the end of the break following level 12 on Days 2A and 2B as well – so there will be plenty of opportunity for players to find the winning formula to generate a huge stack to take to Day 3.

The Satellite and other qualifier activity surrounding this event have been unparalleled – a factor that will definitely NOT go unnoticed by any professional poker player looking for extra tournament value. As of this morning, 500 seats have been awarded via online or live satellite, and there are still over 100 seats more guaranteed in satellites that will occur in parallel with the event’s starting flights.

The players who start their journey to poker riches today will be joining a small group who played their Day 1 and Day 2 at Deerfoot Inn & Casino. The tournament may be formally beginning today, but there are already 5 players that have a seat in Day 3 via these remote starting days. The chip leader from those flights, Ashkan Razavi, has booked a stack that’s 89bb deep for Day 3 – which should effectively become the target for players starting today.

Best of luck to all of the players today, and throughout the MILLIONS Main Event!

This post was published first on this Playground Event Blog: MILLIONS North America 2018.