It was a great evening of poker here at Playground.

With 316 entries, the Day 1E group represents the largest yet among Day 1 flights. When added together, all of the Day 1’s combined for a total of 1054 entries into this event, more than double the necessary entries to pay out the guaranteed $50,000 prize pool. As it stands, the remaining competitors will play to the finish tomorrow for their share of $102,238, a very healthy sum considering the size of the buy-in.

The last hand of the night was won by William Pauze in a battle against Eric Ylagan on table 32. Eric had the better hand on the preflop shove, but his pocket jacks were beaten by William’s ace-four. William may look stressed in the picture below, but he was all smiles after the cards were dealt.

The player who collected the most chips in today’s flight was – you guessed it – Ron S., who bagged 625,500 chips and landed in third place on the overall leaderboard moving into tomorrow’s Day 2 action. Below is a list of some of the top three chip leaders for the day, with the complete list of Day 2 qualifiers available on our results page, here.

Good luck to all our competitors tomorrow for Day 2. See you at the tables, 3:00pm sharp!