The first live flight of the $100 + $10 Playground 100 just came to an end in a dramatic and tense fashion. Play was scheduled to stop once there were only 15 players remaining at which point all of the players would bag for Day 2 and they would all be in the money. The one logistics point that was important is that regardless of other bustouts taking place, in order to qualify for a min-cash, a player needed to actually bag chips and not just be part of the final 15. When there were 17 players left in the field, before the floor staff had an opportunity to put the play hand-for-hand, all ins took place on both of the remaining tables at the same time. On one of the tables, there was a double knockout, resulting in only 15 players remaining. The problem was, on the other table, Warren Goldstein, was all in from the big blind for less than a full ante and he needed to survive in order to cash. What made things even worse for Goldstein was the fact that he was holding 53 off suit. The poker gods were on his side though as the dealer flopped a 3 for him and his opponent didn’t hit either of his cards, allowing Goldstein to benefit from a min-cash and the chance to return on Day 2 to see if he could be lucky enough to run his stack back up. Needless to say, Goldstein was pretty happy about the outcome of the hand.

The chip leader for Day 1A was none other than Andy Carriere, bagging 402,500. He is followed in second place on today’s flight by Patrick Bernier with 369,000 chips. In third place sits Avi Logasy with a bag of 314,000.

Day 1A chip leader: Andy Carriere

For a list of all of the combined Day 1 qualifiers, click here. (NB: Tonight’s qualifiers will be added to the list sometime on Friday)

Here are some of the players who found a bag for day 2:

Other day 1 starting flights are as follows:

• Day 1B: Friday, November 22 at 12:00PM
• Day 1C: Friday, November 22 at 7:00PM
• Day 1D: Saturday, November 23 at 11:00AM
• Day 1E Turbo: Saturday, November 23 at 4:00PM
• Day 1F: Saturday, November 23 at 8:00PM

Day 2 will be held on Sunday, November 24 at 3:00pm and play until there is a winner.