Day 1A of the $500 + $50 Playground 500 just ended with 12 players bagging to advance to Day 2. The tournament is the marquee event of the November Power Weekend and features a $100,000 guaranteed prize pool.
The first of three live flights attracted a nice sized field with a total of 40 entries who played through 14 levels of 30 minutes. The lead changed hands a few times through the course of the evening and when it was all said and done, it was Patrick St-Laurent who bagged the top stack, with 360,000 chips. He is followed closely in second place by Thibault Nouveau with 353,000 chips, and then by Charli Azoulay in third with 253,000 chips.
Day 1A chip leader: Patrick St-Laurent:
Here are some of the players who were able to find a bag for Day 2:
For a complete list of the combined Day 1 qualifiers, click here. (NB: Tonight’s qualifiers will be added to the list sometime on Friday)
There will be additional day 1 flights as follows:
- Day 1B: Friday, November 22 at 11:00AM
- Day 1C: Friday, November 22 at 7:00PM
Day 2 will play out on Saturday at 3:00pm, followed by Day 3 on Sunday at 2:00pm where the remaining field will play down to a champion.