Welcome to Day 1M of the $200 + $20 Grand Prix Canada, the marquee event of the Playground 9-year Anniversary series featuring an amazing $500,000 guaranteed prize pool. With already 300 players entered into this morning’s Day 1L, there have now been a total of 2,251 entries spread across 17 starting flights, both live and online on partypoker. The 4:00pm Day 1M will bring the total prize pool north of the guarantee and there still remains one more starting flight at  7:30pm this evening (Day 1N). The value of this low buy in event is simply spectacular; do not miss your chance to get a piece of the amazing prize pool.

Players start the Grand Prix Canada with 100,000 chips. The blind levels are 30 minutes long and the play is 10-handed on Day 1. Day 2 starts 9-handed and moves to 8-handed as soon as possible.

This is a re-entry event with unlimited re-entries permitted until the end of the late registration period on each Day 1, which is at the start of level 11 at 9:30pm. Re-entry is permitted for any player that loses all their chips or chooses to forfeit their stack. A player may play additional Day 1s even if they have survived a previous Day 1 with chips. Players who qualify for Day 2 more than once will resume play on Day 2 with their largest qualifying stack; all other qualifying stacks will be forfeited. Players would, however, retain the associated cash prize for every forfeited stack. This allows for a great opportunity to see if you can qualify with a larger Day 2 stack by firing more than one bullet.

The starting flights will play down to when one in seven players remain, at which point the players will be in the money and bag their chips for Day 2.

To date 279 players have now qualified for Day 2, in addition to all of today’s qualifiers who will join the group of Day 2 players. To see the combined Day 1 results, click here. (NB: today’s results as well as the Day 2 seating chart will be added to the list late in the morning on Sunday).

Good luck to all competitors!