Day 1A of the Playground 200 brought out a field of 98 entries, a figure which was helped along by 21 re-entries throughout the afternoon. Although the field was small when the action began, things got off to a fast start and showed no signs of slowing down until the final level of play.

Maxime Duhamel sprinted out of the gate to amass a huge chip lead during the early levels. Unfortunately, he ran out of steam shortly past the midpoint of the flight and made his exit shortly thereafter. From that point on there were three players who distanced themselves from the rest of the field – Mikael D’amico Orsini, Ami Alibay and Maurice Devereaux. These three players controlled the lion’s share of the chips all throughout the late stages. When the dust settled at the end of the fourteenth level of play Ami Alibay emerged as the chip leader with 408,000 in chips in the bag to become the new overall chip leader.

The Playground 200 has three more starting flights. Day 1B starts this evening at 7:00pm. Day 1C and Day 1D will be held tomorrow at 11:00am and 7:00pm, respectively. The Playground 200 is an unlimited re-entry event so players can players as many starting flights as they wish to set up a deep run on Day 2.