The end of level 14 has arrived and 44 players are bagging up their chips. Full counts and seating assignments for Day 2 will be posted here soon.

There are 60 players left in the tournament with about 10 minutes left in level 13 and just level 14 to follow before players bag their chips for Day 2.

Here’s a sampling of some of the larger stacks in Level 13.

From PPSC – Event 5 – Day 1, posted by Playground Poker Club on 5/01/2013 (Showing 8 of 48 items)

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The final prize pool for Event 5 adds up to $244,440.00 and the top 27 players will be in the money. This adds up to a hefty $57,515.00 payout for first place!

Players are in their last break of the evening and there are 82 players remaining. Blinds when players return will be 1K/2K/a200.

Players are back from their 15 minute break and the tournament has re-started at level 9 of the 14 to be played today. Blinds are 500/1000/a100 and there are 133 of the 252 players who started today.

Event 5 is currently playing at level 8 (blinds 400/800/a100) and from a starting field of 252 total, there are 155 players still in the tournament. For an $1100 tournament the field can be classified as nothing less than “sick”. It’s an overused word in poker, but with 4 past WPT event champions, a WSOP Main Event champion, a ton of very successful online players, and a couple of old-school Canadian legends, this is one of the toughest fields we’ve seen. Word has just come in that Jonathan Duhamel is the current chip leader, playing over 150K (the chip average is just 41.4K).

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of photos on Facebook. Here is a sample.

From PPSC – Event 5 – Day 1, posted by Playground Poker Club on 5/01/2013 (Showing 12 of 48 items)

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Event 5 is now underway and registration numbers keep on climbing. The most recent figures put 182 players at the tables with 3 hours left to late register.

Event 5 of the Playground Poker Spring Classic is ready to start in about 5 minutes and there are around 150 players being seated for this $1000 + $100 No Limit Hold’em Deepstack tournament. The total number of runners will most likely climb well past this figure as late registration is open until the end of the break following 4 45-minute long levels – giving players until after 3pm to jump into the action.

Players who do come out for the event will have the chance to test their skills against most of Montreal’s players of note including Players Club members Christopher McClung, Jean-Philippe Piquette, Philippe Plouffe, as well as WPT Champions Chanracy Khun and Jonathan Roy. Earlier today the most famous local player of them all – Jonathan Duhamel – tweeted that he’ll be joining the action this afternoon as well.

Good luck to everyone!