Day 1a is in the books and of the 194 players who started the day, 79 have made it through the field to Day 2 on Monday. Players who were eliminated today may try again on Saturday’s Day 1b or Sunday’s Day 1c.

Please note that these are the unverified chip counts provided by players on their bags. There may be slight discrepancies between the counts listed and the player’s stack to start Day 2. Click on headings to sort the table using a particular column.

Players are back from their dinner break and the final tally for Day 1a is 194 entries. With Day 1b and Day 1c still to come it’s definitely looking like a great prize pool is being built.

Of the 194 entries today, 150 players are still in the tournament. Players are in level 7 with blinds 250/500/a75.

Level 6 has come and gone and players are now on a 45 minute dinner break. We’ll be back after the break with the final number of entries for Day 1a.

Day 1a is almost at the end of level 3 and participation has climbed to 186 entries with 174 still playing today. Registration doesn’t close for another 3 levels so there’s still lots of time to enter.

There are some big names in the field so far. Huck Seed, Mike Sexton, and Phil Laak are both here who are poker’s version of household names. in addition to those guys though there are a whole bunch of lower-profile, very-high-success players in the field like Shannon Shorr, Jeff Gross (3rd in the WPT Montreal), Joe Serock, Matt Jarvis, Mike Leah, Sam Chartier and more.

Playground Poker’s Players Club is very well represented – joining the event in Day 1a are: Anne-Marie Angelil, Ben Leblond, George Cargiorgas, Christopher McClung, Jean-Philippe Piquette, and Chanracy Khun.

Mike Sexton and our tournament staff have made some announcements and now cards are in the air in level 1 of the PartyPoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship!

There are 140 players on the tables to start with and registration is open until the end of level 6 so that number is sure to climb.

After months of preparation and 6 preliminary events worth of warm-up, Event 7 of the Playground Poker Spring Classic – the PartyPoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship – has arrived!

Today is Day 1a – the first of three starting days for this 5-day, $3000 + $300 event. Days 1a, 1b, 1c, 2, 3, and 4 will all start at 11am, and between our Event Blog here on the Playground Poker site, Canada Poker, and the WPT Live Updates site you’ll be able to follow all of the action.