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With the end of the dinner break comes the end of late registration for Day 1c. There were 258 entries today including a late entry by Matt Salsberg who is firing a third bullet in the tourney to try and improve on his stack from Day 1a.

Overall, the three Day-1s attracted 194, 283, and 258 entries totalling 735 total tournament buy-ins. This total includes 143 total re-entries.

Prize pool and the payouts will be posted as soon as they are available. As well, at the end of the evening we’ll have full seat assignments with chip counts for Day 2.

Day 1c is now in level 7 the blinds are 250/500/a75 and there are 174 players remaining.

Players are on a 45-minute dinner break. There are 178 remaining of the 258 who started the day. Final Day 1 numbers and more coming soon.

We’re half-way through level 4 and players keep coming in – so far the total is 251 players today with 224 still playing. Late registration is open until the end of the break following level 6, so there’s still time to jump in the tournament!

We’ve added some photos of the early action to an album on the Playground Poker Facebook page.

There’s a belt for the champion of the 2013 WPT Canadian Spring Championship which carries on a tradition we began last spring when two belts were awarded – and both were won by the same player.

Jean-Philippe Piquette is a local poker pro and member of Playground Poker’s Players Club and won the belts for his victories in last spring’s $2200 Deepstack and $10,300 High Roller events. By popular demand, he agreed to play today wearing both of the belts!

Jean-Philippe Piquette arrives wearing his belts!

Jean-Philippe Piquette arrives wearing his belts!

…To shuffle up and deal! Bruce Buffer got the proceedings started with a bang and over 200 players have taken their seats at the start of level 1. Registration is open until the end of the break following level 6, so today promises to be an action-packed day.

Bruce Buffer gets the action started

In about an hour’s time, another flight of poker players will sit once again at their tables in the Tournament Hall at Playground Poker and play for the chance to continue in Day 2 of the PartyPoker WPT Canadian Spring Championship.

Event 7 of the Playground Poker Spring Classic has already welcomed a total of 477 players in Days 1a and 1b, 194 of whom have qualified to move on to Day 2 on Monday. Today’s group will include players taking their first shot alongside a few players who are playing either their second or even third re-entry.

Cards are in the air shortly for what’s sure to be a great day of poker!