Day 1a has come to a close and the players are bagging up their chips – everyone remaining in the tournament will come back on Sunday at 12pm for Day 2. We’ll have chip counts for the day in a little while.

Day 1b will start at 12pm tomorrow, and considering it’s a Saturday we’re expecting a lot of players to jump into the event.

The players in Day 1a of Event 2 have entered their final break of the day. By the way, they were scheduled to play 16 levels today but the Tournament Director has decided that they will stop after just 15 levels, meaning that there is just one level to play today after this break.

We are half way through level 14 here on Day 1a of Event 2, which means that players will be going on break until Day 2 within the hour and a half.

Here are some photos from level 13:

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Players are in the last level before the final break of the day, and some of the chip leaders have remained among the leaders – Antony M, Sean Balfour – but some new players have begun to grow big stacks to challenge the leaders from earlier in the day. Miguel Goncalo, Jose Pereira, Andrew Graham and David Dusone are all playing over 120K at this point in the evening.

During the break we got a better look at some of the stacks in play. Only two players have breached the 100K mark so far but there are several others following closely behind. Here are the top 6 to this point:

1. Marc Piché – 150K
2. Jean Noreau – 103K
3. Gilles Cornelis – 92K
4. Ricky Tang – 88K
5. Dean Murphy – 88K
6. Antony M – 85K

The second break is approaching which will mark the half way point of today’s action. Doing a quick tour of the room we noticed a few players approaching 100K stacks, including:

• Jean Noreau – 95K
• Russel Turner – 90K
• Sean Balfour – 90K

We’ll look for some other big stacks during the break and post some photos soon.

Registration has closed for Day 1a of Event 2 and there are 255 players total who joined in the action today. Since tomorrow is a Saturday we’re expecting quite a few more players to jump into this tournament which will build the prize pool well past the $100K guarantee and give good value to the participants who cash – and as usual, a great payout to the player who finishes in first place!

Players should remember the Fall Classic MVP Belt will be awarded for the player who demonstrates the best overall performance over the course of the whole Fall Classic, so getting points in Event 2 could be a big help.

Here are some photos of the action at the beginning of Day 1a of Event 2.

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Players are taking their seats for Event 2 of the Playground Poker Fall Classic, a $200 + $20 No Limit Hold’em Deepstack Re-entry tournament with two Day 1s, Day 1a today and Day 1b tomorrow. This tournament has the same $100K guarantee that Event 1 had, and like Event 1 it’s a 3 Day tournament.

Today’s Day 1a will play through 16 levels of 30 minutes each. Everyone left in the action at the end of today will proceed to Day 2 on Sunday. It’s a next-day re-entry event, so anyone who doesn’t qualify today may re-enter tomorrow and try again.

Good luck to all of the players!