Day 1A of the Playground 200 has come to a close with 22 of the 112 players registering having booked their spot in Day 2 in the event. When the chips were bagged, Michael Khan was still in the lead with 417,000 in chips about 90,000 more chips than his nearest rival.

To see the results of the Online Day 1, plus each of the other Day 1s as they occur, please visit the Playground 200 Combined Day 1 Results page.

The players in this first of three starting flights in the Playground 200 are taking their final break of the day. There are just 37 players remaining going into the final stint of 3 levels to go before players bag up at the end of the evening.

The chip leader remains Michael Khan, and he has already managed to put together a dominant stack of just under 275K. The next players on the leaderboard are around 125K behind… so only a double by either one of them would be enough to take the lead.

Here are a few more shots taken during level 9 of Day 1A in the Playground 200. Since these were taken, play has moved into level 10 and there are 47 players remaining in the bid to qualify for Day 2. Including this level, there are 5 more levels to play before play wraps up for the evening at the end of level 14.

Michael Khan is a familiar face in big events, but he also a familiar name on leaderboards in tournaments here at Playground as well. After 8 levels of play today, he has taken the lead in the tournament, playing a stack of over 140K – almost 3x the chip average! Albert Nguyen – another player who has enjoyed success here over the years – is also in the mix with 130K.

Gary Lucci has been an event champion here multiple times, but at least on Day 1A things didn’t go his way and he was eliminated in back-to-back hands on table 36. Another perennial champion, Ruben Perceval, placed the final straw, but Vivo L took a big portion of Gary’s stack to put everything in motion.

In the first hand, preflop action was raised to 4,400 (over 10x the bb at the time) and there were 3 to the flop – an inflated pot if there ever was one. The flop came and the three players checked around. On the turn , Vivo bet 4,750 and Gary called. The 3rd player got out of the way and the river came . Vivo checked and Gary came out firing: 7,500. Vivo called and showed down just – but it was more than enough to beat Gary’s Ace-Jack high.

With about half of his chips pushed across the table, Gary was in another hand, this time against Ruben, and by the time the river was dealt – the board read – Ruben had just over 10K left, which he slid to the middle to signal that he was all in. Gary was clearly not happy with the state of things, and had the smaller stack – but he made the call.

Ruben:
Gary:

Play has now moved into level 7, meaning that registration is now closed with a total of 112 entries on Day 1A including 14 re-entries.

The players in Day 1A are back from their first break of the day, and while they were absent from the tables, we surveyed the room to find out who were the big stacks to this point in the flight. We counted everyone who had built up more than a 2x starting stack (i.e., over 50K) and found 6 players, including chip leader Gabriel Attiave, who has already accumulated close to 80K!