The introductory announcements have just been made and the clock has now started to count down in level 1 of Day 1a of The $250 Frenzy! This is Event 3 in the Playground Poker Spring Classic presented by partypoker.net, and Day 1a is the first of six starting flights in this amazing event.

The second starting flight begins tonight at 7:30pm and then there are two more per day on Saturday and Sunday. Players are welcome to enter as few as one and as many as all six starting days to try to qualify for Day 2, which will begin on Monday April 25th at 7:00pm.

So far there are 68 players seated in Day 1a, but late registration is available until the end of the break following level 4, meaning that players can enter any time until 1:15pm this afternoon. Blind levels are 30 minutes long until the end of level 26, when they will extend to 40 minutes long. Play today will continue through 14 levels of play before those who are still alive will bag up their chips for Day 2.

Good luck to everyone playing today!