Registrations in Day 1a of the Grand Prix continue to come in at a regular pace, and we are now pushing 50 players deep. There is another full hour to the registration period, and we expect many more to join in, rubbing shoulders with partypoker’s Tony Dunst, who joined us for the opening flight of this marquee Event.
Play is almost ready to begin in the first Live starting day in the Grand Prix Canada, the first partypoker LIVE event to be held in North America! The event is a $200 + $20 NL Hold’em tournament that features 17 online Day 1s – 12 of which have already been held – and another 11 Live Day 1s.
The first of these Live Day 1s is Day 1A and it’s set to get underway in just a few minutes. The opening flights of a tournament like this are always relatively leisurely affairs – but with 51 players already qualified for Day 2, there will be a little bit of urgency among the players interested in the event to not only qualify – but to do so with as large a stack as possible!
This is a next-day re-entry event, with a player’s best stack moving to Day 2, so all players are welcome to join as many Day 1s as they wish in order to build up the largest stack possible, and will cash $400 for every qualified stack as they go. With the current chip leader already brushing up against the 1M chip mark – online qualifier Victor Artemenko amassed 990K in his Day 1 – players have a very high target in sight.
Players will begin with 30,000 tournament chips and play will continue on each Live Day 1 until 10% of the field remains.
Good luck to everyone playing today!
The Live starting flights of the partypoker LIVE Grand Prix Canada don’t get underway until Tuesday, but in fact the tournament is already on – it started on February 12th with the first Online Day 1 on partypoker! So far there have been 10 Day 1s and the next one will be held tonight on partypoker at 9:00pm.
This is the last of the weekly Sunday Day 1s – but not the last online Day 1. These will continue daily at 9:00pm until Saturday April 29th. Live Day 1s start on Tuesday April 25th with two per day until Saturday, when there will be a third added to the schedule.
There is an advantage to playing a Day 1 online – the first hundred players to qualify online will all win a “Golden Chip” and participate in a $20,000 last longer including only other online winners. There are currently 62 golden chips remaining
If you want to consult the standings so far or see the Golden chip tally, please visit: Canadian Grand Prix landing page.
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Online Day 1 Flights on partypoker
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