Ema Zajmovic has taken an early lead in Day 1c, having built up a stack of over 93K in the first three levels of play today. We got word of a big hand she was involved in holding pocket 9s on a 99Q flop – and her opponent held pocket Queens!
Behind Ema on the early leaderboard are a few players who have doubled their starting stack, but only about 4-5 players have done so – which makes sense considering that just 7 players have been eliminated so far.

Ema Zajmovic
Some other reports from Twitter:
Things not going that well @PlaygroundPoker for the @TonyBetPoker Main Event. 10k from 30k starting.
— Steven Kerr (@SkinnySteve) February 7, 2016
Starting stack 30K in @TonyBetPoker Winter Festival @PlayGroundPoker in Montreal so far so good with 35K at first break 🙂
— Isabelle Mercier (@IsabelleNoMercy) February 7, 2016