Canadian Grand Prix Day 1k | 2016 Playground Poker Club World Cup of Cards

The clock has been paused on the final starting flight of Event #16: $500,000 partypoker Canadain Grand Prix. Day 1k is complete and 42 more survivors are on to Day 2. The last Day 1 qualifier received a total of 415 entries. Topping the field on Saturday night was Sheldon Bloom .

Bloom was way ahead of the field finishing with 529,000. Other big stacks in the room were Alain Desbiens (394,000), Sylvain Therrien (390,000), Giovanni Di Cosmo (370,000), and Ha Van Nguyen (357,500).

This was the last chance players had to qualify for Sunday's Day 2 for $109. Anybody failing to qualify, live or online, or wanting to start with a larger stack may buy-in directly to Day 2 for $1,100 and receive a starting stack of 200,000.

Day 2 kicks off at 1 p.m. inside Playground Poker Club Sunday. The field will play 14 levels before bagging for the final day.

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This is the final live flight of the partypoker Grand Prix Poker Tour $500,000 Guarantee. This is Event #16 and this tournament sports the biggest guarantee of the World Cup of Cards. It also has the lowest buy in, only $109.

Today's Day 1k flight is the last of eleven live starting flights. There have been a ton of online Day 1 flights as well and online flights are still starting 30 minutes after each live flight. Mike Stannard is the big stack so far with 668,500 qualifying from one of the earlier online flights.

This will be the fourth starting flight today. This flight will have 20-minute levels and each player will start with 20,000. Play will continue until ten percent of the field remains.

One of the unique elements of the GPPT is a "Golden Chip." The golden chip can be earned in a series of 1-cent online tournaments. The top five players from each of the tournaments will earn a virtual golden chip. If a player with a virtual golden chip makes Day 2, they get a physical golden chip. Then any player who wins the tournament and has a golden chip adds $50,000 to their first place prize.