With three scheduled starting days, the day 1A players have a couple of days off to enjoy the sights here in Niagara Falls. Okay, maybe that should be singular and sight, since as far as anyone can tell, the Falls are the thing to see here. They are impressive though, and worth taking a gander at, even if you don’t think there is 2 days worth of viewing pleasure there.

The day 1A players are bagging up their chips and will then be free to do as they please for the next two days. The field will be combined for day 2 action on Monday after two more flights of day 1 play are complete. Near the end of the day JC Tran and Christian “charder” Harder (right) were atop the chip counts. The official end of day chip counts are available here.

Chip Counts from P5ers:
Christian “charder” Harder - 125,400
Joe Sebok - 84,700
Ryan “Gottskillz” Fisler - 80,000
Neehar “nemostars22″ Banjeri - 63,100
Bryce “bwcoates123″ Coates - 44,800
Peter “Mr. Motown” Valente - 42,100
Luke “IWEARGOGGLES” Staudenmaier - 20,700
Matt “Ch0ppy” Kay - 15,800
Tim “Tmay420″ West - 14,400

Here are some of the players that did not make it through day 1A:
Annette “Annette_15″ Obrestad
Randal “RandALLin” Flowers
Corey “UGOTPZD” Carroll
Isaac “mr. menlo” Baron
Shaun Deeb
Jason March
Kofi “redsoxsox” Farkye

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• October 10, 2008 -- North American Poker Championship Day 1A Gallery