Day 1A at the North American Poker Championship is off and running.  Due to Canadian gaming restrictions (of which there are plenty) the tournament has to be broken up into three starting days to make sure the field size doesn’t go over the allowed limit.

The first of the playing days is off to a slow start, with a small field as most players wait for one of the latter days to get into the action, and some of today’s arrivals are willing to miss the first few minutes of play anyway.  Isaac “mr. menlo” Baron, Luke “IWEARGOGGLES” Staudenmaier, Tim “Tmay420″ West and Joe Sebok have all been spotted headed into the tournament area today, along with last years tournament director Jason March who is back this year to play in the event instead of running it.

The schedule for the tournament is what is known as the Bellagio structure, meaning 5 levels of play with no dinner break and play finishing up around 9pm.

• October 10, 2008 -- Two Days Off
• October 13, 2008 -- Carson Triples
• October 10, 2008 -- Fizzling Hot
• October 10, 2008 -- North American Poker Championship Day 1A Gallery