Bruce has been on the short stack since the beginning of Day 2, and although he threatened to start re-building his stack early on, nothing really took hold for him and he ended up playing his last 15K or so when the big blind had grown to 1.2K. He was eliminated in 13th position.

Event 9 of the Playground Poker Spring Classic is about to start. This is a $500 + $50 Pot Limit Omaha “3 Lives” tournament. What’s special about this event is that each player starts with three “life chips” each of which represents 10K in chips. Players can use an extra life chip whenever they like in the first four levels of play. So it someone starts with 10K they can choose to play that and leave 2 lives “behind” – or a different approach would be to cash in all of your life chips at once and start the tournament with 30K.

Sylvain Siebert has been eliminated by Shannon Shorr on an AK vs QQ hand with an Ace on the flop. Shannon chips up to over 250K.

With 14 players left here are some approximate counts

Table 22

• Sylvain Siebert – 70K
• Shannon Shorr – 180K
• Hank Sitton – 145K
• Bruce Buffer – 16K
• Philippe Kerri – 45K
• Christopher McClung – 67K
• John Andress – 90K

Table 25

• Nicholas Grippo – 150K
• Matthew Giannetti – 30K
• Pascal Lefrancois – 145K
• Jonathan Little – 36K
• Darren Elias – 115K
• David Ormsby – 80K
• Setrak Suloukji – 310K

…both Jeff Gross and Gavin Smith have been eliminated. We missed the hand but Gross had lost a big portion of his stack before the last redraw to Darren Elias. Shannon Shorr is stacking the rest.

Meanwhile Gavin Smith got it all in holding pocket nines – only to run into pocket aces.

Gross was out in 17th, Smith in 16th.

Some rough chip counts with 20 left:

• Christopher McClung – 60K
• David Ormsby – 85K
• Hank Sitton – 95K
• Darren Elias – 65K
• Jeff Gross – 140K
• Philippe Kerri – 50K
• Kerry Shears – 46K
• Shannon Shorr – 120K
• Setrak Suloukji – 230K
• Jonathan Little – 60K
• Sylvain Siebert – 96K
• Pascal Lefrancois – 140K
• Matthew Giannetti – 15K
• Jesse Yaginuma – 55K
• Nicholas Grippo – 115K
• Gavin Smith – 45K
• Bruce Buffer – 17K
• John Andress – 110K

The High Roller event has reached its first break of the evening and there have been a few more eliminations since Phil Laak went down at the outset of play today.

• Danie Ghionoiu
• Martin Raus
• Osman Soubra
• Guillaume Rivet
• Farid Jattin
• Mark Radoja
• Jonathan Jaffe

There are 20 players remaining and when they return from break blinds will be 500/1K/a100. The chip average is 79.5K. There will be a full seating redraw when the tournament moves to 2 tables/18 players.

Three players were eliminated at the $17,325 payout level and with their elimination the event is down to 18 players. The clock has been paused with 4:42 left in level 24. When players return at 11am tomorrow the clock will resume but players will be seated at redrawn tables. The redraw and chip totals of the remaining 18 players will be posted here soon.

19th place: Robin R Bergren, $17,325

20th place: Kyle Frey, $17,325

21st place: Paul Theodore Klann, $17,325

Today the 44 players who returned for Day 3 of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship arrived to play down to 18 players – and they’re just about there after just 3 and two-thirds levels. In theory this sort-of-bubble could take a while to burst, but that hasn’t been our experience in most of the events so far this series, so we can expect to get to 18 before the end of this level (18 mins left).