Day 3 begins!

The 44 players left in the WPT Canadian Spring Championship are seated at their tables, they’ve stacked their chips and everyone is ready to go. The clock will start in a few minutes and we expect the action to heat up quickly. There’s a minimum prize for all remaining participants of $10,142.00 but no one left in the event will be satisfied with that – after all, the top prize is over $270K plus the one-of-a-kind Championship belt!

The tournament is scheduled to play down to 18 players today, but since there are only 44 players starting the day this schedule may be slightly modified – we’ll post word when we have a definitive answer. Blinds are 6K/12K/a2K and blind levels are now 90 minutes long.

Day 2 Seat Assignments and Counts

When Event 8 got started at 7pm on Monday evening there were around 20 players who bought in immediately and were seated as level 1 began. There were a mix of players – well-known poker pros like Players Club members Gavin Smith and Phil Laak, local pros like Players Club member Christopher McClung and Pascal Lefrancois, and players who had been at the Spring Classic since the beginning and had played multiple events at various buy-in levels (i.e., Danny Boyaci and David Ormsby).

Throughout the evening players continued to jump in, joining the talented field and forcing some early table additions and a lot of “balancing up” as tables were added until eventually there were 52 total players representing a wide cross-section of poker talent. Players Club member and WPT Montreal third-place finisher Jeff Gross joined as soon as he was eliminated from the WPT Canadian Spring Championship, as did Shannon Shorr (who min-cashed the main event) and Tyler Reiman (the unfortunate bubble player in the WPT event).

Eventually the field reached 53 runners who played through 7 hour-long levels on Day 1. Of these 52, 29 remain in the tournament to return for Day 2 at 4pm today.

First Name Last Name Seat Chip Count
Bruce Buffer Table 26 – Seat 3 18050
Christopher McClung Table 21 – Seat 2 85550
Daniel Ghionoiu Table 25 – Seat 6 20600
Darren Elias Table 21 – Seat 6 50300
David Ormsby Table 21 – Seat 4 51525
Farid Jattin Table 26 – Seat 5 70775
Gabriel Frank Table 21 – Seat 7 32500
Gavin Smith Table 25 – Seat 7 60225
Guillaume Rivet Table 22 – Seat 4 35550
Hank Sitton Table 21 – Seat 5 53875
Jean-Christophe Ferreira Table 22 – Seat 1 44125
Jeffrey Dale Gross Table 26 – Seat 1 147500
Jesse Yaginuma Table 25 – Seat 4 58525
John Andress Table 26 – Seat 7 47875
Jonathan Jaffe Table 22 – Seat 5 66000
Jonathan Little Table 22 – Seat 8 74675
Kerry Shears Table 22 – Seat 2 61525
Mark Radoja Table 22 – Seat 7 15800
Martin Raus Table 21 – Seat 3 20850
Matthew Giannetti Table 25 – Seat 2 57525
Nicholas P Grippo Table 25 – Seat 5 152925
Osman Soubra Table 21 – Seat 1 24000
Pascal Lefrancois Table 25 – Seat 1 67875
Phil Laak Table 26 – Seat 4 18000
Philippe Kerri Table 26 – Seat 6 35800
Setrak Suloukji Table 22 – Seat 6 82625
Shannon Shorr Table 22 – Seat 3 81925
Sylvain Siebert Table 26 – Seat 2 41225
Tommy Vedes Table 25 – Seat 3 17900

Day 3 Seat Assignments & Counts

Day 2 of the WPT started at 295 and played down through the bubble all the way to 44 players remaining. Tomorrow action starts at 11am when the 44 who remain will play down to 18.

Here are the seating assignments and chip counts to start Day 3.

First Name Last Name Seat Chip Count
Allen Butkovic Table 53 – Seat 4 426000
Amirmasoud Babakhani Table 56 – Seat 3 925000
Andrew St-Jean Table 53 – Seat 5 190000
Barry Kruger Table 60 – Seat 5 600000
Benjamin Hamnett Table 55 – Seat 6 661000
Bradley Smith Table 52 – Seat 7 232000
Brant David Kostandoff Table 60 – Seat 4 513000
Brian Beggs Table 53 – Seat 1 851000
Bryan Piccioli Table 60 – Seat 9 623000
Carter Swidler Table 55 – Seat 8 178000
Christian Harder Table 55 – Seat 3 441000
Daniel Suied Table 53 – Seat 9 820000
David Quang Table 60 – Seat 3 571000
Derek Lerner Table 53 – Seat 6 775000
Doris Charlebois Table 53 – Seat 3 401000
Eddie Bangash Table 60 – Seat 1 448000
Francis Labonte Table 55 – Seat 7 552000
Jason Duval Table 56 – Seat 4 805000
Jason Hallee Table 56 – Seat 5 192000
Jason James Table 60 – Seat 7 539000
Jaspal Brar Table 52 – Seat 2 610000
Jonathan Bardier Table 52 – Seat 4 1356000
Joshua Jacob Field Table 53 – Seat 7 1078000
Kyle Frey Table 56 – Seat 6 372000
Luciano Iacovella Table 56 – Seat 2 206000
Martin Leblanc Table 60 – Seat 6 181000
Michael G Smith Table 52 – Seat 5 192000
Michael Linster Table 55 – Seat 4 407000
Michael Malm Table 52 – Seat 8 395000
Mike Vesia Table 55 – Seat 1 605000
Paul Theodore Klann Table 52 – Seat 1 1793000
Ralph El Ammar Table 56 – Seat 9 85000
Ravi K Raghavan Table 52 – Seat 9 682000
Richard Hubbard Table 56 – Seat 8 344000
Ricky Tang Table 52 – Seat 3 287000
Robert Brown Table 53 – Seat 8 322000
Robin R Bergren Table 52 – Seat 6 741000
Ronnie Bardah Table 60 – Seat 2 239000
Sasa Stancic Table 55 – Seat 2 178000
Stephane Alarie Table 53 – Seat 2 500000
Tao Liang Table 56 – Seat 1 186000
Vincent Cheung Table 56 – Seat 7 86000
Wil Ma Table 55 – Seat 5 280000
Yves Loiselle Table 60 – Seat 8 169000

End of Day 2 Payouts

Some more players eliminated at the end of the day:

  • 45th place: Ryan Echum, $10,142.00
  • 46th place: Benoit Forcier $8,663.00
  • 47th place: David Barter, $8,663.00
  • 48th place: Armah Attoh, $8,663.00

 

Up to 50

The High Roller event (Event 8) is up to 50 players with three more levels of late registration still available. We just posted some photos on Facebook so go take a look!

Three more…

The TD has just announced that all tables will play three more hands and then Day 2 of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship will be over.

Chip counts and table draws for Day 3 will be available here and elsewhere later tonight. Day 3 kicks off at 11am tomorrow.

Payouts after the bubble

As usual there was a flurry of players eliminated from the tournament soon after the bubble burst.

  • 49th place: Michael Bartholomew, $8,663.00
  • 50th place: Pierre Routhier, $8,663.00
  • 51st place: Richard Geyer, $8,663.00
  • 52nd place: Chanracy Khun, $8,663.00 (Players Club)
  • 53rd place: Marcel Rosa, $8,663.00
  • 54th place: Gabriel Frank, $8,663.00
  • 55th place: William Molson, $7,184.00
  • 56th place: Jacob Toole, $7,184.00
  • 57th place: Michael Korovine, $7,184.00
  • 58th place: Jakub Drag, $7,184.00
  • 59th place: Sebastian Saffari, $7,184.00
  • 60th place: Matthew Kay, $7,184.00
  • 61st place: Upeshka Manishan De Silva, $7,184.00
  • 62nd place: Mark Radoja, $7,184.00
  • 63rd place: Vincent Lam, $7,184.00
  • 64th place: Jason-Ray Paguandas, $6,127.00
  • 65th place: Jeffrey Dale Gross, $6,127.00 (Players Club)
  • 66th place: Bahbak Oboodi, $6,127.00
  • 67th place: Dylan Wilkerson, $6,127.00
  • 68th place: Jonathan Driscoll, $6,127.00 (Players Club)
  • 69th place: Levon Dedeyan, $6,127.00
  • 70th place: Eric Benhamron, $6,127.00
  • 71st place: Shannon Shorr, $6,127.00
  • 72nd place: Yannick Gauthier, $6,127.00

At the end of level 3…

…the high roller tournament has grown to 46 players of whom 45 are still alive. They’ve been playing at the same time as the bubble came (and went) in the WPT Canadian Spring Championship so things have been a little frantic in the room, but it is much calmer now. Plus, now that people are collecting their vouchers and cash in the WPT, some of those players are moving over to play the High Roller so numbers should continue to grow.

Players are in the money

Day 2 of the tournament has been moving at a quick pace since play started at 11 this morning, and the bubble didn’t slow things down that much. There were a few short stacks in the room and by the time the TD announced hand-for-hand play there were a few bubble boy candidates.

One of these – Armah Attoh – managed to more than double his 1 BB stack when he went all-in in early position with what turned out to be pocket jacks which held against 77.

Just two hands later Tyler Reiman shoved his small stack in holding TT – only to be called by pocket Kings, which held. So Tyler is the bubble boy and the rest of the players are in the money.

Play is hand for hand

There are 73 players remaining and play is now hand-for-hand.