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).
A few more players must be eliminated before we reach today’s goal of 18 remaining.
22nd place: Robert Brown, $15,424
23rd place: Michael Malm, $15,424
24th place: Eddie Bangash, $15,424
25th place: Richard Hubbard, $13,522
Players Club member Derek Lerner had survived a couple of hands that many players wouldn’t have gotten past earlier in the day and chipped down to under 400K. On his last hand he was all in holding 
while his opponent – Daniel Suied – held 
. The flop of 
wasn’t great for Derek as it put Daniel firmly out front with two pair, though he did have outs to the straight as well as a King. It was not to be, however, as a meaningless 
came on the turn and the 
on the river.
Derek was clearly disappointed in his 26th place finish but he was gracious as he left the table, wishing no hard feelings to a player who had been somewhat upset with him the previous day.
The hand to the turn. The 5d came on the river.
26th place: Derek Lerner, $13,522
Bradley Smith is out in 27th place.
27th place: Bradley Smith, $13,522
Ronnie Bardah was getting a little short and when it folded to him in the cutoff he went all-in for 361K. The BB called and when the cards were turned over it was a race – Ronnie’s 
against Jonathan Bardier’s 
.
The 
flop put Ronnie in the lead and the 
turn and river kept him there. Ronnie builds to just about 760K. Jonathan is still over 1M.
There’s a full seating re-draw at 27 players… which is where the tournament has arrived.
The latest to exit were Michael Linster, David Quang, Andrew St-Jean, Ricky Tang, and Mike Vesia.
Christian Harder has just doubled (effectively), eliminating Wil Ma.
Christian opened the action in early position, and Wil raised, Christian responded with a 4-bet. Wil thought for a couple of seconds but then shoved (5-bet) and Christian snap called. Christian turned over 
and Wil flipped over AK (suits unknown) for the classic confrontation. Christian clearly expected the worst, but he avoided problems on the 
flop. The 
turn wasn’t a good sign… but it all turned around when the 
came on the river.
Christian grew his stack to over 1.1M while Wil Ma went to the tournament desk for his prize voucher.
Some more eliminations from Day 3:
Right away the three short stacks found a way to get it in – and we have the first three eliminations of the day.