7th place goes to Christian Harder

Christian Harder – among the chip leaders for much of the day – has been eliminated from the WPT Canadian Spring Classic in 7th place.

Read the WPT Live Update team’s write-up of the hand.

7th place: Christian Harder, $66,132.00

7th place: Christian Harder, $66,132.00

The Final Table is Set!

The official WPT Final Table is now set.

  • Seat 1: Barry Kruger
  • Seat 2: Tao Liang
  • Seat 3: Jonathan Bardier
  • Seat 4: Amir Babakhani
  • Seat 5: Jason Duval
  • Seat 6: Martin Leblanc

The final table will begin tomorrow afternoon at 3pm. We’ll be posting final chip counts later tonight. There will be no new seating draw – players will continue in the same relative positions they have been in since the last table began.

The WPT Live team has covered this whole tournament with their usual skill and professionalism, and particularly today with two and then one table their coverage was very detailed. Visit the WPT Live Updates site to read about today’s action (and then come back here!).

8th place goes to Piccioli

Bryan Piccioli is out in 8th place. Just two more eliminations until the Final Table is established.

8th place: Bryan Piccioli, $52,609.00

8th place: Bryan Piccioli, $52,609.00

Two down

In early play at the last table of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship (the “Final Table” is the 6-handed table which will play down tomorrow) two players have been eliminated. First, Brian Beggs was eliminated followed by Daniel Suied about 15 minutes later.

9th place: Daniel Suied, $39,510.00

9th place: Daniel Suied, $39,510.00

10th place: Brian Beggs, $28,312.00

10th place: Brian Beggs, $28,312.00

Last Table

The tournament is down to 10 players who have been seated at one ten-handed table.

  • Seat 1: Daniel Suied
  • Seat 2: Barry Kruger
  • Seat 3: Tao Liang
  • Seat 4: Christian Harder
  • Seat 5: Brian Beggs
  • Seat 6: Jonathan Bardier
  • Seat 7: Amir Babakhani
  • Seat 8: Bryan Piccioli
  • Seat 9: Jason Duval
  • Seat 10: Martin Leblanc

 

Josh Field eliminated in 11th

Josh Field has been eliminated in 11th position, losing the hand to Christian Harder.

Christian opened the action with a UTG raise to 100K. Martin Leblanc called in middle position and Josh shoved for just over 1M chips from the BB. Christian called and Martin folded.

Josh: 6 of Clubs 6 of Spades
Christian: Ace of Diamonds Queen of Clubs

The flop was positive for Josh: 3 of Spades Jack of Spades 7 of Clubs but the turn Queen of Hearts put Christian in the lead. The river 4 of Spades didn’t save Josh and he is out of the tournament.

11th place: Joshua Jacob Field, $28,312.00

11th place: Joshua Jacob Field, $28,312.00

Back from break

The 11 remaining players are back from a break and level 27 has begun. Blinds are now 25K/50K/a5K and the average stack is 2M chips. When one more player is eliminated there will be a redraw for seats and play will continue 10-handed at the unofficial final table (the official final table in WPT events is at 6 players).

Carter Swidler, 12th

Carter Swidler has been playing a relatively small stack for most of the day, but was finally eliminated when his AQo didn’t improve against pocket jacks.

12th place: Carter Swidler, $28,312.00

12th place: Carter Swidler, $28,312.00

13th place, Allen Butkovic

Allen Butkovic, who lost much of his stack to Barry Kruger about half an hour ago, has been eliminated from the tournament in 13th place.

13th place: Allen Butkovic, $22,607.00

13th place: Allen Butkovic, $22,607.00

Rough counts

Some rough chip counts 1/3 of the way through level 26.

Table 34

  • Bryan Piccioli – 1.5M
  • Jason Duval – 1.3M
  • Barry Kruger – 3.3M
  • Daniel Suied – 350K
  • Allen Butkovic – 300K
  • Amir Babakhani – 1.5M

Table 35

  • Christian Harder – 3.3M
  • Tao Liang – 1.7M
  • Martin Leblanc – 1.1M
  • Carter Swidler – 660K
  • Brian Beggs – 1.7M
  • Josh Field – 1.2M