In just minutes the players will be assembled in the ring and ready to begin play on the Final Table of the PartyPoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship.
Everything is ready to go: the live stream crew, the WPT Live Updates team, the Canada Poker team, the Royal Flush Girls, the tournament directors and dealers, and all of Playground Poker is ready for the Final Table to begin.
Announcements are coming soon and cards will be in the air in just a few minutes!
Here are the chip counts for the 6 players who will play in Day 5 of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship on Thursday, May 5, 2013. Note that seating assignments are provided but these have not been redrawn, they are the same relative positions players occupied at the end of Day 4.
| First Name | Last Name | Seat | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amirmasoud | Babakhani | Final Table – Seat 4 | 6,635,000 |
| Barry | Kruger | Final Table – Seat 1 | 4,770,000 |
| Jason | Duval | Final Table – Seat 5 | 4,155,000 |
| Jonathan | Bardier | Final Table – Seat 3 | 1,470,000 |
| Martin | Leblanc | Final Table – Seat 6 | 1,140,000 |
| Tao | Liang | Final Table – Seat 2 | 3,870,000 |
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
The official WPT Final Table is now set.
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!).
Bryan Piccioli is out in 8th place. Just two more eliminations until the Final Table is established.
8th place: Bryan Piccioli, $52,609.00
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
10th place: Brian Beggs, $28,312.00
The tournament is down to 10 players who have been seated at one ten-handed table.
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: 
Christian: 
The flop was positive for Josh: 
but the turn 
put Christian in the lead. The river 
didn’t save Josh and he is out of the tournament.
11th place: Joshua Jacob Field, $28,312.00
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 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