Another player in on the hunt for back-to-back final tables at a WPT Montreal (and it would be his third since the WPT has started coming to Montreal), as Sylvain Siebert just doubled up through David Lanthier.

Sylvain opened from middle position to 125K, and David 3bet to 430K. Sylvain pondered for a minute before announcing he was all-in, and David made the call.

Sylvain:

David:

The kings held on a board, and Sylvain climbed up to over 2.7M. David was left with around 400K behind, but he doubled it up the next hand.

Alexandre Lavigne’s quest for a back-to-back final table at the WPT Montreal is still alive, as he just hit quads after moving all-in preflop with , getting the call from James Nortcliff’s .

The board ran out , and Alexandre climbed up to 1.3M, while James fell to 400K.

Ruben Perceval found himself all-in in a 3-way pot that lead to his elimination.

Ruben Perceval:

Maxime Theroux:

Marco Caza:

The board ran out , and Marco tripled his short stack up to just over 1 million, while Maxime picked up the small side pot of 250K, the remnance of Ruben’s chips.

24th place: Ruben Perceval, $7,326

Here are the approximate chip counts at the break:

Table 27

1. Pierre Guenette – 1.45M
2. Eric Afriat – 450K
3. Frederic Bunchan – 1.0M
4. James Nortcliff – 1.02M
6. Alexander Wong – 3.1M
7. Alexandre Lavigne – 625K
8. Brent Wheeler – 1.05M

Table 34

1. Mario Lim – 2.05M
2. Simon Quintal – 950K
3. Jason Comtois – 1.63M
4. John Paul Tabago – 1.72M
5. Ami Alibay – 1.37M
6. Matthew Brunskole – 700K
7. Marc Guerbilsky – 1.35M
9. Rodney Lawrence – 515K

Table 35

1. Osman Soubra – 700K
2. Ruben Perceval – 1.1M
3. David Lanthier – 1.36M
4. Maxime Theroux – 2.1M
5. Marco Caza – 1.4M
7. Johnny Mazzaferro – 1.85M
8. Daniel Gagne – 1.8M
9. Sylvain Siebert – 1.4M

Kenneth McFarlane was the first player out after the redraw at 27 players, as his lost against the of John Paul Tabago on a board.

27th place: Kenneth McFarlane, $6,384

Samuel Chartier was trying to run his 10BB stack up, and in an unopened pot preflop, he went all-in from the cut-off with , and was called by James Nortcliff from the small blind with . The board of was of no help to Samuel, and his run at this WPT Canadian Spring Championship ended in 26th place.

26th place: Samuel Chartier, $6,384

In a battle of the blinds, Daniel Cote found himself all-in versus neighbour Nicholas Petrina, but his Kx8x didn’t improve versus Nicholas’ KxJx.

25th place: Daniel Cote, $6,384

There has been a lot of movement on these final 4 tables in the last few orbits, and we’ve recently lost two more players.

Xiao Peng found herself all-in preflop versus John Paul Tabago, but was drawing slim whe John Paul flopped a set of nines with versus Xiao’s on a board.

31st place: Xiao Peng, $5,442

Eric Davis has also hit the rail, when his was unable to overcome Alexendre Wong’s on a board.

30th place: Eric Davis, $5,442

29th place: Mathieu Roy Arbour, $5,442

28th place: Gaetano Buda, $5,442

Sammy Chao was being slowly blinded out, and it was inevitable that we would see him get his chips in sooner rather than later. David Lanthier opened from early position to 85K, and Sammy went all-in from the small blind for a total of 105K. Johnny Mazzaferro, sitting in the big blind, saw that it was not a legal raise and decided to complete the extra 65K, knowing that David can’t reraise. They checked the flop and turn, but when the river came on a board showing , Johnny slid out a bet of 200K. David looked disgusted, and made the fold, while Johnny turned over for the straight. Sammy showed for queen-high, and was sent to the cashiers to collect his $5,442 prize.

32nd place: Sammy Chao, $5,442

We just saw Alexandre Lavigne bet his remaining 480K preflop from UTG+1, and get a quick call from Tyson Erback, who had just a little less in chips. Alexandre turned over and was up against the of Tyler. The board of was the last one Tyson saw in the WPT Canadian Spring Championship, but he will still collect a prize of $5,442 for his deep run.

34th place: Tyson Erback, $5,442

A few hands before this we saw Samuel Chartier lose a portion of his stack to Daniel Gagner, as he shoved over Daniel 105K bet on a flop of . Daniel made the call with , and had to hold versus Samuel’s . The turn and river we bricks, showing , and Daniel doubled up to over 1.2M, while Samuel dropped to just over 500K.

Below you’ll find an album of the players who have returned for Day 3 of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship Main Event.

Andrew Humphrey

Alexender Wong

Ami Alibay

Jonathan Poissant

Marco Caza

Ruben Perceval

Mathieu Roy Arbour

Simon Quintal

John Paul Tabago

Kenneth McFarlane

Matthew Brunskole

James Nortcliff

Jason Comtois

Marc Guerbilsky

Danny Ayoub

Eric Afriat

Mario Lim

Xiao Peng

Sammy Chao

David Lanthier

Pierre Guenette

Alexandre Lavigne

Gaetano Buda

Eric Davis

Samuel Chartier

Edouard Dupuis

Rodney Lawrence

Selatjin Jakupovski

Nicholas Petrina

Maxime Theroux

Tyson Erback

Sylvain Siebert

Brent Wheeler

Daniel Cote

Johnny Mazzaferro

Frederic Bunchan

Daniel Gagne

Osman Soubra

Justin Miller

The 39 remaining players have begun taking their seats and unbagging their chips in preparation for Day 3, which is set to start momentarily. Today’s action will be played out until we have our final table of 6, and this final table will resume tomorrow at noon. There will be a full seating redraw at 27, 18 and 10 players, and the blind levels are of 60 minutes.

Three players are leading the field, with Mario Lim at the head of the pack, followed very closely by Eric Afriat and Sylvain Siebert. All three are within a few thousand chips of each other, with stacks ranging between 1.65M and 1.71M. This is Sylvain Siebert’s third time in Day 3 of a WPT Montreal Main Event, as he already has two final tables under his belt, with a 5th place finish in November 2013 and a 4th place finish in November 2014.

Local pro Samuel Chartier is also found in the field, holding nearly 1 million in chips. November final table-ist Alexandre Lavigne is also trying to make back to back WPT Montreal finals.

The cards will be in the air in just a few short moments, as the tournament director is preparing his ‘Shuffle up and deal’ speach.

Good luck to our remaining players!