A number of players have now climbed into the 7 figures, with Day 2 of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship Main Event nearing its the final stages. With only two 45-minute levels left to play tonight, here are the players that currently lead the field:

1. Daniel Cote – 1.62M
2. David Lanthier – 1.35M
3. Sylvain Siebert – 1.20M
4. Xiao Peng – 1.14M
5. Johnny Mazzaferro – 1.1M
6. Mario Lim – 1.05M
7. James Nortcliff – 1.03M

Below are some photographs taken after the money bubble had burst.

The Main Event of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship is on break, and play will resume momentarily in level 20. Stacks are continuing to grow, and although no one has breached the 1 million chip mark yet, we expect this to happen fairly soon. Here is an estimate of the top 5 stacks at the break:

1. Daniel Cote – 890K
2. David Lanthier – 880K
3. Ruben Perceval – 765K
4. Osman Soubra – 725K
5. Ami Alibay – 720K

The bubble is always a big turning point in a tournament, and players often have quite a bi-polar method of playing at this stage. One portion of the players will tighten their game up to try and make it into the money, while another takes advantage of these ‘scared’ players and use this opportunity to chip their stacks up by bullying their table. This results in a growing gap between the leaders and the short stacks, as many players see their stacks dwindle down to just a few big blinds leading up to the money. It also means that when the bubble finally bursts, the field is full of players ready to get their chips in with any two marginal cards, leading to a spree of eliminations.

Here at Playground Poker, the dealer no longer announces ‘Seat Open’ when someone has been eliminated, as this has been replaced by a light system. LED lights have been attached to the back of the dealer chairs, and when a player is eliminated, the floor is called over via a green indicator light (the red is for emergency, and the yellow is to call over the cocktail waitress).  Now that the bubble has burst, we’ve been seeing green lights go off at all corners of the room, as the field has dropped by 11 players in the 15 minutes between the money bubble and the current break.

We just saw Ruben Perceval pick up a big pot with a tricky play. Early position opened to 16K, and Reuben flat called from the cut-off. The button then announced he was all-in for his remaining 70K, and the original raiser isolated for roughly 240K. Ruben snap called and turned over AA, which held versus the short stack’s 66 and the original raiser’s KQ off-suit. He now stands at almost 600K, which should put him amongst the chipleaders.

We’ve seen a few players be quite active on their Twitter accounts in Day 2. Here are a few messages we’ve come across:

AK<AJ did not go as planned. Out of the @WPT Canadian Spring Championship. @888poker pic.twitter.com/ZwszPR4izp

— Xuan Liu (@xxl23) March 30, 2014

Got a full double with set over set, then hit trips on top pair: 380k going into 2.5k-5k blinds.

— Tony Dunst (@Bond_18) March 30, 2014

Still distinctly average #wptmontreal #averageupdates #partypoker @BJNemeth

— Kara Scott (@KaraOTR) March 30, 2014

Pre-tournament Tweets:

Day 2 @PLAYGROUNDPOKER about to start. I have just below aver at 90k (amount I had after 1st hr yesterday). Need another ‘Carl Lewis’ start.

— Mike Sexton (@MikeSexton_WPT) March 30, 2014

Winds almost blew me off the road heading to play Day 2 today, but they’ll have to try harder than that. Happy Sunday everybody! @888poker

— Xuan Liu (@xxl23) March 30, 2014

Playing day 2 of #wptmontreal today for @partypoker. I have just over average chips & a dream. Let’s go Canada!

— Kara Scott (@KaraOTR) March 30, 2014

We’ve played three levels so far in day two, and with only 200 remaining, some players are starting to build empires with their chips.

Here is a look at the current chip leaders going into level 17:

1. Josh Kimmel – 515K
2. Ricky Tang – 465K
3. Sammy Chao – 445K
4. William R Mullen – 435K
5. Maxime Theroux – 415K

William R Mullen

MAxime Theroux

Ricky Tang

Josh Kimmel

Sammy Chao

Here are a few photographs of players in this Day 2 of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship Main Event:

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