A total of 219 players entered Day 1a of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship today, and 62 players remained at the end of 13 levels and have qualified for Day 2 on Sunday March 30. All players who entered the event today may enter again for Day 1b or Day 1c; if a player qualifies on multiple days, their smallest stack will be removed from the tournament.

We are now entering the last level of play for this Day 1a, and in less that 45 minutes the remainder of the players will bag and tag their chips for Day 2. Those who were unable to play today, or who tried but simply didn’t make Day 2, will be able to try to qualify tomorrow with Day 1b scheduled at 11:00am, or the day after (Saturday) with Day 1c also at 11:00am.

Here is an album of photos taken during level 12:

We are back from the last break of the night, which means that Day 1a of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship Main Event will be over upon the completion of two more 45-minute level.

With the average being just over 80K, the following players have managed to build stacks north of twice that amount:

1. Boyd O’Neill – 290K
2. Eric Davis – 220K
3. Eric Afriat – 212K
4. Alain Toledano – 205K
5. Jonathan Poissant – 195K
6. Jean-Guy Boyer – 190K

There is a new tournament chip leader, Playground regular (and experienced tournament player) Eric Afriat, who is sitting on over 240K chips. Following closely behind him is Alain Toledano (195K) and a few players in the 140K to 160K range, including: Boyd O’Neill, Nicolas Aubin, Jhonatan Morales, and Eric Davis.

The WPT Canadian Spring Championship is back from it’s second break on this Day 1a, and the following players have managed to climb over the 100K mark.

• Alain Toledano – 163K
• Eric Davis – 121K
• Eric Afriat – 116K
• Michel Naggar – 115K

There’s still over an hour to register but some players have already jumped out to an early lead today in Day 1a.

• Dimitrios Helmis
• Tony DiMaria
• Eric Levesque
• Eric Davis
• Antoine Bérube

The total number of entries has climbed up to 193 so far, with almost 3 hours left still for late registration. Here are a few photos from the first two levels of play:

Play has begun in the $1000 + $100 WPT Canadian Spring Championship here at Playground Poker Club! So far there are just 168 players who have started today’s Day 1a, though there is still a steady stream of new entries buying in at the cashier.

Registration is open until the end of the break following level 6, so there’s still a lot of time to come out to the Club and try to take down a piece of the $1,000,000 Guaranteed prize pool!

We are only minutes away from kicking off the WPT Canadian Spring Championship Main Event here at Playground Poker Club in Kahnawake! Players are quicky filling up the tournament hall for this 1M$ guaranteed event, and in just a few moments we should be hearing Mike Sexton announce the traditional “Shuffle up and deal!”. So far 141 players have already registered today, but players will be allowed to enter through the first six 45 minutes levels.

Good luck to everyone in today’s Day 1!