We’ve noticed a few players in today’s Day 1b field that have had success in some of the previous series here at Playground Poker Club. Here is an album of some of these players, along with their biggest past finishes:

Michael Malm

Placed 1st in Event 4 ($550 buy-in) in the 2014 Playground Poker Spring Classic ($20K)

Kyle Zechner

Placed 4th in the $1.1K Event in the 2013 Playground Poker Spring Classic 2013 ($29K)

Setrak Suloukji

Placed 1st in the High Roller ($5.5K buy-in) in the 2013 Playground Poker Spring Classic ($83K)

Michael Neuber

Placed 3rd in the $1.1K Event in the 2013 Playground Poker Fall Classic ($30K)

Johnny Mazzaferro

Placed 1st in a $1.1K Event in the 2013 Playground Poker Spring Classic ($44K).

Bill Kontaratos

Placed 5th in the $1.1K Main Event in the FTP Montreal Festival ($74K).

Vlad Faubert

Placed 6th in a $1.1K Event in the 2013 Playground Poker Fall Classic ($18K)

Geoffrey Robert McNeely

Placed 2nd in a $1.1K Event in the 2013 Playground Poker Spring Classic ($25K)

Jeff Gross

Placed 3rd in the $3.3K 2012 WPT Montreal ($317K). In addition he was 2nd overall in the partypoker Premier League VII ($274K).

After 3 levels of play, the field is led by Fuad Nasser who is holding just over 90k. Not far behind are Ivan Mamuzic (76K), Michael Neuber (75K), Jonathan Cohen (73K) and Calogero Graci (70K). A number of players are also in the 60K-70K range, such Tyler Thomas (68K), Steve Kidman (67K), Yassin Choukri (67K), Paul Basi (66K), Karl Gingras (64K), amongst others.

Two levels have come and go here in this second Day 1 of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship Main Event, and attendance has climbed up to 269 entries.

Here are a few photos of players participating in Day 1b:

We’re half-way through level 2 in today’s flight of the $1000 + $100 WPT Canadian Spring Championship and new players keep joining the tournament at a steady pace. This flight is already up to 263 entries with another 2+ hours to register.

Among the players at the tables today are such notables as Gavin Smith, Marc-Etienne McLaughlin, Mike Sexton, Mike Leah, and yesterday’s Bad Beat Jackpot winner Richard Figiel.

It’s a snowy (!) Friday morning in the Montreal area, but the snow hasn’t hindered players from getting to Playground Poker Club to take their seats for Day 1b of the WPT Canadian Spring Championships. So far 200 players have been seated with late registrations coming all the time, so this Friday flight is definitely going to be busier than yesterday’s Day 1a.

Good luck to all of the players today!