Edouard Dupuis has just been eliminated from the tournament. We didn’t catch the hand, but Samuel Chartier was stacking the chips and his pocket Aces were still tabled. Edouard has won $4,709.00 for his efforts in the tournament.
First bust of Day 3
2014/03/31 12:37pm by
Alibay starts with a double
2014/03/31 12:27pm by
Ami Alibay has doubled up on the first hand of the day. Action was blind on blind and we arrived on the turn to a 
board. Ami was all in for the 385K that remained in his stack after the earlier action and James Nortcliff called.
Ami: 
James: 
The river was a brick for James and Ami’s flush held. Ami is now holding just under 1M chips.
Welcome to Day 3 of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship Main Event
2014/03/31 12:18pm by
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!
WPT CSC – Day 3 seating draw & chip counts
2014/03/30 10:34pm by
Day 2 has concluded after 11 levels of play with 39 players left of the 311 who started the day and 1079 entries who began the event in one of the three starting flights.
As specified in the structure and rules of this event, seating for all players remaining has been redrawn. Players’ seats for Day 3 along with their self-reported chip count is detailed in the following table.
Play resumes at 12pm tomorrow (Monday March 31).
| First Name | Last Name | Seat | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexandre | Lavigne | Table 26 – Seat 2 | 658,000 |
| Alexender | Wong | Table 26 – Seat 1 | 1,402,000 |
| Ami | Alibay | Table 34 – Seat 3 | 450,000 |
| Andrew | Humphrey | Table 35 – Seat 2 | 995,080 |
| Brent | Wheeler | Table 27 – Seat 7 | 1,022,000 |
| Daniel | Cote | Table 27 – Seat 5 | 865,000 |
| Daniel | Gagne | Table 30 – Seat 3 | 648,000 |
| Danny | Ayoub | Table 34 – Seat 5 | 879,000 |
| David | Lanthier | Table 27 – Seat 6 | 1,099,000 |
| Edouard | Dupuis | Table 26 – Seat 4 | 266,000 |
| Eric | Afriat | Table 35 – Seat 8 | 1,700,000 |
| Eric | Davis | Table 26 – Seat 5 | 642,000 |
| Frederic | Bunchan | Table 30 – Seat 2 | 1,049,000 |
| Gaetano | Buda | Table 26 – Seat 8 | 901,000 |
| James | Nortcliff | Table 34 – Seat 2 | 1,002,000 |
| Jason | Comtois | Table 35 – Seat 7 | 677,000 |
| John Paul | Tabago | Table 34 – Seat 8 | 841,000 |
| Johnny | Mazzaferro | Table 27 – Seat 4 | 1,006,000 |
| Jonathan | Poissant | Table 34 – Seat 7 | 617,000 |
| Justin | Miller | Table 26 – Seat 6 | 390,000 |
| Kenneth | McFarlane | Table 35 – Seat 3 | 770,000 |
| Marc | Guerbilsky | Table 30 – Seat 1 | 500,000 |
| Marco | Caza | Table 30 – Seat 4 | 785,000 |
| Mario | Lim | Table 34 – Seat 6 | 1,706,500 |
| Mathieu | Roy Arbour | Table 30 – Seat 6 | 710,000 |
| Matthew | Brunskole | Table 34 – Seat 1 | 865,000 |
| Maxime | Theroux | Table 35 – Seat 4 | 528,000 |
| Nicholas | Petrina | Table 34 – Seat 4 | 663,000 |
| Osman | Soubra | Table 30 – Seat 5 | 490,000 |
| Pierre | Guenette | Table 27 – Seat 2 | 752,000 |
| Rodney | Lawrence | Table 27 – Seat 1 | 970,000 |
| Ruben | Perceval | Table 35 – Seat 1 | 508,000 |
| Sammy | Chao | Table 27 – Seat 3 | 398,000 |
| Samuel | Chartier | Table 26 – Seat 7 | 925,000 |
| Selajtin | Jakupovski | Table 35 – Seat 6 | 389,000 |
| Simon | Quintal | Table 35 – Seat 5 | 474,000 |
| Sylvain | Siebert | Table 27 – Seat 8 | 1,655,000 |
| Tyson | Erback | Table 26 – Seat 3 | 1,190,000 |
| Xiao | Peng | Table 30 – Seat 7 | 934,000 |
7 figures
2014/03/30 8:04pm by
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:
- Daniel Cote – 1.62M
- David Lanthier – 1.35M
- Sylvain Siebert – 1.20M
- Xiao Peng – 1.14M
- Johnny Mazzaferro – 1.1M
- Mario Lim – 1.05M
- James Nortcliff – 1.03M
Higgins exits
2014/03/30 7:54pm by
Ryan Higgins just took a terrible beat to be eliminated. We arrived at the table with a flop that had been dealt 
and Ryan had led out a 45K bet. His opponent, Mario Lim, tank-jammed (he had Ryan covered) after several minutes, prompting a quizzical reaction from Ryan, who finally called. The last aggressor showed first – 
while Ryan was in good shape with 
.
However the turn brought out the 
prompting an exclamation from Ryan. The insignificant 
didn’t change anything in his favour and he was eliminated while Mario gloated about his suck out and predicted victory in the tournament.
Millionaires
2014/03/30 7:02pm by
A few players have now crept up over 1M in chips as level 21 winds down. The current millionaires are:
- David Lanthier – 1.2M
- Xiao Peng – 1.1M
- Johnny Mazzaferro – 1M
- Sylvain Siebert – 1.M
Ruben Perceval is trailing just behind at slightly over 900K, but it should be noted that he’s at a table with both Johnny and David, making for a very stacked table.
Ami loses a bunch
2014/03/30 6:45pm by
Ami Alibay has been among the chip leaders for the past few levels but he just lost a big pot to Pierre Guenette who is sitting directly to his right. The UTG player, Wei Xu, made the opening raise to 20K and George Daoukakis flat called from UTG +1. The action folded around to Pierre who also just called. Ami raised to 55K from the BB. Wei and George folded, Pierre called and 2 players went to the flop.
Flop: 
.
Pierre checked and Ami led out for 68K. Pierre thought for a bit and counted out raising chips – he made it 160K. Ami had a decision to make, but judging by the investigation of his neighbour’s remaining stack, it wasn’t between calling and folding but rather a decision between calling and re-raising to force Pierre to commit the 222K he had behind.
After a minute and a half Ami ended up calling and the turn came 
. Pierre immediately shoved and again Ami thought for a couple of minutes. He ended up folding, showing 
. Pierre tried to just show one partial card to his neighbour and not much was seen except that it was a spade.
Ami is still in pretty good shape after the hand with more than 800K in play.
Some photos in the money
2014/03/30 6:44pm by
Below are some photographs taken after the money bubble had burst.
Eliminations continue
2014/03/30 5:59pm by
Since the bubble burst the eliminations have come quickly and the tournament is now down to 100 players with over 4 levels left to play today.
Mike Leah was one of the more recent eliminations as flopping Kx Kx 7x doesn’t help K6 nearly as much as you would think when your opponent has 7x 7x for a flopped boat.
Play will continue today for 11 levels total, which is to say that it will conclude at the end of play in level 24.
