On order for this beautiful spring Sunday in the Montreal area is Day 2 of the partypoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship! In the two starting flights (Friday and Saturday) there were a total of 370 entrants, and 151 players have qualified for Day 2 and will resume play in just minutes.
The leaderboard in the tournament is a star-studded list. At the top is Ontario’s Mike Leah, who, in the past 18 months, has vaulted himself into the stratosphere of poker excellence. Also in the top 10 are 3 local stars, each of whom has an impressive poker resume by any standard. Eric Afriat (3rd in chips) needs little introduction to people who follow the WPT. A year ago he won the $3,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship at the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown and has been on a tear ever since. Pascal Lefrancois (4th in chips) came second in last High Roller event in the Playground Poker Fall Classic and was also the champion of the Main Event of the first-ever Playground Poker Classic – so he has a great history of success here. And Jason (@bebe_chien) Duval has taken the poker world by storm since is 3rd place finish in the inaugural WPT Canadian Spring Championship in 2013.
Lurking further down the list are some amazingly talented players, though, so none of the top 10 should get complacent. International superstars like Marvin Rettenmaier, Jeff Gross, and Griffin Benger are still in the event and have some chips to work with, as do some of our local players like Laurence Grondin, Vlad Faubert, and Ami Alibay.
Action is about to get under way… good luck to all!