Players have just returned from their first break of the day (following level 2) and during the break we were able to find some of the front-runners early in today’s Day 1b flight. Interestingly, the players with the top two chip stacks at this early point in the tourney are sitting side-by-side on Table 63.
Here are a few photos of the early action in Day 1b of the partypoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship.
Photos from level 1
The introductory announcements have been made and Mike Sexton has given the dealers the command to “Shuffle up and Deal” and so Day 1b has begun! There are currently 144 players seated in the event, a number that will grow through the 6 levels of late registration (plus the 45-minute dinner break following level 6).
To be precise, players have until 6:15pm to jump in the event. Late registrants start with a full stack of 30,000 tournament chips!
The dealers have taken their places and the players are starting to arrive in the Tournament Hall for Day 1b of the partypoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship. This is the second of two starting flights in this WPT Tour event, the kickoff event for Season XIV on the World Poker Tour.
As usual, as this is the final starting day, participation should be very strong today. Players who busted yesterday have the opportunity to re-enter the tournament in Day 1b. In addition, most satellite winners choose to play in the final starting day, which adds up to what is sure to be an interesting and action-packed day of poker.
There were 136 entries in yesterday’s Day 1a, and of that number just 50 players have qualified for Day 2, tomorrow. The chip leader yesterday was Mike Leah, who bagged up over 265K in chips. Also in the top 5 were Pascal Lefrancois, who has had some big scores in the past here at Playground Poker Club, and Ratharam Sivagnanam (aka WrathofRam), who was the runner up in last fall’s WPT Montreal.
Action gets underway in just over 10 minutes – good luck to all the players today!
