Jeff Gross

On the 10th hand of hand-for-hand, we saw Daniel Leduc 4bet shove his remaining 56,500 after an open from Sheraz Nasir from under the gun, and a 3bet from Trevor Delaney in early position. Sheraz folded his hand, later showing AK, and Trevor made the call for a few thousand more.

Daniel turned over , and was far ahead of Trevor’s , especially with an ace being folded by Sheraz. The window card however was an ace, but in the same time Daniel spiked the case king on the flop to stay ahead in the hand. The turn changed nothing, however the river brought the , giving Trevor a straight, and in the process eliminating Daniel on the bubble.

There was only 5 minutes left to the last level of the day, and so after this hand, the TD called for the last 3 hands of play for Day 2. Players are now bagging and tagging their chips onto Day 3, which will be played out at 12pm tomorrow, May 4th. Alan ‘Ari’ Engel was the only player to bag over 1 million in chips, and is returning to Day 3 as the chip leader with 1,014,000. Trevor Delaney bagged 804,000, good for second in chips, while the rest of the field falls below the 600,000 mark.

We will be publishing the full list of player reported chip counts shortly, as well as the official seating assignments for Day 3.

Photographs taken during levels 17-18:

Bagged 88.5k going to day 3 of #WPTCSC coming back to 4/8k

— Darryll Fish (@DarryllFish) May 4, 2015

Just got itm. 145k at 6k bb. 3 more today. #WPTMontreal

— Tim Reilly (@TimReillyPoker) May 4, 2015

Bubble burst. Back tomorrow with 11bbs. $6,330 locked up #WPTCSC

— Ed Campion (@EdCampion1) May 4, 2015

Ok so it was certainly a long trying day. We’re ITM @PlaygroundPoker @WPT main event. Here for the trophy, Nothing else ! #forKING

— Logan Dunn (@Dunnpoker) May 4, 2015

Bagging 1m, 14k as chipleader and we are Itm with 45 people left . Avg is 247k #WPTMontreal

— Ari Engel (@realAriEngel) May 4, 2015

Ari Engel

Below you’ll find an update on the leaderboard, as we did some chip counts during the dinner break following level 16. For the time being, it’s Alan ‘Ari’ Engel who is leading the field, and has a stack worth more than 3.5 times the average! Eric Afriat is still amongst the leaders, and Garry Lucci has added himself to the list recently.

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Name,Chip Count [attr sort=desc]
Trevor Delaney,”410,000″
Garry Lucci,”426,000″
Michael Paul Stone,”296,000″
Eric Afriat,”577,500″
Ari Engel,”693,000″
Robert Taylor,”334,000″
Kevin Singh,”385,000″
Nicholas Palma,”378,000″
Dylan Wilkerson,”340,000″
[/eztable]

Here are a few other chip counts of players still in the field:

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Name,Chip Count [attr sort=desc]
Lucas Greenwood,”175,000″
Laurence Grondin,”38,500″
Shaan Siddiqui,”189,000″
Pascal Lefrancois,”275,000″
Jeff Gross,”132,500″
Timothy Reilly,”44,500″
Diana Shamshoum,”175,000″
Guillaume Rivet,”106,500″
Vlad Faubert,”118,500″
Darryll Scott Fish,”157,500″
Will Molson,”264,000″
Jason Duval,”137,000″
Griffin Benger,”224,000″
Ami Alibay,”177,000″
[/eztable]

Ari Engel

Lost all my all ins and coming back from dinner with 9bbd 12 off the money. Need to make the first one count. #WPTMontreal

— Tim Reilly (@TimReillyPoker) May 3, 2015

200k at 2500/5k 57 left 45 pay. Avg stack. #WPTMONTREAL

— shaGuar_poker (@GriffinBenger) May 3, 2015

Guillaume Rivet

Level 16 began not long ago, and Eric Afriat and Ari Engel are currently sharing the chip lead, holding stacks of approximately 550,000 each. Play is scheduled for another 3 levels, or until the end of level 18, unless the money bubble has not been reached. In this case, play will continue until we are in the money, and then pause until Day 3.

Photographs from level 15:

Eric Afriat

We’ve just come back from break here in Day 2 of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship, and here is an update on the current leaderboard:

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Name,Chip Count [attr sort=desc]
Laurence Grondin,”255,000″
Eric Afriat,”582,000″
Dylan Wilkerson,”278,000″
Nicholas Palma,”411,000″
Kevin Singh,”366,000″
Senthuran Vijayaratnam,”357,000″
Rene Bourbeau,”342,000″
Ari Engel,”412,000″
[/eztable]

A few other stacks worth noting:

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Name,Chip Count [attr sort=desc]
Ami Alibay,”174,000″
Pascal Lefrancois,”216,000″
Jason Duval,”85,500″
Guillaume Rivet,”74,000″
Timothy Reilly,”137,000″
Vlad Faubert,”103,500″
Jeff Gross,”138,000″
Lucas Greenwood,”90,000″
Darryll Scott Fish,”70,500″
Ratharam Sivagnanam,”155,000″
Will Molson,”142,000″
Marvin Rettenmaier,”158,000″
Griffin Benger,”165,000″
[/eztable]

Photographs from level 14:

Here are some photos from level 14. Eric Afriat continues to be the chip leader and has pierced the half-million-chip mark, while Ratharam Sivagnanam is also building up a considerable stack.