Pascal Lefrancois

With the recent elimination of John Krpan in 11th place, the WPT Canadian Spring Championship, brought to you by partypoker.net, has now reached it’s unofficial final table of 10 players! Play will continue today until we have our official final table of 6 players, and will play down until a winner tomorrow.

Here are the ten finalists!

Final Table

Seat 1. Dylan Wilkerson
Seat 2. Levi Stevens
Seat 3. Johnathan Karamalikis
Seat 4. Gary Lucci
Seat 5. Senthuran Vijayaratnam
Seat 6. Robert Taylor
Seat 7. Pascal Lefrancois
Seat 8. Trevor Delaney
Seat 9. Sheraz Nasir
Seat 10. Lu Zhang

Samuel Bisrat Tsehai, who came in today as the chip leader, has just made an exit in this WPT Canadian Spring Championship.

He opened from under the gun to 51,000, and was flat called by Lu Zhang in the small blind. On a flop of , Lu check raised a bet of 65,000 up to 152,000. Samuel made the call, and they went to see the turn. Lu put maximum pressure on Samuel by moving all-in, and Samuel made the call after a minute of hesitation.

Lu tabled , and only had two outs to dodge to eliminate Samuel and his . The river was a blank, and just like that Samuel went from chip leader a few hours ago to eliminated!

12th place: Samuel Bisrat Tsehai – $17,290

Johnathan Karamakilis opened to 50,000 from utg +1, and Pascal Lefrancois 3bet his 567,000 stack. It folded back around to the initial raiser, who almost immediately made the call.

Johnathan:

Pascal:

Pascal connected on the board to bring him up to over 1,100,000, while Johnathan fell to 260,000 after the hand.

It seemed like Eric Afriat was going to make a comeback after having been crippled to 12,000 by Senthuran a few hands earlier, as he first quadrupled his stack up to 45,000, then doubled it up shortly after to climb into the 6-figures.

Sitting in the small blind, he went all-in after play folded around to him, and Gary Lucci called from the big blind.

Eric:

Gary:

The flop was interesting for both parties, but Gary’s hand was the eventual winner on the board.

14th place: Eric Afriat – $14,130

With 241,000 to his name, Senthuran Vijayaratnam was facing an unopened pot on the button and pulled the trigger, announcing all-in. Eric Afriat made the call from the small blind, and Gary Lucci folded his big blind.

Senthuran:

Eric:

Eric couldn’t catch up on the board, and was crippled to 12,000 in the process.

Eric folded the next hand, losing 3,000 due to the ante, and was all-in on the following hand. His made top pair, and was good versus three other opponents to win a pot of 45,000.

Dylan Wilkerson opened from the button, and was faced with a 3bet from Lu Zhang to 112,000. Dylan opted for the 4bet all-in, a total of 437,000, forcing Lu into the tank. She made the call after a a little hesitation, and their hands were tabled.

Dylan:

Lu:

Dylan caught just enough on the river to score the double up, as the board read .

Lu Zhang opened to 45,000 from utg +1, and found a call from Samuel Bisrat Tsehai in the cutoff, and Trevor Delaney in the big blind. Trevor donk-bet 62,000 on the flop, and was called only by Lu. Heads-up on the turn, Trevor checked the , and called the 82,000 bet of Lu. When the river pealed the , Trevor lead out for 102,000, and quickly called the raise to 327,000 by Lu.

He mucked his hand when Lu tabled for the straight, announcing he caught two-pair on the river with 64.