Playground Poker Spring Classic 2015

WPT Canadian Spring Championship – Prize Pool & Payout Structure

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The WPT Canadian Spring Championship is a $3,200 + $300 No Limit Hold’em Event, and is the feature event of the Playground Poker Spring Classic, presented by partypoker.net. The tournament began on May 1st, 2015 at 11am, and is a 5-day tournament with two starting flights, ending on May 6th, 2015. There were a total of 370 players across the two starting flights, adding up to a total prize pool of $1,148,480.00! This will be distributed according to the following table. Note that the winner will also be receiving an entry to the WPT World Championship Event, worth US$15,400.

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Finish,Prize
1,”$237,390.00″ + entry to WPT World Championship
2,”$166,402.00″
3,”$106,820.00″
4,”$79,130.00″
5,”$59,340.00″
6,”$47,470.00″
7,”$39,560.00″
8,”$31,650.00″
9,”$23,730.00″
10,”$17,290.00″
11,”$17,290.00″
12,”$17,290.00″
13,”$14,130.00″
14,”$14,130.00″
15,”$14,130.00″
16,”$12,090.00″
17,”$12,090.00″
18,”$12,090.00″
19,”$10,620.00″
20,”$10,620.00″
21,”$10,620.00″
22,”$9,490.00″
23,”$9,490.00″
24,”$9,490.00″
25,”$8,360.00″
26,”$8,360.00″
27,”$8,360.00″
28,”$7,340.00″
29,”$7,340.00″
30,”$7,340.00″
31,”$7,340.00″
32,”$7,340.00″
33,”$7,340.00″
34,”$7,340.00″
35,”$7,340.00″
36,”$7,340.00″
37,”$6,330.00″
38,”$6,330.00″
39,”$6,330.00″
40,”$6,330.00″
41,”$6,330.00″
42,”$6,330.00″
43,”$6,330.00″
44,”$6,330.00″
45,”$6,330.00″
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Leaders after 8 levels

  • Level: 9
  • Small Blind: 400
  • Big Blind: 800
  • Ante: 100
  • Chip Average: 52.8K
  • Remaining: 133
  • Entries: 234


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    TJ Ulmer

    While the players were on a short break following level 8, we did some quick chips counts to find our leader board. Here are the (approximate) chips counts of the current leaders:

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    Name,Chips [attr sort=desc]
    Laurence Grondin,”136,000″
    Dave Graham,”133,000″
    Kyle Chang,”125,000″
    Francis Billard,”120,000″
    Kevin Lee Sharp,”112,500″
    Jason Duval,”112,000″
    Michael Paul Stone,”112,000″
    Tanveer Dhanjal,”110,000″
    Garry Lucci,”104,000″
    Guillaume Rivet,”102,500″
    Ian Crnogorac,”102,000″
    Etienne Leduc,”100,000″
    [/eztable]
    Photographs from levels 7-8:

    Dinner break promotions with partypoker.net

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    While players of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship were on dinner break, partypoker.net had an exciting surprise organized in honour of the Mayweather vs Pacquiao match tonight, as they brought some oversized boxing gloves and matched up some of the players from the field against each other! We saw Maximilian Droeger, Marvin Rettenmaier, Maxime Swennen and Gary Josefczyk take turns against each other. Once the players were done battling it out, some of the Royal Flush girls couldn’t help themselves but jump in and throw some swings at each other as well!

    At the end of the dinner break, partypoker.net also announced the current chip leader of Day 1B, and it was Dave Graham and his 127,000 in chips who claimed this title, earning himself a pair of partypoker.net Monster DNA headphones! Congratulations!

    Dave Graham wins a pair of partypoker.net Monster DNA headphones

    Dave Graham wins a pair of partypoker.net Monster DNA headphones

    Leaders at dinner (plus other notable counts)

  • Level: 7
  • Small Blind: 250
  • Big Blind: 500
  • Ante: 75
  • Chip Average: 42.3K
  • Remaining: 166
  • Entries: 234


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    Play in the second starting flight of the partypoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship has just resumed following the 45-minute dinner break, during which players enjoyed hot and cold buffet dishes and took a few minutes to unwind before the last 4 levels tonight.

    During the extended break we got some counts from around the room.

    Chip Leaders

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    Name,Chips [attr sort=desc]
    Dave Graham,”127,000″
    Laurence Grondin,”117,000″
    Kyle Chang,”104,100″
    Kevin Lee Sharp,”101,375″
    Thomas Lefort,”104,000″
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    Other Notable Players’ Stacks

    [eztable width=40% colwidth=60%|40% colalign=left|left]
    Name,Chips [attr sort=desc]
    Daniel Suied,”39,000″
    Logan Dunn,”70,150″
    George Caragiorgas,”35,650″
    Jeff Gross,”44,450″
    Daryll Fish,”53,000″
    Jason Duval,”77,250″
    Noeung Troeung,”33,600″
    Jonathan Duhamel,”13,425″
    Chris McClung,”10,800″
    Jonathan Jaffe,”33,000″
    Eric Afriat,”61,000″
    Griffin Benger,”25,500″
    Mike Sexton,”16,750″
    Jean-Philippe Piquette,”53,000″
    Josue Sauvageau,”54,000″
    Jason Comtois,”17,000″
    Marvin Rettenmaier,”63,000″
    Danny Boyaci,”65,550″
    Amir Babakhani,”38,000″
    Kevin Singh,”94,000″
    Robert Notkin,”5,000″
    Matthew Salsberg,”27,500″
    Marc-Olivier Carpentier-Perrault,”17,000″
    Martin Rauss,”46,000″
    TJ Ulmer,”43,200″
    Francois Goulet,”59,300″
    [/eztable]

    Dinner approaches

  • Level: 6
  • Small Blind: 200
  • Big Blind: 400
  • Ante: 50
  • Chip Average: 39.3K
  • Remaining: 177
  • Entries: 232


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    There are just 15 minutes remaining in level 6, and following this level the players will be on a 45-minute dinner break. There is a tasty buffet provided for all players, and during the break, there’s something very special going to be happening over the the partypoker.net Player’s Lounge… think “Rock’em Sock’em” as opposed to the “Hold’em” everyone is playing all day!

    After the dinner break we’ll announce the winner of the partypoker-branded Monster DNA headphones, and that will also signal the end of late registration in the event.

    No one rocketing ahead

  • Level: 5
  • Small Blind: 150
  • Big Blind: 300
  • Ante: 50
  • Chip Average: 34.2K
  • Remaining: 198
  • Entries: 226


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    Players are just back from their second break of the day, and so far no one has really strapped on the turbo-booster and taken a big lead in this starting flight. There are 3 players who have passed the 80K threshold, and we’ll see if there are any big movers between now and the dinner break in just under 2 hours.

    1. Kyle Chang – 94K
    2. Senthuran Vijayaratnam – 85K
    3. Kevin K Singh – 83K

    Win a pair of partypoker.net Monster DNA headphones!

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    A reminder to all of the players in Day 1b: if you’re the chip leader at the dinner break (after level 6), you’ll win a pair of Partypoker-branded Monster DNA headphones (courtesy of partypoker.net)! It took yesterday’s winner over 140K in chips to gain the prize – how big a stack will it take tonight?

    MonsterDNA

    Leaders at the first break

  • Level: 3
  • Small Blind: 75
  • Big Blind: 150
  • Ante: 25
  • Chip Average: 30.9K
  • Remaining: 198
  • Entries: 204


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    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.

    1. Steven Joudry – 70K
    2. Josue Sauvageau – 66K
    3. Bryan Springer – 61K
    4. Danny Boyaci – 60K

    Day 1b early photos

  • Level: 2
  • Small Blind: 75
  • Big Blind: 150
  • Ante: 0
  • Chip Average: 30.6K
  • Remaining: 192
  • Entries: 198


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    Here are a few photos of the early action in Day 1b of the partypoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship.

    Photos from level 1

    Shuffle up and Deal!

  • Level: 1
  • Small Blind: 50
  • Big Blind: 100
  • Ante: 0
  • Chip Average: 30K
  • Remaining: 144
  • Entries: 144


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    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!

    WPT Day 1b-4864