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!