Johnathan Karamalikis just lost a flip, as his last 330,000 were in the middle with 
versus the 
of Sheraz Nasir.
The board ( 
) brought no help to Johnathan, who was sent to the rail in 10th place.
10th place: Johnathan Karamalikis – $17,290
Jonathan Karamalikis
Lu Zhang has entered this final table as the chip leader, and is showing she’s not afraid to use her chips if need be. We just saw her open to 52,000 from middle position, and go heads-up with Gary Lucci who made the call from the button.
On a flop of 
, she lead out for 72,000, and when faced with a raise to 150,000, she 3bet to 352,000. Gary made the call to see the 
turn, but folded once Lu slid out a bet of around 450,000 on the turn.
With that pot, Lu chipped up to just over 2,100,000, good for the current chip lead.
Lu Zhang
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
John Krpan has been extremely patient, playing a short and then very short stack for some time in the tournament including significant stretches yesterday and again today. As the blinds rolled towards him he has well under 100K left but on his bb nevertheless managed to find a fold to Pascal’s utg raise.
But with just 59K in chips left when John was in the sb there were no more folds left to find. Robert Taylor raised in middle position to 54K and John added his last 37K in chips to the 12K he already had in as the small blind. To make things interesting, Pascal called Robert’s 54K and the hand was 3-way with a 10K side pot between Robert and Pascal.
The flop was dealt: 
and Pascal thought for a moment before putting out a bet. Robert folded, but only after saying “You’d better have it…”
Pascal had it. He turned over 
for a flopped straight, which was well ahead of John’s improbable 
and when the turn was dealt the hand was over. The river was the 
.
11th place: John Krpan, $17,290.00
John Krpan
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
Samuel Bisrat Tsehai
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.
Pascal Lefrancois
Jeff Gross has been playing a relatively small stack since the beginning of the action on Day 3, finding some great spots and applying the right pressure at the right time to stay in the tournament – but his luck has now run out in the event.
Jeff opened all in for 283K from middle position and action folded around to Trevor Delaney (button) who made the call.
Jeff: 
Trevor: 
Trevor’s pocket pair held up through the flop of 
and then the turn and river , and Jeff was eliminated.
13th place: Jeff Gross, $14,130.00
Jeff Gross
Here are the full chip counts of the remaining 13 players of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship, as they are on their first break of the day.
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Name,Chips [attr sort=desc]
Samuel Bisrat Tsehai,”1,475,000″
Jeff Gross,”287,000″
Sheraz Nasir,”1,229,000″
Trevor Delaney,”459,000″
Dylan Wilkerson,”654,000″
Lu Zhang,”1,622,000″
Levi Stevens,”695,000″
Senthuran Vijayaratnam,”463,000″
Gary Lucci,”2,291,000″
Robert Taylor,”346,000″
Jonathan Karamalikis,”720,000″
John Krpan,”187,000″
Pascal Lefrancois,”555,000″
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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
Eric Afriat
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.
Senthuran Vijayaratnam
