We arrived at the table on the turn with the following community cards showing: . Diana Shamshoum checked to Francois Billard who laid out a substantial bet of around 45K – only to have Diana min-raise. Francois called. The came on the river and Diana assessed how many chips Francois had behind – and then bet all in. Francois had just about 45K behind and he was covered. He went in the tank for a good 2 minutes before he folded – and Diana flipped over for a missed flush draw turned into a huge bluff.

Diana is now up past 250K in chips.

Eric Afriat has taken a big chip lead as players have returned from their first break of the day and play moves into level 13. There has been a lot of other movement on the leaderboard in the first two levels played today as well.

1. Eric Afriat – 384K
2. Nicholas Palma – 345K
3. Ari Engel – 286K
4. Rene Bourbeau – 276K
5. Darryll Fish – 233K
6. Pascal Lefrancois – 228K

Omkar Deshmukh (button) open-raised playing a short stack, and Charles Le Boissoniere re-raised all in from the small blind. The big blind got out of the way and the button snap called and flipped over . Charles held .

The flop was safe enough: but the turn brought a and the end of the tournament for Omkar as the river was dealt.

Mike Leah started the day as the chip leader in the tournament with over 300K in chips, but with play just 15 minutes into the second level he has relinquished about 2/3 of his starting stack today and is now playing about 100K. It seems that Nicholas Palma was the main beneficiary – he now has over 320K in this stack.

On order for this beautiful spring Sunday in the Montreal area is Day 2 of the partypoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship! In the two starting flights (Friday and Saturday) there were a total of 370 entrants, and 151 players have qualified for Day 2 and will resume play in just minutes.

The leaderboard in the tournament is a star-studded list. At the top is Ontario’s Mike Leah, who, in the past 18 months, has vaulted himself into the stratosphere of poker excellence. Also in the top 10 are 3 local stars, each of whom has an impressive poker resume by any standard. Eric Afriat (3rd in chips) needs little introduction to people who follow the WPT. A year ago he won the $3,500 No Limit Hold’em Championship at the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown and has been on a tear ever since. Pascal Lefrancois (4th in chips) came second in last High Roller event in the Playground Poker Fall Classic and was also the champion of the Main Event of the first-ever Playground Poker Classic – so he has a great history of success here. And Jason (@bebe_chien) Duval has taken the poker world by storm since is 3rd place finish in the inaugural WPT Canadian Spring Championship in 2013.

Lurking further down the list are some amazingly talented players, though, so none of the top 10 should get complacent. International superstars like Marvin Rettenmaier, Jeff Gross, and Griffin Benger are still in the event and have some chips to work with, as do some of our local players like Laurence Grondin, Vlad Faubert, and Ami Alibay.

Action is about to get under way… good luck to all!

This is the official seating chart for Day 2 of the partypoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship, Event 10 in the Playground Poker Spring Classic.

The two starting flights in this tournament had a total of 370 entries, and of these, 152 entries qualified for Day 2.

Just 1 player qualified twice for Day 2 in this event, Dean Murphy. The smaller of his qualifying stacks has been removed (19,200 chips), and the removal of this double entry leaves 151 players who will take their seats to start Day 2. Play resumes in level 11 at 12pm on Sunday May 3rd. When the tournament resumes, play will be 9-handed on 17 tables total. Play on Day 2 will continue for 8 levels.

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First Name,Last Name,Seat [attr sort=”asc”],Chip Count
Alan Ryan,Engel,Table 50 – Seat 7,”68,100″
Ami,Alibay,Table 52 – Seat 8,”108,800″
Andrew,Graham,Table 62 – Seat 2,”84,900″
Angelo,Cusinato,Table 57 – Seat 7,”174,200″
Armando,Pagliari,Table 54 – Seat 8,”48,000″
Arthur,W,Table 62 – Seat 6,”91,500″
Ashley,Cheung,Table 58 – Seat 8,”62,500″
Babak,Forozandeh,Table 53 – Seat 5,”29,100″
Basil,Laurin,Table 62 – Seat 8,”120,600″
Benoit,Jean,Table 65 – Seat 2,”59,400″
Bill,Germanis,Table 59 – Seat 4,”59,500″
Brian,Altman,Table 50 – Seat 5,”45,500″
Bryon,Springer,Table 65 – Seat 6,”62,400″
Charles Alexandre,Sylvestre,Table 52 – Seat 3,”50,300″
Charles,La Boissonniere,Table 63 – Seat 7,”70,900″
Christo,Bassila,Table 66 – Seat 4,”47,600″
Christopher,Clisby,Table 50 – Seat 9,”93,500″
Daniel,Gagnon,Table 61 – Seat 6,”104,600″
Daniel,Leduc,Table 56 – Seat 4,”103,500″
Daniel,Schreiber,Table 56 – Seat 8,”121,000″
Daniel,Suied,Table 63 – Seat 2,”8,100″
Danny,Boyaci,Table 66 – Seat 9,”86,200″
Danny,Lauzon,Table 65 – Seat 3,”105,800″
Darryll Scott,Fish,Table 65 – Seat 7,”130,200″
Dave,Graham,Table 58 – Seat 6,”111,600″
Dean,Murphy,Table 55 – Seat 2,”24,500″
Debra Ann,Holman,Table 63 – Seat 1,”27,800″
Dejan,Kovinic,Table 54 – Seat 6,”35,700″
Diana,Shamshoum,Table 49 – Seat 1,”60,900″
Doris,Charlebois,Table 56 – Seat 6,”107,800″
Dylan,Wilkerson,Table 55 – Seat 4,”33,200″
Edmund John,Campion,Table 56 – Seat 5,”57,600″
Edouard,Dupuis,Table 50 – Seat 1,”48,200″
Eduardo,Vieira,Table 49 – Seat 4,”65,000″
Edward Emilio Jr.,Sabat,Table 58 – Seat 1,”66,100″
Elizabeth,Bennett-Martin,Table 57 – Seat 2,”40,000″
Eric,Afriat,Table 60 – Seat 7,”212,200″
Eric,Levesque,Table 57 – Seat 5,”69,900″
Etienne,Leduc,Table 53 – Seat 2,”93,500″
Faizel,Satchu,Table 61 – Seat 1,”75,800″
Francois,Billard,Table 61 – Seat 9,”116,600″
Francois,Goulet,Table 64 – Seat 8,”92,000″
Frederic,Cossette,Table 58 – Seat 2,”19,600″
Gary,Lucci,Table 57 – Seat 4,”89,900″
Geoffrey,Hum,Table 62 – Seat 5,”48,500″
Geoffrey Robert,McNeely,Table 49 – Seat 5,”58,700″
George,Caragiorgas,Table 50 – Seat 6,”25,800″
George,James,Table 52 – Seat 2,”96,000″
Glen,Hammers,Table 59 – Seat 1,”49,800″
Gregory,Katayama,Table 66 – Seat 3,”18,100″
Griffin,Benger,Table 66 – Seat 5,”99,700″
Guillaume,Rivet,Table 54 – Seat 9,”36,500″
Hugo,Theotol,Table 59 – Seat 9,”36,200″
Ivan,Crnogorac,Table 50 – Seat 8,”114,000″
Ivan,Mamuzic,Table 64 – Seat 3,”59,400″
James William,Formby,Table 53 – Seat 3,”66,500″
Jason,Comtois,Table 52 – Seat 7,”59,800″
Jason,Duval,Table 54 – Seat 5,”188,400″
Jason,Fernandes,Table 58 – Seat 3,”43,300″
Jason,James,Table 57 – Seat 9,”48,100″
Jean-Louis,Cyr,Table 62 – Seat 9,”129,400″
Jean-Pascal,Savard,Table 52 – Seat 4,”36,900″
Jean-Philippe,Matte,Table 54 – Seat 1,”31,600″
Jean-Philippe,Piquette,Table 59 – Seat 8,”13,900″
Jeffrey Dale,Gross,Table 64 – Seat 5,”103,800″
Jiachen,Gong,Table 55 – Seat 6,”39,500″
Joe,Gualtieri,Table 53 – Seat 7,”40,000″
John,Krpan,Table 49 – Seat 8,”75,000″
Jonathan,Bardier,Table 52 – Seat 6,”59,700″
Jonathan,Brassard,Table 57 – Seat 1,”43,500″
Jonathan,Karamalikis,Table 59 – Seat 2,”40,100″
Justin,Rabba,Table 64 – Seat 7,”150,700″
Kane,Kalas,Table 59 – Seat 6,”69,700″
Kevin K,Singh,Table 62 – Seat 1,”187,700″
Kevin Lee,Sharp,Table 61 – Seat 5,”159,000″
Kevin,MacDonald,Table 53 – Seat 9,”54,400″
Ki Joon,Nam,Table 57 – Seat 6,”92,600″
Kim,Kilroy,Table 56 – Seat 2,”12,200″
Kyle,Chang,Table 54 – Seat 7,”90,000″
Laurence,Grondin,Table 56 – Seat 9,”126,400″
Levi,Stevens,Table 53 – Seat 6,”66,000″
Levon,Dedeyan,Table 53 – Seat 1,”47,900″
Louis,Boutin,Table 56 – Seat 1,”135,300″
Lu,Zhang,Table 66 – Seat 1,”57,300″
Lucas,Greenwood,Table 64 – Seat 6,”113,100″
Malcom Harold,Fraser,Table 60 – Seat 5,”70,300″
Marc Etienne,Mclaughlin,Table 56 – Seat 3,”61,300″
Marc,Katz,Table 55 – Seat 9,”99,100″
Marc,Lacroix,Table 63 – Seat 4,”66,900″
Marco,Lang,Table 61 – Seat 4,”43,400″
Mark,Leslie,Table 49 – Seat 2,”55,300″
Marvin,Rettenmaier,Table 63 – Seat 5,”134,700″
Mathieu,Martin,Table 55 – Seat 1,”82,800″
Matthew,Bugley,Table 66 – Seat 6,”20,100″
Matthew,Marafioti,Table 50 – Seat 2,”37,700″
Matthew,O’Brien,Table 59 – Seat 7,”12,000″
Medhat,Ramzy,Table 60 – Seat 2,”24,800″
Michael,Korovine,Table 61 – Seat 2,”35,400″
Michael,Noor,Table 60 – Seat 8,”45,400″
Michael Paul,Stone,Table 49 – Seat 7,”84,100″
Michael,Wang,Table 65 – Seat 4,”82,300″
Mickele,Martino,Table 50 – Seat 4,”18,500″
Mike,Leah,Table 62 – Seat 7,”265,300″
Mitchell,Dredge,Table 49 – Seat 6,”106,800″
Nektarios,Papadedes,Table 60 – Seat 1,”31,800″
Nicholas,Naccarato,Table 55 – Seat 3,”141,900″
Nicholas,Palma,Table 62 – Seat 3,”122,800″
Nicola,Basile,Table 52 – Seat 9,”72,900″
Noeung,Troeung,Table 58 – Seat 5,”41,300″
Omkar,Deshmukh,Table 66 – Seat 2,”54,500″
Osman,Soubra,Table 64 – Seat 9,”47,000″
Pascal,Lefrancois,Table 54 – Seat 3,”189,100″
Paul,Mohorea,Table 49 – Seat 3,”26,100″
Paul Theodore,Klann,Table 65 – Seat 5,”108,000″
Pierre-Marc,Hache,Table 55 – Seat 7,”70,600″
Ping,Lin,Table 53 – Seat 4,”98,000″
Quyen,Dao,Table 60 – Seat 9,”40,300″
Ratharam,Sivagnanam,Table 65 – Seat 8,”184,000″
Rene,Bourbeau,Table 49 – Seat 9,”249,100″
Richard G,Hunter,Table 66 – Seat 8,”14,400″
Robert Logan,Dunn,Table 52 – Seat 1,”49,900″
Robert,Petronio,Table 61 – Seat 7,”90,900″
Robert,Taylor,Table 55 – Seat 8,”36,600″
Rodney,Lawrence,Table 52 – Seat 5,”125,500″
Ryan,Hall,Table 57 – Seat 3,”42,200″
Ryan,Morrell,Table 60 – Seat 3,”19,500″
Salomon,Ponte,Table 50 – Seat 3,”49,100″
Salvador,Villaluz,Table 65 – Seat 1,”30,200″
Samuel Bisrat,Tsehai,Table 54 – Seat 2,”100,000″
Samuel Louis,Gagnon,Table 60 – Seat 6,”93,300″
Scott,Montgomery,Table 64 – Seat 2,”60,700″
Scott,Shelvock,Table 64 – Seat 4,”57,600″
Senthuran,Vijayaratnam,Table 62 – Seat 4,”96,600″
Shaan,Siddiqui,Table 63 – Seat 6,”82,700″
Shakeeb,Kazemipur,Table 60 – Seat 4,”32,100″
Sheraz,Nasir,Table 53 – Seat 8,”106,900″
Siamak,Soleimanian,Table 61 – Seat 8,”21,900″
Steven,Buckner,Table 56 – Seat 7,”49,000″
Tam,Ho,Table 55 – Seat 5,”126,000″
Thomas,Lefort,Table 61 – Seat 3,”72,600″
Thomas,Taylor,Table 59 – Seat 3,”26,900″
Tim,Ulmer,Table 63 – Seat 8,”60,000″
Timothy,Reilly,Table 57 – Seat 8,”92,000″
Todd,Sisley,Table 54 – Seat 4,”66,500″
Tom,Kim Tien,Table 65 – Seat 9,”28,300″
Trevor,Delaney,Table 63 – Seat 3,”29,200″
Tyler,Mocknowed Hurman,Table 66 – Seat 7,”25,900″
Vlad,Faubert,Table 58 – Seat 4,”126,800″
William,Molson,Table 59 – Seat 5,”14,600″
Xuan,Liu,Table 58 – Seat 7,”48,800″
Yves,Loiselle,Table 64 – Seat 1,”42,400″
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