Playground Poker Spring Classic 2015

Mike Leah

Mike Leah has been steadily chipping up his stack throughout this Day 1A of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship, and is currently sitting atop the leaderboard entering this last level of play of the day, holding a stack slightly above the 250,000 mark.

Shortly after players have bagged and tagged their chips, we will be publishing the full list of player-report chip counts from this flight.

Mike Leah

Marc Etienne Mclaughlin

We just witnessed a hand that put Marc Etienne Mclaughlin amongst the chipleaders.

It all started with a raise from Diana Shamshoum to 2,200 from under the gun. Marc Etienne made the call from the cutoff, and Quyen Dao then 3bet to 9,000 from the small blind. Diana got out of the way, and Marc Etienne put in a 4bet to 18,500. Quyen threw in some calling chips, and they were heads-up to the flop.

Flop:

Quyen, first to act, check-called Marc Etienne’s bet of 15,500.

Turn:

Quyen checked, and this time Marc Etienne wagered the rest of his chips, a total of 53,500. Quyen tanked for a few minutes, murmuring to himself, before finally committing the chips.

Marc Etienne:

Quyen:

Quyen had but two outs that could save him, but the river only improved Marc Etienne’s hand, who collected a pot worth almost 180,000!

Marc Etienne Mclaughlin

The players are taking their last break of the day, and will play for two more 1-hour levels before bagging and tagging for Day 2. We took this time to update the leaderboard, and here are the current leaders:

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Name,Chips [attr sort=desc]
Danny Lauzon,”110,500″
Robert Petronio,”97,500″
Sheraz Nasir,”94,000″
Quyen Dao,”119,000″
Marc Etienne Mclaughlin,”89,000″
Ratharam Sivagnanam,”126,000″
Matthew Bugley,”90,000″
Angelo Cusinato,”152,000″
Jason James,”90,500″
Ping Lin,”97,000″
Mike Leah,”124,000″
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Angelo Cusinato

Xuan Liu

Day 1A of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship is nearing the midway mark of level 8, and the field is down to 9 tables. There will be a short break following the completion of this level, and players will have two more 1-hour levels left to play after the break before going on break for the night.

Photographs from levels 7-8:

The winner of the partypoker.net branded Monster DNA headphones was… drum roll..

Brian Wang, with 140,425 tournament chips at the beginning of the dinner break.

This promotion will be held tomorrow as well, so if you’re the chip leader after level 6, you will win your own pair of Monster DNA headphones with exclusive partypoker branding!

Here is an update on the leaderboard, as play enters level 7 of Day 1A:

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Name,Chips [attr sort=desc]
Jason James,”95,400″
Sheraz Nasir,”138,300″
Brian Wang,”140,425″
Ari Engel,”96,700″
Marc Etienne McLaughlin,”109,725″
Ratharam Sivagnanam,”112,100″
Ping Lee,”89,600″
Mathieu Martin,”95,900″
Mike Leah,”92,300″
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A few notable players’ stacks:

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Name,Chips [attr sort=desc]
Zennawi Petros,”8,700″
Matthew Salsberg,”13,100″
Xuan Liu,”35,000″
Philippe D’Auteuil,”6,525″
Daniel Gagnon,”31,800″
Martin Rauss,”22,300″
Scott Montgomery,”10,225″
Matthew Marafioti,”42,200″
Pascal Lefrancois,”23,800″
Lucas Greenwood,”44,750″
Danny Lauzon,”79,125″
Samuel Chartier,”71,500″
Will Molson,”41,800″
Jeffrey Gross,”29,925″
Tim Reilly,”70,500″
TJ Ulmer,”61,500″
Ami Alibay,”35,525″
Diana Shamshoum,”38,425″
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Photographs from level 6: