The blind levels had reduced to 30 minutes heads up as per the published event rules, and during the 3rd level of heads up play, […]
Krpan out 11th
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 eliminated by Lu Zhang
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
Photo update
Nicholas Palma
Photographs taken during level 14 – final two tables:
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- Andrew Hinrichsen
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- Thomas Lefort
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- Ratharam Sivignanam
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- Steven Buckner
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- Dave Graham
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- Guillaume Rivet
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- Robert Logan Dunn
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- James Gall
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- Behram Antia
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- Charles-Eric Benoit
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- Philip Richard Elliot
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- Geoffrey McNeely
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- Paul Petten
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- Danny Boyaci
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- Ko Maddock
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- Nicholas Palma
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- Michael Tieu
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- Jason Conforti
Rivet loses a bunch
Andrew Hinrichsen made a small raise and Logan Dunn called from the cutoff. Guillaume Rivet then 3bet to 24K and Andrew didn’t take long to put in a 4bet shove. Logan got out of the way and after a little time in the tank Guillaume made the call.
Andrew:
Guillaume: 
Guillaume never took the lead in the race as the community cards ran out 
and shipped approximately 75% of his stack across the table to Andrew.
Lefrancois doubles into the 7-figures
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 hits the rail
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
Down to 18
Joseph Abou Khalil has been eliminated in 19th place by Jason Conforti. This brings the event to 18 players and there will now be a full seating redraw.
Here is the new seating chart:
Table 62
- Andrew Hinrichsen
- Dave Graham
- Robert Logan Dunn
- Guillaume Rivet
- Nicholas Palma
- Ratharam Sivagnanam
- Philip Richard Elliot
- Charles-Eric Benoit
- Thomas Lefort
Table 66
- Steven Buckner
- James Gall
- Ko Maddock
- Paul Petten
- Danny Boyaci
- Jason Conforti
- Behram Antia
- Geoffrey McNeely
- Michael Tieu
Chip counts at the first break
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″
[/eztable]
New Yorkers unite!
There’s some loud but clearly good-natured banter going on between Nicholas Palma and Steven Buckner, and both speak with instantly recognizable New York accents – and if you’ve spent any time with New Yorkers, it’s the kind of thing you’ve heard a hundred times but if not, well, it could seem kind of extreme.
Steven, folding, showing an Ace: “You really like to 3-bet me, don’t you?”
Nicholas: “Yeah, I was talking with my buddy last night and told him I was going to 3-bet every time you raised… But I’ll tell you, you’d better have it if you come after me, cuz, you’d better have it. You should probably have another Ace behind that one if you’re going to come after me!”
Meanwhile play continues as we wait for the next elimination to bring us to the redraw.
Eric Afriat goes down in 14th place
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
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