Day 1a of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship got underway today at 11am and play continued through 10 60-minute levels before the remaining players were asked to count and bag their chips to return to play on Day 2. There were 147 entries in today’s 2nd of 3 starting flights in the tournament, and by the end of the night, 69 remained. These 69 players have all qualified for Day 2.

Any player who entered today’s starting flight in the tournament may also enter the final starting flight (Day 1c) – this is a “next day re-entry” event, meaning that players enter each of the 3 starting flights once.

Note that these are player-recorded chip count totals. The actual chips have been sealed in bags which will be opened by the players to be returned to play on Day 2, which begins at 12:00pm on Monday May 2nd

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Jason R	Helder	163,900
Mathieu	Valade	161,000
Shane	Currey	156,800
Jason	James	142,800
Harrison Ian	Gimbel	133,800
Joseph	Cappello	123,600
Steven	Kerr	115,000
Marcello	Rosa	111,600
Quyen	Dao	110,200
Soren	Turkewitsch	105,900
Anthony	O'Hagan	105,300
Ambrose	Ng	100,400
Timothy	Reilly	100,000
Geoffrey	McNeely	98,100
Guillaume	Nolet	95,000
Carl	Martel	92,100
David	Quang	91,600
Chanracy	Khun	87,900
Angelo	Cusinato	85,200
Scott James	McMorran	83,400
Christopher	Lockhart	80,900
Ari	Engel	80,100
Denis	Cyr	77,700
Spencer	Stacey	76,000
Timothy	Fisher	74,700
Martin	Rauss	71,500
Michal	Wywrot	71,200
Edward	Hislop	67,100
Samuel Robert	Phillips	65,700
Vincent	Deschatelets	65,500
Michael	Egan	61,300
Antonio	Esfandiari	55,700
Michael	Noor	55,500
Nick	Nickoletopoulos	54,600
Rodney	Ramalho	53,000
Daniel	Watton	52,300
Douglas James	Mackinnon	50,000
Andrew	Dean	48,500
Michael	Korovine	48,400
Ariel	Albilia	47,900
Carlos Alberto	Gerones Sanchez	47,800
Hiroki	Shibata	43,900
Ciaran	Carter	41,800
Kevin	O'Donnell	40,100
Macradij	Yacoubian	39,800
Kevin	MacDonald	39,000
Doug	Hartwick	37,800
Matthew	Brunskole	36,900
Paul	Petten	36,500
Marc Etienne	Mclaughlin	34,900
Viken	Artinian	34,400
Ryan	McGarry	34,200
Thierry	Blanc	33,100
Francois	Billard	32,000
Kyle	Chang	31,800
George	Caragiorgas	30,900
Gheorghe	Priala	29,700
Ivan	Mamuzic	29,600
Konstantine J	Paggos	28,600
Paolo E	Cusinato	28,000
Alexandre	Nadeau-Levesque	24,000
Krzysztof	Birecki	23,800
Rasool	Sarangi	22,500
Yantian	Huang	21,400
Khaly	Dang	20,200
Theodore	Doukas	14,100
Marc Alexandre	Emond	7,700
William	Molson	6,700
Marc-Olivier	Carpentier-Perrault	6,500

Jason Helder

The second flight to the WPT Canadian Spring Championship has just come to a close after 10 levels of play, and leading todays field is Jason Helder and his 163,900 betting units. Mathieu Valade also put on a solid performance, ending with 161,000 in chips. The next biggest stack was bagged by Jason James (142,800), while Harrison Ian Gimbel (133,800) and Joseph Cappello (123,600) round the top 5 stacks of Day 1b.

Of the 147 players that participated in this flight, 69 have made a seat to Day 2, which takes place Monday at noon. Tomorrow is the last chance for players to qualify for Day 2, with flight Day 1c taking off at 11am.

In a few moments we will publish the full list of player-reported chip counts.

See you tomorrow!

Top 5 stacks in Day 1b:

Quyen Dao

With under 15 minutes left in this final level of play in Day 1b of the WPT CSC, players are starting to get ready to wrap it up for the night. Shortly after the bagging of chips, we will release the full list of player-reported chip counts.

Photographs from the last level of play:

Guillaume Nolet

Level 9 is a few seconds away from completion, bringing us into the final level of the day for this second flight of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship. Once players have bagged and tagged their chips for Day 2, we will publish the full list of player-reported chip counts from this flight.

Photographs from level 9:

Jason Helder

Day 1b in the WPT Canadian Spring Championship is back from the final break of the day, and play will continue for two more 1-hour levels before players bag their chips onto Day 2.

Two players are nearly tied for the lead after 8 levels of play, as both Jason Hedler and David Quang hold 144K in chips, while Jason James is a few blinds behind them. Below is a look at the top stacks entering level 9:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Jason	Helder	144,600
David	Quang	144,000
Jason	James	131,900
Carl	Martel	111,900
Joseph	Cappello	111,300
Steven	Kerr	110,600
Harrison Ian	Gimbel	109,200
Shane	Curry	104,200
Geoffrey	McNeely	101,400
Mathieu	Valade	97,700

Top 3 stacks at level 9:

Steven Kerr

A total of 147 players turned up for this second of three flights to the WPT Canadian Spring Championship, bringing the combined total up to 226 entries after two flights. Tomorrow will be the last chance for players to participate in this Main Event in the Playground Poker Spring Classic, with Day 1c scheduled to start at 11am.

Photographs taken during level 7 of Day 1b in the WPT CSC:

The players are currently on a dinner break and we have taken the opportunity to get a wide range of current counts from the players in the field.

Leaderboard – Dinner break

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Jason	Helder	144,550
David	Quang	118,800
Macradij	Yacoubian	101,450
Angelo	Cusinato	101,325
Harrison	Gimbel	99,750
Anthony	O'Hagen	97,125
Joseph	Capello	92,400
Mathieu	Valade	87,500
Marc-Olivier	Carpentier-Perrault	85,400
Daniel	Watton	78,100

Other notable counts

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Chanracy	Khun	64,100
Ari	Engel	54,900
Antonio	Esfandiari	43,025
Tim	Reilly	42,275
Stan	Jablonski	40,175
Will	Molson	39,900
Kevin	MacDonald	26,325
Daniel	Suied	20,725
Rodney	Ramalho	20,600
George	Caragiorgas	18,800
Michael	Korovine	17,100
Xuan	Lui	16,800
Marc Etienne	McLaughlin	12,625
Guillaume	Nolet	10,575
Mike	Leah	9,075

Joseph Cappello

Photographs from level 6: