Tony Dunst has made a very timely double up to vault him to over 1.3M in chips.
Zheng Wei opened the action to 55K from the cutoff and Jason Lavallée called from the button. Action move to Tony in the big blind and he chose to shove his 628K stack. Zheng folded and Jason thought, then cut out calling chips, then thought some more… and made the call.
Tony: 
Jason: 
The board ran out 
and the dealer shipped the chips over to Tony.
Josue Sauvageau did a good job of chipping up early but found his chips in the middle holding a made flush on the river – only to find that Seth Davies (who had shoved over top of Josue’s open on the river) had the same flush but to the nuts.
Josue: 
Seth:
14th place: Josue Sauvageau, $15,300.00
Josue Sauvageau
Players have completed their first level of the day and have taken a break. As they were away from the table we refreshed the current chip counts for the remaining 14 players.
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Seat | Siège | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jason | Lavallée | Table 39 - Seat 2 | 769,000 |
| Thomas | Taylor | Table 39 - Seat 3 | 1,100,000 |
| Tony | Dunst | Table 39 - Seat 4 | 693,000 |
| Joel | Miller | Table 39 - Seat 6 | 627,000 |
| Rene | Fortin | Table 39 - Seat 7 | 425,000 |
| Ha Van | Nguyen | Table 39 - Seat 8 | 180,000 |
| Zheng | Wei | Table 39 - Seat 9 | 1,220,000 |
| Scott James | McMorran | Table 40 - Seat 1 | 1,355,000 |
| Ruben | Perceval | Table 40 - Seat 3 | 1,760,000 |
| Harpreet Singh | Gill | Table 40 - Seat 4 | 315,000 |
| Khaly | Dang | Table 40 - Seat 5 | 874,000 |
| Guillaume | Nolet | Table 40 - Seat 6 | 842,000 |
| Josue | Sauvageau | Table 40 - Seat 8 | 509,000 |
| Seth | Davies | Table 40 - Seat 9 | 1,678,000 |
Table 40 has seen the bulk of the action today, and with the elimination of both Brian and Ronald, the top 3 players by chip count are all on the same table. Currently both Ruben Perceval and Seth Davies are playing approximately 1.7M in chips while Scott McMorran is just a little behind them with 1.45M in chips.
Jason Lavallée remains the big stack on table 39, playing just over 1.1M at the moment.
Brian Altman
Brian Altman has been the first player eliminated on Day 4 of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship.
The chips were all-in preflop and we learned that Brian was playing the while Scott McMorran (to his immediate right) held .
Brian hit a king on the flop of 
to take the lead, but his advantage was erased on the 
turn, and the 
was no help on the river.
Scott has vaulted to among the chip leaders if not the outright chip lead.
Just a couple of hands later, Ronald Laplante was eliminated by Ruben Perceval. Ronald had doubled Josue earlier but had managed to regain most of those chips but was still one of the relative short stacks in the tournament when his elimination came.
16th place: Brian Altman, $13,130
Brian Altman
15th place: Ronald Laplante, $15,300
Ronald Laplante
Talented Quebec player Josue Sauvageau started the day as the small stack but has managed to build his holdings back up to the 20bb mark through a series of uncalled shoves and a double through Ronald Laplante. To hit his double he raised all-in from utg and finally got the call from Ronald in the bb.
Josue: 
Ronald: 
The board ran out safely for Josue: 
and he has a little breathing room.
Josue Sauvageau
Ruben Perceval has been very active in the first few hands today and he just took a decent pot from Seth Davies. Seth opened the action from the hijack with a raise to 45K and Ruben called from the sb. The big blind got out of the way and the flop was dealt: 
.
Ruben check-called Seth’s bet of 65K and the turn was produced: 
. Ruben checked again, and this time Seth checked back. The dealer set out the river: .
Now it was Ruben’s turn to lead: he bet 140K. Seth considered his options for some time before making the call – and then mucked immediately after seeing Ruben’s 
for a turned full house.
It’s just after 12:00pm in the Montreal area and play has just resumed in the WPT Canadian Spring Championship! 16 players are left in the event and today play will continue through the establishment of the 10-handed final table all the way to just the official final table made up of 6 players remains.
Cards are now in the air – good luck to everyone remaining!
Day 4 of the partypoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship begins at 12:00pm on May 4th, 2016, with 16 players still in contention for the biggest prizes in the event!
Tony Dunst
Play will resume in level 23 when the blinds will be 10,000/20,000 with a 3,000 chip ante. The blind levels will continue to be 90 minutes in length and play will continue until just 6 players remain. There will be a full seating redraw at 10 players remaining – these players will be brought together on the unofficial final table of 10 players and play will continue through 4 more eliminations. At that point, the remaining players will bag their chips to return for Day 5 on the Live Streamed final table.
There was just a seating redraw at 18 players remaining, so the restart tomorrow will begin with the players in their same relative positions as the end of Day 3. As a reminder, the following is the official seating chart with 2 tables remaining as well as the end of Day 3 chip counts for each player.
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Seat | Siège | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jason | Lavallée | Table 39 - Seat 2 | 1,101,000 |
| Thomas | Taylor | Table 39 - Seat 3 | 762,000 |
| Tony | Dunst | Table 39 - Seat 4 | 937,000 |
| Guillaume | Nolet | Table 39 - Seat 5 | 944,000 |
| Joel | Miller | Table 39 - Seat 6 | 794,000 |
| Rene | Fortin | Table 39 - Seat 7 | 291,000 |
| Ha Van | Nguyen | Table 39 - Seat 8 | 341,000 |
| Zheng | Wei | Table 39 - Seat 9 | 702,000 |
| Scott James | McMorran | Table 40 - Seat 1 | 890,000 |
| Brian | Altman | Table 40 - Seat 2 | 1,005,000 |
| Ruben | Perceval | Table 40 - Seat 3 | 907,000 |
| Harpreet Singh | Gill | Table 40 - Seat 4 | 328,000 |
| Khaly | Dang | Table 40 - Seat 5 | 803,000 |
| Ronald | Laplante | Table 40 - Seat 7 | 519,000 |
| Josue | Sauvageau | Table 40 - Seat 8 | 141,000 |
| Seth | Davies | Table 40 - Seat 9 | 1,998,000 |
There were a total of 417 entries in the WPT Canadian Spring Championship, which was Event 10 in the Playground Poker Spring Classic.
This adds up to a total prize pool of $1,294,368.00. First prize in the tournament includes a seat in the World Poker Tour Tournament of Champions, a US$15,000 value. In Canadian dollars at current exchange rates, this is an C$18,750 value and this amount has been removed from the cash payout table, which therefore adds up to a total of C$1,275,618.00. This amount was distributed according to the following official payout table.
In addition, the winner also receives an amazing Champion’s Belt, and as a World Poker Tour Main Tour Main Event, the winner also has their name inscribed on the WPT Champion’s Trophy!
| Rank | Pos | First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Prize | Bourse |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seth | Davies | $256,390.00 |
| 2 | Ruben | Perceval | $180,088.00 |
| 3 | Joel | Miller | $115,570.00 |
| 4 | Thomas | Taylor | $85,460.00 |
| 5 | Guillaume | Nolet | $64,160.00 |
| 6 | Tony | Dunst | $51,400.00 |
| 7 | Scott James | McMorran | $42,860.00 |
| 8 | Zheng | Wei | $34,180.00 |
| 9 | Rene | Fortin | $25,630.00 |
| 10 | Khaly | Dang | $18,750.00 |
| 11 | Jason | Lavallée | $18,750.00 |
| 12 | Harpreet Singh | Gill | $18,750.00 |
| 13 | Ha Van | Nguyen | $15,300.00 |
| 14 | Josue | Sauvageau | $15,300.00 |
| 15 | Ronald | Laplante | $15,300.00 |
| 16 | Brian | Altman | $13,130.00 |
| 17 | Tu Kien | Luong | $13,130.00 |
| 18 | Michael | Noor | $13,130.00 |
| 19 | Marcello | Delgrasso | $11,480.00 |
| 20 | David | Quang | $11,480.00 |
| 21 | Marcello | Rosa | $11,480.00 |
| 22 | Thanh | Phu | $10,330.00 |
| 23 | Joseph | Cappello | $10,330.00 |
| 24 | Antonio | Esfandiari | $10,330.00 |
| 25 | Nicola | Basile | $9,050.00 |
| 26 | Francois | Goulet | $9,050.00 |
| 27 | Samuel Bisrat | Tsehai | $9,050.00 |
| 28 | Rodney | Ramalho | $7,900.00 |
| 29 | Jason | Fernandes | $7,900.00 |
| 30 | Doug | Hartwick | $7,900.00 |
| 31 | Amir | Babakhani | $7,900.00 |
| 32 | Damjan | Radanov | $7,900.00 |
| 33 | Robert | Williams | $7,900.00 |
| 34 | Ivan | Fazal Karim | $7,900.00 |
| 35 | Jeanrene | Plante | $7,900.00 |
| 36 | Kent | Mosur | $7,900.00 |
| 37 | Raymond | Latinsky | $6,880.00 |
| 38 | Marc | Guerbilsky | $6,880.00 |
| 39 | Quyen | Dao | $6,880.00 |
| 40 | Michael | Stannard | $6,880.00 |
| 41 | Darryll | Fish | $6,880.00 |
| 42 | Conor | Shelly | $6,880.00 |
| 43 | Poorya | Nazari | $6,880.00 |
| 44 | Jeff | Gross | $6,880.00 |
| 45 | Kunru | Ma | $6,880.00 |
| 46 | Victor | Adams | $5,860.00 |
| 47 | Sean DC | Jackson | $5,860.00 |
| 48 | Andrew | Frankenberger | $5,860.00 |
| 49 | Douglas James | Mackinnon | $5,860.00 |
| 50 | Ari | Engel | $5,860.00 |
| 51 | Daniel | Suied | $5,860.00 |
| 52 | Omid | Shahbazian | $5,860.00 |
| 53 | Silvio | La Palerma | $5,860.00 |
| 54 | Joshua John | Frederick | $5,860.00 |
