After 4 45-minute levels and 28 eliminations, Day 3 of the partypoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship is over and the 16 remaining players have bagged their chips to return to play on Day 4, tomorrow (May 4th, 2016) at 12:00pm.

Day 3 was action-packed and saw the elimination of the big stack to start the day (Damjan Radanov), a rising star of the Montreal poker scene (Rodney Ramalho), the 2nd all-time money winner (Antonio Esfandiari), a former WPT Canadian Spring Champion (Amir Babakhani), a player that made it to Day 3 despite starting Day 2 with just 11K in chips (Marc Guerbilsky), and several other up-and-coming stars of the game.

Day 4 is certain to be just as exciting, as the field is still chock full of amazingly talented poker players. The chip leader to start the day is Seth Davies (1,998,000 chips), aka Setherson2, who reputable sources (@cswidler) tell us is an online beast – and his live resume is pretty buff as well. The 2nd spot on the leaderboard is occupied by none other than Jason Lavallée (@constantcolorup, 1,101,000 chips) who was one of the first Montreal-based online pros to make a breakthrough in live play almost a decade ago, and even has a 2nd place finish in a WPT event in 2009 to prove it (not to overlook is EPT results, which include a High Roller win and a Main Event win).

And then there’s Brian Altman (1,005,000 chips). Brian Altman, who may just want to emigrate to Montreal if he keeps having gaudy results here, like his 4th place in the most recent WPT Montreal and his Main Event win this weekend in a local WSOP-C stop. The main mitigating factor is that he’s been booking solid results everywhere he plays over the past 2 years – it’s clearly not just a Montreal thing for Brian!

And those are just the top 3. How about local hero – in the midst of a tournament breakthrough – Ruben Perceval (907,000 chips), or the always dangerous @Bond18, Tony Dunst (937,000 chips)? The remaining field in this year’s WPT Canadian Spring Championship is stacked from top to bottom – which means that tomorrow on Day 4 we’re in for a real treat as the tournament winds its way down to the Official 6 person WPT Final Table.

Play resumes at 12pm on May 4th.

Tu Kien Luong

Tu Kien Luong fell short-stacked, and in an unopened pot he pulled the trigger from middle position with a respectable . Jason Lavallee was next to act and woke up with a much bigger hand, , and made the call. With no improvement on the board, Tu Kien was our 17th place finisher.

17th place: Tu Kien Luong – $13,130.00

Michael Noor

Marcello Delgrasso might wind up thinking about his final hands in the WPT Canadian Spring Championship over and over again, as two unfortunate hands lead to his elimination.

In the first hand, he opened to 38,000 from the button, and Brian Altman clicked-it-back from the small blind. Rene Fortin then 4bet shoved from the big blind for 105,000, leading to Marcello folding. Brian made the quick call for a few thousand more, and as players tabled their hands Marcello flashed his folded cards – AJ-offsuit.

Brian:
Rene:

Board:

Much to the disgust of Marcello, who folded what would have been the winning hand, Rene found a doubled up worth around 250,000. It is no surprise then that on the very next hand Marcello was not willing to let go of his hand, especially as he was dealt AJ-offsuit once again!. He found himself all-in versus Brian Altman, who had the goods this time.

Marcello:
Brian:

Board:

With Marcello’s elimination, this Main Event is now down to 2 final tables, and a redraw was called for. While the other tables were playing their last hand before the redraw, we lost Michael Noor, who ended his deep run in 18th place.

Here are the new seating assignments, which will remain the same for tomorrow’s Day 4:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège
Tu Kien	Luong	Table 39 - Seat 1
Jason	Lavallée	Table 39 - Seat 2
Thomas	Taylor	Table 39 - Seat 3
Tony	Dunst	Table 39 - Seat 4
Guillaume	Nolet	Table 39 - Seat 5
Joel	Miller	Table 39 - Seat 6
Rene	Fortin	Table 39 - Seat 7
Ha Van	Nguyen	Table 39 - Seat 8
Zheng	Wei	Table 39 - Seat 9
Scott James	McMorran	Table 40 - Seat 1
Brian	Altman	Table 40 - Seat 2
Ruben	Perceval	Table 40 - Seat 3
Harpreet Singh	Gill	Table 40 - Seat 4
Khaly	Dang	Table 40 - Seat 5
Ronald	Laplante	Table 40 - Seat 7
Josue	Sauvageau	Table 40 - Seat 8
Seth	Davies	Table 40 - Seat 9

18th place: Michael Noor – $13,130.00

19th place: Marcello Delgrasso – $11,480.00

The WPT is inexorably winding its way to 18 players remaining and the next full seating redraw. In the past half hour, both Marcello Rosa and David Quang have been eliminated from Table 39 to bring the event to 19 players left. Assuming one more player busts this level, Day 3 will end at the end of level 22 (in about 30 minutes).

21st place: Marcello Rosa, $11,480

20th place: David Quang, $11,480

Thanh Phu

After losing the majority of his stack with versus the of Marcell Delgrasso on the hand before the break, Thanh Phu came back into level 22 with only 31,000 in chips, and in the big blind position.

Marcello opened to 32,000 from middle position, and Joel Miller followed from the button. Thanh slid his remaining chips in the middle, and they were 3 to the flop. Marcello fired 20,000 on a board, but let go of his hand on the turn when he was faced with a bet of 40,000 from Joel.

Thanh was happy to see he still had some chance of winning with his , however the river secured it for Joel and his pair of .

22nd place: Thanh Phu – $10,330.00

Joseph Cappello has been eliminated in 23rd place from the WPT Canadian Spring Championship.

Guillaume Nolet opened the action with a utg raise to 27K and Jason Lavallée flatted from the hijack. Action folded around to Joseph, who raised all in from the sb (his all in was for 75K).

Both Guillaume and Jason chose to call and the flop was dealt: . Guillaume opens on the flop to 90K and Jason folded. The remaining players revealed their hands.

Guillaume:
Joseph:

The on the turn and river kept Guillaume in the lead and Joseph was sent to the tournament desk to collect his payout coupon.

23rd place: Joseph Cappello, $10,330.00

Antonio Esfandiari

Antonio Esfandiari was trying to take advantage of an unopened pot when he moved in for nearly 200,000 from the button, however Zheng Wei was not going to let him get away with it. Once Zheng made the call, Marcello Rosa threw his hand into the muck from the big blind.

Antonio:
Zheng:

Zheng flopped top-pair and held to win on a board, eliminating a very dangerous opponent in the process.

24th place: Antonio Esfandiari – $10,330.00

Nicola Basile

Nicola Basile was sitting under the gun with when he found himself all-in and trailing Marcello Delgrasso, who tabled . Nicola did manage to pair his queen on the river, however that same card gave Marcello the nut straight, as the board read .

25th place: Nicola Basile – $9,050.00

Ruben Perceval

Ruben Perceval has taken over the chip lead here at the start of level 21, and is the only player (for now) who sits above 1 million in chips.

Thomas Taylor now also sits near the top of the leaderboard after taking a huge pot from David Quang just before the break. We missed the action, however at the end of it all Thomas and his doubled against the on a board for a pot of over 900,000.

Here is a look at the full counts of the final 25 players, as play enters 21:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Ruben	Perceval	1,042,000
Thomas	Taylor	990,000
Jason	Lavallée	897,000
Zheng	Wei	890,000
Scott James	McMorran	750,000
Khaly	Dang	722,000
Ronald	Laplante	670,000
Guillaume	Nolet	643,000
Michael	Noor	587,000
Josue	Sauvageau	539,000
Marcello	Rosa	501,000
Seth	Davies	498,000
Marcello	Del Grasso	428,000
Tu Kien	Luong	415,000
David	Quang	386,000
Brian	Altman	360,000
Antonio	Esfandiari	354,000
Ha Van	Nguyen	351,000
Thanh	Phu	326,000
Harpreet Singh	Gill	247,000
Nicola	Basile	204,000
Tony	Dunst	186,000
Joseph	Cappello	182,000
Rene	Fortin	167,000
Joel	Miller	143,000