Partypoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship ($3,200 + $300 NL Hold'em) | Page 8 of 13

Building on a short stack

Level: 11

Small Blind: 600

Big Blind: 1.2K

Ante: 200

Chip Average: 77.2K

Remaining: 162

Entries: 417

2016/05/02 - 12:46 by

Marc-Olivier Carpentier-Perrault is a talented local player who has had a lot of success both online and live, but he started the day with just 6,500 in chips. He also started the day on a table (Table 56) with 2 other short-stacked players, a situation that can often be beneficial – but can also be dangerous.

Through 3/4 of the first level played today, Marc-Olivier has managed to build his tiny stack into over 42,000 tournament chips – still nowhere near the leaders, but definitely healthy enough to really get started.

In his most recent double-up (and then some), Jeanrene Plante raised in early position to 3K and found calls from both Ronald Lauzon and Ronald Laplante. Marc-Olivier then raised all-in – getting a fold from Jeanrene, an all-in over the top from Ronald Lauzon and a fold from Ronald Laplante.

Marc-Olivier:
Ronald Lauzon:

The flop was perfect for Marc-Olivier: and the and that followed did nothing to “un-crack” Ronald’s Aces.

Some of the early eliminations today:

Paul Scott
Theodore Doukas
Will Molson
Xuan Liu
Paolo Cusinato

Welcome to Day 2 of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship!

Level: 11

Small Blind: 600

Big Blind: 1.2K

Ante: 200

Chip Average: 69.5K

Remaining: 180

Entries: 417

2016/05/02 - 12:01 by

The dealer meeting is over, dealers have taken their seats, floors are poised and ready for the action to begin, and now the 180 players in action for today’s Day 2 restart are taking their seats in the Tournament Hall… everything is set for Day 2 action to begin!

The chip leader today is local pro Jiachen Gong who is in the midst of a year-long tournament breakthrough in his career – and starting with almost 20K more than his nearest opponent may just give him the lift he needs to threaten a deep run.

That being said, however, the field is full of experienced and talented players, pros and amateurs alike! Also found in the top 15 chip leaders to start the day are Tony Dunst, former WPT Canadian Spring Champion Amir Babakhani, and Jason Lavallée, as well as players like Josue Sauvageau who have all the talent in the world but more of a local reputation.

The chip average to start today is 69.5K and with blinds starting at 600/1,200/a200, even a player with an average stack is 58bb deep. Play today will continue through 9 60-minute levels.

Action will resume in just seconds – good luck to everyone playing today!

WPT Canadian Spring Championship Day 2 seating draw (with counts)

2016/05/01 - 23:38 by

Day 2 in the partypoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship is slated to begin at 12:00pm on May 2nd. The following table will be the official seating chart when play resumes. For convenience, chip counts for each player have also been provided.

There will be 180 players in action for the restart. There were 417 total entries in the tournament and 181 entries ended a Day 1 with chips, but one player qualified through 2 starting days. Therefore, according to the rules of the tournament, this player’s smaller stack will be removed from play. The player who qualified twice was Khaly Dang, and her smaller stack has 20,200 chips.

The chip average upon restart will be 69,300 tournament chips. Play will continue 9-handed.

First Name \| Prénom	Last Name \| Nom	Seat \| Siège	Stack \| Tapis
Vahid	Hoseyni	Table 49 - Seat 1	52,000
Martin	Rauss	Table 49 - Seat 2	71,500
Kevin	MacDonald	Table 49 - Seat 3	39,000
Maxime	Heroux	Table 49 - Seat 4	55,400
Silvio	La Palerma	Table 49 - Seat 5	120,500
Xiao	Peng	Table 49 - Seat 6	37,100
Scott	Shelvock	Table 49 - Seat 7	140,200
Thanh	Phu	Table 49 - Seat 8	58,600
Edward	Hislop	Table 49 - Seat 9	67,100
David Paul	Kozak	Table 50 - Seat 1	17,600
Denis	Cyr	Table 50 - Seat 2	77,700
Chris	Arvanitis	Table 50 - Seat 3	70,400
Chanracy	Khun	Table 50 - Seat 4	87,900
Ivan	Fazal Karim	Table 50 - Seat 5	165,500
Ron	Farber	Table 50 - Seat 6	22,500
Rameez	Shahid	Table 50 - Seat 7	38,600
Roman	Domanski	Table 50 - Seat 8	75,800
Antonio	Esfandiari	Table 50 - Seat 9	55,700
Pavel	Kuzmin	Table 51 - Seat 1	28,200
Rodney	Ramalho	Table 51 - Seat 2	53,000
Ha Van	Nguyen	Table 51 - Seat 3	82,200
Andrew	Frankenberger	Table 51 - Seat 4	95,700
Shane	Currey	Table 51 - Seat 5	156,800
Theodore	Doukas	Table 51 - Seat 6	14,100
Seth David	Davies	Table 51 - Seat 7	134,400
Adam	Bennett	Table 51 - Seat 8	21,200
Matthew	Wilkins	Table 51 - Seat 9	88,000
Kyle	Chang	Table 52 - Seat 1	31,800
Brian	Altman	Table 52 - Seat 2	46,400
Doug	Hartwick	Table 52 - Seat 3	37,800
Donald	Laing	Table 52 - Seat 4	48,600
Francois	Goulet	Table 52 - Seat 5	129,500
Yantian	Huang	Table 52 - Seat 6	21,400
Douglas James	Mackinnon	Table 52 - Seat 7	50,000
Ruben	Perceval	Table 52 - Seat 8	62,800
Kent	Mosur	Table 52 - Seat 9	56,200
Khaly	Dang	Table 53 - Seat 1	82,300
Viken	Artinian	Table 53 - Seat 2	34,400
Osman	Soubra	Table 53 - Seat 3	55,000
Angelo	Cusinato	Table 53 - Seat 4	85,200
Timothy	Reilly	Table 53 - Seat 5	100,000
Chris	McClung	Table 53 - Seat 6	36,600
James	Nortcliffe	Table 53 - Seat 7	84,800
Marcello	Rosa	Table 53 - Seat 8	111,600
Marcello	Delgrasso	Table 53 - Seat 9	123,200
George	Caragiorgas	Table 54 - Seat 1	30,900
Paul	Petten	Table 54 - Seat 2	36,500
Hiroki	Shibata	Table 54 - Seat 3	43,900
Joel	Miller	Table 54 - Seat 4	70,000
Jean-Claude	Salame	Table 54 - Seat 5	69,400
Zheng	Wei	Table 54 - Seat 6	90,700
Thomas	Lefort	Table 54 - Seat 7	28,000
Ilija	Janev	Table 54 - Seat 8	21,800
Michael	Tieu	Table 54 - Seat 9	18,900
Jason	Fernandes	Table 55 - Seat 1	103,700
Nick	Nickoletopoulos	Table 55 - Seat 2	54,600
Rohan M	Sharma	Table 55 - Seat 3	18,700
Guillaume	Nolet	Table 55 - Seat 4	95,000
Darryll	Fish	Table 55 - Seat 5	121,200
William	Molson	Table 55 - Seat 6	6,700
Vincent	Deschatelets	Table 55 - Seat 7	65,500
Ami	Alibay	Table 55 - Seat 8	17,000
Jie	Gao	Table 55 - Seat 9	64,900
Marc	Guerbilsky	Table 56 - Seat 1	11,400
Ronald	Lauzon	Table 56 - Seat 2	15,900
Ronald	Laplante	Table 56 - Seat 3	140,200
Marc-Olivier	Carpentier-Perrault	Table 56 - Seat 4	6,500
Michael	Wang	Table 56 - Seat 5	111,400
Sean DC	Jackson	Table 56 - Seat 6	143,500
Akshay	Sutar	Table 56 - Seat 7	84,000
Everol	Davis	Table 56 - Seat 8	44,900
Jeanrene	Plante	Table 56 - Seat 9	33,300
Alexandre	Nadeau-Levesque	Table 57 - Seat 1	24,000
Marc Etienne	McLaughlin	Table 57 - Seat 2	34,900
Mike	Lafable	Table 57 - Seat 3	23,900
Martin	Leblanc	Table 57 - Seat 4	42,900
Donald	Maloney	Table 57 - Seat 5	62,900
Michael	Korovine	Table 57 - Seat 6	48,400
Garen	Galanti	Table 57 - Seat 7	55,200
Robert	Mero	Table 57 - Seat 8	55,900
Rene	Berube	Table 57 - Seat 9	130,900
Harrison Ian	Gimbel	Table 59 - Seat 1	133,800
Scott James	McMorran	Table 59 - Seat 2	83,400
Vincent Tim	Lam	Table 59 - Seat 3	48,200
Krzysztof	Birecki	Table 59 - Seat 4	23,800
Francois	Billard	Table 59 - Seat 5	32,000
Elaine	Rawn	Table 59 - Seat 6	51,800
Marc Alexandre	Emond	Table 59 - Seat 7	7,700
Geoffrey	McNeely	Table 59 - Seat 8	98,100
Raymond	Latinsky	Table 59 - Seat 9	57,800
Drew	Buchner	Table 60 - Seat 1	44,300
David	Quang	Table 60 - Seat 2	91,600
Michael William	Comisso	Table 60 - Seat 3	48,300
John	Krpan	Table 60 - Seat 4	90,000
Shawn	Sutton	Table 60 - Seat 5	68,300
Ciaran	Carter	Table 60 - Seat 6	41,800
Josue	Sauvageau	Table 60 - Seat 7	162,900
Gheorghe	Priala	Table 60 - Seat 8	29,700
Thinh	Bui	Table 60 - Seat 9	49,100
Jiachen	Gong	Table 61 - Seat 1	182,400
Tu Kien	Luong	Table 61 - Seat 2	16,700
Jeff	Gross	Table 61 - Seat 3	54,600
Michel	Berube	Table 61 - Seat 4	33,700
David	Tazbaz	Table 61 - Seat 5	41,600
Thierry	Blanc	Table 61 - Seat 6	33,100
Victor	Adams	Table 61 - Seat 7	59,300
Jonathan Matthew	Borenstein	Table 61 - Seat 8	16,600
Omid	Shahbazian	Table 61 - Seat 9	157,400
Amir	Babakhani	Table 62 - Seat 1	154,400
Robert	Williams	Table 62 - Seat 2	63,100
Alexander	Villa	Table 62 - Seat 3	63,300
Damjan	Radanov	Table 62 - Seat 4	120,000
Justin	Leeson	Table 62 - Seat 5	42,300
Quyen	Dao	Table 62 - Seat 6	110,200
Antoine	Berube	Table 62 - Seat 7	53,200
Spencer	Stacey	Table 62 - Seat 8	76,000
Dean	Murphy	Table 62 - Seat 9	35,000
Carter	Swidler	Table 63 - Seat 1	77,700
Konstantine J	Paggos	Table 63 - Seat 2	28,600
Matthew	Brunskole	Table 63 - Seat 3	36,900
Mathieu	Valade	Table 63 - Seat 4	161,000
Yasir	Naiem Abdel Gadir	Table 63 - Seat 5	40,400
Yann	Dion	Table 63 - Seat 6	37,000
Nicola	Basile	Table 63 - Seat 7	57,600
Anthony	O'Hagan	Table 63 - Seat 8	105,300
Noeung	Troeung	Table 63 - Seat 9	120,500
Joseph	Cappello	Table 64 - Seat 1	123,600
Michael	Egan	Table 64 - Seat 2	61,300
Ari	Engel	Table 64 - Seat 3	80,100
Michal	Wywrot	Table 64 - Seat 4	71,200
Andrew	Dean	Table 64 - Seat 5	48,500
Paul Thomas	Scott	Table 64 - Seat 6	50,400
Michael	Noor	Table 64 - Seat 7	55,500
Christopher	Lockhart	Table 64 - Seat 8	80,900
Kevin	O'Donnell	Table 64 - Seat 9	40,100
Eric	Lachapelle	Table 65 - Seat 1	25,700
Rasool	Sarangi	Table 65 - Seat 2	22,500
Robert	Greenberg	Table 65 - Seat 3	75,100
Yohann	Wagner	Table 65 - Seat 4	66,500
Conor	Shelly	Table 65 - Seat 5	51,000
Macradij	Yacoubian	Table 65 - Seat 6	39,800
Andrew	Spears	Table 65 - Seat 7	71,500
Carl	Martel	Table 65 - Seat 8	92,100
Khanh Quang	Ho	Table 65 - Seat 9	54,500
Jason	James	Table 66 - Seat 1	142,800
Ryan	Mc Garry	Table 66 - Seat 2	34,200
Kunru	Ma	Table 66 - Seat 3	146,300
Ivan	Mamuzic	Table 66 - Seat 4	29,600
Stephen	Graner	Table 66 - Seat 5	147,300
Ariel	Albilia	Table 66 - Seat 6	47,900
Patrick	Blye	Table 66 - Seat 7	18,500
Xuan	Liu	Table 66 - Seat 8	118,200
Eric	Thibodeau	Table 66 - Seat 9	115,400
Robert Peter	Ring	Table 68 - Seat 1	74,300
Joshua John	Frederick	Table 68 - Seat 2	98,000
Rene	Fortin	Table 68 - Seat 3	77,100
Samuel Robert	Phillips	Table 68 - Seat 4	65,700
Tony	Dunst	Table 68 - Seat 5	155,200
Michael	Stannard	Table 68 - Seat 6	121,000
Harpreet Singh	Gill	Table 68 - Seat 7	49,100
Ambrose	Ng	Table 68 - Seat 8	100,400
Sylvain	Siebert	Table 68 - Seat 9	127,100
Soren	Turkewitsch	Table 69 - Seat 1	105,900
Richard	Wilkinson	Table 69 - Seat 2	60,500
Samuel Bisrat	Tsehai	Table 69 - Seat 3	50,000
Garry	Jansen	Table 69 - Seat 4	3,400
Daniel	Suied	Table 69 - Seat 5	43,000
Jason	Mottershead	Table 69 - Seat 6	112,000
Paul	El-Khouri	Table 69 - Seat 7	70,700
Paolo E	Cusinato	Table 69 - Seat 8	28,000
Steven	Kerr	Table 69 - Seat 9	115,000
Robert K	Kuhn	Table 70 - Seat 1	55,500
Jason R	Helder	Table 70 - Seat 2	163,900
Jason	Lavallee	Table 70 - Seat 3	146,400
Carlos Alberto	Gerones Sanchez	Table 70 - Seat 4	47,800
Poorya	Nazari	Table 70 - Seat 5	90,000
Michael	Hunter	Table 70 - Seat 6	145,800
Timothy	Fisher	Table 70 - Seat 7	74,700
Thomas	Taylor	Table 70 - Seat 8	32,700
Daniel	Watton	Table 70 - Seat 9	52,300

WPT Canadian Spring Championship Day 1c final counts

2016/05/01 - 23:10 by

Day 1c 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 191 entries in today’s final starting flight in the tournament, and by the end of the night, 85 remained. These players have all qualified for Day 2.

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. The official seating draw for Day 2 will be published soon.

Final Counts – Day 1c

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Day 1c is over; The stage is set for Day 2

Level: 11

Small Blind: 600

Big Blind: 1.2K

Ante: 200

Chip Average: 70K

Remaining: 181

Entries: 417

2016/05/01 - 22:52 by Playground Poker

The last of 3 starting flights to the WPT Canadian Spring Championship is now over, and with that we are now ready for Day 2, set for tomorrow, Monday May 2nd at 12pm.

Jiachen Gong

Of the 417 entries culminated from all three flights, 181 players will return tomorrow to pursue their ultimate goal: to become the next WPT Canadian Spring Champion! Leading the field is Jiachen “Jack” Gong, who stormed up the leaderboard in the last moments of play in Day 1c to finish with 182,400 in chips. He was our TonyBet Winter Festival Main Event champion earlier this year, and is now on the hunt for his second title of the year. Second in chips is Ivan Fazal Karim, who bagged 165,500 today, and third is Jason Hedler (163,900) who finished in the chip lead on Day 1b.

A full list of player-reported chip counts will be made available very shortly, as well as the seating assignment for tomorrow’s Day 2 of the WPT Canadian Spring Championship.

See you on the felts!

Some Tweets from the field

Headed to day 2 of #WPTMontreal with 121k going to 600/1200 @PlaygroundPoker

— Darryll Fish (@DarryllFish) May 2, 2016

33000 to end the day @PlaygroundPoker #SpringClassic

— JR Plante (@jr_plante) May 2, 2016

WPT Canadian Spring Championship prize pool & payouts

2016/05/01 - 22:07 by

The prize pool and payout structure for the partypoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship has been released.

There were a total of 417 entries, which 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 will be distributed according to the following official payout table.

Of course, because the partypoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship is hosted by Playground Poker Club, the winner will also win an amazing Champion’s Belt! In addition, as a World Poker Tour Main Tour Main Event, the winner will also have their name inscribed on the WPT Champion’s Trophy for all time!

Pos	Prize \| Bourse
1st	$256,390.00
2nd	$180,088.00
3rd	$115,570.00
4th	$85,460.00
5th	$64,160.00
6th	$51,400.00
7th	$42,860.00
8th	$34,180.00
9th	$25,630.00
10th-12th	$18,750.00
13th-15th	$15,300.00
16th-18th	$13,130.00
19th-21st	$11,480.00
22nd-24th	$10,330.00
25th-27th	$9,050.00
28th-36th	$7,900.00
37th-45th	$6,880.00
46th-54th	$5,860.00

Day 1c is winding down

Level: 10

Small Blind: 500

Big Blind: 1K

Ante: 100

Chip Average: 62.3K

Remaining: 92

Entries: 191

2016/05/01 - 22:01 by Playground Poker

Ami Alibay

With only about half a level left before the remaining players bag their chips onto Day 2, Day 1c is quickly coming to an end. More than half of todays starting field has been eliminated as only 92 remain from the 191 starting runners.

Once the day is over and players have sealed their bags for Day 2, we will publish the full list of player-reported chips counts from all 3 starting flights, in addition to the seating assignments. Day 2 will begin at 12pm tomorrow, Monday May 2nd.

Photographs from levels 9 and 10:

: Ami Alibay

: Eric Thibodeau

: Mike Lafable

: Darryll Fish

: Dean Murphy

: Paul El-Khoury

: Conor Shelly

: Jonathan Matthew Borenstein

: Patrick Lavallée

: Andrew Spears

: Michael Hunter

: Ron Farber

Chip leaders at the last break of Day 1c

Level: 9

Small Blind: 400

Big Blind: 800

Ante: 100

Chip Average: 50.7K

Remaining: 113

Entries: 191

2016/05/01 - 20:34 by Playground Poker

Brian Altman

The last break of Day 1c has just been completed, and the T25 chips have been removed from play. With only 2 levels left to the day, it is Ronald Laplante who has taken over the chip lead, sitting on over 140K.

The most recent player to join the field is Brian Altman, who is fresh from a victory in the Montreal WSOP-C Main Event – and by fresh, we mean a matter of minutes! He arranged to have his stack purchased at the dinner break, and was blinded out while he was wrapping up his victory. He arrived at the tables during the break before level 9 to find 22,500 chips waiting for him, and is now in action in this final flight of the WPT CSC.

Below is a look at the leaderboard as play enters level 9:

First Name \| Prénom	Last Name \| Nom	Stack \| Tapis
Ronald	Laplante	140,400
Francois	Goulet	124,600
Omid	Shahbazian	123,900
Ivan	Fazal Karim	121,800
Eric	Thibodeau	113,700
Michael	Hunter	111,300
Rene	Fortin	106,300
Jason	Lavallee	98,800
Thinh	Bui	96,700
Carter	Swidler	95,800
Rene	Berube	94,600

Photographs from level 8:

: Andrew Walter

: Rene Berube

: Roland Israelashvili

: Robert Williams

: Samuel Bisrat Tsehai

: Daniel Suied

: Matthew Wantman

: Sean D.C. Jackson

: Rodney Lawrence

: Osman Soubra

: Garry Lucci

Time!

Level: 8

Small Blind: 300

Big Blind: 600

Ante: 75

Chip Average: 48K

Remaining: 120

Entries: 191

2016/05/01 - 20:01 by

Andy Frankenberger shared the following tweet a few minutes ago:

I called clock on someone @WPT @PlaygroundPoker. Dealer didn’t call floor, he started countdown on his own. Bravo! https://t.co/gNXpFzTBCE

— Andy Frankenberger (@AMFrankenberger) May 1, 2016

First of all, thanks for the great shout-out! Second, it’s worth sharing the following information from our Event FAQ:

Does Playground Poker Club have any “house rules” that players should be aware of before playing in an event?

There is one procedure that players should be aware of that is slightly different than the procedure in many other tournaments. Playground Poker Club dealers are trained and empowered to administer a called clock. If a player calls for a clock on another player, the dealer will immediately assess whether the request is appropriate and, if so, will begin the 60-second countdown.
Players will be notified when 30 seconds have elapsed and, once 50 seconds have elapsed, the dealer will begin a verbal countdown of the final 10 seconds. At the end of the 60 seconds, the player’s hand is dead.
In our experience, this procedure removes some of the stigma of calling the clock in tournament play and contributes to the maintenance of a healthy pace of tournament play.

At Playground Poker Club we are aware that not everyone agrees that this is the best policy, but our experience with this approach – and the ongoing training and evaluation we give our dealers – has made it a great success. In fact, for local players this is the norm and is not even a little bit controversial.

Players should also keep in mind that floor staff are never far away, and when they see that a clock is being administered, they go to the table immediately to supervise.

Midway through level 8

Level: 8

Small Blind: 300

Big Blind: 600

Ante: 75

Chip Average: 46.6K

Remaining: 123

Entries: 191

2016/05/01 - 19:45 by Playground Poker

Xiao Peng and Azim Popatia

We are midway through level 8, and the starting field of 191 of Day 1c has been reduced to 123 players. Play is now 9-handed and will remain so until the final table of 10 players.

Following this level will be a short chip-up break, during which we will bring an update on the leaderboard. Sheraz Nasir was eliminated in the last level, and as he was our 2015 WPT CSC champion, the door is now open for a new champion to be crowned! Other recent eliminations include Alexandre Lavigne, Stan Jablonski and Michael Dentale, while Marc-Andre Ladouceur and Mike Leah made their exits early in this flight.

Photographs from level 7: