Today at noon was the beginning of the first “in-festival” satellite for the WPT Canadian Spring Championship. We hosted satellites twice weekly in the run-up to the Spring Classic, and there are still 8 more scheduled satellites between now and the WPT! So far, a total of 36 seats have been won through live satellites, with many more to come in the next 2 weeks.
Today’s tourney was a real bargain – it was a $135 + $15 re-entry tournament (with a $5 dealer-add on) that had 40 entries plus 16 re-entries – 56 total. This contributed to a prize pool of 2 entries in the WPT Canadian Spring Championship, plus a $560 prize for the player in 3rd place.
The three-way battle in the tourney was very hard-fought – appropriately so, considering the pay jump from $560 to $3500 – and at the end of the day, the winners were Isham Yamani and Zhen Wang, who edged out Grigoire Miron Banea for the 2nd seat.
In the final hand of the tourney, Zhen pushed holding 
and was instantly called by Grigoire, holding 
. When admitted after the dust settled that it was simply a move on his part – but the board ran out in his favour: 
and he took down the seat.
There are still 41 WPT entries guaranteed in upcoming scheduled satellites – and that doesn’t count what is likely to be many sit-n-go satellites that will also be held as we approach the WPT. This is one of the best ways to enter the big event – you should give it a shot!
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- Gregoire Miron Banea
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- Zhen Wang
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- Isham Yamani
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- Today’s satellite winners!
