Jason Fernandes just won a large pot in a tangle with Daniel Suied. The board read when the dealer laid out the on the river. Jason bet 25,000 in blue chips, then Daniel took a minute or to think about the situation. He shuffled chips, cut and rebuilt his stack of purple T500 chips, reviewed his cards… and then put out a stack of 20 1K chips to make the call. Jason showed first – and he had the goods: for Quad Queens and the pot. Daniel simply mucked his cards.

It was announced in the Tournament Director’s announcements before play began today, but in case anyone missed it, players should be aware of a very small schedule change today. Play was scheduled for 9 full levels, but considering the number of players in the field today relative to the money bubble in the tournament, play will continue until the bubble bursts today and then players will bag up to return for Day 3. In other words – everyone who returns for Day 3 will be in the money!

We say this is a “small” change because it is quite likely that the bubble will be reached some time during level 18 – which will be the 8th level to be played today.

Kunru Ma continues to lead in these early stages of Day 2 in the WPT Canadian Spring Championship, as he hold nearly 150,000 more than second in chips Jason Helder and around 4 times the average stack. Below is a look at the top 10 stacks entering level 13:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Kunru	Ma	394,200
Jason	Helder	268,000
Amir	Babakhani	234,100
David	Quang	225,400
Mathieu	Valade	223,800
Guillaume	Nolet	220,400
Omid	Shahbazian	206,600
Raymond	Latinsky	206,500
Seth David	Davies	202,500
Ivan	Fazal Karim	202,000

As tables break and balance there is always potential for a particularly interesting, strong, or otherwise notable table to be put together. Table 55 is just such a table, as it currently features Guillaume Nolet, Darryll Fish, and Brian Altman – all of whom have made WPT final tables in the past here at Playground Poker Club. Guillaume was on the final table of the WPT Montreal in 2014, exiting in 6th place, while Brian Altman finished 4th in the 2015 edition of the WPT Montreal and Darryll Fish finished 2nd in the same tournament.

Local player Chris Arvanitis is also at the table, and also made a deep run in the 2015 WPT Montreal, finishing just before the televised final table in 7th place.

In addition to these 4 are some other very talented players. Ami Alibay, for instance, was 2nd in a High Roller tournament here at Playground a couple of years ago, while Scott Shelvock and Nick Nickoletopoulos have both gone deep in multiple events here.

Every poker room has its local legends, and one of the biggest at Playground Poker Club is Sylvain Siebert – who, unfortunately for him, will not be adding to his legend today. Sylvain has just been eliminated.

We arrived at the table with all of the community cards already dealt and Sylvain, who had started the day with 127,100 in chips, was all-in from early position for just 39,800. The board read and Joshua Frederick, sitting in seat 2, was in the tank.

Sylvain’s chips were cut out neatly before him (Joshua had asked for the count) and his face was cupped in his hands on the table in front of him…

Finally Joshua made the call… and Sylvain immediately responded, “you’re good.” Both players had to table their hands on the all-in – Sylvain had bluffed the river with and Joshua made his hero call with his Ace kicker – he was playing .

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