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Time for a leaderboard

Level: 5

Small Blind: 150

Big Blind: 300

Ante: 50

Chip Average: 34.1K

Remaining: 66

Entries: 75

2016/04/29 - 15:48 by

Tony Dunst

The players in Day 1a are just returning from the second break of the day. We took the opportunity to find out who has taken an early lead in today’s starting flight after 4 levels of play. We found 4 players in and around the 75K mark.

Roland Ishraelashvili – 78,600 chips
Matthew Wilkins – 75,200 chips
Sylvain Siebert – 74,600 chips
Kunru Ma – 74,100 chips

During the last level a few new players of note joined in today’s flight, including Players Club members Antonio Esfandiari and Jeff Gross, plus former WPT Canadian Spring Champion Amir Babakhani.

Additional photos from level 4

: Seth Davies

: Yann Dion

: Kevin O’Donnell

: Tony Dunst

: Kevin MacDonald

Photos of the early Day 1 action

Level: 3

Small Blind: 75

Big Blind: 150

Ante: 25

Chip Average: 31.8K

Remaining: 65

Entries: 69

2016/04/29 - 14:12 by

Pascal Lefrançois

Players continue to join Day 1a as registration is up to 69 players with over 3.5 hours left to join. We know of quite a few high-profile players who have yet to join the action, so slowly but surely Day 1a will take its final shape!

Two recent players to have joined us are Tony Dunst and Kevin MacDonald.

Here are some photos taken during level 3

: Jean-Philippe Piquette

: Josue Sauvageau

: Jean-Manuel Estrala

: Kent Mosur

: Pascal Lefrançois

: Francois Billard

: Jeff Madsen

: Timothy Reilly

: Erik Lemarquand

: Scott Shevlock

: Serge Pouliot

: Dean Murphy

: Sylvain Siebert

: Darryll Fish

Level 3 begins

Level: 3

Small Blind: 75

Big Blind: 150

Ante: 25

Chip Average: 30.5K

Remaining: 58

Entries: 59

2016/04/29 - 13:27 by

The players here to start the event have just taken their first break of the day and are now back at the tables to begin level 3. There are a few new players of note who have joined the field: Brian Altman (final table 2015 WPT Montreal), Pascal Lefrancois (runner-up 2013 WPT Montreal & 2014 $10K), and Jeff Madsen (4-time WSOP bracelet winner).

Some recent arrivals

Level: 2

Small Blind: 75

Big Blind: 150

Ante: 0

Chip Average: 30.5K

Remaining: 57

Entries: 58

2016/04/29 - 12:35 by

As players continue to join Day 1a, we’ll try and make note of some of the recognizable or well-known players as they arrive. Some of the recent arrivals:

Players Club member Jean-Philippe Piquette
2015 WPT Montreal runner-up Darryll Fish
Playground Legend Sylvain Siebert

Table to watch (early Day 1a edition)

Level: 1

Small Blind: 50

Big Blind: 100

Ante: 0

Chip Average: 30.7K

Remaining: 46

Entries: 47

2016/04/29 - 11:57 by

Players continue to jump in Day 1a but there’s already a table to watch featuring some talented players who will look forward – or not – to spending the day together. Table 68 includes the following:

Yann Dion
Timothy Reilly
Serge “Momess” Pouliot
Dean Murphy

Cards are in the air for Day 1a

Level: 1

Small Blind: 50

Big Blind: 100

Ante: 0

Chip Average: 30K

Remaining: 41

Entries: 41

2016/04/29 - 11:31 by

Mike Sexton has delivered the traditional command to the dealers: “Shuffle Up and Deal!” and with that, cards are in the air for the 2016 WPT Canadian Spring Championship Day 1a. There are 41 players seated at the moment to play the day from the very beginning, but as usual late registrants will fill out the field considerably between now and 5:45pm, when registration closes for today.

: Mike Sexton & Tournament Director Martin Roy

: Mike Sexton & TD Martin Roy

Welcome to the WPT Canadian Spring Championship!

2016/04/29 - 10:51 by

It’s another beautiful spring day in Montreal – everything is perfect for the beginning of the partypoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship! Today is Day 1a – the first of 3 starting days in this year’s World Poker Tour event, and this will be followed by Day 1b on Saturday April 30th and Day 1c on Sunday May 1st.

This is the 4th WPT Canadian Spring Championship, but for the second year in a row, this is also the kickoff event of World Poker Tour Season XV. Season XIV wrapped up over the past two weeks in Florida, and starting today players will begin accumulating points for a new season’s WPT Player of the Year – and accumulating victories to qualify them for the WPT Tournament of Champions!

Play will get underway at 11am for all 3 Day 1s in this event, and play will continue through 10 60-minute levels. There will be 15-minute breaks following every 2nd level, plus a 45-minute long dinner break following level 6. The end of the dinner break is also the end of the late registration period.

Good luck to everyone – action will be underway shortly.

It’s Satellite day!

2016/04/28 - 11:40 by

It has become a tradition at festivals we host at Playground Poker Club to reserve the day before the Main Event for an intensive run of satellite tournaments, back to back to back. Anyone interested in playing in the WPT Canadian Spring Championship who has not yet secured their seat has the ability to play their way in – for as little as $150!

There are three scheduled satellites today:

12:00pm: $135 + $15 NL Hold’em Re-entry with 2 Seats Guaranteed
4:00pm: $135 + $15 NL Hold’em Re-entry Turbo with 2 Seats Guaranteed
7:30pm: $350 + $35 NL Hold’em Re-entry Satellite with 20 Seats Guaranteed

Good luck to all!

Event 8 final results

2016/04/28 - 10:52 by Playground Poker

Event 8 in the Playground Poker Spring Classic presented by partypoker.net was a Survivor tournament which awards the top 10% of finishers an equivalent share of the prize pool. This series, from 136 starting players, there were 13 players who earned a cash prize of $2,910 each. In addition, the 14th place finisher was awarded the surplus of the prize pool, which totalled $1,746.

Rank \| Pos	First Name \| Prénom	Last Name \| Nom	Prize \| Bourse
1	Anastasia	Maxwell	$2,910.00
1	Carmela	De Ciantis	$2,910.00
1	Denis	Ward	$2,910.00
1	Denise	Berkowitz	$2,910.00
1	Derek	Bennett	$2,910.00
1	John	Ward	$2,910.00
1	Maxime	Macdougall	$2,910.00
1	Michele	Black	$2,910.00
1	Rene	Berube	$2,910.00
1	Robert	Aho	$2,910.00
1	Sebastien	Proulx	$2,910.00
1	Shawn	Daigle	$2,910.00
1	Vera	Greenstein	$2,910.00
14	Jin Sheng	Deng	$1,746.00

Event 9 Champion Ambrose Ng

2016/04/28 - 4:19 by Playground Poker

Tonight’s tournament lineup in the Playground Poker Spring Classic presented by partypoker.net included Event 9, a $500 + $50 PL Omaha Single Rebuy event. There were a total of 61 players in the tournament and at the end of the battle, Ambrose Ng emerged as the victor! Hadi Bechara finished in 2nd place and along the way did most of the heavy lifting by eliminating most of the others on the final table.

The final table began with negotiations about a possible deal, but at least to start with all agreements were refused – but these refusals softened after a few orbits with little progress. Various agreements were discussed, but eventually they decided on a modified chip chop with some additional prize money allocated to first and second place.

Play continued but at a very fast pace until the tournament was heads up – which was also over quickly as Ambrose Ng found himself with almost all of the chips when the following hand occurred.

Ambrose: