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.
Seth Davies
