Cash machine Darryll Fish, who binked a WSOP circuit ring at West Palm Beach earlier this year, was in the right place at the right time here at Playground just moments ago.
He managed to find pocket aces and a player holding big slick and willingness to get it in on a king high flop against him. Fish made trips on the turn for good measure and doubled up to 45,000, making up for what was otherwise a slow start.
Edmonton, Alberta's Valerie Ross fired 2,000 heads-up into a flop and her opponent called.
He called again when she bet 2,500 on the turn and couldn't help himself when she threw another 2,000 at the river. Ross turned over and it was good.
The incredibly busy sounding medical device sales manager, part-time MBA student, poker columnist, and fitness industry model and competitor is now off and running here in Montreal.
Thanks to partypoker, Belgium's Swennen Maxime is living the WPT dream here in Montreal.
He turned $5 into a $100 satellite seat; $100 into a $500 satellite seat; and that $500 into a package that covers travel, expenses and his seat here in the 2015 WPT Canadian Spring Championship.
While Maxime told PokerNews he's just happy to be here and experience all that Montreal, The WPT and the Playground Poker Club has to offer, he's also primed for a deep run.
Things are off to the right kind of start for Maxime as well after he picked up aces in the early levels to drag a decent pot.
After busting out in a flush over flush debacle on Day 1a, Montreal local and 2014 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Showdown champ Eric Afriat left the Playground feeling a little sour.
Well, he's all smiles today, having dragged two sizable pots by making flushes against overpairs and chipping up to around three times the starting stack with his second bullet.
Just halfway through the day's second level, Afriat is pushing the 100,000-chip mark and leads the field.
After building a big enough stack to take the chip lead into the dinner break on Day 1a, Toronto's Brian Wang wilted in the later levels, dumping most of his chips to local WSOP bracelet winner Pascal LeFrancois on the way out the door.
Unfazed, Wang came out and fired a second bullet today, but after getting short early he got involved in a blind on blind raising war where he eventually called all in with . Unfortunately for Wang, the big blind held .
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flop and her opponent called. 
turn and couldn't help himself when she threw another 2,000 at the 
river. Ross turned over 
and it was good.
into a flush and is off and running.
. Unfortunately for Wang, the big blind held 
run out was the end for Wang.
and got all his chips in the middle once his heads-up opponent turned the nut straight.