Just a few days removed from Asher Conniff's win in the the World Poker Tour's Season XIII Championship, the tour has landed in Montreal, Quebec, Canada for the first stop of Season XIV.
Day 1a of the partypoker.net WPT Canadian Spring Championship will begin at the Playground Poker Club just after 11 a.m. local time today.
In 2014, this tournament was a WPT National event that drew 1,079 entries with Jason Comtois winning it all.
With the proceeding Playground Poker Spring Classic taking place here and a bevvy of partypoker online qualifiers and Playground satellites, a rather large field is expected.
It is a five-day tournament with two Day 1s with a next-day reentry format, allowing players to fire two bullets and take their largest stack to Day 2.
Players will start with 30,000-chip stacks and plans to play 10 one-hour levels today.
Stay tuned right here as the PokerNews Live Reporting Team will be on hand for it all with live updates and videos throughout.
Yet another Torontonian is making noise here in Montreal.
This time it was John Krpan who managed to bust two relatively short stacks in one hand, holding with pocket aces when one opponent flopped two pair and the other a flush draw.
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Thornhill, Ontario's Geoff McNeely made 98th in the $1,000 + $100 WPT Canadian Spring Championship held here last Spring.
Today he's off to a good start in bettering that finish.
In fact, after picking up a number of early pots, including one where he got full value out of by making top pair and getting paid off, McNeely is at the top of the chip counts.
Level 3 is about to come to a close and no one in the room has a bigger stack.
2013 World Series of Poker Main Event sixth-place finisher Marc-Etienne McLaughlin has emerged as the first player past the 100,000-chip mark here in his hometown.
McLaughlin found himself in a raising war with a lone opponent on an flop that saw them put in about five bets.
When the turn was eventually revealed they got it all in with McLaughlin holding for the top end of a turned straight and his opponent on for the bottom.
The 110,000-chip pot has vaulted McLaughlin into the lead.
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada's Sheraz Nasir finished 10th at the partypoker.net WPT Montreal main event the last time the WPT was here at Playground this past November.
Today he's back at it again and building a contending stack. Nasir picked up an early pot with aces, then stacked one opponent who shoved aces of his own into his flopped set of sixes.
As a result, Nasir now trails only chipleader Marc-Etienne McLaughlin at the top of the counts.
Canadian Pro Mike Leah has been killing it over the past two years, with second place finishes in the 2015 WPT L.A Poker Classic and Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Main Event and a win in the World Series of Poker APAC $25,000 High Roller adding up to more than $2 million in live tournament earnings.
Now he's enjoying a little of the local hospitality in Quebec, one province over from his Ontario home.
Especially the part where one local paid him off with a set, failed to push him off top-pair top-kicker and eventually shipped it into his tens with a weak ace that failed to improve.
As a result, Leah finds himself among the leaders.
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by making top pair and getting paid off, McNeely is at the top of the chip counts.
flop that saw them put in about five bets.
turn was eventually revealed they got it all in with McLaughlin holding 
for the top end of a turned straight and his opponent on 
for the bottom.
