Main Event
Day 1a Started
2015 partypoker WPT Canadian Spring Championship
Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2015 partypoker WPT Canadian Spring Championship
Buy-in
3,200 CAD
Prize Pool
1,148,480 CAD
Entries
370
Level
33
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
25,000
The 2015 partypoker WPT Canadian Spring Championship Starts Now!
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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.
Level: 1
Blinds: 50/100
Ante: 0
Starting Slow
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
Play begins in the rather cavernous Playground Poker Club with just 68 entries on the board.
They are playing on a few tables in the front part of the room and with late registration available for the first six levels it is expected to fill up as the day rolls on.
The Champ Defends
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
2010 World Series of Poker Main Event champ Jonathan Duhamel is from nearby Boucherville, Quebec and showed up bright and early to get in on the action at Playground today.
Moments ago, he defended his big blind against one aggressor's 350-chip open. The flop came 
and after Duhamel checked, his opponent bet 300.
Duhamel called again and the turn brought the 
. Duhamel checked, but when his opponent bet 700, he tossed his hand in the muck.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
29,000 |
The Favorite
Level 1
: 50/100, 0 ante
Ari Engel's looking like an early favorite to add to his $2,031,122 career tournament earnings with a deep run here in Montreal.
He's already found a way to double his starting stack in the first level. And strangely enough, Engel has done it without any big showdowns.
"I've been getting the nuts a lot," he told PokerNews with a smile.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
60,000 | 60,000 |
Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0
Everybody Wang Chung Tonight
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
Toronto's Brian Wang has catapulted to a spot among the early leaders
After a raise a and two calls in front of him, one player three bet to 2,000. Sitting on 
, Wang was the only caller.
The flop fell 
and Wang check-called a 7,000 bet with bottom two. Then, when his opponent shipped it in on the 
turn, Wang snapped him off. His opponent could only show 
and was the first player to hit the rail as Wang moved up among the leaders.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
55,000 |
Up The 401
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
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.
Krpan now finds himself among the early leaders.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
53,000 |
Quadzilla!
Level 2
: 75/150, 0 ante
Sudbury, Ontario's Angelo Cusinato is off to an unbelievable start here in Montreal.
He's managed to make quads not once, but twice and is now among the early leaders.
The first time it was quad threes on an 
flop against an unlucky foe holding pocket aces where they got it in. The second was a little less exciting as he dragged a 5,000 pot with a 5,000 river bet and showed quad dueces anyway.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
59,000 | 59,000 |