Playground

38 Players Advance in Main Event Day 1D

Photo: Guillaume Charbonneau

The last starting flight of the MSPT Canadian Poker Championship Main Event was the biggest of the four, drawing 345 entries. After nearly 18 levels of play, 38 players managed to put chips in a bag. They will be joining 53 survivors from the first three starting flights when the fields combine for Day 2 tomorrow at 11:00 a.m.

Gregoire Pascal finished with the biggest stack of the night after bagging 1,183,000. Pascal is one of two players to bag seven-figure stacks in addition to Guillaume Charbonneau, who bagged 1,172,000.

Stay tuned to MSPTpoker.com tomorrow to see who will be the next MSPT Main Event Champion.

End of Night Chip Counts

Player Name	Chip Count	Previous	Progress
Pascal Gregoire	1,183,000	121,000
Guillaume Charbonneau	1,172,000	715,000
Omri Cohen	702,000	40,000
Alec Brandstatter	700,000	345,000
Yanis Philippe Mouddakir	596,000	596,000
Griffin Benger	578,000	530,000
Anas Slaoui	507,000	507,000
Phillippe Bouchard	493,000	493,000
Rodney Ramalho	480,000	535,000
Kieu Lam	448,000	448,000
Torben Leddin	412,000	430,000
Frederick Bradbury	390,000	335,000
Peter Balais	383,000	383,000
Rong Xu	374,000	374,000
Jose Rodrigo Moreno	362,000	640,000
Michael Cohen	359,000	565,000
Xuan Dang	352,000	352,000
Senthuran Vijayaratnam	327,000	358,000
Vasilios Gerontakos	321,999	118,000
Paul Nakhle	317,000	61,000
Ian Descoteaux	315,000	315,000
David Sorgente	312,000	312,000
David St-Arneault	303,000	461,000
Yaniv Soussan	271,000	271,000
Wei Han Zhang	235,000	235,000
Dejan Kovinic	234,000	234,000
Paul Dalrymple	218,000	495,000
Francois Blouin	185,000	0
Ilan Goldman	176,000	0
Duane Fernandez	174,000	174,000
Frederic Moss	124,000	124,000
Dominique Prefontaine	105,000	105,000
Michael Tessier-Strasbourg	92,000	92,000
Jean-Philippe Pepin	51,000	51,000
Johan Levyssohn	42,000	40,000
Cedric Brossard	34,000	34,000
Peter Raimondi	9,000	205,000

Benger Puts a Bad Beat on Smith to Bring Day 1D into the Money

Photo: Griffin Benger

Stephen Smith shoved from the small blind for around 50,000, and Griffin Benger called from the big blind with a covering stack.

Stephen Smith:
Griffin Benger:

Smith had Benger’s queen dominated, but the runout gave Benger two pair, jacks and sevens to eliminate Smith on the stone bubble.

Griffin Benger - 690,000
Stephen Smith - eliminated

Bubble Time

With 39 players remaining and 38 advancing to Day 2, the MSPT Canadian Poker Championship Main Event is now hand-for-hand!

Dalrymple Gets Vijayaratnam to Fold

Photo: Paul Dalrymple

Senthuran Vijayaratnam opened to 16,000 from early position, Paul Dalrymple three-bet to 42,000 from the hijack, and Vijayaratnam called.

The flop came . Vijayaratnam check-called a 20,000 bet from Dalrymple.

Vijayaratnam check-called a second barrel for 75,000 from Dalrymple on the turn. On the river Vijayaratnam checked, Dalrymple shoved for a little over 200,000, and Vijayaratnam quickly mucked.

Paul Dalrymple - 495,000
Senthuran Vijayaratnam - 310,000

Assorted Chip Updates Approaching the Bubble

Player Name	Chip Count	Previous	Progress
Guillaume Charbonneau	715,000	190,000
Jose Rodrigo Moreno	640,000	312,000
Michael Cohen	565,000	565,000
Rodney Ramalho	535,000	330,000
Griffin Benger	530,000	370,000
David St-Arneault	461,000	430,000
Torben Leddin	430,000	430,000
Philippe Boucher	400,000	400,000
Shane Mackinnon	375,000	375,000
Senthuran Vijayaratnam	358,000	355,000

Break

Players are on another 15-minute break.

Ozturk Leaves Malhotra With Crumbs

Charanjeev Malhotra opened to 12,000 from early position, a player in the cutoff called, and Umut Ozturk shoved for 88,000 from the big blind. Malhotra re-shoved, slightly covering Ozturk, and the player in the cutoff folded.

Umut Ozturk:
Charanjeev Malhotra:

Ozturk’s ace was dominated, and he found no help on the flop. He hit one of his three outs on the turn and stayed ahead on the river to double up. Malhotra was left with around 30,000 and eliminated soon after.

Umut Ozturk - 190,000
Charanjeev Malhotra - eliminated

Huge Flip for St-Arneault

A player in early position was all-in preflop for a bit under 200,000, facing David St.Arneault, who covered him from under the gun.

Opponent:
David St-Arneault:

The runout gave St-Arneault tens full of jacks to eliminate his opponent and take down the massive pot.

David St-Arneault - 430,000

Mouddakir Finds the Right Call Against Vijayaratnam

With two players seeing a board of , Senthuran Vijayaratnam checked out of position, and Yanis Philippe Mouddakir bet 15,000. Vijayaratnam check-raised to 65,000, and Mouddakir called.

Vijayaratnam showed . Mouddakir tabled for aces up to win the hand.

Philippe Mouddakir - 255,000
Senthuran Vijayaratnam - 290,000