Play has now wrapped up in Day 2 of the Grand Prix Canada, at the end of the day there are just 39 players left in contention for the huge payouts coming in Day 3.

The chip leader to begin Day 3 will be Samuel Barre, who managed to build a stack including 22,775,000 chips. Below, find a table including a full seating redraw for Day 3 along with chip counts for everyone still in the event. Play will resume at 7:00pm tomorrow, Monday January 28.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège	Stack | Tapis
Jordan	Lopez	Table 19 - Seat 1	11,175,000
Jason	Guiley	Table 19 - Seat 2	2,800,000
Nancy	Query	Table 19 - Seat 3	2,885,000
Breyer	Calvert	Table 19 - Seat 4	6,025,000
David	Quang	Table 19 - Seat 5	2,525,000
Sean	Grover	Table 19 - Seat 6	8,575,000
Antoine	Sankari	Table 19 - Seat 7	4,600,000
Jean-Guillaume	Duguay	Table 19 - Seat 8	9,725,000
Tedde	Ballanger	Table 20 - Seat 1	5,500,000
Benjamin	Mathieu-Comtois	Table 20 - Seat 2	6,350,000
Robert	Smith	Table 20 - Seat 3	9,350,000
Fabio	Luongo	Table 20 - Seat 5	18,825,000
Hrair	Yapoudjian	Table 20 - Seat 6	21,675,000
Griffin	Mason	Table 20 - Seat 7	10,875,000
Martin	Boies	Table 20 - Seat 8	5,500,000
Iuliia	Losenkova	Table 24 - Seat 1	17,625,000
Sylvain	Cote	Table 24 - Seat 2	8,450,000
Michael	Pinoudis	Table 24 - Seat 3	21,675,000
William	Molson	Table 24 - Seat 4	4,200,000
Carl	Diveglia	Table 24 - Seat 5	4,525,000
Louis	Trudel	Table 24 - Seat 6	4,150,000
Aaron Emery Phil	Marchand	Table 24 - Seat 7	14,200,000
Marvin	Yousif	Table 24 - Seat 8	5,475,000
Dale	Guenette	Table 28 - Seat 1	3,350,000
Fadi	Haddad	Table 28 - Seat 2	4,250,000
Louis	Tsui-Cardinal	Table 28 - Seat 3	1,875,000
Samuel	Miranda	Table 28 - Seat 4	7,700,000
Yaseen	Siddiqui	Table 28 - Seat 5	14,100,000
Jonathan	Marrie	Table 28 - Seat 6	12,750,000
Karl	Gingras	Table 28 - Seat 7	4,800,000
James	Rubin	Table 28 - Seat 8	16,500,000
Samuel	Barre	Table 32 - Seat 1	22,775,000
Matthew	Wilkins	Table 32 - Seat 2	9,450,000
Mark	Leslie	Table 32 - Seat 3	4,900,000
Dimitri	Morcos	Table 32 - Seat 4	5,500,000
Christopher	Turnbull	Table 32 - Seat 5	9,575,000
Vasilios	Gerontakos	Table 32 - Seat 6	6,025,000
Hagay	Brener	Table 32 - Seat 7	3,675,000
Christian	Rho	Table 32 - Seat 8	8,425,000

Griffin Mason has been comfortably seated on table 26 for most of the day, a table that has been insanely over-chipped in the latter half of the evening, with two of the top three players seated there. He was holding his own all day, taking pots and keeping his stack hovering around the average – but in two back to back hands at the end of the night, both against Senthuran Vijayaratnam, he found his coveted double-up-plus.

Senthuran had been on a downturn for a couple of levels after losing what has to be termed a cooler when his middle Ace was out-kicked by an opponent’s higher kicker. And with the final few hands imminent, and action folded to him in the small blind, he chose to shove. Griffin was covered, but only just, and took a while to work out his choice… and finally called.

Senthuran:
Griffin:

The board cards by the end of the hand brought no joy for Senthuran: . Neither player connected, so Griffin’s King-high was good – he then counted out his 4.480M to be matched by his neighbour.

Just one hand later, Senthuran was all in from the button, and it took no time at all for Griffin to call this time.

Senthuran:
Griffin:

The flop alone almost sealed the deal: and the turn and river locked it in tight: . Senthuran hit the rail while Griffin is certain, now, to make it Day 3 action.

Play has just begun in the final level to be played today. The remaining 44 players are spread around 6 tables of 8 players each at the moment, and with quite a few short stacks left in action, we expect several more eliminations before the qualifiers are able to bag up their chips to return on Day 3.

Fabio Luongo is often seen during big events here at Playground and recently seems to have bumped his game up a notch or two, appearing more often on leaderboards and final payout tables. He was among the leaders earlier today, and in the past level or so has accumulated enough chips to rejoin the leaderboard.

Just now he busted his neighbour to the right, Allan Yergeau. Allan opened the action with an open shove from utg+1 for just under 3.5M in chips, and Fabio made the call. There were some tough decisions for a couple of the other players yet to act – but in the end, everyone folded and the two players revealed their hands.

Allan:
Fabio:

Fabio was in great shape but the flop brought a few new possibilities for Allan: . The turn came and neither was the river the diamond Allan needed to make his flush, and Fabio’s Kings held. He’s now up to 14.6M in chips.

Samuel Barre has been among the chip leaders throughout the day, but going into the final 4 levels of play on Day 2, he has taken a big lead on the field, now playing over 16M in chips. Senthuran Vijayaratnam is keeping it close, weighing in at over 13M, while Sen’s table-mate Hrair Yapoudjian is the third player in the field with over 10M.

First Name | Prénom	Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Samuel	Barre	16,190,000
Senthuran	Vijayaratnam	13,380,000
Hrair	Yapoudjian	11,360,000
Breyer	Calvert	8,880,000
Jordan	Lopez	8,500,000
Fadi	Haddad	8,460,000
William	Molson	8,090,000

Hrair Yapoudjian has eliminated Rodney Ramalho to and in the process given himself a useful jolt of life to what had been an average stack. Senthuran Vijayaratnam opened the action from utg with a standard-ish raise, and Rodney followed up with a shove for his final 2M+ or so. Action folded to Hrair, who went all in over the top, and the blinds and Sen got out of the way.

Rodney:
Hrair:

The community cards all fell on the small end of the deck: and Rodney was out.

In just 4 levels of play in the Grand Prix Canada there has been considerable movement on the leaderboard, as many players have dropped off an others have rocketed ahead. Senthuran Vijayaratnam continues to have the chip lead he accumulated during the last stint in play, and now Fabio Luongo (in the photo below) has moved up into second place.

The following table includes all of the players with more than 5M in chips to this point – but there are quite a few in the 4M range as well, any of whom could vault up the table at any time. With 8 more levels to play tonight, there will be plenty of opportunity to do so.

First Name | Prénom	Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Senthuran	Vijayaratnam	9,500,000
Fabio	Luongo	6,935,000
Samuel	Barre	5,665,000
Fadi	Haddad	5,600,000
Allan	Yergeau	5,550,000
Dave	Jeanneau-Cyr	5,230,000
Charli	Azoulay	5,230,000

Another player well-known as a very solid chip accumulator has suddenly emerged on the scene – and even after losing over 1M in chips to Alexandre Bergeron-Cyr on his right, he’s still playing a stack of over 9M in chips!

The player is Senthuran Vijayaratnam, and he’s been visiting for major festivals for several years now, and is frequently found near the top of the leaderboard. Even Sen would admit, though, that as quickly as he can accumulate, historically he has been able to distribute just as fast. He seems particularly determined today, however, to not only hold on to his chips but to keep on building that stack.