Official Seating & Chip Counts for Day 3

Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante

The Fallsview Casino has released the official seating and chip counts for Day 3 of the WPT North American Poker Championship. For a recap of today's action, scroll down past the seating assignments. Update: A fresh batch of photos from Day 2 have been uploaded to the "Tournament Pictures" page. (See the navigation bar on the top left of this page.) Day 3 begins tomorrow (Tuesday) at 12:00 noon ET. Return to WorldPokerTour.com for complete live coverage, including chip counts, photos, and video interviews with Amanda Leatherman. 82 minutes left in Level 11 Blinds at 1,500-3,000 (400 ante) Average stack: 137,500 TABLE 1 Seat 1 - Manny Carpignano - 39,000 Seat 2 - Dominic Staniscia - 164,600 Seat 3 - Greg Hartwick - 63,200 Seat 4 - Robert Richardson - 124,900 Seat 5 - Yuksel Karayigit - 54,100 Seat 6 - Kathy Liebert - 298,300 Seat 7 - Robert Kucharski - 94,600 Seat 8 - Robert Cheung - 316,100 Seat 9 - Daniel Smith - 60,100 TABLE 2 Seat 1 - Matvey Tevlin - 102,400 Seat 2 - Darus Suharto - 44,000 Seat 3 - Mark Zajdner - 312,400 Seat 4 - Daniel Karwowski - 45,900 Seat 5 - Derek Verrian - 252,000 Seat 6 - Miami John Cernuto - 210,200 Seat 7 - Steve Sung - 129,000 Seat 8 - Jeffrey Lewis - 18,200 Seat 9 - Jeffrey Kostyniuk - 59,800 TABLE 3 Seat 1 - Sebastien Roy - 66,500 Seat 2 - Vincenzo Sessa - 49,100 Seat 3 - Wayne Sokal - 151,800 Seat 4 - Sebastian Ruthenberg - 257,600 Seat 5 - Greg Ostrander - 46,800 Seat 6 - Christian Harder - 64,900 Seat 7 - Ardavan Yazdi - 62,900 Seat 8 - Matt Matros - 383,800 Seat 9 - Mike "Timex" McDonald - 67,700 TABLE 4 Seat 1 - Mark Radoja - 48,100 Seat 2 - Sam Parker - 69,800 Seat 3 - Shayne Matyjas - 29,400 Seat 4 - Carmen Menechella - 73,700 Seat 5 - Michel Halioua - 175,300 Seat 6 - Mark Guthridge - 102,800 Seat 7 - Vineet Pahuja - 112,500 Seat 8 - Maxwell Greenwood - 60,200 Seat 9 - Jason Potter - 192,800 TABLE 5 Seat 1 - Andy Huynh - 212,800 Seat 2 - Troy Hamilton - 28,100 Seat 3 - John Corsi - 134,900 Seat 4 - Michael Watson - 40,300 Seat 5 - Jason Gray - 21,100 Seat 6 - Adam Posch - 81,100 Seat 7 - Richard Fortin - 231,300 Seat 8 - Martin Raus - 216,300 Seat 9 - James Trenholm - 157,300 TABLE 6 Seat 1 - Patrick Pezzin - 125,500 Seat 2 - Sorel Mizzi - 209,200 Seat 3 - Glen Witmer - 84,400 Seat 4 - Gavin Smith - 405,900 Seat 5 - Donald Carlton - 122,700 Seat 6 - Pedro Fernandez - 136,800 Seat 7 - Robert Colao - 68,200 Seat 8 - Todd Sisley - 181,700 Seat 9 - Gordon Mullens - 215,100 TABLE 7 Seat 1 - Erik Seidel - 116,800 Seat 2 - Anthony Moran - 121,600 Seat 3 - Jeremy Joseph - 292,000 Seat 4 - Steven Van Zadelhoff - 69,600 Seat 5 - Vivek "Flog" Rajkumar - 342,100 Seat 6 - Steve Paul-Ambrose - 68,000 Seat 7 - Tomislav Dobrilovic - 93,600 Seat 8 - Arno Vonhacht - 187,700 Seat 9 - Dae Sun Moon - 32,100 TABLE 8 Seat 1 - Michael Jacks - 91,100 Seat 2 - Scott Wilson - 305,100 Seat 3 - Ryan Fisler - 327,500 Seat 4 - Barry Greenstein - 64,500 Seat 5 - Nick Alafogiannis - 228,200 Seat 6 - Will "The Thrill" Failla - 40,600 Seat 7 - Stephen Chidwick - 89,300 Seat 8 - Matt Stout - 80,800 Seat 9 - Robert Robbins - 104,700 TABLE 9 Seat 1 - Dashmir Zyli - 124,400 Seat 2 - Claude Gaudet - 50,200 Seat 3 - Hugo Dumoulin - 88,300 Seat 4 - Jon Hoellein - 95,100 Seat 5 - Avni Cermjani - 234,900 Seat 6 - Philip Collins - 99,900 Seat 7 - Adam Dwek - 171,300 Seat 8 - Marc Karam - 206,400 Seat 9 - Cory Bath - 100,900 TABLE 10 Seat 1 - Xuan-Tien Nguyen - 277,600 Seat 2 - Shawn Buchanan - 67,900 Seat 3 - Spiro Mikrogianakis - 170,800 Seat 4 - Khaled Aljoma - 180,200 Seat 5 - K.C. Yuen - 243,200 Seat 6 - J.C. Tran - 165,200 Seat 7 - Michael Noor - 86,800 Seat 8 - Joe Sebok - 111,500 Seat 9 - Giuseppe Zappia - 75,800 TABLE 11 Seat 1 - Stephen Morvay - 213,900 Seat 2 - Jeffrey Schnettler - 184,000 Seat 3 - Eric Tapager - 100,300 Seat 4 - Samuel Greenwood - 95,000 Seat 5 - Lee Markholt - 84,100 Seat 6 - Brian Hawkins - 287,300 Seat 7 - Dario D'Agostino - 159,900 Seat 8 - Bosko Basaric - 165,100 Seat 9 - Rajiv Khanna - 108,300

Gavin Smith Leads the Field After Day 2

Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante

WPT North American Poker Championship, Day 2 Recap By Tom Bostic After three start days, The North American Poker Challenge finally put all players in contention for the World Poker Tour Title in the same room. 275 players stated the day at noon, occupying every table in the tournament area. Many short stacked players were eliminated early in the day, including Mark Seif, John “The Razor” Phan, and much to the dismay of Canadian poker fans everywhere, Daniel Negreanu. Negreanu never seemed to be able to get much going and was eliminated when he ran his Ace-Queen into the pocket aces of his opponent. |:img:6170,R:|Softening the blow of Daniels exit is the resurgence of fellow Canadian, Gavin smith. Smith is originally from Guelph, Ontario which is less than 80 miles away from Fallsview Casino. Gavin not only has a World Poker Tour Championship under his belt, but in Season Four earned the title of WPT Player of the year. His cashes in major tournaments over the past year have been few and far between, however, with the chip lead at 405,900 Smith has set himself up for a deep run. The chips did not come easy though, as he sat at easily the toughest table of the tournament so far. He was joined by three other WPT Champions in Mike “Sirwatts” Watson, J.C. Tran and Barry Greenstein. Smith seemed to thrive in the tough competition as he built the majority of his stack while seated at the table. In fact, while Smith was on the uptick at the table, the three other players all saw their stacks diminish. Play ended after five levels and additional ten minutes when we hit the magic number of 99 players. Some notable players that will return tomorrow to join Gavin Smith will be Kathy Liebert, “Miami” John Cernuto, Joe Sebok, Lee Markholt, J.C. Tran, Barry Greenstein and the latest WPT poker made millionaire, Vivek Rajkumar. Here’s a look at our leader board going into tomorrow: 1. Gavin Smith - 405,900 2. Matt Matros - 383,800 3. Vivek "Flog" Rajkumar - 342,100 4. Ryan Fisler - 327,500 5. Robert Cheung - 316,100 6. Mark "ScrubbyZ" Zajdner - 312,600 7. Scott Wilson - 305,100 8. Kathy Liebert - 298,300 These players and others will be vying for a $4.37 million dollar prize pool that was announced early in the day. The payouts will start at 45th place at $ 17,498 CAD, just under twice the buy-in. As for the biggest paydays of them all, here are the payouts for the final six that make the televised final table: 1st: $1,250,352 CAD 2nd: $612,427 CAD 3rd: $319,337 CAD 4th: $262,469 CAD 5th: $196,851 CAD 6th: $153,107 CAD Join us tomorrow at 12pm ET when we return for more action at the North American Poker Championship where you can find up to the minute chip counts, live updates and video interviews by Amanda Leatherman.

Gavin Smith Tops the Unofficial Leaderboard

Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante

Here is the top of the leaderboard from the end of Day 2. These numbers are unofficial until the results are released from the casino later tonight: 1. Gavin Smith - 405,900 2. Matt Matros - 383,800 3. Vivek "Flog" Rajkumar - 342,100 4. Ryan Fisler - 327,500 5. Robert Cheung - 316,100 6. Mark "ScrubbyZ" Zajdner - 312,600 7. Scott Wilson - 305,100 8. Kathy Liebert - 298,300 Day 3 begins tomorrow (Tuesday) at 12:00 noon ET, when they will play down to the final 27. Stay tuned to WorldPokerTour.com for a recap of today's action which will be posted soon.

Day 2 Comes to an End

Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante

Eight minutes and six seconds into Level 11, the field reaches 99 players, so play comes to a stop. The players will count and verify their chips before bagging them up for the day. We'll try to get an early look at the chipleaders, since the official counts likely won't be released for a few hours.

Matt Matros Doubles Up With Quad Sevens

Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante

This hand happened late in the last level. With the board showing A736 on the turn, Matt Matros bets 45,000 from the small blind, and his opponent calls from the cutoff. The river card pairs the board with the 7, Matros bets 75,000, and his opponent calls. Matros shows 77 for quad sevens, and his opponent mucks. Matt Matros wins a huge pot, and he now has about 380,000 in chips.

Level 11 Begins

Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante

The players return from break to begin Level 11, with increased blinds of 1,500-3,000 with a 400 ante. There are 103 players remaining, with an average count around 132,000. Play will continue until four more players are eliminated.

Kathy Liebert Wins a Huge Three-Way Pot

Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante

A short-stacked player moves all in under the gun for 22,700, a middle-position player calls, and Kathy Liebert reraises over the top another 50,000. The middle-position player moves all in, and Liebert calls all in for a grand total of 142,500 with KK. The middle-position player shows QQ, and the short-stacked player shows AJ. The board comes 7735J, and Liebert lets out an audible "Phew" as her pocket kings hold up to win the pot. The short-stacked player is eliminated, while the middle-position player takes a big hit. Kathy Liebert catapults up the leaderboard with about 310,000 in chips.

15-Minute Break

Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante

Level 10 comes to an end, and the players take a 15-minute break.

Darus Suharto Drops Way Down

Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante

Darus Suharto of the November Nine has been over 200,000 for most of the day, but has now dipped to 45,000.

Vivek Rajkumar Still Running Hot

Level 40: 2,000,000-4,000,000, 300,000 ante