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The Major Series of Poker: The Tour (MSPT) returned to Playground last weekend for the second-ever MSPT Canadian Poker Championship, a C$1,150 buy-in event that drew 809 entries and built a C$1,000,000 prize pool.
Poker pro Sam Chartier began Day 2 among the shorter stacks in a field of 90 survivors but steadily built momentum throughout the day, eventually reaching the final table with a patient, calculated approach.
With three players left, Chartier seized the chip lead for the first time and quickly capitalized. He flopped top pair against Mohamed Kechiche, who held an open-ended straight draw, and despite Kechiche improving to a bigger pair on the turn, Chartier rivered two pair to eliminate him and enter heads-up play with a commanding stack.
The heads-up battle against Adil Morkos was brief. Morkos moved all in preflop with two black sevens and ran into Chartier’s ace-jack. He survived the flop, but a jack on the turn sealed his fate, leaving Morkos to finish runner-up for C$124,000.
Chartier’s C$175,000 victory pushed his career tournament earnings past $3.5 million, according to The Hendon Mob. The result stands as the fifth-largest score of his career, which began in 2007, and marks his biggest cash in a decade as well as his largest ever in Canada.
Other notable cashes included Griffin Benger (112th, $14,500), Ilan Goldman (12th, $14,500), Eric Callejas (15th, $12,000), Omri Cohen (22nd, $7,000), Xuan Dang (30th, $5,000), Merritt Kuhn (33rd, $5,000), and DJ Buckley (49th, $4,000). MSPT Season 17 continues with stops in South Dakota, Iowa, and Florida through early December.
