The players are on a short break in Event 10, and these are the current chip counts:

Final Table

1. Radu Pop Mircea – 82K
2. Louis Boutin – 321K
3. Alexander Livingston – 491K
4. Jordan Westmorland – 8th place: $4,700
5. Daniel Watton – 1.215M
6. Carlo Nini – 478K
7. Nicolas Aubin – 274K
8. Salomon Ponte – 10th place: $2,700
9. Alek Stasiak – 867K
10. Bill Kontaratos – 9th place: $3,500

All the players have agreed to forego Day 3, and decided to play it out until there is a winner tonight. Coverage will be over for tonight, but the results will be posted when the tournament is over.

We’ve just lost Jordan Westmorland on this final table of Event 10.

8th place: Jordan Westmorland, $4,700

With the elimination of Antonio Esfandiari, the PokerStars Canada Cup Main Event has wrapped up for the day and the remaining 9 players will return tomorrow at 11am for Day 5.

Tomorrow’s action will be presented online via cards-up live stream on an hour-long delay, so tune in at noon tomorrow for the live stream and follow the action all the way through the final table.

There was a seating draw at 10 players remaining, and because this is now the official final table there will NOT be an additional redraw, so players will return in the same positions on the table they have occupied for the past couple of levels.

Antonio was cruising for most of the day, always among the chip leaders and seemingly having little trouble navigating a tough field. When the 10 players came together on the unofficial final table, however, he went through a run that saw him move from among the leaders to a relatively short stack.

Just before the most recent break it looked like Antonio had found the solution – François Goulet was all-in with a short stack and James Armstrong had simply flat-called to Antonio’s right. Antonio then raised to isolate, James folded and the players turned over their cards.

François:
Antonio:

The flop: – so far, perfect for Antonio. The turn was a (relatively) safe but the river brought the . François more than doubled up and Antonio went down to about 14 BB.

On the first hand back from the break, Antonio got it in and it looked like he was going to get folds all around… but Robert Notkin called.

Antonio:
Robert:

The flop spelled disaster for Antonio: , and then the turn and river brought no help and Antonio was out of the Main Event.

10th place: Antonio Esfandiari, $26,960.00

We are still 10-handed here at the Main Event of the PokerStars Canada Cup, and here is an update on the chip counts:

Final Table

1. Thiago Nishijima – 2.680M
2. James Armstrong – 1.060M
3. Antonio Esfandiari – 575K
4. Francois Goulet – 1.070M
5. Ankush Mandavia – 1.415M
6. Rayan Chamas – 2.265M
7. Robert Notkin – 1.310M
8. Justin Miller – 2.680M
9. Vincent Jacques – 2.555M
10. Ryan Rivers – 1.735M

With one elimination to go before the end of Day 4, here is how the chips are currently spread out on this final table:

Final Table

1. Thiago Nishijima – 2.10M
2. James Armstrong – 1.62M
3. Antonio Esfandiari – 1.87M
4. Francois Goulet – 750K
5. Ankush Mandavia – 1.24M
6. Rayan Chamas – 1.95M
7. Robert Notkin – 1.23M
8. Justin Miller – 3.15M
9. Vincent Jacques – 1.47M
10. Ryan Rivers – 1.87M

Play is about to resume in level 25.

The Main Event of the PokerStars Canada Cup has now reached it’s final table of ten players, and the players will be seated according to the following seating chart:

Final Table

1. Thiago Nishijima
2. James Armstrong
3. Antonio Esfandiari
4. Francois Goulet
5. Ankush Mandavia
6. Rayan Chamas
7. Robert Notkin
8. Justin Miller
9. Vincent Jacques
10. Ryan Rivers

The day will end with one more elimination, giving us the official final table of 9 players, which will resume tomorrow at 11:00am.

Congratulations to our ten finalists!

Francois Binette fell short stacked, and moved in his final 5 big blinds with from early position. Antonio Esfandiari made the call from late position holding , and they ended up going to the flop heads-up.

Before the cards were out, Antonio apologized in advance for winning the hand, saying whenever he holds a live KQ vs an ace, he always wins. He even went on to say that it’s not a 60/40, but rather a 90/10, which made the table laugh a little.

Surely enough, the window card was a , and that pair was enough to win him the hand on the board.

The tournament has now reached it’s final table of 10 players, and Day 4 will conclude with one more elimination.

11th place: Francois Binette, $26,960

Theodore Doukas has been eliminated in 12th position after he got very short coming out of the last break. At the end he got it in from the small blind with just 253K left in his stack (just under 10 BB). James Armstrong tanked for a few minutes but eventually called.

Theodore:
James:

The flop was good for Theodore – but the gave James the straight and the on the river looked nice but had no value for Theodore and he hit the rail.

With the players on a short break, we took a moment to count the stacks of the remaining players. Here are the current counts:

Table 38 (Feature Table)

1. empty seat
2. Thiago Nishijima – 2.55M
3. Robert Notkin – 1.42M
4. empty seat
5. Francois Binette – 253K
6. Theodore Doukas – 343K
7. empty seat
8. James Armstrong – 1.80M
9. Antonio Esfandiari – 1.74M

Table 39

1. Vincent Jacques – 1.53M
2. Justin Miller – 2.51M
3. Francois Goulet – 1.27M
4. Rayan Chamas – 1.80M
5. empty seat
6. Ankush Mandavia – 1.64M
7. Ryan Rivers – 494K
8. empty seat
9. empty seat