Derek Boucher has been eliminated in a hand that also managed to cripple Daniel Charette, all to the benefit of Tony Stratopoulos.

Derek open shoved his almost 1.2M stack and Daniel flat called. Tony 3-bet shoved his 2.3M stack and the decision came back to Daniel, who called.

Derek:
Daniel:
Tony:

The flop left little wiggle room for either of the players holding small pocket pairs as it ran out and the pair of 7s ( ) on the turn and river was no help.

7th place: Derek Boucher, $4,960

Daniel Charette open raised from early position to 500K and Shawn Martell called. Mathieu Fournier-Gamelin went all-in with his last 780K.

Both Daniel and Shawn simply flat called and both players checked down as the board ran out: .

Both Shawn and Mathieu showed big slick – for Shawn and for Mathieu while Daniel simply mucked and the two players chopped the large pot.

Ramzi Karam is the first player to be eliminated on Day 3 of Event 1. It took two hands to do the job. In the first, Mathieu Fournier Gamelin open shoved his 630K stack and was called by Ramzi from the button. Both blinds folded and the players turned over their cards.

Mathieu:
Ramzi:

The flop wasn’t great for Ramzi – it fell . The was OK but the on the river gave Mathieu the flush and left Ramzi just 75K in chips.

Ramzi managed to find folds for the next two hands, but finally shoved his last 55K and was promptly called by the player to his left, Mathieu Boucher. Action folded through the blinds and Mathieu quickly flipped while Ramzi had a hand he didn’t hate against a pocket pair: . Unfortunately for Ramzi the board ran out to give Mathieu the pot.

15th place: Ramzi Karam, $1,680

The remaining 15 players in Event 1 are taking their seats, unbagging their chips and getting ready for action to begin in the final day of this $135 + $15 No Limit Hold’em event.

There are a few interesting stories going into Day 3 action, but none more intriguing than the true “chip-and-a-chair” story of Daniel Charette. Daniel starts Day 3 with over 2.5M in chips, third on the leaderboard – but with less than 30 players left he found himself sitting with just two 5K chips – enough for two antes. He won that hand, taking down the antes but leaving the blinds for the side pot. And then he won another hand a little bit later to double up… to 80K! Evidently that was a big enough stack to fold a couple of hands, because when he went on break a few minutes later he had just 55K left.

But Daniel stayed patient and found a hand pretty soon after the break and tripled up to 160K… and chipped up some more to sit on an over 600K stack when this hand happened, and vaulted him to almost 2M in chips. We’ll be following Daniel’s progress closely today.

There are just 15 players remaining after the action on Day 2 of Event 1. It was a long and gruelling day of poker as the field made its way through 16 levels of play. These are the chip counts for the players still in the action.