Kelly Smith has definitely been the most active player on table 65, and in the last few orbits we’ve seen her stack go on a virtual roller-coaster ride. She managed to grind her stack up to over 400K before sending around 250K over to Jason Griffith in a hand that made it to the river, but didn’t showdown. She then proceeded to move all-in preflop several times in the next few hands, all of which were uncalled, and picked up some valuable blinds.

Holding a little over 300K, she 3-bet jammed Jerome St-Onge’s preflop open to 40K from early position, and got the call. Her and was up against , but the board of ran in favour of Jerome, who doubled to over 500K, leaving Kelly with only 54K.

The very next hand she was all-in (blind) with versus Jason’s , and doubled her stack up on a board.

A few hands later, she found herself all-in again, this time with versus the of Trieu Dung Hong. She paired her ace on a , and climbed up to 295K. A few hands later she 3-bet jammed again over Jerome’s 40K UTG raise, and this time managed to make him fold. She is now nearing the 400K mark again.

Here are the approximate chip counts of the 13 players remaining during the current break.

Table 64

• Seat 2. Justin Leeson – 289K
• Seat 3. Faizel Satchu – 291K
• Seat 4. Mark Fitzpatrick – 445K
• Seat 5. Michael Malm – 655K
• Seat 6. Karo Lyne Dufour – 388K
• Seat 7. Larry Farr – 341K
• Seat 9. Daniel Smouha – 530K

Table 65

• Seat 2. Michael David Yeomans – 413K
• Seat 3. Jerome St-Onge – 428K
• Seat 6. Jason Griffith – 280K
• Seat 7. Kelly Smith – 240K
• Seat 8. David Baba – 385K
• Seat 9. Trieu Dung Hong – 840K

We just saw a big hand develop between Trieu Dung Hong and Jonathan Theriault that resulted in a pot exceeding 800K. Jonathan raised UTG to 25K, and was called only by Trieu from the big blind. The flop showed , and Trieu check-raised Jonathan’s 40K bet up to 120K. Jonathan then announced he was all-in, which put Trieu into the tank. After a few moments, Trieu announced the call, and both players tabled their hands.

Jonathan:

Trieu:

The turn and river kept Trieu ahead, and he picked up a pot that propelled him into the chip lead. Jonathan was left with around 80K left, but has picked up a few blinds since and is still in contention with roughly 10BB.

There has been a full seating redraw as the tournament has gone to two tables.

Final two tables of play in Event 4:

The first few players since the money bubble burst have been eliminated from the tournament.

19th place: Ruben Percival, $1,260.00
20th place: Alex Fiorani, $1,155.00
21st place: Benoit Jean, $1,155.00
22nd place: Gary Yeghiayan, $1,070.00
23rd place: Jonathan Neil Hansmeyer, $1,070.00

Alex’s elimination was a cooler – after having recently lost a pot to reduce him from his high point of over 350K, Jordan Martin raised preflop to 25K from middle position and Jonathan Theriault called from the button in Seat 9. Alex raised all-in and put his 100K+ stack at risk, only to be called by Jordan. Jonathan folded.

Alex turned over while Jordan held . The flop had “a little something” for both of them: for set over set, and the turn and river didn’t save Alex. Even more “coolerish” about it is that after the hand one of the other players reported folding a Jack, meaning that Jordan’s top set was possible only due to the case Jack on the flop.

We are back from a short break in Event 4, with 21 players still remaining. Here is an update on their approximate chip counts:

Table 61

• Seat 1. Ruben Perceval – 200K
• Seat 2. Jeff Cote – 210K
• Seat 3. Peter Kavouras – 85K
• Seat 4. Daniel Smouha – 230K
• Seat 5. David Baba – 200K
• Seat 8. Mark Fitzpatrick – 510K
• Seat 9. Michael David Yeomans – 260K

Table 64

• Seat 1. Justin Leeson – 172K
• Seat 2. Larry Farr – 262K
• Seat 3. Michael Malm – 585K
• Seat 4. Faizel Satchu – 401K
• Seat 5. Benoit Jean – 143K
• Seat 8. Trieu Dung Hong – 190K
• Seat 9. Karo Lyne Dufour – 277K

Table 65

• Seat 1. Alex Fiorani – 365K
• Seat 2. Kelly Smith – 185K
• Seat 3. Jeffrey Cormier – 268K
• Seat 4. Jordan Martin – 250K
• Seat 5. Jason Griffith – 264K
• Seat 7. Jerome St-Onge – 225K
• Seat 9. Jonathan Theriault – 250K

In the seventh hand of hand-for-hand action, Kyle Hartree open raised all-in to 31K and it folded around to Daniel Smouha who called from the Big Blind. Kyle turned over while Daniel held .

The flop was pretty good for Kyle: and the on the turn didn’t hurt either. However the that came on the river gave Daniel a better pair than Kyle, who was eliminated in 24th place.

The rest of the players stand to make a minimum of $1,070 and play continues.

The bubble is approaching quickly and the players know – and can feel – that the impact of their every action is amplified. Luckily for everyone the pace of play has remained relatively quick – no 5-minute tanking – but big decisions are being made every hand.

A hand just played out between two of the players who have been among the chip leaders the whole way. Mark Fitzpatrick raised to 15K from the cutoff and Jeff Cote re-raised from the big blind to 36K. Mark decided to flat call and we saw a flop.

Flop: .

Jeff led out for 27K and Mark again called. The turn brought the and the players both checked. The river was the and Jeff chose to check to Mark, who bet 56K. Jeff thought for about 30 seconds before he made the call.

Mark called out “two pair” and tabled and Jeff showed the and mucked.

Immediately after that hand a player busted on another table and the tournament is now hand-for-hand on the money bubble.

With the field dropping down to 27 players in Event 4, a new seating assignment has been introduced. Here is how the remaining players are seated:

Below is a panoramic photograph of the final 4 tables of the Event, taken during level 17: