After losing a good portion of his stack with versus last level, Tommy Inthouray was left with around 8 big blinds to work with. He folded the next orbit before 3bet shoving his last 325K versus the open of Karam Saleh.

Tommy found a double up with over Karam’s , and on the very next hand he 3bet shoved over the top of Karam’s open once again. Karam made the call as the two battled for a second hand in a row, with Tommy emerging as the winner once again, double up his stack with  over .

With those back to back double ups, Tommy is now back at average stack with 10 players left.

A short break is scheduled in 20 minutes, during which we will bring an update on the chip counts of the final tableists.

The Extravaganza is down to the final table, and 10 players remain in contention of becoming our tournament champion, who will pocket a cool $17,570 cash prize.

Olivier Brossard continues to lead the field with nearly 3 million in chips, while other big stacks include Yan Gohier with 2.6 million and Karam Saleh with 2.5 million.

Bruce Kraemer was crippled during the first level of play in Day 3, when his fell second-best to the of Gary Saldivia-Odar on a board. He was left with only a handful of big blinds, and managed to pull though for the better part of the level, finding some key double-up. With 2 big blinds left, he woke up with but lost to the of Richard Sysko to end his run in 11th place.

Tina and William Blais were virtually equal in stacks when the two short stacks collided in an all-in preflop situation.

Tina:
William:

Tina picked up a pair in the nick of time to scoop the pot, as the dealer rung out a board. Her 585K stack had her opponent covered by a small margin, sending William packing in 12th place.

Yan Gohier opened to 65K from the cutoff, and with 585K to his name, Dominique Morin 3bet all-in from the small blind. Yan deliberated for a few moments before finally making the call, finding himself in a great spot to pick up a 7-figure pot.

Yan:
Dominique:

Yan spiked a jack on the board to secure the pot, bringing the field down to just 12 players.

Olivier Brossard opened to 75K from utg, and Jean Rheaume 3bet to 150K from the button. When action came back to Olivier, he placed a 4bet to 325K, and quickly called Jean’s 5bet all-in.

Olivier:
Jean:

Board:

Olivier added nearly 850K new chips to his already chip-lead stack as Jean was sent to collect his 14th place prize.