We did some chip counts during the break. The final 8 players have roughly the following stacks:
Another player has been eliminated from the final table. Felix Sides open shoved just under 500K in late position and Simon Pier Belair-Grondin called. The rest of the players folded and Felix turned over 
while Simon Pier held 
. The board ran out 
and the tens held up.
9th place: Felix Sides, $2,525
Phannasophea Muong raised from middle position to 245K, and Mark Howie went all in from the cut-off for about 1.6M. Phannasophea thought about it for a few moments, and made the call with 
. He was up against Mark’s 
. The board ran out 
, and Phannasophea’s straight knocked Mark out in 10th place.
10th place: Mark Howie, $1,865
Here is a rough chip count of the final table of Event 1.
The first hand was dealt just moments ago. Good luck to our 10 finalists!
With the elimination of Philippe Chapdelaine in 11th place, we are now down to our final table!
11e place: Philippe Chapdelaine, $1,865
We have lost a few players in the last level and a half.
Antoine took advantage of an unopened pot to shove his 590K stack from the button, and Felix Sides snap called from the big blind with 
. Antoine turned over , and failed to improve once the board ran out.
Simon Pier raised his button to 215K, and David Guay quickly shoved his 1.5M stack from the big blind. Simon Pier thought about it, but not for too long, and eventually called with 
. David turned over a pair of fours, and saw no help on the board to finish in 13th place.
Everyone folded around to Joey Silver’s button, and he shoved his remaining 715K with and got called by the Mehdi in the BB, who turned over 
. The board of 
was no help to Joey, and Mehdi added a few more chips to his already monster stack.
After a calm time of it from early in Day 1, Mohamad had an extremely “interesting” (read: swingy) end of Day 2 and Day 3. He finally succumbed to Erica when he shoved into her pocket Aces.
Stephen Baker was eliminated after it folded around to his small blind and he open-shoved his 1.2M chip stack. Mehdi in the BB was sitting on a monster stack of over 5.2M, but after thinking for a while called holding . Stephen had . The flop came out 
and the on the turn sealed the deal. The river was a meaningless .
At the very end of level 28, Andrew Helleur busted in 19th place for $1,135 leaving just 18 players left in Event 1. The tournament is now down to 2 tables of 9 players each. The final table will start with 10 players left and there will be a full seating redraw at that point.
Day 3 of event 1 is action packed so far! We’ve already lost 14 players in the first level and a half. In the past few minutes, all three tables had a big hand going on.
On table 60, we saw Joey Silver double up to just over 1M with his , which held against Erica Freeman’s 
.
On table 59, it was Mathieu Tanguay’s 
which held versus George Kazarian’s all-in shove with 
. The pot was also worth around 1M chips. George walks out with 1.135$ for his run.
On table 58, we arrived at the river to see Mehdi Alami bet 400K into a pot of around 1.5M on a 
. Phannasophea Muong tanked for a minute before announcing all-in for about 1M more. When Mehdi asked the dealer for a count, Phannasophea misinterpreted ‘count’ for ‘call’, and tabled his 
for the high straight. Once the issue was resolved, Mehdi was given his rightful option of calling or folding, and he mucked his hand.
With 8 exits already the tournament is down to 27 players, which means that table 61 has broken and the players have been distributed among the other tables. Table 61 had a ton of chips on it – the chip leader was seated there along with 3 other above-average stacks – so it will be interesting to see how the other players are able to react to the newbies at their table.
