With the recent eliminations, we are now down to our final two tables. The following three players collected $3,015 for their in-the-money finish:

• 19th place: Joe Gualtieri
• 20th place: Evgeni Ozadovski
• 21st place: Nimer Ltaif

Event 7 has reached level 21 and players have just returned from what should prove to be their last break of the day. Current stacks at the break…

Table 67

1. Daniel Cote – 900K
2. Joe Gualtieri – 75K
3.  
4.  
5. Jean Pierre Hetu – 550K
6. Michael Neuber – 765K
7. Tanveer Dhanjal – 960K
8. Donald Rathwell – 72K
9.  

Table 68

1. Asm Nazmul Huda – 915K
2. Joe Pawlik – 265K
3. Evgeni Ozadovski – 190K
4. Mark Fitzpatrick – 280K
5. Ricky Tang – 827K
6.  
7. Benoit Pesant – 405K
8. Terence Lai – 190K
9.  

Table 69

1. Joshua Abiscott – 100K
2. Chris Back – 237K
3.  
4.  
5. Martin Feijo – 220K
6. Shaelene McInnis – 85K
7. Roman Gallivan – 265K
8. Darcy J Wright – 360K
9. Wei Xu – 155K

A few more quick eliminations happened, and the field has dropped down to the final 21. There will be a short break in a few minutes, during which we will get the chip counts of the remaining players.

Here are the most recent casualties, each earning a $2,680 cash:

• 22nd place: Jonathan Driscoll
• 23rd place: Allan Puzantian
• 24th place: Hong Geu Kim

We’ve seen a few more players get eliminated here on Day 2 of Event 7. The following players earned $2,375 for their run:

• 25th place: Louis Boutin
• 26th place: Louis Lam
• 27th place: Alexandrios Fixmer

Here are the seating assignments after the redraw at 27 players remaining. There have been two eliminations since the redraw.

Table 67

1. Daniel Cote
2. Joe Gualtieri
3. Louis Boutin
4. Nimer Ltaif
5. Jean Pierre Hetu
6. Michael Neuber
7. Tanveer Dhanjal
8. Donald Rathwell
9. Jonathan Driscoll

Table 68

1. Asm Nazmul Huda
2. Joe Pawlik
3. Evgeni Ozadovski
4. Mark Fitzpatrick
5. Ricky Tang
6.  
7. Benoit Pesant
8. Terence Lai
9.  

Table 69

1. Joshua Abiscott
2. Chris Back
3. Hong Geu Kim
4. Allan Puzantian
5. Martin Feijo
6. Shaelene McInnis
7. Roman Gallivan
8. Darcy J Wright
9. Wei Xu

Play loosened up a little once the money bubble burst, as it was expected to, and we’ve seen a number of eliminations happen since.

The following 9 players collected $2,070 for their finish:

• 28th place: Michael G Smith
• 29th place: Jeff Cote
• 30th place: Jean-Yves Blais
• 31st place: Peter Bodnar
• 32nd place: John Dayton
• 33rd place: James D.S. Stewart
• 34th place: Mario Lepine
• 35th place: Francois Laperriere
• 36th place: Francois Cote

Event 7 is down to 27 players as many of the short stacks were eliminated immediately after the bubble burst. At this point there is a full seating redraw and players will take their place on 3 9-handed tables. Play is scheduled to continue until there are 10 players remaining.

After just under a dozen hands of hand-for-hand play the money bubble in Event 7 has burst. The hand that brought the bad news for one unfortunate player started out in a strange way and that continued…

Matthew Grocholsky was under the gun and he open shoved his 47K stack. To his immediate left, Joe Gualtieri was heard to exclaim, “All In” and immediately started protesting that he meant that Matthew was all in, not that he had any intention of shoving. The dealer protected the muck and ensured that Joe couldn’t muck his hand until the floor was called.

The floor person listened to the dealer and in the end gave Joe a warning because there was legitimate uncertainty of whether Joe had said it as a question or had said, “he’s all in” or something of that nature.

In any case, the player in the cutoff (Darcy J Wright) was waiting to act while all of this was going on. As soon as it was cleared up he immediately called the all-in bet, leaving 79K behind. The action folded around to the big blind, Tanveer Dhanjal, who was also the massive chip leader at the table.

Tanveer took up a large stack of 25K chips and raised to 300K – more than enough to put Darcy all-in. Being put to the decision, he asked for a rules clarification – that if they were the only two to bust on that hand, whether he would be the player in the money due to his larger starting stack, and the floor answered yes (hands at the other tables had all been completed).

Finally Darcy called, and two players’ tournament lives were at stake.

The players flipped over their cards. The original raiser had shoved with . Darcy was holding , and Tanveer flipped over the .

The board ran out – so far very safe for Tanveer. The turn was the and the river brought out the and Darcy celebrated with a loud “SANTA MARIA” that was heard all around the room.

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