Derrick placed a min-raised preflop to 500K, and Mukul made the call from the big blind. On the flop of , Mukul check-called Derrick’s bet of 450K, and then check-raised Derrick’s bet of 800K on the turn. Derrick ended up committing the 4.1M total all-in from Mukul, and turned over a hand that was drawing dead.

Mukul:

Derrick:

The river didn’t change anything, and Mukul is back up over the 10 million chip mark.

Mukul has taken a few pots off Derrick recently to take an almost 2-to-1 lead, but he just lost one that cost him a lot. Mukul 3bet preflop to 975K, and Derrick made the call after having raised originally to 425K. On a flop of , Mukul leads out with a small bet of 350K, and calls when Derrick raises to 1.3M. On the turn of , Mukul checks it over to Derrick, who bets 2.1M. Mukul then raises all-in, and gets a quick call from Derrick.

Mukul:

Derrick:

The river improves Derricks hand to a full house, but Mukul was already drawing dead on the turn. Derrick climbs to over 20 million with that hand, taking the lead once more in this sea-saw heads-up battle.

Mukul has just check-called on 3 streets on a board of , including a huge river bet, to pick up a huge pot. Derrick bet 375K on the flop, 800K on the turn and 3.2M on the river, holding only . Mukul tanked on the river, but eventually slid in the chips with , and picked up a pot of roughly 9M.

We just saw a 4bet shove from Mukul and a quick call from Derrick on a flop of .

Mukul:

Derrick:

Mukul had a lot of outs to win the hand, including any diamond, ten or king, but with the turn and river , it was Derrick that won took the huge pot. He is now the chipleader with almost 20M.

We are now heads-up at the PartyPoker WPT Montreal Main Event, and it will be Mukul Pahuja, with 17.6M, versus Derrick Rosenbarger, holding 8.25M.

The winner will walk out with $517,049 in cash, a $15,400 seat to the WPT World Championship, and the WPT Montreal Belt! Finishing second isn’t all that bad either, as there’s a $362,430 prize that comes along with.

Good luck to both our finalists!

For the second hand in a row, Mukul Pahuja and Serge Cantin are all-in against each other preflop for a pot the size of over 17M. On the first hand, they showed down and , and ended up chopping the pot. On the second hand, we saw Mukul open to 350K, Serge 3bet to 1M, Mukul 4bet to 2.65M and finally Serge move all-in. Mukul snapped called, and they were off to the races.

Mukul:

Serge:

The board was , and Mukul, who had only 250K more than Serge, picked up the huge pot to go into heads-up with a 2-to-1 lead versus Derrick Rosenbarger. Serge will walk out with a hefty $234,051 payday, vastly improving on his final table bubble last year.

3rd place: Serge Cantin, $234,051

The final 3 players are on a short break, and when they return play will resume at level 32. Here are their chip counts:

Our chipleader to start the day has just been eliminated in 4th place, and we are now down to the final 3 of the WPT Montreal Main Event.

Sylvain moved all-in from the button for 1.82M, and was called by Serge Cantin from the small blind. Mukul, sitting in the big blind, gave it a minute before he folded, showing the .

Sylvain:

Serge:

The board runs out , and Serge took the pot with his set of 8s. Sylvain improved a little on his 5th place finish from last year, and finished in 4th place for $173,209. Congratulations on your back to back final tables here at the WPT Montreal!

4th place: Sylvain Siebert, $173,209