The final table for the 2013 WPT Montreal is set! Play on the unofficial final table that started 10-handed was very slow as players arrived to the table relatively even in chips, but eventually the action heated up and almost all the way through level 28 the final table of 6 were all that remained.

The final table is scheduled to start at 3pm tomorrow though it is unlikely that cards are in the air before 4pm. The six remaining players will be on a table in the middle of the massive set that’s being built in the Tournament Hall.

There will be a live stream available through lifestream.com and the whole affair is being recorded for television.

The players will start the event in the same seats they were sitting in to end the day – the last redraw was at 10 players remaining. There are just over 8 minutes left in level 28.

Here are the seats and chip counts to start tomorrow:

Lily Kiletto

Serge Cantin

Mukul Pahuja

Sylvain Siebert

The Final Table of the WPT Montreal Main Event 2013

Derrick Rosenbarger

Alexandre Lavigne

Derrick Rosenbarger

Alexandre Lavigne

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Our WPT Canadian Spring Championship winner Amir Babakhani has just bubbled to official final table of 6, as his was bested by Sylvain’s on a board.

This means we now have our televised table for tomorrow, which will begin at 3pm. Chip counts and seating arrangements will be available shortly.

7th place: Amir Babakhani, $86,750

We missed the beginning of the hand – when we arrived the board read and Mukul had made a big bet of 465K. Derrick was deeply in the tank and remained there until Mukul called time. The dealer announced that time had been called and Derrick had 60 seconds in which to act. After just about 20 seconds Derrick called and Mukul flipped over for the straight and Derrick just mucked and shipped over the 465K.

After stacking the chips, Mukul was up to just about 6.5M.

We are now on the bubble of the televised final table of 6, as we lost another player to bring the field down to 7.

We saw Marco 3bet to 350K from the big blind after a raise to 125K from Serge in the hijack, and a flat from Derrick on the button. All three players went to the flop, which showed , and Marco, first to act, open shoved his stack of over 2 million. Serge made the call, and Derrick let the two battle it out heads-up.

Marco:

Serge:

The turn and river didn’t change anything, and Marco was eliminated in 8th place for $68,992. Not a bad score for a satellite winner! Serge is now closing on the 7M chip mark.

8th Place: Marco Cannizzero, $68,992

Alexandre Lavigne, the short stack of the final table, just doubled up, as we went all-in under the gun for 1.05M and was called by Amir in the small blind.

Amir:

Alexandre:

The board of was good for Alexandre’s pair of 9s, and he doubled up to just over 2.1M chips.

We’ve just lost another player here at the final table of the WPT Montreal Main Event, as Ludovic Lacay got all his chips in on the turn, with the board showing , and was called by Sylvain Siebert.

Ludovic:

Sylvain:

Ludovic had a lot of cards he needed to fade to survive the hand with his two-pair, and unfortunately for him it was the that fell on the river, giving Sylvain a higher two-pair. Ludovic collected $51,817 for his final table run.

9th place: Ludovic Lacay

We’ve just seen our first elimination on this final table of the WPT Montreal Main Event, as Antoine was eliminated after getting his chips in best.

Mukul Pahuja raised from the hijack position to 125K, and Antoine called from the big blind. The board was , and Antoine checked to Mukul, who put out a bet of 240K. Antoine tanked for a minute, and then announced all-in for a little over 1M in chips. Mukul snap called, tabling his overpair of , which were behind Antoine’s for top two pair. The turn however changed everything, as it was the , and Antoine was now drawing dead. The meaningless hit the river, and Antoine was sent to the cashiers to pick up his $38,135 score.

10th place: Antoine Berube, $38,135

The tournament is on break for a few minutes here at the unofficial final table of 10 players at the PartyPoker WPT Montreal Main Event, and although we haven’t seen any eliminations yet, there has been plenty of action.

Here’s how the players stand in chips:

1. Serge Cantin – 2.8M
2. Mukul Pahuja – 4.5M
3. Derrick Rosenbarger – 3.1M
4. Amir Babakhani – 2M
5. Marco Cannizzaro – 4.4M
6. Antoine Berube – 1.5M
7. Alexandre Lavigne – 975K
8. Lily Kiletto – 1M
9. Sylvain Siebert – 3.8M
10. Ludovic Lacay 1.7M

Ludovic Lacay opened too 100k from late position, and saw Mukul Pahuja 3bet to 240K. Ludovic then min 4bet to 380K, at which point we saw Mukul slide what seems to be 600K, but Ludovic snap mucked his hand before the dealer got around to counting the bet.

Serge Cantin, playing in seat 1, may not have the resume of some of the other players at the table but he’s been steadily chipping up all day from his humble beginnings as one of the shorter stacks to start Day 3.

Just in this past level he has added about 1.5M chips to his stack and has been quite active at the unofficial final table. Just a minute ago he took a chunk off of Amir – after betting 150K on the flop of he was raised by Amir to 500K – to which he calmly responded by re-raising to 1.15M… and getting the fold.

Serge is up to over 3M chips.