Isham Yamani has been eliminated in 7th place as the action resumes the pace that it had earlier in the day. Things had slowed down considerably, but that trend seems to have been stopped.
7th place: Isham Yamani, $4,800
7th place: Isham Yamani
2014/11/14 12:21am by
- Level: 33
- Small Blind: 100K
- Big Blind: 200K
- Ante: 25K
- Chip Average: 4.9M
- Remaining: 1464
- Entries:
9th and 8th, back to back
2014/11/14 12:18am by
- Level: 33
- Small Blind: 100K
- Big Blind: 200K
- Ante: 25K
- Chip Average: 4.2M
- Remaining: 7
- Entries: 1464
Jason Robineault has been eliminated in 9th place. After unknown action, Jason Robineault found himself all-in against Bichr Awad.
Jason: 
Bichr: 
The community cards came out 
and Jason hit the rail.
9th place: Jason Robineault, $2,851
The very next hand, Michael Mellor was eliminated in 8th place.
8th place: Michael Mellor, $3,650
Level 12 update
2014/11/14 12:09am by
- Level: 12
- Small Blind: 1.2K
- Big Blind: 2.4K
- Ante: 200
- Chip Average: 67.3K
- Remaining: 44
- Entries: 148
The players are approaching the third break of the tournament and the play has tightened up somewhat with few eliminations but nevertheless some large stacks starting to be grown. Among the leaders is André St-Jean with almost 160K, followed by Garry Thompson with 150K.
Durocher first to fall
2014/11/13 11:57pm by
- Level: 32
- Small Blind: 75K
- Big Blind: 150K
- Ante: 25K
- Chip Average: 3.3M
- Remaining: 9
- Entries: 1464
The first player has been eliminated from the Final Table of Event 1. We weren’t on hand to catch all of the action, but by the end of the hand Alberto Scuderi’s 
improved when he made a set on the turn (
) to eliminate Durocher.
10th place: Stephane Durocher, $2,050
Leaders after the 2nd break
2014/11/13 11:32pm by
- Level: 11
- Small Blind: 1K
- Big Blind: 2K
- Ante: 200
- Chip Average: 51K
- Remaining: 58
- Entries: 148
During the 2nd break we got chip counts for the largest stacks in the tournament, and there are three players who have distanced themselves somewhat from the field.
- Martin Messier – 99kK
- Garry Thompson – 96K
- Stephane Godinho – 90K
Here are photos of the chip leaders.
Lafable doubles
2014/11/13 11:22pm by
- Level: 32
- Small Blind: 75K
- Big Blind: 150K
- Ante: 25K
- Chip Average: 2.9M
- Remaining: 10
- Entries: 1464
Mike Lafable has been playing a short stack for much of the night, and raised all-in from UTG to 635K. Action folded around to Isham Yamani in the BB who thought for a minute and called.
Mike: 
Isham: 
The flop hit both players: 
but Isham had the better of it. The turn 
was a blank, but the river gave Mike two pairs and the double up.
Final table photos
2014/11/13 11:06pm by
- Level: 31
- Small Blind: 60K
- Big Blind: 120K
- Ante: 20K
- Chip Average: 2.9M
- Remaining: 10
- Entries: 1464
Here are some candid photos of the players on the final table of Event 1.
Jason Robineault
Ahmad Baalbaki
Albert Bassal
Michael Mellor
Mike Lafable
Isham Yamani
Bichr Awad
Yves Aubin
Stephane Durocher
Event 1 – the final table
2014/11/13 10:39pm by
- Level: 31
- Small Blind: 60K
- Big Blind: 120K
- Ante: 20K
- Chip Average: 2.9M
- Remaining: 10
- Entries: 1464
The final table has been set for Event 1, The Wild $150, in the Playground Poker Fall Classic.
Here is the new seating order along with very approximate chip counts.
Final Table
- Stephane Durocher – 5M
- Yves Aubin – 2.3M
- Bichr Awad – 2.1M
- Isham Yamani – 1.9M
- Mike Lafable – 1.0M
- Alberto Scuderi – 2.5M
- Michael Mellor – 2.0M
- Albert Bassal – 6.8M
- Ahmad Baalbaki – 3.3M
- Jason Robineault – 1.1M
Two more eliminations
2014/11/13 10:28pm by
- Level: 30
- Small Blind: 50K
- Big Blind: 100K
- Ante: 10K
- Chip Average: 2.8M
- Remaining: 10
- Entries: 1464
Play has now paused as the final table of 10 is redrawn.
Maurice Simard was eliminated in 12th place when his pocket pair didn’t hold up to Alberto Scuderi’s pocket 3s – the bad news came on the river. Maurice had been nursing a small stack all day and managed to pass quite a few pay jumps along the way.
12th place: Maurice Simard, $2,050
11th place went to Theo Psihogios. He raised all-in for his last 590K and was quickly called by Bichr Awad, directly to his left. Bichr quickly turned over two red Aces: , while Theo had 
. The board provided little help for Theo when it ran out 
and his night was over.
11th place: Theo Psihogios, $2,050
Fontaine Bernier eliminated in 13th
2014/11/13 10:09pm by
- Level: 30
- Small Blind: 50K
- Big Blind: 100K
- Ante: 10K
- Chip Average: 2.4M
- Remaining: 12
- Entries: 1464
There are 12 players remaining in Event 1 as Kaven Fontaine Bernier has been eliminated.
Jason Robineault raised to 275K from late position and Kaven re-raised all in – but only for another 95K. Jason quickly called and the cards were turned over.
Jason:
Kaven: 
The flop of 
put Jason far in the lead and the runout of 
gave no help to Kaven.
13th place: Kaven Fontaine Bernier, $1,700
