Mukul Pahuja dropped to the bottom of the leader board in the last level, however he just doubled up his stack to continue his pursuit of back-to-back final tables at the WPT Montreal.

After an open to 120,000 from Ratharam Sivagnanam in the cutoff, Mukul moved in for 685,000 from the small blind. Ratharam wasn’t too pleased with the spot, but made threw in some calling chips, and they went heads-up in the hand.

Mukul:

Ratharam:

Board:

With no help on the board, Ratharam slid over a chunk of his stack to Mukul, who is up over 23 big blinds now.

Although we’ve seen a number of big pots this last level, including a few all-in situations, no one has yet busted from this unofficial final table of the 2014 WPT Montreal. Jonathan Jaffe has chipped up quite a bit, regaining the chip lead with 6,060,000, while Mukul Pahuja dropped to under 1 million for the short stack. Sheraz Nasir lost half his stack near the beginning of this final table, but doubled twice since, the first time through Mukul, and the second through Jonathan, but is still amongst the short stacks,

Here are the current chip counts:

Unofficial Final Table

1. Jonathan Jaffe – 6,060,000
2. Samuel Chartier – 1,140,000
3. Guillaume Nolet – 1,635,000
4. Marc-André Ladouceur – 1,140,000
5. Philip Hui – 2,155,000
6. Kevin MacPhee – 2,425,000
7. Lonnie Hallett – 2,770,000
8. Ratharam Sivagnanam – 2,760,000
9. Sheraz Nasir – 1,045,000
10. Mukul Pahuja – 805,000

After losing a big pot to Kevin MacPhee two hands earlier, Edward Hislop opened from middle position, and called off his under 20 big blind stack when Guillaume Nolet shoved from the blinds.

Edward:

Guillaume:

Guillaume paired on the board to bring this WPT Montreal down to just one table of ten players.

11th place: Edward Hislop – $33,080

We’ve seen a lot of action in this last level. Jonathan Jaffe lost the chip lead while doubling Lonnie Hallett, but managed to chip back up into second place. Kevin MacPhee now leads the field, which is one elimination away from the unofficial final table of 10. Day 2 will end when we’ve reached the televised official final table of 6, which will be played out tomorrow at 3pm.

Here is the chip distribution going into level 27:

Table 61

Seat 1. Jonathan Jaffe – 3,060,000
Seat 2. empty seat 
Seat 3. empty seat
Seat 4. Mukul Pahuja – 1,775,000
Seat 5. Sheraz Nasir – 1,265,000
Seat 6. Samuel Chartier – 1,370,000
Seat 7. empty seat
Seat 8. empty seat
Seat 9. Lonnie Hallett – 2,465,000

Table 62

Seat 1. Kevin MacPhee – 3,190,000
Seat 2. Philip Hui – 2,595,000
Seat 3. empty seat
Seat 4. empty seat
Seat 5. Guillaume Nolet – 1,410,000
Seat 6. Marc-Andre Ladouceur – 1,340,000
Seat 7. empty seat
Seat 8. Ratharam Sivagnanam – 2,150,000
Seat 9. Edward Hislop – 1,315,000

We caught up on the flop in a hand between Lonnie Hallett (small blind) and Jonathan Jaffe (big blind). With already a considerable amount of chips in the middle, Lonnie check-raised to 355,000 on a  board, and snap called when Jonathan moved in over the top.

Lonnie:

Jonathan:

Drawing very slim, Jonathan didn’t find any miracle cards, as the dealer rung out the and the . Jonathan handed over the 1,100,000 that Lonnie had behind, taking him out of the chip lead of the tournament. Both players are now sitting on stacks hovering around the 2,600,000 mark.

Lonnie Hallett

Moments after doubling Sheraz Nasir and his 410,000 stack ( < , all-in preflop) Lonnie Hallett found himself once again all-in against a shorter stack. After opening the action from late position, Lonnie was facing a flat-call by Jonathan Jaffe on the button, and a 3bet shove for 575,000 by Alexandre Blanc from the small blind. He opted for the 4bet all-in, forcing Jonathan out of the hand.

Lonnie:

Alexandre:

The community cards ( ) were of no help to Alexandre, who saw his deep run end in 12th place.

12th place: Alexandre Blanc – $33,080

With an effective stack of 435,000, Mukul Pahuja open-shoved from the button, and was called by Sheraz Nasir from the small blind. Samuel Chartier threw his cards into the muck from the big blind, and the two active players tabled their hands.

Mukul:

Sheraz:

Mukul ran the nuts on a board to doubled up to over 20 big blinds, while Sheraz fell down to just over 250,000.

Mukul Pahuja

Here are the chip counts of the remaining 12 players of the WPT Montreal:

Table 61

Seat 1. Jonathan Jaffe – 4,380,000
Seat 2. empty seat 
Seat 3. Alexandre Blanc – 765,000
Seat 4. Mukul Pahuja – 575,000
Seat 5. Sheraz Nasir – 965,000
Seat 6. Samuel Chartier – 2,400,000
Seat 7. empty seat
Seat 8. empty seat
Seat 9. Lonnie Hallett – 950,000

Table 62

Seat 1. Kevin MacPhee – 3,415,000
Seat 2. Philip Hui – 1,340,000
Seat 3. empty seat
Seat 4. empty seat
Seat 5. Guillaume Nolet – 2,100,000
Seat 6. Marc-Andre Ladouceur – 1,555,000
Seat 7. empty seat
Seat 8. Ratharam Sivagnanam – 2,680,000
Seat 9. Edward Hislop – 995,000