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

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

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

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.

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

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

1. Stephane Durocher – 5M
2. Yves Aubin – 2.3M
3. Bichr Awad – 2.1M
4. Isham Yamani – 1.9M
5. Mike Lafable – 1.0M
6. Alberto Scuderi – 2.5M
7. Michael Mellor – 2.0M
8. Albert Bassal – 6.8M
9. Ahmad Baalbaki – 3.3M
10. Jason Robineault – 1.1M

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

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

Players have returned from the break and play has resumed in level 30. We got approximate counts for all of the remaining players during the break. Albert Bassal is the clear chip leader, but Stephane Durocher has also clearly separated from the pack.

Table 30

1. Theo Psihogios – 870K
2. Bichr Awad – 2.8M
3. Stephane Durocher – 4.9M
4. empty
5. Ahmad Baalbaki – 2.9M
6. empty
7. empty
8. Mike Lafable – 1.1M
9. Yves Aubin – 875K

Table 31

1. Alberto Scuderi – 1.6M
2. Maurice Simard – 300K
3. empty
4. Michael Mellor – 1.5M
5. Jason Robineault – 660K
6. Kaven Fontaine Bernier – 1.5M
7. Albert Bassal – 6.7M
8. empty
9. Isham Yamani – 3.3M

Since the tournament went to 2 tables there have been 5 eliminations:

14th place: Alex Chiasson, $1,700
15th place: Thomas Harnois, $1,700
16th place: Daniel Mackey, $1,300
17th place: Robert Di Trapani, $1,300
18th place: Jean-Sebastian Labonté, $1,300

Players will take their first break tonight at the end of this level.