Here are the final 18 players of the 2014 WPT Montreal, who will be back tomorrow at 12pm for Day 4 to continue their journey to the final table. Play will continue tomorrow until an official final table of 6 players has been reached.

Jonathan Jaffe

Guillaume Nolet

Lonnie Hallett

Edward Arnold

Ratharam Sivagnanam

Jeremie Damret

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Jie Gao has been eliminated in 19th place as he was all-in holding and called by Jonathan Jaffe who held the . The flop of suddenly made even-strength hands anything but, as Jaffe was freerolling for the flush. The turn brought that possibility closer and the on the river made it 100% – Jaffe hit the flush, and Jie Gao was out of the tournament.

19th place: Jie Gao, $20,240

Preflop, Tim Ulmer was facing a raise to 105K from Guillaume Nolet. He shoved his last 400K (approximately) over the top and when the big blind folded, Guillaume snap called by throwing a single chip onto the table.

Tim:
Guillaume:

Community cards: . Guillaume’s Ace held and TJ Ulmer hit the rail in 20th place.

20th place: Tim Ulmer, $20,240

We missed the hand, but Daniel Suied has been eliminated in 21st place after nursing a short stack all day and laddering up several pay jumps in the process. He was eliminated by Jonathan Jaffe, who is playing almost 2M in chips.

21st place: Daniel Suied, $20,240

Three players have hit the rail since we’ve returned from the break. The first to go was Gianluca Cedolia, as he open-shoved his last 261,000 from the small blind on the first hand back from break, and was called by Jonathan Jaffe in the big blind, who had him well covered.

Gianluca:

Jonathan:

Board:

27th place: Gianluca Cedolia, $15,800

A few hands later, it was Francois Billard who found himself with all his chips in the middle, and flipping with Edward Hislop.

Francois:

Edward:

Edward hit two pairs on the board to eliminate Francois in 26th.

26th place: Francois Billard, $15,800

Edward went on to make another elimination, as he 3bet Esfandiari’s 44,000 raise up to 128,000, and then called his 4bet shove for 416,000.

Edward:

Antonio:

Edward won his second flip versus a pair of black jacks, as he made three of a kind on the board.

25th place: Antonio Esfandiari, $15,800

The players are now back from break, and Mukul Pahuja (2,601,000) is currently leading the field. He is followed closely by Ratharam Sivagnanam (2,037,000) and Maduka Meragal (1,826,000), but with the average stack sitting on more than 40 big blinds, and levels up to one hour and a half, it’s still anyones game. Here are the chip counts entering level 23:

Table 56

1. Maurice Hawkins – 801,000
2. Sheraz Nasir – 1,573,000
3. Maduka Meragal – 1,826,000
4. Phong Truong – 591,000
5. Kevin Macphee – 260,000
6. Jie Gao – 633,000
7. Daniel Suied – 392,000
8. Gianluca Cedolia – 264,000
9. Jonathan Jaffe – 706,000

Table 63

1. Alexandre Blanc – 543,000
2. Ryan Fee – 339,000
3. Jeremie Damret – 364,000
4. Guillaume Nolet – 655,000
5. Samuel Chartier – 591,000
6. Tim Ulmer – 477,000
7. Nenad Sizgoric – 612,000
8. Philippe Plouffe – 205,000
9. Jeffrey Mulder – 400,000

Table 64

1. Marc-André Ladouceur – 1,831,000
2. Ratharam Sivagnanam – 2,037,000
3. Edward Arnold – 565,000
4. Philip Hui – 537,000
5. Lonnie Hallett – 861,000
6. Antonio Esfandiari – 491,000
7. Edward Hislop – 637,000
8. Mukul Pahuja – 2,601,000
9. François Billard – 637,000

There are now just 27 players remaining in the WPT Montreal and now that the tournament has move to 3 total tables there has been a complete seating redraw.

Here is the new seating order.

Table 56

1. Maurice Hawkins
2. Sheraz Nasir
3. Maduka Meragal
4. Phong Truong
5. Kevin Macphee
6. Jie Gao
7. Daniel Suied
8. Gianluca Cedolia
9. Jonathan Jaffe

Table 63

1. Alexandre Blanc
2. Ryan Fee
3. Jeremie Damret
4. Guillaume Nolet
5. Samuel Chartier
6. Tim Ulmer
7. Nenad Sizgoric
8. Philippe Plouffe
9. Jeffrey Mulder

Table 64

1. Marc-André Ladouceur
2. Ratharam Sivagnanam
3. Edward Arnold
4. Philip Hui
5. Lonnie Hallett
6. Antonio Esfandiari
7. Edward Hislop
8. Mukul Pahuja
9. François Billard

Playground regular Bill Kontaratos had a great run in the 2014 WPT Montreal, but he has been eliminated in 30th place by Marc-André Ladouceur.

Bill open shoved from middle position and it folded around to Marc-André on the button, who called the all-in bet of 262K. The blinds folded and the cards were overturned.

Bill:
Marc-André:

The community cards: contained some small cards, but not the 5 that Bill needed, and he was eliminated in 30th place.

Level 22 has begun after a short break – there will be breaks following each 90 minute level today – and we took the opportunity to update the counts on the leaderboard in the tournament.

1. Mukul Pahuja – 2.3M
2. Marc-André Ladouceur – 1.9M
3. Maduka Meragal – 1.5M
4. Francois Billard – 1.2M
5. TJ Ulmer – 1.1M
6. Jonathan Jaffe – 900K
7. Samuel Chartier – 900K

Through level 21, Mukul Pahuja, Marc-André Ladouceur, and Samuel Chartier are the three players who have had by far the greatest gains today. Mukul has added 1.1M to his stack, doubling his count to start the day, while Marc-André has added over 700K. Both players were among the chip leads to start the day. Arguably more impressive is the more than 700K that Samuel Chartier has added to the below-average stack he started with on Day 3.