Meet the final 18

  • Level: 23
  • Small Blind: 10K
  • Big Blind: 20K
  • Ante: 3K
  • Chip Average: 1.2M
  • Remaining: 18
  • Entries: 732


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.

Day 3 is a wrap!

  • Level: 23
  • Small Blind: 10K
  • Big Blind: 20K
  • Ante: 3K
  • Chip Average: 1.2M
  • Remaining: 18
  • Entries: 732


Day 3 of the 2014 WPT Montreal has come to an end as the field has gone from 49 players to just 18 remaining. At the close of play today, Jonathan Jaffe seemed to be the chip leader with over 2.7M in chips, but we’ll have confirmation of this shortly.

The official seating draw and player-provided counts will be published shortly.

Eliminations 21 to 19

  • Level: 23
  • Small Blind: 10K
  • Big Blind: 20K
  • Ante: 3K
  • Chip Average: 1.2M
  • Remaining: 18
  • Entries: 732


Jie Gao has been eliminated in 19th place as he was all-in holding Ace of Diamonds King of Diamonds and called by Jonathan Jaffe who held the Ace of Spades King of Hearts. The flop of Jack of Clubs 4 of Spades 10 of Spades suddenly made even-strength hands anything but, as Jaffe was freerolling for the flush. The turn King of Spades brought that possibility closer and the Jack of Spades on the river made it 100% – Jaffe hit the flush, and Jie Gao was out of the tournament.

19th place: Jie Gao, $20,240

Jie Gao

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: Ace of Diamonds Queen of Diamonds
Guillaume: Ace of Spades King of Diamonds

Community cards: Jack of Hearts King of Clubs 6 of Hearts 7 of Clubs 7 of Diamonds. Guillaume’s Ace held and TJ Ulmer hit the rail in 20th place.

20th place: Tim Ulmer, $20,240

TJ Ulmer

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

Daniel Suied

Eliminations 24 to 22

  • Level: 23
  • Small Blind: 10K
  • Big Blind: 20K
  • Ante: 3K
  • Chip Average: 1.1M
  • Remaining: 20
  • Entries: 732


Nenad was eliminated when he got it in on the flop with top pair, top kicker against a worse Ace – but suited. Ace of Clubs 8 of Clubs had already hit the flush and Nenad was eliminated.

22nd place: Nenad Sizgoric, $18,020

Nenad Sizgoric

Ryan Fee was all-in holding 6 of Hearts 6 of Diamonds and was called by a player holding Ace of Diamonds Jack of Spades. The bad news came right on the flop of Ace of Clubs 4 of Spades 10 of Spades and the turn and river 8 of Clubs King of Diamonds brought no relief and Ryan was eliminated.

23rd place: Ryan Fee, $18,020

Ryan Fee

24th place: Philippe Plouffe, $18,020

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Eliminations 27 to 25

  • Level: 23
  • Small Blind: 10K
  • Big Blind: 20K
  • Ante: 3K
  • Chip Average: 915K
  • Remaining: 24
  • Entries: 732


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: Ace of Clubs 8 of Hearts

Jonathan: Ace of Diamonds 9 of Spades

Board: 7 of Diamonds 9 of Hearts 10 of Diamonds 7 of Clubs King of Spades

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: Jack of Spades Jack of Clubs

Edward: Ace of Hearts King of Clubs

Edward hit two pairs on the Ace of Clubs 7 of Hearts King of Hearts 2 of Spades 8 of Diamonds board to eliminate Francois in 26th.

26th place: Francois Billard, $15,800

Francois Billard

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: Ace of Diamonds Queen of Clubs

Antonio: Jack of Spades King of Clubs

Edward won his second flip versus a pair of black jacks, as he made three of a kind on the Ace of Spades 6 of Diamonds 9 of Clubs Ace of Hearts 2 of Spades board.

25th place: Antonio Esfandiari, $15,800

Antonio Esfandiari

Update on chip counts

  • Level: 23
  • Small Blind: 10K
  • Big Blind: 20K
  • Ante: 3K
  • Chip Average: 813.3K
  • Remaining: 27
  • Entries: 732


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

Redraw at 27

  • Level: 22
  • Small Blind: 8K
  • Big Blind: 16K
  • Ante: 2K
  • Chip Average: 813.3K
  • Remaining: 27
  • Entries: 732


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

Kontaratos out 30th

  • Level: 22
  • Small Blind: 8K
  • Big Blind: 16K
  • Ante: 2K
  • Chip Average: 784.3K
  • Remaining: 28
  • Entries: 732


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: Ace of Hearts 5 of Clubs
Marc-André: Ace of Clubs Queen of Clubs

The community cards: 10 of Hearts Ace of Spades 3 of Hearts 7 of Clubs 4 of Spades contained some small cards, but not the 5 that Bill needed, and he was eliminated in 30th place.

Leaders to level 22

  • Level: 22
  • Small Blind: 8K
  • Big Blind: 16K
  • Ante: 2K
  • Chip Average: 627.4K
  • Remaining: 35
  • Entries: 732


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

Big movers so far…

  • Level: 21
  • Small Blind: 6K
  • Big Blind: 12K
  • Ante: 2K
  • Chip Average: 563.1K
  • Remaining: 39
  • Entries: 732


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.