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

Samuel Chartier has a healthy stack but he was among the leaders until he doubled up two players in two successive hands.

In the first hand, Sheraz Nazir went all in over Alexandre Blanc’s opening raise to 80K. Samuel asked Alexandre how much he was playing total, and hearing the answer he wanted went all in over Sheraz.

Sheraz:
Samuel:

There was little suspense as the board ran out and Sheraz doubled up.

The very next hand, Mukul Pahuja shoved over an opening raise by Jonathan Jaffe and again Samuel went in, forcing Jaffe to fold.

Mukul:
Samuel: :jd

Again there wasn’t too much suspense on the flop of and the and didn’t change anything.

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

Maurice Hawkins was down to 65K before the hand after having tried – unsuccessfully – to regain some momentum after taking some hits today.

On his final hand, Sam Chartier opened preflop to 65K, Lonnie Hallett called and Maurice went all-in for that last 65K. Sheraz Nasir came along for the ride from the big blind.

The flop came and Sheraz and Samuel both checked. Lonnie then bet 100K and succeeded in folding out the other two players in the hand.

Maurice:
Lonnie:

The river was the and the turn was the and that was the end of the road for Maurice.

13th place: Maurice Hawkins, $26,410.00

Mukul Pahuja, who placed 2nd in this event last year and has been among the chip leaders since Day 2, has just taken big hit to his stack. On a board reading , Alexandre Blanc check-raised Mukul to 225K after Mukul opened to 105K. Mukul called the bet and the river was dealt: . Alexandre led out with an all-in bet and Mukul called.

Alexandre:
Mukul:

Mukul is now down to about 800K in chips as he attempts to make the final table for a second year in a row.

Alexandre Blanc

Maduka Meragal was on the shorter end of the leaderboard when he got all his chips in preflop versus Kevin MacPhee.

Maduka:

Kevin:

Kevin made a running straight on the board, adding around 600,000 new chips to his stack, and eliminating Maduka in the process.

14th place: Maduka Meragal – $26,410

Phong Truong was eliminated on the first hand back form break, as he 3bet shoved from the big blind after Jonathan Jaffe opened to 70,000 from utg+1.

Phong:

Jonathan:

Jonathan’s jacks held on the board, sending Phong to the rail in 15th place.

15th place: Phong Troung – $26,410