With Day 4 of the WPT Montreal now on a short break, we took this chance to update the chip counts. Here is the distribution:

Table 61

Seat 1. Jonathan Jaffe – 2,465,000
Seat 2. Maurice Hawkins – 760,000
Seat 3. Alexandre Blanc – 800,000
Seat 4. Mukul Pahuja – 1,800,000
Seat 5. empty seat 
Seat 6. Samuel Chartier – 1,530,000
Seat 7. empty seat
Seat 8. Phong Truong – 620,000
Seat 9. Lonnie Hallett – 1,245,000

Table 62

Seat 1. Kevin MacPhee – 1,915,000
Seat 2. Philip Hui – 1,035,000
Seat 3. Sheraz Nasir – 715,000
Seat 4. empty seat
Seat 5. Guillaume Nolet – 3,015,000
Seat 6. Marc-Andre Ladouceur – 1,455,000
Seat 7. Maduke Meragal – 860,000
Seat 8. Ratharam Sivagnanam – 2,275,000
Seat 9. Edward Hislop – 1,365,000

Alexandre Blanc opened the action in the hand by raising all-in preflop from middle position, and Jeffrey Mulder called with his shorter stack from the cutoff. The blinds folded and the cards were exposed.

Alexandre:

Jeffrey:

Two clubs on the flop gave Jeffrey a glimmer of hope, and the turn was even more hopeful… but the on the river ended Jeffrey’s run in the WPT Montreal

16th place: Jeffrey Mulder, $22,960.00

Jeffrey Mulder opened to 50,000 from the button, and Samuel Chartier 3bet to 146,000 from the small blind. Heads-up on the flop, Samuel lead out for 95,000, and called Jeffrey’s raise to 225,000. The turn brought the , and Samuel rapped the table for a check, which was followed by a quick check by Jeffrey. On the river , Samuel checked once again, to which Jeffrey replied with a bet of 240,000. Samuel went into the tank for a minute before announcing the call, and Jeffrey threw his hand into the muck. Samuel tabled for ace-high, and took the massive pot. Jeffrey was crippled to just under 275,000.

Samuel Chartier sniffs out a bluff

It seemed like a pretty normal steal attempt, small on big, but when Jeremie Damret called Samuel Chartier’s shove his tournament life was at risk.

Samuel:
Jeremie:

Samuel’s Ace-high was ahead and the board runout of was no help to Jeremie.

17th place: Jeremie Damret, $22,960.00

Edward Arnold has been eliminated in 18th place in the first major hand of the day.

With a lot of chips already in a 4-way pot, Edward went all-in on the flop of . One player folded, and then Ratharam Sivagnanam went all-in over the top – and as soon as he did, Kevin MacPhee jammed as well.

Edward:
Ratharam:
Kevin:

Kevin had flopped middle set while Edward had bottom set. Rotherham’s pair improved to a set on the turn , but Kevin’s pocket 88 was still better, and the didn’t change that.

So Edward is out of the tournament and Kevin has a great triple (or close) to start the day.

The 18 players remaining in the 2014 WPT Montreal have taken their seats and cards are now in the air. There are 6 minutes remaining in level 23 as play begins.

Day 3 of the 2014 WPT Montreal started with 49 players and finished as scheduled with just 18 players remaining. Play will resume at 12pm tomorrow (November 25th) with approximately 6 minutes left in level 23. Play will continue on Day 4 until the official WPT Final Table of 6 players remains.

Tournament staff has performed a full seating redraw for the 18 players remaining. There will be another redraw at 10 players remaining, when the unofficial final table of 10 is brought together.

Counts in the following seating chart are provided by players. Chips have been sealed in bags until they are reopened before play Monday. Click (or tap) on the column headers in the table to sort by Name, Table/Seat, or Chip Count.