In a preflop war with Ratharam Sivagnanam, Phillip Hui and his remaining ~1,500,000 chips found themselves all-in and needing help.

Phillip:

Ratharam:

Phillip managed to pair his queen, but Ratharam then ran a flush to scoop the pot on the board.

With that elimination, our official final table of the 2014 WPT Montreal is now set! We will be publishing the official chip counts shortly.

Congratulations!

Official Final Table

Seat 1. Jonathan Jaffe – 7,495,000
Seat 2. Samuel Chartier – 2,065,000
Seat 3. Guillaume Nolet – 2,060,000
Seat 4. Kevin MacPhee – 1,570,000
Seat 5. Ratharam Sivagnanam – 6,845,000
Seat 6. Mukul Pahuja – 1,900,000

7th place: Phillip Hui – $74,800

Official Final Table

Mukul Pahuja

Kevin MacPhee

Samuel Chartier

Jonathan Jaffe

Guillaume Nolet

Ratharam Sivagnanam

Jonathan Jaffe has been running over the field in this Day 4 of the WPT Montreal, and we’ve rarely seen him get out of line, but he just backed into a monster to lose a quarter of his stack.

Ratharam Sivagnanam opened to 120,000 from early position, and Jonathan 3bet to 300,000 from the button. Ratharam then 4bet to 780,000, to which Jonathan replied with a 5bet all-in. Ratharam made the quick call, and was well ahead preflop.

Ratharam:

Jonathan:

Although Jonathan made the nut flush, it was second best to Ratharam’s full house on the board. With that pot, Ratharam now sits on just over 5 million in chips.

After a min-raise from Jonathan Jeffe from under the gun, Lonnie Hallett announced all-in from the button, holding a stack of 1,600,000. While Jonathan was in the tank, Lonnie informed him that he has a big hand. Jonathan replied by saying “I believe you, but I still have to call”, and slid some chip forward to signify a call.

Jonathan:

Lonnie:

Lonnie paired his king on the flop, and it was looking like he was going to double up, until Jonathan made his set on the river of a board.

With that pot, Jonathan extended his chip lead, and is now just below the 10 million chip mark. With 22 million chips in play, he holds nearly 50% of them!

We are now just one elimination away from our official televised final table of 6!

8th place: Lonnie Hallett – $59,490

Jonathan Jaffe, who has been quite active on this final table of the WPT Montreal, opened the action to 140,000 from the hijack position. Samuel Chartier then moved in for roughly 1,400,000 from the cutoff, which was followed by a quick all-in from Marc-Andre Ladouceur in the small blind, who had a stack of 1,300,000. Jonathan mucked his hand, letting the two local pros battle it out.

Samuel:

Marc-Andre:

Samuel found the ace he needed on the flop, and the board was the last one Marc-Andre would see in this event.

9th place: Marc-Andre Ladouceur – $44,680

Mukul Pahuja dropped to the bottom of the leader board in the last level, however he just doubled up his stack to continue his pursuit of back-to-back final tables at the WPT Montreal.

After an open to 120,000 from Ratharam Sivagnanam in the cutoff, Mukul moved in for 685,000 from the small blind. Ratharam wasn’t too pleased with the spot, but made threw in some calling chips, and they went heads-up in the hand.

Mukul:

Ratharam:

Board:

With no help on the board, Ratharam slid over a chunk of his stack to Mukul, who is up over 23 big blinds now.

Although we’ve seen a number of big pots this last level, including a few all-in situations, no one has yet busted from this unofficial final table of the 2014 WPT Montreal. Jonathan Jaffe has chipped up quite a bit, regaining the chip lead with 6,060,000, while Mukul Pahuja dropped to under 1 million for the short stack. Sheraz Nasir lost half his stack near the beginning of this final table, but doubled twice since, the first time through Mukul, and the second through Jonathan, but is still amongst the short stacks,

Here are the current chip counts:

Unofficial Final Table

1. Jonathan Jaffe – 6,060,000
2. Samuel Chartier – 1,140,000
3. Guillaume Nolet – 1,635,000
4. Marc-André Ladouceur – 1,140,000
5. Philip Hui – 2,155,000
6. Kevin MacPhee – 2,425,000
7. Lonnie Hallett – 2,770,000
8. Ratharam Sivagnanam – 2,760,000
9. Sheraz Nasir – 1,045,000
10. Mukul Pahuja – 805,000

With Edward Hislop out of the tournament, there are just 10 players remaining which means that the players will come together on one table, which will be managed via a full seating redraw.

Unofficial Final Table

1. Jonathan Jaffe
2. Samuel Chartier
3. Guillaume Nolet
4. Marc-André Ladouceur
5. Philip Hui
6. Kevin MacPhee
7. Lonnie Hallett
8. Ratharam Sivagnanam
9. Sheraz Nasir
10. Mukul Pahuja

After losing a big pot to Kevin MacPhee two hands earlier, Edward Hislop opened from middle position, and called off his under 20 big blind stack when Guillaume Nolet shoved from the blinds.

Edward:

Guillaume:

Guillaume paired on the board to bring this WPT Montreal down to just one table of ten players.

11th place: Edward Hislop – $33,080

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