Anesti Kocini applied maximum pressure on his short stack opponent by moving in on him from the small blind. John Olivier Pombert found an ace in the big blind and made the call with his ~11 big blind stack.

Anesti:
John:

Anesti picked up just enough on the board to eliminate John in 4th place, and bring us down to 3 players.

The players have decided to pause the clock to negotiate a potential deal.

4th place: John Olivier Pombert – $13,200

John Olivier Pombert

Most of the chips on this final table are in the hands of Jean-Hugo Robitaille and Anesti Kocini, which in turn created some very short stacks who seemed to be competing against each other in an attempt to ladder up the pay jumps. We’ve seen a few of them hit the rail already, which has opened up the action in recent orbits.

The latest casualty was Alexandre Chapdelaine, who fell down to just 3 big blinds before finally moving in his chips from middle position. He found a call from Jeremy Normandin in the big blind, and they were in a coin-flip situation, with Alexandre holding and Jeremy holding .

This change very fast however, as Jeremy flopped a full house on the board to bring us down to 4-handed poker.

5th place: Alexandre Chapdelaine – $9,500

Alexandre Chapdelaine

We caught up to the action on a flop showing , where Said Michailidis and his were all-in and ahead of opponent Jean-Hugo Robitaille, who held the flush draw with .

The turn brought the , putting Jean-Hugo in the lead, and Said couldn’t improve on the river to get eliminated in 6th place.

We are now 5-handed, and Jean-Hugo holds a little over 50% of the chips in play.

6th place: Said Michailidis – $6,700

Said Michailidis

Stephane Houle saw his stack dwindle down to just shy of a million before he moved all-in from early position. Action folded around to Anesti Kocini in the big blind, who called the extra 3 big blinds to try and knock out a player.

Stephane:

Anesti:

Board:

7th place: Stephane Houle – $4,800

Stephane Houle

Scott’s elimination was a two-part affair, as he lost most of his chips a few hands ago when his finished second-best to the of Said Michailidis in an all-in preflop situation.

With only 575,000 behind, he waited two hands before the big blind swung around to him, and once 40% of his stack was automatically forced into the pot, he felt compelled to throw the rest in facing a late position raise from Jean-Hugo Robitaille.

He was in rough shape, as his was up against the , and once the board showed an ace, he had no chance left of winning the pot.

Jean-Hugo scored his third knockout of this final table out of three eliminations, increasing his chip lead as play enters 7-handed.

8th place: Scott Shevlock – $3,600

Scott Shevlock

Charan Malhotra was very active in this Day 3 of The Wild $150. Being on the shorter end of the leaderboard for most of the night, he had constant pressure from the increasing blinds, and was forced to risk his tournament life numerous times in an attempt to pick up some blinds and antes.

In his last hand, he went all-in for 1,625,000 from under the gun, and found a call from Jean-Hugo in middle position. The rest of the table got out of the way, so both players opened their hands:

Charan:

Jean-Hugo:

Although Charan has a great flop, it was Jean-Hugo who ended up wining the pot, as counterfeit cards eliminated Charan in 9th place on a board showing .

9th place: Charan Malhotra – $2,800

Charan Malhotra

Marcello Iacovella came into the day as one of the shorter stacks, but managed to grind his way through some hoops and hurdles to finally earned a spot on the elusive final table. Time and time again his chips found themselves in the middle, and every time they came back with some new founds friends.

That is until just moments ago, where he took advantage of an unopened pot to move his last 625,000 chips into the middle from the button. For 425,000 more, and last to act, Jean-Hugo Robitaille couldn’t refuse the offer from the big blind, even with a less-than-marginal hand.

Marcello:

Jean-Hugo:

Jean-Hugo picked up a pair on the board, which was enough to knock Marcello out in 10th place.

10th place: Marcello Iacovella – $2,070

Marcello Iacovella

With under 10 big blinds to his name, Stephane Leroux moved in with some paint cards ( ) in an attempt to run his short stack up, but unfortunately he ran into the of Jean-Hugo Robitaille to place 12th out of a field of 1439.

Siamak was crippled a few hands ago, as he open-shoved from the button with , but ran into the of Jean-Hugo in the blinds. He failed to improve, and saw 1,425,000 chips move to his neighbour, leaving him with only a few thousand behind. He did manage to ladder up one pay jump with the elimination of Fabian Garzon in 13th, but then fell to the hands of Anesti Kocini shortly after.

Both players picked up a $2,070 payday for their run, and with those eliminations, we now have our final table of The Wild $150!

Stephane Leroux

Fabian Garzon played a very patient game today, however with the continuous pressure of the blinds, it was time for him to pull the trigger and try to make something happen.

He found on the button in an unopened pot, and fired his last ~1,200,000. Unfortunately for him, Stephane Houle woke up with in the big blind and made the call.

Fabian needed help to survive, but found none on the to end his tournament in 13th place, earning $1,690.

Fabian Garzon