After five 90-minutes levels of play, Day 3 of the WPT Montreal has come to a close. Of the 63 players that made it to Day 3 today, only 16 were left to bag their chips onto Day 4.

Leading the way into Day 4 is Trevor Delaney, who built his stack from 968,000 to over 3.285 million over the course of the day. Second in chips is Craig Stewart, who ended his day with 2.425 million in chips, while Brian Altman ended 3rd in chips with 1.965 million.

Full chip counts of all 16 players will be published very shortly.

Day 4 is scheduled for noon tomorrow, Wednesday November 18th, and will continue until the official final table of 6 players has been reached. There will not be a redraw to start the day, and players will have the same seating assignments as at the end of this Day 3. The final table will begin on Thursday at 4pm, and will be a full televised event hosted by Mike Sexton and Vince Van Patten. There will be a WPT stage set-up, along with seating for spectators, and anyone and everyone is welcome to come and rail what will surely be an exciting WPT Montreal 2015 final table!

Tune in to our Playground Poker Blog tomorrow to follow us as we bring you live updates, chip counts, and photos throughout the day.

See you tomorrow!

The 16 players remaining at the end of Day 3:

It’s truly amazing that Tony To has any chips at all, let alone enough to run a big river bluff – but when we arrived at the table with already dealt, GameBoy was considering his action, playing out of position against Brian Altman. Eventually he confidently exclaimed, “four hundred and fifty K” and pushed out 4 stacks of blues with 2 greys on top.

Brian immediately counted out the chips required to call, and found that he would have under 100K left if he lost… and then after a gut-check he made the call and showed his for Aces up – which was good against Tony’s .

Jason Mann raised from the hijack to 135K and Brian Altman 3-bet all-in from the cutoff. The blinds folded and Jason asked for confirmation of the amount: 412K total. Jason counted out the chips needed to call and then rearranged the margins of his stack a couple of times… and made the call.

Brian:
Jason:

Community cards:

The board didn’t bail Jason out and Brian scored the full double up.

Azim “Sammy” Popatia and Mads Fournaise were eliminated early in level 24, and with the field down to 18 players there has been a full seating redraw.

A word on the schedule – play will continue to the end of the current level and then the remaining players will bag up their chips to return for Day 4. On Day 4, play will continue until a hard stop at 6 players remaining (TV final table).

Table 32

1. Jason Mann
2. Brian Altman
3. Craig Stewart
4. Tony Vi Thanh To
5. Giacomo Fundaro
6. Harpreet Gill
7. Randall David Pfeifer
8. Rainer Kempe
9. Darryll Fish

Table 40

1. James Yang
2. Spencer McLean
3. AJ Gambino
4. Chris Arvanitis
5. Carter Swidler
6. Michael Dentale
7. Jared Mahoney
8. Darren Elias
9. Trevor Delaney

There’s a break after each level, so we’ll be able to keep the chip counts fully updated at least as often once a level. During the last break we updated everyone’s counts – here are the top stacks going into level 24 tonight:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Trevor	Delaney	2449000
Craig	Stewart	2164000
Harpreet	Gill	1541000
Chris	Arvenitis	1486000
AJ	Gambino	1258000
Jason	Mann	1241000
Jared	Mahoney	1140000
Michael	Dentale	1051000
Darren	Elias	864000
Carter	Swidler	848000

Mike Dentale was in a pot with Sammy Popatia facing a river bet of 175K into a pot of approximately 370K with a board reading . The flop was 3-way and had gone check-check-check, then on the turn, Sammy opened the action to around 110K and found one fold but a call from Mike. Mike checked again on the river and Sammy made his bet… and Mike went in the tank, visibly running through ranges and possible hands Sammy might have.

Finally (though no one seemed inclined to call time), Mike flicked a single 5K chip to make the call… and flipped over – which he was certain was 100% good. And he was correct – Sammy flashed an off-suit Queen – Jack.

The dealer pushed the pot.

The remaining 24 players in the WPT Montreal are just back from an extended break and we took the opportunity to refresh the chip counts for the entire field. Visit the “Live” Counts page for the full list.

The short summary version is that there are currently 3 players effectively tied for the lead with 1.8M chips: Harpreet Gill, AJ Gambino, and Trevor Delaney. The entire top 10 are currently playing more than 900K – and after that there is a little cliff down to the next group of players in the 500K to 600K range.

Play has slowed right down from the pace that has characterized much of today, but the slow pace won’t last – there are enough short stacks that we can expect movement before long.