Brian Altman opened the action to 110,000 from under the gun, and found calls from Michael Dentale (utg+1), Darryll Fish (small blind) and Rainer Kemp (big blind). On a flop of , the blinds checked it over to Brian, who fired 160,000. Michael got out of the way, and Darryll went in for a raise to 510,000. Rainer mucked his hand, and Brian tanked for a moment before making the call.

Heads-up on the turn, Darryll fired again, this time for 710,000. Brian went into the tank a second time, and after around 3 minutes he finally let his hand go.

“I know what you had there Darryll” said Michael, once the hand was over; “you got lucky there kid, I had ”. AJ Gambino interrupted Michael, saying that it was not possible as he had folded the preflop. “Ok Ok fine, I had two red kings there”, added Michael, as players smirked at his radical change in apparent holdings.

While the final 8 players of the WPT Montreal were on break, we brought an update on the leaderboard. Brian Altman is still the man in charge, and has built his stack up to 6,740,000. Rainer Kempe (4,280,000) and Darryll Fish (3,645,000) are also amongst the leaders, while the rest of the field is found below the 2-million chip mark.

Here is a look at the chip distribution, as we enter level 27:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Brian	Altman	6740000
Rainer	Kempe	4280000
Darryll	Fish	3645000
Jared	Mahoney	1925000
Carter	Swidler	1520000
AJ	Gambino	1280000
Michael	Dentale	765000
Chris	Arvanitis	610000

With the elimination of Darren Elias, there are just 10 players left in this year’s WPT Montreal, and these players have been brought together on a single table.\

We’ll add updated chip counts for everyone in a few minutes.

First Name	Last Name	Seat	Stack
Brian	Altman	Seat 1	7075000
Michael	Dentale	Seat 2	685000
Carter	Swidler	Seat 3	960000
Giacomo	Fundaro	Seat 4	320000
Jared	Mahoney	Seat 5	2150000
Craig	Stewart	Seat 6	855000
AJ	Gambino	Seat 7	1245000
Chris	Arvanitis	Seat 8	1400000
Darryll	Fish	Seat 9	1800000
Rainer	Kempe	Seat 10	3750000

Darren Elias came into the day as one of the shorter stacks, and knew he was going to have to be active if he wanted to turn things around. He lost a few pots early on to find himself nearly crippled, before finding a pocket pair of jacks which tripled him back into shape.

Moments later, he min-raised his button in an unopened pot, and found himself heads-up with AJ Gambino in the big blind. On a flop showing , AJ check-called a bet of 95,000, which brought out the on the turn. AJ checked again, and this time raised all-in following a 160,000 bet by Darren. Without any hesitation, Darren snap called the all-in, and was in a world of trouble, as his two-pair with was far behind the set of of AJ. The river changed nothing, and Darren saw all but 100,000 of his recently acquired chips move to the other side of the table.

He then found a double up the very next hand, as his rivered a straight against the of James Yang on a board showing .

He picked up the blinds and antes with an uncalled all-in the next hand, and was then moved to the other table to balance the tournament, as Trevor Delaney was recently eliminated.

After a few hands on his new table, Darren found all of his chips all-in preflop versus Darryll Fish:

Darren:
Darryll:

Board:

Darryll hit the board hard, and after one wild roller coaster ride, Darren’s WPT Montreal came to a close in 11th place.

With his elimination, the field is now down to 10-players, which are all gathered on one (unofficial) final table.

11th place: Darren Ellias – $31,910

The players in the WPT Montreal have completed their first level of the day and are now on break.

The last hand before the break saw some blind-on-blind excitement between Carter Swidler and Michael Dentale. The two have been tangling regularly as Carter started the day relatively short-stacked and has had to pick strategic spots to try and keep his head above water. In the hand in question, Michael was in the bb and Carter the sb and when it folded around to Carter, he raised all-in for 390K. Michael made the call and the hands were tabled.

Carter:
Michael:

There wasn’t nearly as much suspense on the run-out of the board as you might imagine – the flop of gave Carter a straight and on the turn he added a flush draw with the – and then Carter got there with the on the river.

Carter improved to 815,000 in chips, while Michael was left with 1,320,000.