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.

Local player Marco Caza has been eliminated in 33rd position ($13,370) by Trevor Delaney in a hand that played out quite differently than your normal flip.

When we arrived at the table, Marco was facing a raise to 70K made by Trevor in middle position. After a short period to think about it, Marco re-raised all-in (376K). Trevor didn’t need a lot of time to think about it and he threw in a chip and made the call.

Trevor:
Marco:

The flop seemed dangerous despite including a King for Marco: – Trevor had flopped a flush draw to add to his pair, which was now second-best. Everyone was looking for a club when the dealer put out the , but of course that gave Trevor even more outs – and the made the straight and Marco hit the rail.

The eliminations keep coming and since this hand another 4 players have been eliminated!

The pace of the action continues to be extremely fast today as the tournament has moved to 4 tables remaining and even since then 2 more players have been eliminated.

There will be a redraw at 27 players remaining (3 tables).

Some of the recent eliminations:

• Thomas Lefort
• Mike Linster
• Jeff Madsen
• John Krpan
• Tanvir Ahmed

The action is relentless in Day 3 of the WPT Montreal. After 3 early eliminations, things seemed to settle down for a while – but the pause was short-lived and players continued to be eliminated at a tremendous rate. More than 20 players have already been sent to the Tournament Desk to receive their payout slip.

Some of the recent eliminations include:

• Jason Conforti
• David Quang
• Norman Howells
• Marc Etienne McLaughlin
• Samuel Barre
• Samuel Gagnon
• Freddy Deeb

Anthony Zinno has just doubled through Brian Altman in a hand on table 32.

Anthony opened from the hijack to 21K and Norman Howells in the cutoff flat called. Samuel Barre (button) folded, and Brian 3-bet to 65K from the small blind. After the big blind folded, Anthony instantly went all-in for his remaining 166K and after Norman got out of the way, Brian tossed in a chip to indicate a call.

Anthony:
Brian:

No single card would be enough to help Brian and the was about as safe as could be for the Aces. The on the turn didn’t help either and Brian hit a useless on the river.

Anthony is now up to 377K – just under the tournament chip average.

Play has re-started for Day 3 of the WPT Montreal and in the early going today there have already been 3 eliminations: Olivier Brossard, Jason Guiley, and John McLeod. This means there are 60 players remaining as play continues in level 20.

This is the official seating chart for Day 3 of the Partypoker.net WPT Montreal, Event 9 in the Playground Poker Fall Classic.

292 players started Day 2 at 12pm on November 16th and play continued through 9 60-minute levels. The money bubble (82nd place) was reached about 3/4 of the way through the 8th level played in Day 2, and following the bubble’s burst another 18 players were eliminated in the money.

Play resumes in level 20 at 12pm on Tuesday November 17th. Play will continue on Day 3 until just 18 players remain in the tournament, and blinds will be 90 minutes long all day. Note that there will be full seating redraw when 27 players remain.

Note that the following are player-recorded chip count totals. The actual chips have been sealed in bags which will be opened by the players to be returned to play on Day 3.

[Click or tap on a column header to re-sort this table or search for your name using the box provided]

First Name	Last Name	Seat	Stack
Ivan	Fazal Karim	Table 31 - Seat 1	114,000
Dimitrios	Plessas	Table 31 - Seat 2	107,000
Patrick	Blye	Table 31 - Seat 3	294,000
Olivier	Brossard	Table 31 - Seat 4	106,000
Marc Etienne	McLaughlin	Table 31 - Seat 5	121,000
Scott	Davies	Table 31 - Seat 6	413,000
Patrick Stephen	La Vecchia	Table 31 - Seat 7	332,000
Harpreet	Gill	Table 31 - Seat 8	993,000
Nicolas	Belcourt	Table 31 - Seat 9	240,000
Brian	Altman	Table 32 - Seat 1	423,000
Samuel	Gagnon	Table 32 - Seat 2	136,000
Michael	Linster	Table 32 - Seat 3	278,000
James	Yang	Table 32 - Seat 4	439,000
Jason	Guiley	Table 32 - Seat 5	40,000
Ron	Farber	Table 32 - Seat 6	401,000
Anthony	Zinno	Table 32 - Seat 7	166,000
Norman	Howells	Table 32 - Seat 8	137,000
Samuel	Barre	Table 32 - Seat 9	353,000
Chris	Arvanitis	Table 34 - Seat 1	204,000
Thomas	Lefort	Table 34 - Seat 2	416,000
Pierre-Paul	Paulin	Table 34 - Seat 3	172,000
Justin	Liberto	Table 34 - Seat 4	258,000
Garrett	Dansereau	Table 34 - Seat 5	184,000
Ibrahim	Haddad	Table 34 - Seat 6	221,000
Vi thanh Tony	To	Table 34 - Seat 7	704,000
John	Krpan	Table 34 - Seat 8	150,000
Rainer	Kempe	Table 34 - Seat 9	840,000
Todd	Sisley	Table 36 - Seat 1	504,000
Giacomo	Fundaro	Table 36 - Seat 2	174,000
Cornel Andrew	Cimpan	Table 36 - Seat 3	415,000
Kyle	Bowker	Table 36 - Seat 4	385,000
Jared M	Mahoney	Table 36 - Seat 5	190,000
Viken	Artinian	Table 36 - Seat 6	177,000
Jason	Mann	Table 36 - Seat 7	733,000
Kerry	Shears	Table 36 - Seat 8	182,000
Thinh	Tieu	Table 36 - Seat 9	142,000
Randall David	Pfeifer	Table 38 - Seat 1	296,000
Joe	Gualtieri	Table 38 - Seat 2	236,000
Erik	Lemarquand	Table 38 - Seat 3	579,000
Azim	Popatia	Table 38 - Seat 4	200,000
Trevor	Delaney	Table 38 - Seat 5	968,000
Tanvir	Ahmed	Table 38 - Seat 6	334,000
Gregoire	Denis	Table 38 - Seat 7	412,000
Marc-Olivier	Carpentier-Perrault	Table 38 - Seat 8	159,000
Mads	Fournaise	Table 38 - Seat 9	709,000
Tamas	Lendvai	Table 39 - Seat 1	160,000
Michael	Dentale	Table 39 - Seat 2	509,000
Gregory	Marcus	Table 39 - Seat 3	126,000
Raymond	Latinsky	Table 39 - Seat 4	296,000
AJ	Gambino	Table 39 - Seat 5	521,000
Marco	Caza	Table 39 - Seat 6	390,000
Craig	Stewart	Table 39 - Seat 7	620,000
Spencer	Mclean	Table 39 - Seat 8	330,000
Jeff	Madsen	Table 39 - Seat 9	154,000
Jeffrey	Mulder	Table 40 - Seat 1	456,000
David	Quang	Table 40 - Seat 2	295,000
Carter	Swidler	Table 40 - Seat 3	317,000
John	McLeod	Table 40 - Seat 4	74,000
Darryll Scott	Fish	Table 40 - Seat 5	559,000
Darren	Elias	Table 40 - Seat 6	244,000
Jason	Conforti	Table 40 - Seat 7	116,000
Freddy	Deeb	Table 40 - Seat 8	150,000
Andy Duc Tai	Ly	Table 40 - Seat 9	462,000

Day 2 of the WPT Montreal is a wrap, and 63 players have survived through 19 levels of play over 2 days to bag chips for Day 3. The money-bubble burst near the end of the day, and with it came a slew of eliminations before time ran out for Day 2.

Day 3 will restart at noon tomorrow, November 17th, and will play down until 18 players remain. Coming in with the chip lead is Harpreet Singh Gill, who held his spot atop the leaderboard throughout most of Day 2. He climbed over the 1-million chip mark at the end of the night, before doubling table-opponent Joe Gualteri in the last hands of the night, and finished by bagging 993,000. Not far behind is Trevor Delaney, who ended the day with 968,000. Below is a table with the leaders at the close of the day.

Once all the numbers have been crunched, we will be releasing the full list of player-reported chip counts, as well as the seating assignments for tomorrows Day 3.

See you tomorrow!

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Harpreet Singh	Gill	993,000
Trevor	Delaney	968,000
Rainer	Kempe	840,000
Jason	Mann	733,000
Mads	Fournaise	709,000
Tony	To	704,000