Jean Francois Jodoin placed a small raise to 200K from the button after action folded around to him. Mike Mirand folded his small blind, and Yang Guo 3bet all-in for around 1.5 million, which Jean Francois called.

Jean Francois:
Yang:

Board:

Yang failed to improve, and was send to the cashiers to collect his 7th place prize.

7th place: Yang Guo – $4,100.00

Maxime Heroux and Sebastien Proulx just entered into a confrontation on the tables, creating a pot north of 2.5M. Maxime turned over and dodged the 5 community cards to score a win over the of his opponent. He has regained the chip lead with that pot, and now sits on over 6-million.

8th place: Sebastien Proulx – $3,000.00

Once action folded around to Fadi Haddad in the cutoff, he opened the pot to 250K. Pascal Monarque 3bet all-in next to act, and the blinds quickly got out of the way. Fadi asked for a count, and the dealer cut out Pascal’s stack, which was of 895K total. Fadi then began his interrogation process, probably in an attempt to get a read on his opponent. After a few moments, he finally slid forward a stack of red T25,000 chips to announce the call.

Fadi:
Pascal:

Board:

Pascal was poised for the double up, until the dealer dropped an on the river to burry him in 9th place.

9th place: Pascal Monarque – $2,100.00

With the elimination of Yan Nadeau in 11th place, the final table has now been assembled in Event 1 of the Playground Poker Fall Classic 2016. Play continues in level 30 of the tournament.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège	Stack | Tapis
Fadi	Haddad	Table 40 - Seat 1	2,150,000
Pascal	Monarque	Table 40 - Seat 2	1,155,000
Maxime	Héroux	Table 40 - Seat 3	4,300,000
Sébastien	Proulx	Table 40 - Seat 4	1,200,000
Jean-François	Jodoin	Table 40 - Seat 5	2,60,000
Tina	S	Table 40 - Seat 6	1,200,000
Mike	Mirand	Table 40 - Seat 7	3,250,000
Yang	Guo	Table 40 - Seat 8	1,250,000
George	Kazarian	Table 40 - Seat 9	1,250,000
Rachid	Bahaj	Table 40 - Seat 10	5,100,000

Since the final table came together, in the very first hand of play Tina S was eliminated, leaving just 9 players in the tournament.

10th place, Tina S, $1,750.00

Yan Nadeau was sitting on a little under 2 million in chips when he open-shoved from utg on his 6-handed table. Action folded around to Rachid Bahaj in the big blind, who peeked over at Yan’s stack. He asked for a rough count before looking at his cards, which in turn lead to an unintentional slow-roll, as once he did finally check his hole cards, he found a nice pair of hiding down there. Yan did not look very pleased with the situation as he rolled over , and with no help on the board he was eliminated in 11th place, bringing The Wild $150 down to the final table.

Rachid took over the chip lead with that pot, as he now sits on over 5-million chips.

11th place: Yan Nadeau – $1,750.00

John Palmer won an event in this exact format earlier this year, but although he made a deep run here in the Fall Classic, his quest for the repeat ended in 12th place.

Maxime Heroux opened the action with a button raise to 200K and Palmer instantly raised all-in, not hesitating although Heroux had him covered by a wide margin. There was no hesitation on Heroux’s part either, as he instantly pushed forward a stack of 25K chips to make the call.

Heroux:
Palmer:

Heroux was relatively safe with his pair facing only one over card, and the community cards that were dealt gave him the hand.

12th place: John Palmer, $1,750.00

The players in The Wild $150 are taking their first break of the day and after just 3 levels of play the tournament has already gone from 27 players to just 12 players remaining. The players are arranged around two tables of 6 players each – the next redraw will be at 10 players remaining when the final table is assembled.

Here are full counts for the remaining field.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège	Stack | Tapis
Maxime	Héroux	Table 39 - Seat 5	3,385,000
Rachid	Bahaj	Table 40 - Seat 6	2,920,000
Yan	Nadeau	Table 40 - Seat 7	2,200,000
Mike	Mirand	Table 39 - Seat 4	2,190,000
Fadi	Haddad	Table 39 - Seat 7	2,140,000
Jean-François	Jodoin	Table 40 - Seat 1	2,005,000
Tina	S	Table 40 - Seat 4	1,875,000
Yang	Guo	Table 39 - Seat 1	1,700,000
Sébastien	Proulx	Table 39 - Seat 8	1,570,000
Pascal	Monarque	Table 40 - Seat 9	1,365,000
George	Kazarian	Table 40 - Seat 5	1,300,000
John	Palmer	Table 39 - Seat 6	1,195,000

Rachid Bahaj opened to 180K from utg, and was put to a decision when Tanvir Ahmed 3bet shoved for 945K from the button. After some deliberation, he finally committed the extra chips, and the two were off to the races.

Rachid:
Tanvir:

Tanvir flopped a pair and showed some signs of relief, however that all changed when Rachid connected with the river to give him the win on a board.

13th place: Tanvir Ahmed – $1,450.00

Yu Chen opened the action with an open shove from middle position holding 420, just 5bb. Action folded around to John Palmer in the sb who re-raised all-in to 670K. Fadi Haddad had a decision to make in the bb, but eventually he folded.

Yu Chen:
John Palmer:

The flop was pretty much ideal for John: and the runout of didn’t provide any help to Yu Chen and he was eliminated in 14th position.

14th place: Yu Chen, $1,450

Jason Mottershead made quite a splash during the early going tonight, but he has now been eliminated in 15th place.

Sebastien Proulx opened the action from the cutoff to 200K, and Jason shoved for 675K from the button. The blinds got out of the way and Sebastien made the call after just a few seconds of deliberation.

Sebastien:
Jason:

The flop kept Jason in the lead but gave Sebastien a lot of options to finish off his neighbour. The turn didn’t do the trick (though it did give him a wider range of combos that would work), but the gave Sebastien the flush and sent Jason to the Tournament Desk to pick up his payout coupon for $1,450.

15th place: Jason Mottershead, $1,450