Nadir Lalji has been eliminated by Mike Sexton to bring the WPT Montreal into heads-up action.

From the small blind, Mike Sexton opened the action to 350,000, and then was forced to a decision when Nadir moved all-in for 2,200,000. Holding a pair in 3-handed poker, he opted for the call and the two players found themselves in a flip, as Nadir tabled .

The dealer rung out the board, and with the window card showing the , it was all but over. With no help on the board, Nadir shook Mike’s hand and was awarded $183,320 for his 3rd place finish.

3rd place: Nadir Lalji – $183,320.00

Ilan Boujenah has been eliminated in 4th place in a blind-on-blind hand between he and Benny Chen. Action folded around to Benny (sb) and he opted to just call, prompting Ilan to shove over the top for his tournament life. Benny snapped off the call and quickly flipped over his – well ahead of Ilan’s .

The flop put things almost entirely out of reach: and it was followed by the turn and the river and Ilan was sent to the rail in 4th place.

4th place: Ilan Charlot Boujenah, $132,750.00

Ema Zajmovic is a local cash game specialist who managed to end Day 2, Day 3, and Day 4 as the second chip leader, and as play continued on 2 tables playing down to the official final table, she emerged as a very strong table captain – to the point that she almost induced a couple of players to blind out instead of playing hands against Ema, her aggression, and her stack size at the time.

On the final table, Ema started off with her old table boss ways, but it didn’t work quite as well as it had the day before. It wasn’t a question of poor play – not in the least – as much as it was a question of bad timing. After a few orbits she lost a key pot when she 3bet Benny Chen with only to face an all-in from Benny and his . Now among the short stacks, Ema seemed to partially abandon the strategy that had worked so well.

A few orbits later, Ema chose to shove over top of a cutoff raise to 250K by Mike Sexton – only to find a quick call from Mike who was holding – well ahead of Ema’s . Mike’s Aces held on the board, eliminating Ema in 5th place.

5th place: Ema Zajmovic, $102,010

We’ve lost Antonin Duda in 8th place from this “unofficial” final table, and we are now just 1 elimination from the official televised WPT Montreal Final Table, which will play out to a champion tomorrow.

Antonin fell very short stacked early in Day 4, hitting a low of only 3bb, but he managed to recover. As players were busting around him, he remained in his seat, short stack at hand, before he finally brought it up to nearly 20bb. He saw his stack drop back down under 10 big blinds when he picked up a pocket pair of in the hole. He 3bet over the top of Ema’s open, and called off the rest when she 4bet shoved. Antonin was poised for the double up as Ema tabled , that is until a appeared on the river to eliminate him from the tournament.

A few hands after the elimination, the final 7 went on a short break. Below is a table with the chip counts as play enters level 29.

8th place: Antonin Duda – $54,060.00

Terry Leon Schumacher has gone out of the WPT Montreal in 9th place.

Ema Zajmovic opened the action in middle position with a raise to 125K. Terry then 3bet shoved from the button for his last 890K, and perhaps surprisingly Benny Chen flat called from the bb. Ema folded and the cards were revealed:

Terry:
Benny:

Terry’s hand was dominated and the community cards did nothing to help: . Benny’s Ace-King high was good and Terry was eliminated.

9th place: Terry Leon Schumacher, $40,540.00