Dakota Vandine was eliminated in 16th place, and the WPT Montreal field is now down to just 15 finalists. Samuel Louis Gagnon is still the biggest stack, although the gap between him and the rest of the field has narrowed a little. Martin Raus is down to just 4 big blinds, and the first few hands back from the break will be make-it or break-it for him.

These are the full counts as play enters level 27:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège	Stack | Tapis
Samuel Louis	Gagnon	Table 62 - Seat 9	2,840,000
Ema	Zajmovic	Table 58 - Seat 7	2,585,000
Benny	Chen	Table 62 - Seat 1	2,490,000
Terry Leon	Schumacher	Table 58 - Seat 2	2,030,000
Nadir	Lalji	Table 62 - Seat 3	1,875,000
Mike	Sexton	Table 58 - Seat 9	1,510,000
Ilan Charlot	Boujenah	Table 62 - Seat 5	1,300,000
Robert Earl	McGhee	Table 58 - Seat 4	1,255,000
Jake	Schwartz	Table 62 - Seat 8	875,000
Alexander William	Keating	Table 58 - Seat 8	830,000
Tam	Ho	Table 58 - Seat 6	505,000
Antonin	Duda	Table 62 - Seat 4	480,000
Jason	Mann	Table 58 - Seat 1	415,000
Stuart	Taylor	Table 62 - Seat 7	330,000
Martin	Raus	Table 58 - Seat 5	125,000

Martin Raus and Ema Zajmovic watch the board unravel in an all-in situation:

Day 3 of the WPT Montreal is in the books, and 17 players have bagged chips onto tomorrow’s Day 4. Samuel Louis Gagnon propelled himself into the chip lead in the last level of play, after winning a 3-way all-in for roughly 1.5 million, and then doubling that count by flopping a set versus the top-pair top-kicker of Robert Earl McGhee. He ended the day with 3,350,000 in chips, which tops second in chips Terry Leon Schumacher by over 1.2 million.

Moments before the end of Day 3, Ivan Fazal Karim was eliminated in 18th place, having blinded down to just 1 big blind. He actually rivered a set on his final hand, but that same river card gave his opponent a straight to knock him out.

A few familiar faces are still in the running, including but not limited to Martin Raus, Mike Sexton, Jake Schwartz, Alexander Keating and Benny Chen.

Day 4 tomorrow will play down until the official televised final table of 6 players has been reached, and the winner will be crowned on Day 5, in front of the WPT camera crew and a live audience. Anyone wishing to rail the final table is more than welcome to do so – simply turn up anytime during the final table of the WPT Montreal and grab a seat, and help yourself to a drink to go along with the show!

Here are the full player-reported chip counts for Day 4. Play will resume with the same seating assignments as at the close of Day 3.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Samuel Louis	Gagnon	3,350,000
Ema	Zajmovic	2,140,000
Terry Leon	Schumacher	2,125,000
Benny	Chen	2,065,000
Nadir	Lalji	1,250,000
Alexander William	Keating	1,140,000
Tam	Ho	1,110,000
Robert Earl	McGhee	1,100,000
Antonin	Duda	810,000
Jonathan	Abdellatif	695,000
Ilan Charlot	Boujenah	685,000
Martin	Raus	630,000
Mike	Sexton	530,000
Jason	Mann	490,000
Jake	Schwartz	465,000
Stuart	Taylor	445,000
Dakota	Vandine	235,000

When we arrived at the table, there were already a lot of chips in the pot and the board read . Robert Earl McGhee bet 400K on that turn, and Samuel Louis Gagnon was in the tank. After a while, he muttered: “all-in” from behind his scarf, and that sent McGhee to the tank. The all-in was about 700K more, quite a substantial raise. McGhee finally made the call, and grinned when he saw Gagnon’s flopped set, as he was drawing dead.

Samuel Louis Gagnon:
Robert Earl McGhee:

Gagnon has just finishing stacking his pot, and as there was about 3.5M chips in it, the pot puts him in the driver’s seat.

Mike Sexton was sitting on 258K when this somewhat controversial hand happened. Ilan Charlot Boujenah opened the pot to 55K from the under-the-gun position. Sexton went ahead and pushed his stack forward, 258K high. When everybody folded back to Boujenah, he moved his cards forward, and then realized the all-in stack was much smaller than he thought, so he put his hand back on the cards, which were still very close to him, untouched by the dealer.

When the floor arrived to the table, the situation was explained to him, and they started trying to re-enact the movement to figure out whether it was substantial enough to rule it as a fold. It was finally decided that Boujenah would be allowed to play the hand, his cards being easily retrievable and the forward movement having been too subtle. Boujenah called. The whole time, Mike Sexton – always the gentleman – remained unperturbed. When the floor explained the ruling to him, he waived and assured him that he had no problem with it.

Mike Sexton:
Ilan Charlot Boujenah:

The board came . Sexton doubles up to about 600K.