There have been two almost simultaneous eliminations in the WPT Montreal that brings the tournament to 37 players – just one away from the next table break.
The first of the two hands saw today’s chip leader Michael Gathy ship his remaining 300K+ to Benny Chen on his left. It was a blind-on-blind hand with a short raising war that eventually saw all the chips in the middle.
Michael: 
Benny: 
The bad news for Michael was immediate: 
on the flop put Benny in the lead and the 
turn and 
river couldn’t save him. Benny has vaulted himself among the overall leaders with over 1.4M in chips.
An instant later, Jeffrey Cormier got it all in against the player to his left, Ryan D’Angelo. Cormier had 
while Ryan was playing 
, and when the community cards were dealt 
, Ryan’s pair was still best and he slid Jeffrey’s stack to merge it with his own.
