Playground Poker

After a long stretch win no eliminations, Eric Afriat just brought us closer to the official TV table by eliminating Mohammad Abu-Hadbah in 8th place.

David Peters opened to 130,000 from utg +1, and found calls from Eric in the hijack and Mohammad on the button. David checked first to act on the board, and Eric placed a bet of 200,000. Mohammad raised all-in for 910,000, David folded, and Eric made the call.

Mohammad tabled for a gut-shot and a flush draw, and needed to hit to overcome the of Eric. With no help on the turn or river, Mohammad was sent to the rail in 8th place, while Eric chipped up to almost 3 million.

8th place: Mohammad Abu-Hadbah – $51,150.00

Although chips were passed around quite a bit during level 27, there was no elimination that took place, and the field remains at 8 players to start level 28. Patrick Quinn has maintained the top spot on the leaderboard, and Maxime Heroux has regained some momentum, pulling himself back up above 4 million for second in command.

Below are the full counts to start level 28:

Bradley Ellis (pictured below) has been the shortest stack in the field for some time now, fluctuating between 10 to 15 big blinds. Whenever he put his chips in play he was usually met with folds, however in a recent hand he moved in for 630,000 from the cutoff and found a call from Mohammad Abu-Hadbah in the big blind.

Bradley:
Mohammad:

The runout was clean for Bradley, who doubled up to 1,325,000, while Mohammad slipped to around 1,500,000.

There is a short break scheduled in a few minutes, where we will bring an update on chip counts.

8 players remain at the break prior to level 27, and officially it’s Patrick Quinn (pictured below) who is atop the leaderboard, although Mohammad Abu-Hadbah is less than 2 big blinds behind. Bradley Ellis is the shortest stack at the moment, sitting on just over 12 big blinds. Below are the full counts going into level 27:

Eric Afriat opened to 100,000 from under the gun, and action folded around to Brady Hinnegan in the small blind. With a stack worth 605,000, he moved all-in and found the call from Eric.

Eric:
Brady:

Eric had most of his own chips on the line with the under-pair, but managed to find a Jack on the board to send Brady to the rail in 9th place. He jumped up to around 1.6 million with that pot.

9th place: Brady Hinnegan – $38,510.00

From a starting field of 606 entries, the WPT Montreal has now reached the unofficial 9-handed final table. Local hero Maxime Heroux currently leads the field with almost 3.5 million, with Patrick Quinn close behind. Full counts are posted along with the seating draw below.

Day 4 will continue until the official 6-handed TV final table is set, at which point players will bag their chips onto tomorrow’s grand finale.

Congratulations on reaching the final table!