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!

Justin Liberto has been eliminated in 10th place in the WPT Montreal, a mere minutes after Curt Kohlberg was also sent to the rail.

Action in the hand folded around to Brady Hinnegan in the small blind who elected to open shove into Justin in the big blind. Justin had far too strong a hand to fold, so he made the call and the hands were tabled.

Justin:
Brady:

The flop had something for both players: and the turn kept the status quo intact. The river was a killer for Justin – to give Brady rivered trips and send Justin to the tournament desk to pick up his payout coupon.

10th place: Justin Liberto, $31,990.00

Curt Kohlberg placed a raise to 80,000 from the button, and Derek Wolters 3-bet to 260,000 from the small blind. Patrick Quinn then went into the tank for a few moments before placing a cold 4-bet to 680,000 from the big blind. Curt cut out his own stack before committing his 525,000 chips, and Derek got out of the way.

Curt:
Patrick:

Patrick spiked and Ace to win the hand on a board, thinning the field by one while adding some ammunition to his stack.

We are now one elimination from reaching the unofficial final table of 9.

11th place: Curt Kohlberg – $31,990.00

Duff Charette started the day strongly but eventually lost two big pots to Maxime Heroux and found himself short. He was lucky to double once and win some small pots while laddering up one position, but eventually push came to shove and he was all in against David Peters.

Duff:
David:

Duff started out ahead but the flop ended that state of affairs. The was no help, nor was the on the river.

12th place: Duff Charette, $31,990.00