Some more eliminations…

• 18th place: Sebastien Drolet-Poitras, $13,398
• 17th place: Dawn Mootrey, $13,398

Down to two tables and early on there was a huge hand between Henri Balcazar in the small blind and Michael Linster in the big blind. Preflop it folded to Balcazar and he limped, Linster raised and Balcazar re-raised all in. Linster quickly called.

Henri flipper over which was ahead of Michael’s .

The flop of put Michael in the lead, but the turn allowed Henri to re-suck and the on the river was a blank for both players. Michael shipped 1.585M to Henri on the hand.

Jonathan Bussières was eliminated in 19th place and with 18 players left there has been a full seating redraw.

Play will resume momentarily with 28 minutes left in level 26 (blinds 20K/40K/a5K). At the end of this level players will have a short break.

Table 38

1. Maxime Laberge
2. Colin Piché
3. Eric Larose
4. Guillaume Rivet
5. Henri Balcazar
6. Michael Linster
7. Zeng Yi Xie
8. Roger Lamia
9. Sebastien Drolet-Poitras

Feature Table

1. Russell Crane
2. Bill Kontaratos
3. Vineet Pahuja
4. Eric Despres
5. Kevin Dawe
6. Terrance Eishens
7. Dawn Mootrey
8. Jeff Coté
9. Jeremie Trepanier

The action continues to move quickly as we’ve had a few more eliminations from the tournament.

• 24th place: Michael Tremblay, $8,354
• 23rd place: Mike Saragossi, $8,354
• 22nd place: Marc André Girard, $8,354
• 21st place: Pirooz Bayat, $10,560
• 20th place: Wei Xu, $10,560

We just saw the end of a huge hand between Dawn Mootrey and Jeremie Trepanier on table 39.

We caught up to the action on the flop of . Dawn (BB) led out for 190K and was raised by Jeremie (cutoff) to 400K. Dawn didn’t hesitate long before making the call.

The turn came and Dawn checked. Jeremie bet 225K and again Dawn called without much hesitation. The river was a and again Dawn checked. This time Jeremie went in the tank for a while before betting 425K. Then it was Dawn’s turn to consider her options… and eventually she called.

Jeremie turned over for a flopped set and Dawn mucked her cards. Jeremie stacked the more than 2M chips in the pot!

We already have the first elimination of Day 4. After losing a big hand at the end of Day 3, Francesco Buffone was left with just 45K to start today. Predictably, his chips got in the middle early and his King-high couldn’t survive Terrance Eishens’ .

• 25th place, Francesco Buffone, $6,620

The remaining 25 players in the Main Event of the Full Tilt Poker Montreal Festival have taken their seats and are ready to go for Day 4. The schedule today is to play down to 9 players who will return tomorrow for the final table.

Today starts with about 18 minutes left in level 25. The blinds are 25K/50K/a5K.

You can follow the action on the Live Stream on this blog or at the Full Tilt blog.