After the players made their deal, Nazmul’s situation changed quite a bit – he was shorter stacked by quite a margin compared with both Eric Richer and Alim Perales. In a few hands of play he got his chips in the middle with a K, but couldn’t out-draw the Ace in Perales’ hand.

Play continues Heads up between Eric and Alim.

3rd place: Nazmul Huda, $20,291

When the tournament wound down to three players, they asked the floor to stop the clock to consider a deal. AFter working with the chip counts and determining that $5K (plus the trophy) had to remain in the prize pool, the players agreed to a deal that pays co-chip-leaders Perales and Eric Richer $23,842 and pays Nazmul 20,291.

Play continues for $5K and the Full Tilt Montreal Festival Trophy

After losing a huge portion of her stack the previous hand, Jennifer Brooks has been eliminated in 4th place. Perales was the instrument of her elimination taking him over the 20M mark with 32.1M total chips in play.

4th place: Jennifer Brooks, $12,840

Alim Perales has a big lead over the other three players still in the tournament.

• Alim Perales – 16M
• Eric Richer – 5.6M
• Jennifer Brooks – 5.7M
• Nazmul Huda – 2.6M

Alim Perales has more or less had his way on this final table, and took a commanding lead after this hand between he and Simon Tang.

Simon raised from the cutoff to 675K and Alim flat called from the BB.

The flop came out . Alim checked. Simon bet 875K and Alim tank-jammed his massive stack.

Simon thought for a few moments and called, turning over . Alim turned over – and on that board, Simon was drawing dead with one of his outs in his opponent’s hand. The cards came out and the to seal the deal.

Alim became the massive chip leader with somewhere around half the chips in play in his stack.

5th place: Simon Tang, $9,980.

Before the players went on a short break there was an intense period of play.

First Donald Somers was eliminated in 7th place, losing his just-over-2M-stack to Nazmul Huda on his immediate left.

A few hands later there was a huge hand between the two largest stacks on the table. Simon Tang opened the betting UTG, raising to 450K. It folded around to Alim Perales in the BB who raised to 1.3M. Simon flat called.

The flop came . Alim checked, Simon bet 975K and Alim called. The turn was the and both players checked. The river was the . Alim bet 2M and Simon folded. The hand pushed Alim’s stack to over 10M in chips.

A few minutes later, Jef Roy was eliminated when he called a shove with pocket 9s. The other player showed down AJ. The flop came QTQ, turn 3, and a dirty river T to counterfeit Jef’s 99.

Three players have already been eliminated from the final table. In 10th was Yves Cadorette, followed by Nicholas Soller in 9th and Josh Brueckner in 8th.

Meet our final ten players, who have survived this massive field of 1,605 players and still have a shot at the $35,035 top prize.

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• Seat 1: Eric Richer – 1.6M
• Seat 2: Yves Cadorette – 1M
• Seat 3: Simon Tang – 3.5M
• Seat 4: Jef Roy – 5.5M
• Seat 5: Donald Somers – 1M
• Seat 6: Nazmul Huda – 3.7M
• Seat 7: Jennifer Brooks – 2.1M
• Seat 8: Nicholas Soller – 2.1M
• Seat 9: Josh Brueckner – 4.1M
• Seat 10: Alim Perales – 6.1M