Two players were eliminated at the very end of Day 3, in a hand that was likely the biggest pot of the tournament. Michael Linster opened from mid position to 60K, and was 3-bet by Stacy Levac from the cut-off to 140K. Asadul Islam Shah then 4-bet the hand to 410K from the small blind, and finally Vineet Pahuja came over the top of all of these bets with a 5-bet shove (holding a stack of roughly 2.2M) from the big blind. Michael casually folded his hand, and Stacy and Asadul both called.

Stacy Turned over , and was up against Asadul’s and Vineet’s . The board ran out    , and Vineet knocked out the two other players with his runner-runner quads.

This pot put Vineet in the chip lead of the tournament going into Day 4, holding an impressive 4.45M in chips, almost 800K more than Eric Despres runner up stack of 3.625K.

The dream is over. QQ all in pre vs AA vs AK. AK rivered quads. Finished 28/1626. #FTPMTL #Thisdoesntfeelgood

— Asadul Shah (@Koonz1530) October 1, 2013

Jeff Cote has decided to use his “One Time”, and it couldn’t of have been at a better time. He went all-in with his 255K stack from middle-position, and was called by Kevin Dawe from the small blind. Victor Ramdin then shoved his 660K stack over the top from the big blind, and Kevin called off the extra 400K or so.

Jeff Cote turned over , and was up against Kevin’s and Victor’s . The flop of gave Jeff an open-ended straight draw, but both of his opponents burned two of his outs each. He still managed to hit his straight though, as the turn came , and the river secured his triple up. Kevin took down the side pot, and Victor was sent home packing after getting his chips in in what seemed to be an ideal spot at this stage in the tournament.

You can follow live action from out feature table tomorrow by following this link. Coverage resumes shortly after 12:00pm, tuesday October 2nd.

One of the most notable players still in the event, Players Club member Gavin Smith was eliminated after he shoved into which ended up making the nut flush.

Brian Coen was eliminated a few hands later by Dawn Mootrey, so the tournament is just one more elimination away from the close of Day 3.

There was a huge hand on Table 34 a few minutes ago. Terrance Eishens open raised from the button to 70K and was 3-bet by Francesco Buffone in the SB to 235K, who in turn was 4-bet by Eric Despres in the BB who bumped it to 500K.

Terrance didn’t think long before folding, and Francesco didn’t think much longer before shoving – which was met by a snap call from Eric.

Francesco turned over while Eric flipped . The board ran out giving Francesco a gunshot. The turn came and the river was another blank, . Eric more than doubled to 3.5M chips and now has a healthy 100BB stack as Day 3 winds to a close.

Two more players have busted since the break and the tournament is down to 4 tables.

Table 34

1. Terrance Eishens
2. Francesco Buffone
3. Eric Despres
4. Russell Crane
5. Gavin Smith
6. Marc Andre Girard
7.  
8. Bill Kontaratos
9. Mike Saragossi

Table 35

1. Roger Lamia
2. Sebastien Drolet-Poitras
3. Maxime Laberge
4. Wei Lu
5. Dawn Mootrey
6. Guillaume Rivet
7. Daniel Leduc
8. Brian Coen
9. Bao Luu

Table 38 (Feature)

1.  
2. Kevin Dawe
3. Victor Ramdin
4. Jonathan Bussières
5. Henri Balcazar
6. Gil Simpritol
7. Jeff Coté
8. Colin Piché
9. Eric Larose

Table 39

1. Vineet Pahuja
2. Zeng Yi Xie
3. Michael Linster
4. Jeremie Trepanier
5. Stacy Levac
6. Pirooz Bayat
7. Asadul Islam Shah
8. Michael Tremblay
9. Kit Wong

There is another break as tournament staff colours up and races off the yellow 1K chips. After the break, blinds will be 15K/30K/a5K. During the last level the number of players still in the action dropped from 47 to 38.

Here are a few photos from the last level:

Terrance Eishens

Maxime Laberge

Vineet Pahuja

Eric Al Halaby

Jeremie Trepanier

Victor Ramdin

Mike Saragossi

Russel Crane

Tyler (As6s) doubles through Bill (5h5s)

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Two Playground regular players got involved in big hands just now but with very different results.

First, Josh Kimmel open-shoved his small-blind with about 330K (~13BB) and the big blind (Jonathan Bussieres) called. Josh turned over while Jonathan held . The board ran out and Jonathan’s King high took the pot.

Just a minute or so later, Bill Kontaratos was in the tank for a short while facing a shove to his BB. Eventually he called and flipped over while his opponent, Barron Ha, had shoved with . The board ran out and Bill’s pocket pair held up.

• 39. Baron Ha, $4,886
• 40. Josh Kimmel, $4,886

Gavin Smith got his 276,000 chip stack all in preflop with vs Vineet Pahuja’s , and although the flop of gave Vineet a gutshot, the running and sealed the deal, and doubled Gavin Smith up to 615,000.

The field has dropped from 85 to 47 players in the first two 75 minute levels of Day 3. The players are now enjoying a 20 minute break before getting back into action at level 24, where the blinds will be 12,000/24,000/a4,000. The average stack is around 1 million chips, and don’t forget you can always check our Live Updates Page for up to date coverage of chip counts, as well as to view the live streaming of our Feature Table.

Just before the break we saw Robert Amireault get eliminated in fashion, as he 4-bet shoved his 505,000 chip stack after Dawn Mootrey min-raised to 40,000 UTG, and Guillaume Rivet 3-bet to 114,000 from middle-position. Dawn folded after a few minutes of thought, and Guillaume made the call with . He was dominated by Robert’s , but the board ran out     , giving Guillaume the ace-high straight to knock Robert out and take control of the chip lead. He is now sitting on top of the leaderboard, with a chip stack of around 2.8 million chips. Robert will collect $4,571 for his deep run.

Here are a few photos from the first level of Day 3:

Dave Tazbaz

Eric Despres

Jeff Cote

Alexander Saladze

Manfred Gunther

Chrishan Sivasundaram

Ronnie Gerein

Robert Leboeuf

Peter Johnson

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