The action continues to move quickly as we’ve had a few more eliminations from the tournament.
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’ 
.
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.
Table 39 will be made up of the following players to start Day 4.
Table 38 will be made up of the following players to start Day 4.
Table 34 will be made up of the following players to start Day 4.
Here are the final Day 3 chip counts and the Day 4 seating assignments for Event 8. 84 players started Day 3 and just 25 will return for Day 4 at 12:00pm on Wednesday, October 2. Day 4 will play down until 9 players remain.
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| First Name | Last Name | Seat | Chips |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vineet | Pahuja | Table 38 – Seat 3 | 4,450,000 |
| Eric | Despres | Table 38 – Seat 4 | 3,625,000 |
| Eric | Larose | Table 34 – Seat 8 | 3,615,000 |
| Michael | Linster | Table 38 – Seat 5 | 3,445,000 |
| Roger | Lamia | Table 39 – Seat 5 | 2,680,000 |
| Dawn | Mootrey | Table 39 – Seat 1 | 2,655,000 |
| Zeng | Yi Xie | Table 38 – Seat 7 | 2,650,000 |
| Guillaume | Rivet | Table 34 – Seat 3 | 2,580,000 |
| Sebastien | Drolets-poitras | Table 34 – Seat 9 | 2,540,000 |
| Kevin | Dawe | Table 38 – Seat 2 | 2,170,000 |
| Maxime | Laberge | Table 34 – Seat 4 | 2,035,000 |
| Jeremie | Trepanier | Table 39 – Seat 7 | 1,975,000 |
| Colin | Piche | Table 34 – Seat 2 | 1,900,000 |
| Russell | Crane | Table 39 – Seat 8 | 1,880,000 |
| Bill | Kontaratos | Table 34 – Seat 5 | 1,880,000 |
| Henri | Balcazar | Table 38 – Seat 6 | 1,550,000 |
| Jonathan | Bussieres | Table 38 – Seat 1 | 1,435,000 |
| Pirooz | Bayat | Table 38 – Seat 8 | 1,340,000 |
| Marc Andre | Girard | Table 39 – Seat 4 | 1,340,000 |
| Jeff | Cote | Table 34 – Seat 1 | 815,000 |
| Terrance | Eishens | Table 39 – Seat 6 | 770,000 |
| Wei | Xu | Table 39 – Seat 3 | 520,000 |
| Mike | Saragossi | Table 34 – Seat 6 | 445,000 |
| Michael | Tremblay | Table 34 – Seat 7 | 128,000 |
| Francesco | Buffone | Table 39 – Seat 2 | 45,000 |
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.