It took almost no time after the bubble burst to eliminate the first three players in the money – Tyler Franz, Mario Page, and Alexandre Gelinas were out in 8th to 6th respectively. This leaves 5 players in the tournament, and there has just been a seating redraw. Play will resume 5-handed once everyone has taken their seat.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège
Laurent	Dubé	Seat 1
Michel	Lemieux	Seat 2
Patrick	McGinnis	Seat 3
Olivier	Lamarre	Seat 4
Manfred	Gunther	Seat 5

Jason Mottershead is an enormously experienced tournament player who seems to make deep runs regularly in events here, no matter if the buy-in is $110 or $1,100 or more. Jason spent most of the latter part of today as the chip leader – and at times his lead became relatively extended – he wasn’t quite lapping the field, but it was going very smoothly for him.

Unforunately for him, in the span of just a few minutes Jason has gone from chip leader to the player out on the money bubble. In his ultimate hand, Michel Lemieux raised to 25K from utg/button, Laurent Dubé in seat 2 folded and Jason raised all-in from the bb. Michel snap-tossed a 5K chip to the table by way of calling.

Jason:
Michel:

The flop kept Michel well in the lead though it did give Jason some additional outs: . The turn was no help and left Jason with only the 3 remaining Jacks able to save him. The river… the and Jason left the tournament area.

Everyone else is now in the money and play will continue on 2 tables until 5 players remain.

The action in the Mix Max tourney has continued to move at a breakneck speed, and there are just 9 players remaining on 3 tables.

The final table in the event will be reached when 5 players remain, so there is a little more table-balancing and one more table to close before the final table looms. Meanwhile, the tournament is now on the money bubble. There was an attempt to discuss a bubble save, but one player shut this down immediately (any agreement has to be unanimous) and play continues.

As often happens in a tournament of this kind, when a particular barrier is reached there seems to be a pivot point for the tourney and the action accelerates – and then some! In this case it was reaching 30 players remaining when play continued with a maximum of 6 players per table – in just 2 levels since then, there have been a bunch of eliminations to the point that there are only 17 players left – just one off from the next cutoff when play will move to 4-way action!

The chip leaders in the tournament at this point are Jason Mottershead and Manfred Gunther, both of whom are playing over 130K stacks, with Marc Antoine Levesque just a little bit back, playing around 120K. Following the leaders are several players with over 90K.

A few recent photos:

Registration has closed in the Mix Max tournament and when everyone was added there were a total of 66 players in the event. This adds up to a prize pool that will be distributed according to the following table.

In terms of the current tournament action – there are now 49 players remaining in 10-handed play, and play is set to reduce to 8-handed action after just 1 more elimination. Players aren’t re-drawn when the Max players at the table changes – the table capacity goes down naturally as players are eliminated and tournament staff makes sure they balance with the new capacity in mind – but nevertheless, it is the first important inflection point in the event.

Pos	Prize | Bourse
1	$1,862
2	$1,350
3	$1,000
4	$740
5	$540
6	$400
7	$290
8	$220

The players in the Mix Max tourney have left the tables for their first break of the day. There are a few last-minute players still taking their seats and after the break we’ll have the final number of participants as well as getting the prize pool numbers for the tournament.

The Tournament Director has made some small structure changes to the event. Play will move to 8-handed at the tables when the field is down to 48 players, and subsequently it will move to 6-handed at 30 players and 4-handed at 16 players remaining.