A huge pot just developed on table 70, resulting in a new chip leader.
We caught up to the action on the flop in a three-way pot between Chan An Luong, Mikael Guenard and Eric Aucoin. With the board showing 
, Chan An fired a bet of 185,000 into a pot which already had a few hundred thousand in it. Mikael 3bet all-in from the cutoff for 517,000, and Eric then 4bet all-in for around twice that amount from the button. Chan An went into the tank for a minute, before folding what he later said was Ax 8x.
Mikael and Eric were then asked to table their hands, and Mikael saw he was in big trouble with only 
, as his opponent flop a set with 
. The running 
and 
brought no change, eliminating Mikael in the process.
With that pot, Eric climbed to around 2,600,000, and took over the chip lead here in Day 3 of the Main Event in the Montréal Poker Expo. Moments later he scooped another big pot off of Chan An, bringing him up to around 3,200,000.
Only 19 remain, and with one more elimination we will have another full seating redraw.
