A huge hand just occurred on table 39! It all started with an open from Brian Mclean to 175,000 from under the gun. Fazeel Munawar made the call from the cutoff, and was followed by an all-in from Hezkiel Menache on the button, who held 410,000. The small blind got out of the way, and Sammy Chao announced he was all-in for just over 900,000. Brian Mclean came over the top of the two all-in players, which forced Fazeel out of the hand, who open-folded .

Brian:
Hezkiel:
Sammy:

Board:

The best hand held, and Hezkiel more than tripled up his stack. Brian took the remainder of Sammy’s stack, sending him to the cashiers in 17th place.

Marc Doyer-St-Jean has been among the chip leaders since mid-way through Day 2, but he has just lost a huge pot on a cooler as Tedde Ballanger doubled through, putting him under the chip average for the first time tonight.

Tedde open shoved from middle position and Marc called very quickly. The other players folded and the cards were on their backs:

Tedde:
Marc:

Marc not only had Tedde dominated but also kept any possible diamond draws from being any use.

The flop of was not kind to Marc, however, and the turn and river just twisted the dagger. Ballanger stacked up 1.2M total after the hand, and Marc is left with about the same.

Jason Mottershead was falling quite short, and with the blinds just around the corner, he opted to move his last few blinds in from under the gun. It looked as if the steal would go through, until Danny Rouleau woke up with a monster in the big blind.

Jason:
Danny:

Jason was in a world of trouble, and couldn’t overcome Danny’s premium on a board reading to finish in 18th place.

Adeel Aman Bangash only had a few blinds left when he pushed from middle position in an unopened pot, and he found a snap call from Brian Mclean in the big blind.

Adeel:
Brian:

Adeel almost found the help he was looking for, as he flopped an open-ended straight draw, but in the end the board was the last of his Event 1 run.

We also lost Pierre-Luc Gaudreau in the mean time, as he fell to the hands of chip leader Marc Doyer-St-Jean.

Vincenzo Delia was the next casualty, as he was all-in preflop with versus the of Fazeel Munawar. The board was of no help to him, and he was eliminated in 20th place.

Sammy Chao lost almost half his stack, as he 3bet Fazeel Munawar’s open up to 350,000, and then folded to the 4bet all-in. He left himself with 450,000 in chips, which he managed to double-up the very next hand, as his overcame Hezkiel’s in a preflop all-in war. Hezkiel was left with only 200,000 after the hand.

Isham Yamani was crippled in a battle of the blinds, and he moved in his ~450,000 stack in from the small blind and found a quick call from Danny Rouleau in the big blind.

Isham:
Danny:

He was left with 70,000 after Danny filled up on the board, but managed to triple it up the very next hand, until finally losing it moments later to place 19th.

With that elimination, we are now down to our final two tables, and play just entered level 28.

Welcome back to the third and final day of the Strike Out Cancer Event, which saw an impressive 1,186 entries combined over 4 starting flights. 290 players returned to the felts yesterday for Day 2, but by the end of the night, only 23 remained.

Leading the way into Day 3 is Marc Doyer-St-Jean, who bagged a total of 2,140,000, however he is closely followed by a handful of other players. The stacks are fairly close, and it’s still anyones game at this point.

There are a number of players to watch out for, including Ruben Perceval (1,580,000), who has proven to be a menace on the tables time and time again; Sammy Chao (1,050,000), who bubbled the final table of this very event in the last series here in April; Isham Yamani (550,000), who has final tabled this event twice in the past, as well as cashed in many other events here at Playground Poker Club; and Brian Bond (445,000), a past champion of this same event, who has also final tabled another opening event here earlier this year.

Play will continue until we have our champion of Event 1 of the Montréal Poker Expo, and players are battling it out for a sweet $29,120 cash prize, as well as a beautiful Champions Trophy!

Good luck!

Day 2 in the Strike Out Cancer event has concluded with just 23 players remaining of the 1168 entries that started the tournament. This is the official seating chart for the remaining players in the event. Play resumes on Monday August 24th at 7pm.

First Name	Last Name	Seat	Chip Count
Brian	Mclean	Table 36 - Seat 1	570,000
Pierre-Luc	Gaudreau	Table 36 - Seat 2	675,000
Marc	Doyer-St-Jean	Table 36 - Seat 3	2,140,000
Dominique	Morin	Table 36 - Seat 4	905,000
Adeel Aman	Bangash	Table 36 - Seat 5	315,000
Danny	Rouleau	Table 36 - Seat 6	650,000
Stephane	Gauthier	Table 36 - Seat 7	1,095,000
Brian	Bond	Table 36 - Seat 8	445,000
Fazeel	Munawar	Table 39 - Seat 1	1,785,000
Hezkiel	Menache	Table 39 - Seat 2	1,650,000
David	Nadler	Table 39 - Seat 3	1,165,000
Sammy	Chao	Table 39 - Seat 4	1,050,000
Vicenzo	Delia	Table 39 - Seat 5	290,000
Noah	Reboh	Table 39 - Seat 6	375,000
Isham	Yamani	Table 39 - Seat 7	550,000
George	Kazarian	Table 39 - Seat 8	1,205,000
Jason	Mottershead	Table 40 - Seat 1	1,010,000
Cherif	Si Hadj Mohand	Table 40 - Seat 2	1,900,000
Jonathan	Brassard	Table 40 - Seat 3	855,000
Mark Thomas	Wells	Table 40 - Seat 4	1,710,000
Ruben	Perceval	Table 40 - Seat 5	1,580,000
Ian	Armorer	Table 40 - Seat 6	960,000
Tedde	Ballanger	Table 40 - Seat 7	600,000

23 players have survived Day 2 of Event 1 – Strike Out Cancer Charity Event – and they will be back tomorrow at 7:00pm for the conclusion of this kickoff event of the Montréal Poker Expo. Leading the way is Marc Doyer-St-Jean, who bagged 2,140,000.

In a few moments, we will be publishing the new seating assignments for tomorrow, as well as the player-reported chip counts.