With just 6 players left in the Main Event we got some new shots of the players and their stacks, which now include white 25K chips and purple 100K chips.
In a very quick and straightforward hand considering how deep in the event play has reached, Yannick Lamarre-Delooz has eliminated Daniel Gagné in 7th place.
Yannick raised on the button to 300K – a standard min-raise – and Daniel went all-in. Daniel Gagnon, in the Big Blind, immediately folded and Yannick called in an instant.
Daniel: 
Yannick: 
The flop was about as good as Daniel could expect in this spot: 
but the turn 
and the 
on the river didn’t get him all the way to a flush, and Yannick won the hand.
7th place: Daniel Gagné, $28,350
Alexandre Lavigne – a frequent occupant of final table seats in big events at Playground Poker – has been eliminated in 8th place.
A little context: the hand prior to this one, John Helou lost a huge pot to Noeung Troeung, shipping him over 2M chips after Noeung’s strong value bet of 1.4M on the river holding a straight, while John simply mucked and paid him the chips.
The very next hand, Alexandre open shoves on the button holding 2,025,000. Noeung quickly folded and as soon as he did, John called.
Alexandre: 
John: 
The flop was very positive for John: 
, but the turn brought Alexandre a lot of outs to a chop – but alas the river 
was not one of them.
8th place: Alexandre Lavigne, $20,620
Here are updated chip counts of the remaining players in the Main Event as level 32 begins.
The 8 players remaining are on their first break of the afternoon, and while they’re on break the tournament staff will remove the orange 1K chips from play.
The first player has been eliminated today and it was Lorne Wechsler, who came into the day as one of the shorter stacks and lost a big pot to Noeung Troeung in the early action.
9th place: Lorne Wechsler, $15,360
The early action has been a little tentative with only Noeung Troeung managing to add many chips to his stack.
We arrived at the table to see that Daniel Gagné, one of the shorter stacks to start the final table, was all in for 1,480,000 on a flop of 
. Action was on Noeung, who went in the tank for about a minute before making the call.
Daniel: 
Noeung: 
The turn and river came 
and Daniel’s set of deuces held up.
Here are some shots of the players on the final table of the Playground Poker Montreal Festival Main Event.
The players have all arrived and unbagged their chips and the TD has performed official counts and delivered his instructions to the remaining 9 players.
To start the day the dealer button is on Seat 3, who was in the small blind during the final hand played last night, and the tournament is in level 30 with 18:49 left.
The official count to start the day:
Day 4 of the Playground Poker Montreal Festival Main Event starts tomorrow (September 3rd) at noon as the 9 players remaining will play down to a winner and compete for the big money in the event. The final seating redraw in the tournament was done with 10 players left, so the seating assignments in the following table are the same as reported in the last redraw update earlier tonight. The button will start on Seat 3 when action resumes.
Note that the following counts are player-supplied and unverified. The actual chips in play were sealed at the end of action today and will not be unsealed until the players do so tomorrow.
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First Name,Last Name,Seat[attr sort=”asc”],Chip Count
Yannick,Lamarre-Delooz,Final Table – Seat 1,”2,535,000″
Daniel,Gagne,Final Table – Seat 2,”1,740,000″
Daniel,Gagnon,Final Table – Seat 3,”6,990,000″
Thi,Nguyen,Final Table – Seat 4,”2,550,000″
Michael,Mellor,Final Table – Seat 5,”3,875,000″
Alexandre,Lavigne,Final Table – Seat 6,”2,445,000″
Lorne,Wechsler,Final Table – Seat 7,”1,890,000″
Noeung,Troeung,Final Table – Seat 8,”5,400,000″
John,Helou,Final Table – Seat 9,”3,910,000″
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