With 15 players left, here is the current seating configuration for the players remaining. There was a full redraw at 18 players and then one player was moved to balance the tables following an elimination since the redraw.
Table 62
Table 66
The tournament has picked up steam as we say goodbye to Michael Malette, Derek Lerner, Amir Babakhani, and Ami Alibay.
First to go in 19th place was Michael Malette, following which there was a full seating redraw with 18 player remaining. Almost immediately after the redraw we also lost Derek Lerner, Amir Babakhani, and Ami Alibay.
16th place: Ami Alibay, $7,320
17th place: Amir Babakhani, $7,320
18th place: Derek Lerner, $7,320
While we were covering other hands, two other players have been eliminated, one before Justin Chung and one following him.
20th place: Theodore Doukas, $6,180
22nd place: Amine Mouna, $5,360
Justin Chung has been eliminated in 21st place by Yannick Lamarre-Delooz. Justin raised all-in and Yannick re-shoved to isolate and the rest of the players folded.
Justin: 
Yannick: 
Justin was way behind and the board runout only settled matters: 
.
21st place: Justin Chung, $6,180
Just as soon as we posted that Derek Lerner was flush with chips, he lost a huge hand to John Helou.
We missed the action in the hand but the players were all in preflop on a board that ran out 
. Unfortunately for him, Derek missed with his 
while John held a made hand: 
to double up.
…But not in tournament chips. Derek Lerner’s stack is just fine with 22 players left, and he’s clearly enjoying himself and very comfortable at his table. It’s just that players keep offering to show their hands for $10, and Derek can’t pass up the opportunity to make the big fold and pay to see his opponents holdings.
Just now he jokingly asked the TD if he could have an advance on whatever his prize will eventually be, because he doesn’t have an unlimited supply of cash on hand!
Since the last break there have been three more eliminations, leaving just 22 players still in the Main Event.
23rd place: Nicola Basile, $5,360
24th place: Presten Cloutier, $5,360
25th place: Denis Cyr, $4,740
Players have just returned from their first break of the day and we took the opportunity to get full chip counts for the remaining field. The chip leader currently is Daniel Gagnon with 4.1M but he’s followed closely by Alexandre Lavigne with 3.6M.
Alain Jobin was the chip leader following the three Day 1s in the event and managed to remain among the chip leaders for much of Day 2 until the last two levels, when he lost much of his stack and only bagged up 247K at the end of Day 2.
In the first level of Day 3, however, he managed to build his stack very quickly back to over 1.5M – but now has hit the rail in 27th place. We don’t have details of the hand, but from accounts by players at the table the player who eliminated him made a tough hero call on a big river bluff by Alain.
A few minutes later Dustin Melanson was also eliminated in 26th position.
Andrew Pereira was eliminated in 29th place and Pierre Daigle in 28th place leaving just 27 players left in the Main Event. As per the rules of this event, there will be a full seating redraw and play will continue in level 25. There is a break following this level during which time we’ll update the chip counts for the remaining players.
Pierre was the chip leader to start the day but the hand prior to being eliminated he lost a huge hand to Alexandre Lavigne. Pierre and Alexandre were the only two in the hand on a flop of . Alexandre raised and Pierre went all-in over the top, and was called by Alexandre.
Pierre: 
Alexandre:
Alexandre had outflopped and trapped Pierre. The runout of 
was no help and Alexandre stacked a massive pot and is the chip leader in the tournament.
Alexandre Lavigne
Here is the new seating arrangement.
Table 62
Table 65
Table 66
