With the elimination of Patrick Crivell in 17th place, the tournament reached its next seating redraw – but while the redraw info was being posted, another hand was finishing on another table, and Martin Rauss was eliminated as well.

Martin was eliminated when it folded around to him on the button and he shoved 7.9K with . He was called from the small blind by David Dong Ming Yan, who held . The board came and David’s AK-high won the hand, sending Martin to the rail.

Here are the redrawn seats.

Table 61

1. Ankush Mandavia
2. Open Seat
3. Jonathan Duhamel
4. Carlos Chadha
5. Nicholas Petrangelo
6. Samuel Chartier
7. Sylvain Siebert
8. Danny Lauzon

Table 66

1. Timothy Adams
2. Ami Alibay
3. Chanracy Khun
4. Jason Duval
5. Steven Silverman
6. David Dong Ming Yan
7. John Andress
8. Kevin MacDonald

Jeffrey Rossiter started the day short-stacked, having bagged just under 7.5K when play wrapped up last night, and today he was the first victim. He got it pretty good, holding but was called by and the on the flop put Jeffrey way behind and he couldn’t regain the lead with the and that completed the community cards.

A total of 34 players entered Event 4 of the PokerStars Canada Cup at Playground Poker Club. Event 4 is the $10,000 + $400 No Limit Hold’em High Roller Event. After 8 levels of play on Day 1 today just 20 players remain and will return for Day 2 at 1pm tomorrow (Wednesday May 22). This is the seating chart for Day 2 including the chip counts each player bagged up at the end of Day 1.

The players are now back from their 3rd break of the day and there were no last-minute registrations so the final tally stands at 34 players that started the event.

During the break we found the following 5 chip leaders. The situation hasn’t changed considerably since the last break, but that’s not to say that the action hasn’t been fierce.

1. Samuel Chartier – 100K
2. Sylvain Siebert – 100K
3. Marco Cannizzaro – 85K
4. Danny Lauzon – 78K
5. Jonathan Duhamel – 75K

The High Roller tourney has just had its second elimination as Jeffrey Cormier raised all-in preflop with his small 2,475 chip stack and was called by Steven Silverman.

Jeffrey:
Steven:

There was no sweat on the flop of giving Steven quads and making the turn and river entirely meaningless (but – they were the and ).

In a hand just moments later, PokerStars online pro Marc-André Ladouceur was also eliminated from the event.

Two hours of play have elapsed and players are about to take their first short break of the day. Note that unlike many tournaments at Playground, late registration continues beyond the first break in this event.

So far there are 28 players who have taken their seats with more rumoured (on Twitter and elsewhere) to be on their way, so it’s shaping up to be a decent turnout.