Jeremie Bilodeau started today as one of the chip leaders but had dropped down in the past few levels. He still had around 665K when he lost his final pot defending his big blind from aggression by Vincent Jacques. We missed the action but by the time the chips got in the middle, Vincent had trips with a ten in his hand and two on board.
17th place: Jeremie Bilodeau, $18,810
The tournament has been paused while tournament staff complete a full seating redraw with 18 players remaining in the action. When play resumed momentarily, the players will be seated on two tables:
Table 38 (Feature Table)
Table 39
Marc-André Ladouceur has been eliminated by James Armstrong in 19th place. Marc-André 3-bet-shoved his remaining stack (around 300K) over James’ opening raise and when it folded around to James, he quickly called.
Marc-André: 
James: 
Marc-André was in trouble and when the community cards came out 
he was eliminated.
With this elimination there will be break as there is a full seating redraw with 18 players remaining.
19th place: Marc-André Ladouceur, $16,490
Out in 19th, good luck to @FrankBinette and @AnkushMandavia Back for commentary at Final Table tomorrow #CanadaCup
— Marc-Andre Ladouceur (@MarcAndre_FDawg) May 27, 2014
There are 36 players left in Event 10 and they have unbagged their chips and play has just resumed in the event.
The remaining field is pretty impressive overall. There’s a November Niner still in the action (Marc-Etienne McLaughlin), several past Playground Poker side-event final table-ists (Alexender Wong, Geoffrey Robert McNeely, Bill Kontaratos, Jeff Cote), Players Club members Philippe Plouffe and Chris McClung, and talented Playground regulars like Carlo Nini, Steve Toulch (famous for his banter with Scotty Nguyen in the WSOP broadcasts a few years back) and quite a few more players who are a threat to go all the way.
Good luck!
The big-name players continue to fall in the Main Event of the PokerStars Canada Cup as Steven Silverman has been eliminated in 24th place. When we arrived at the table Steven was all in and there had already been a call by François Binette. Action folded around the rest of the table and the players showed down.
Steven: 
François: 
The flop was cruel to Steven. 
gave him the pair in the window only to have François hit his set when the door card was unveiled. The board ran out 
and Steven was off to get his payout coupon.
24th place: Steven Silverman, $14,740
Jonathan Duhamel has been eliminated in 25th place from the feature table. Duhamel started the day relatively short-stacked and had just 143K in his stack to start the hand. When it folded around to him in the small blind, he shoved into Antonio Esfandiari in the big blind. Antonio is playing over 1M in chips and he quickly called.
Jonathan: 
Antonio: 
The flop kept Antonio’s Ace-high in front: 
. The turn 
gave Jonathan an open-ended straight draw but gave Antonio the flush draw – but the 
was a blank for both players and Antonio’s Ace held.
25th place: Jonathan Duhamel, $12,990
Out of @PokerStars #CanadaCup in 25th place but had a blast! Nice to score both the HR and ME! Will be back on french/english webcast tomo!
— Jonathan Duhamel (@JonathanDuhamel) May 27, 2014
Amer Sulaiman has been eliminated in 27th place by Thiago Nishijima.
Amer opened the action with a min-raise from the UTG +1 position. Action folded around to Thiago who 3-bet to 68K. It continued to fold back to Amer who flat called.
The flop was dealt: and Amer instantly open-shoved his last 128K. Thiago wasn’t happy about it, but in just a few seconds he called and flipped over a pocket pair 
, while Amer turned over for a pair of eights.
The turn was perfect for Thiago who made his set, and Amer got up from his seat and could only watch in futility as the 
couldn’t change his fate.
27th place: Amer Sulaiman, $12,990
The PokerStars Canada Cup Main Event has reached Day 4 – the penultimate day in the event that will wind up with the final table tomorrow. There are 27 players left in contention in the event but of course the pay jumps are huge – the next player to be eliminated will get $12,990 while first place is over $360K!
Players are taking their seats on two tables on the floor of the Tournament Hall and the feature table on stage. The tournament will again be live streamed via Pokerstars.tv with commentary by James Hartigan and Joe Stapleton.
It all gets underway in minutes, so stay tuned for some amazing poker action!
Event 10 is a $1,000 + $100 No Limit Hold’em Freezeout event in the PokerStars Canada Cup. 149 players started the event at 1:30pm today and 36 players will return tomorrow (Tuesday May 26) at 1pm for Day 2. The following table lists the redrawn seating for all players in the tournament plus the player-reported chip counts of each player who bagged chips at the end of Day 1.
| First Name | Last Name | Seat | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alek | Stasiak | Table 66 – Seat 6 | 332,500 |
| Alexander | Livingston | Table 61 – Seat 7 | 144,700 |
| Alexender | Wong | Table 61 – Seat 2 | 171,300 |
| Andre | Vezina | Table 65 – Seat 7 | 70,600 |
| Bill | Kontaratos | Table 65 – Seat 2 | 169,100 |
| Carlo | Nini | Table 65 – Seat 6 | 73,500 |
| Chris | McClung | Table 66 – Seat 8 | 162,600 |
| Christopher | Clisby | Table 62 – Seat 9 | 70,900 |
| Conrado | Corpus | Table 61 – Seat 6 | 98,100 |
| Costa | Ziakoulis | Table 66 – Seat 5 | 52,900 |
| Daniel | Watton | Table 65 – Seat 5 | 181,000 |
| David | Barter | Table 62 – Seat 4 | 83,400 |
| Dejan | Kovinic | Table 61 – Seat 4 | 56,800 |
| Edin | Cekic | Table 66 – Seat 1 | 139,900 |
| Frederic | Tisseur | Table 61 – Seat 1 | 45,100 |
| Geoffrey Robert | McNeely | Table 65 – Seat 8 | 50,200 |
| Jeff | Cote | Table 65 – Seat 1 | 77,100 |
| Jiachen | Gong | Table 66 – Seat 4 | 115,200 |
| Jordan | Westmorland | Table 65 – Seat 9 | 239,100 |
| Joseph | Hanna | Table 61 – Seat 3 | 36,900 |
| Louis | Boutin | Table 61 – Seat 9 | 79,800 |
| Marc Etienne | Mclaughlin | Table 62 – Seat 7 | 50,600 |
| Mario | Lim | Table 66 – Seat 3 | 119,400 |
| Mike | Fraser | Table 65 – Seat 3 | 97,700 |
| Nicolas | Aubin | Table 62 – Seat 1 | 81,100 |
| Philippe | Plouffe | Table 62 – Seat 2 | 66,500 |
| Pierre-Paul | Paulin | Table 62 – Seat 6 | 47,100 |
| Radu | Pop Mircea | Table 61 – Seat 8 | 70,200 |
| Rodney | Lawrence | Table 66 – Seat 7 | 45,700 |
| Salomon | Ponte | Table 66 – Seat 9 | 50,400 |
| Scott | Shore | Table 61 – Seat 5 | 109,900 |
| Shayam | Srinivasan | Table 65 – Seat 4 | 71,200 |
| Stephane | Dallaire | Table 66 – Seat 2 | 72,400 |
| Steve | Toulch | Table 62 – Seat 3 | 64,900 |
| Thanh | Phu | Table 62 – Seat 8 | 213,700 |
| Trung Hieu | Hoang | Table 62 – Seat 5 | 120,000 |
Day 3 is now complete in the Main Event of the PokerStars Canada Cup and just 27 players remain in contention in the tournament.
Play was extremely quick all day and it ended up taking just over 5 hours to move from the 72nd place elimination to the 28th place elimination which signalled the end of the day.
Players will return for Day 4 tomorrow (Tuesday May 27) at 11am and play will continue until a 9-handed final table is set.
| First Name | Last Name | Seat | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amer | Sulaiman | Table 34 – Seat 3 | 247,000 |
| Amirmasoud | Babakhani | Table 39 – Seat 5 | 250,000 |
| Ankush | Mandavia | Table 39 – Seat 8 | 571,000 |
| Antonio | Esfandiari | Table 39 – Seat 1 | 970,000 |
| Francois | Binette | Table 38 – Seat 9 | 898,000 |
| Francois | Goulet | Table 34 – Seat 4 | 1,523,000 |
| James | Armstrong | Table 39 – Seat 4 | 95,000 |
| Jeremie | Bilodeau | Table 39 – Seat 3 | 956,000 |
| Johnny | Mazzaferro | Table 38 – Seat 1 | 258,000 |
| Jonas | Mackoff | Table 34 – Seat 2 | 423,000 |
| Jonathan | Duhamel | Table 39 – Seat 9 | 164,000 |
| Justin | Miller | Table 34 – Seat 6 | 293,000 |
| Kevin | MacDonald | Table 38 – Seat 5 | 241,000 |
| Laurence | Grondin | Table 34 – Seat 7 | 800,000 |
| Marc Andre | Ladouceur | Table 39 – Seat 6 | 216,000 |
| Marcello | Delgrasso | Table 34 – Seat 1 | 482,000 |
| McKenzie James | Liebzeit | Table 38 – Seat 6 | 164,000 |
| Micah | Johnson | Table 38 – Seat 7 | 280,000 |
| Rayan | Chamas | Table 34 – Seat 5 | 2,682,000 |
| Robert | Notkin | Table 34 – Seat 9 | 1,290,000 |
| Ryan | Rivers | Table 38 – Seat 3 | 837,000 |
| Spencer | Stacey | Table 39 – Seat 7 | 229,000 |
| Steven | Silverman | Table 38 – Seat 8 | 139,000 |
| Tamer | Alkamli | Table 39 – Seat 2 | 712,000 |
| Theodore | Doukas | Table 38 – Seat 4 | 367,000 |
| Thiago | Nishijima | Table 34 – Seat 8 | 1,253,000 |
| Vincent | Jacques | Table 38 – Seat 2 | 988,000 |
