After losing big pots to Vincent Jacques and Robert Notkin, Thiago Nishijima fell on the short side of the leaderboard. He eventually got his last 795K all-in preflop with 
, and was called by Robert holding 
.
Thiago couldn’t improve his hand on the 
board, and his Main Event run ended in 7th place.
7th place: Thiago Nishijima, $61,300
Justing Miller fell to just below 1 million in chips before getting all of them into the middle with 
. He was up against the 
of Robert Notkin, who has been running quite well so far in this tournament.
Robert outflopped Justin on the 
flop, but the running 
gave Justin the winning hand, who doubled to around 2 million.
Vincent Jacques just took down another massive pot, as he called off Thiago Nishijima’s triple barrel semi-bluff.
Jacques raised from the button to 125K with 
, and was called by Thiago from the big blind holding 
. The flop brought out 
, and Thiago check-raised Vincent’s 125K bet up to 300K. On the 
turn, Thiago led out for 500K, which was called by Vincent. On the river 
, Thiago put out another 500K pot, and Vincent had to tank before finally committing the chips to win the hand.
With that pot Vincent is nearing the 4 million chip mark.
Francois Goulet was facing elimination at the very end of Day 4, but managed to make the winning hand on the river in an all-in flip with Antonio Esfandiari to survive onto the official final table of 9. He had a fierce start, eliminating James Armstrong in 9th place with a set of kings versus a set of fives. But a few orbits later he one again found himself with a short stack.
Sitting on just over 1M in chips, Francois 3bet jammed over Thiago Nishijima’s 135K open, but unfortunately ran himself into a tough spot.
Francois:
Thiago: 
With no help on the 
board, Francois was sent to the rail after a nice run in this Main Event.
8th place: Francois Goulet, $48,880
After losing a huge pot to Rayan Chamas a few orbits ago, Vincent Jacques is now running his stack back up. He just took almost 1.4M back from Rayan after he snap called Rayan’s 4bet shove preflop.
Rayan: 
Vincent: 
Vincent had the hand locked in by the turn, with the board showing 
, and he is now near the 2.8M mark.
For the second time tonight, we saw two players flop a set against each other. This time it was Ankush Mandavia and his that had Justin Miller’s crushed on a flop of 
. Neither player slow-played the hand, and they found themselves all-in on the flop. The turn and river 
changed nothing, and Ankush doubled up to around 1.8M.
Rayan Chamas just took a big pot off of Vincent Jacques. Il all started when Vincent opened preflop from UTG+1, and got the call from both Rayan in the small blind, and Robert Notkin from the big blind.
On the 
flop, Rayan led out for 175K, and got the call only from Vincent. The turn brought the , and Rayan led out again, for 350K this time, and Vincent called. On the river, Rayan took a few moments before moving his whole 1.205M stack into the middle. Vincent hesitated for a while, but eventually made the call.
Rayan tabled 
for the nut straight, and Vincent mucked 
for two pair. With that pot, Rayan moved up to over 3.7M in chips.
It’s a little bright on the final table with all the stage lights, but Rayan Chamas is prepared for this, as he brought a nifty pair of orange shades today.
The final table of the PokerStars Canada Cup Main Event is underway here at Playground Poker Club, and PokerStars.tv is here to bring you full coverage with hole cards exposed via stream. There is a one-hour delay on the stream, and since this final table began just over an hour ago, it is already running.
Here are the links for stream:
PokerStars.tv stream with English commentary
PokerStars.tv stream with French commentary
We will also be bringing you updates and photos via our Playground Poker Club blog site.
Good luck to our final tableists!
Ah bien dit donc! Nous aurons de la belle visite @JonathanDuhamel pour les 1er 90 minutes! @PokerStars #CanadaCup @RDSca Let's roll!
— Laurence Grondin (@LadyLuckPoker) May 28, 2014
The players are on a short break in Event 10, and these are the current chip counts:
Final Table
All the players have agreed to forego Day 3, and decided to play it out until there is a winner tonight. Coverage will be over for tonight, but the results will be posted when the tournament is over.
