We took a walk through the room and took a few photos of the players in our Event 11 – $500 + $50 Pot Limit Omaha:
Photos from the field
2014/05/27 10:12pm by
8th place: Jordan Westmorland
2014/05/27 9:45pm by
We’ve just lost Jordan Westmorland on this final table of Event 10.
8th place: Jordan Westmorland, $4,700
9th place: Bill Kontaratos
2014/05/27 9:20pm by
After losing over 400K with QQ versus Daniel Watton’s KK a few hands earlier, Bill Kontaratos was left with under 5BB to work with. He eventually got it in a few hands later, but his 
failed to improve over the 
of Carlos Nini, ending his tournament short in 9th place.
9th place: Bill Kontaratos, $3,500
Into level 26
2014/05/27 8:47pm by
We are still 10-handed here at the Main Event of the PokerStars Canada Cup, and here is an update on the chip counts:
Final Table
- Thiago Nishijima – 2.680M
- James Armstrong – 1.060M
- Antonio Esfandiari – 575K
- Francois Goulet – 1.070M
- Ankush Mandavia – 1.415M
- Rayan Chamas – 2.265M
- Robert Notkin – 1.310M
- Justin Miller – 2.680M
- Vincent Jacques – 2.555M
- Ryan Rivers – 1.735M
Chip counts final table
2014/05/27 6:59pm by
With one elimination to go before the end of Day 4, here is how the chips are currently spread out on this final table:
Final Table
- Thiago Nishijima – 2.10M
- James Armstrong – 1.62M
- Antonio Esfandiari – 1.87M
- Francois Goulet – 750K
- Ankush Mandavia – 1.24M
- Rayan Chamas – 1.95M
- Robert Notkin – 1.23M
- Justin Miller – 3.15M
- Vincent Jacques – 1.47M
- Ryan Rivers – 1.87M
Play is about to resume in level 25.
Final table seating draw
2014/05/27 5:21pm by
The Main Event of the PokerStars Canada Cup has now reached it’s final table of ten players, and the players will be seated according to the following seating chart:
Final Table
- Thiago Nishijima
- James Armstrong
- Antonio Esfandiari
- Francois Goulet
- Ankush Mandavia
- Rayan Chamas
- Robert Notkin
- Justin Miller
- Vincent Jacques
- Ryan Rivers
The day will end with one more elimination, giving us the official final table of 9 players, which will resume tomorrow at 11:00am.
Congratulations to our ten finalists!
Binette falls short of final table
2014/05/27 5:17pm by
Francois Binette fell short stacked, and moved in his final 5 big blinds with 
from early position. Antonio Esfandiari made the call from late position holding 
, and they ended up going to the flop heads-up.
Before the cards were out, Antonio apologized in advance for winning the hand, saying whenever he holds a live KQ vs an ace, he always wins. He even went on to say that it’s not a 60/40, but rather a 90/10, which made the table laugh a little.
Surely enough, the window card was a 
, and that pair was enough to win him the hand on the 
board.
The tournament has now reached it’s final table of 10 players, and Day 4 will conclude with one more elimination.
11th place: Francois Binette, $26,960
Chip counts of final 12
2014/05/27 4:52pm by
With the players on a short break, we took a moment to count the stacks of the remaining players. Here are the current counts:
Table 38 (Feature Table)
- empty seat
- Thiago Nishijima – 2.55M
- Robert Notkin – 1.42M
- empty seat
- Francois Binette – 253K
- Theodore Doukas – 343K
- empty seat
- James Armstrong – 1.80M
- Antonio Esfandiari – 1.74M
Table 39
- Vincent Jacques – 1.53M
- Justin Miller – 2.51M
- Francois Goulet – 1.27M
- Rayan Chamas – 1.80M
- empty seat
- Ankush Mandavia – 1.64M
- Ryan Rivers – 494K
- empty seat
- empty seat
MacDonald’s run ends
2014/05/27 4:33pm by
Kevin MacDonald, who is fresh off a 5th place winner in Event 4 – High Roller, has been eliminated from the Main Event of the PokerStars Canada Cup.
On a flop of 
, Justin Miller check min-raised Kevin’s 50K bet, to which Kevin responded with an all-in of 595K. Justin went into the tank for a minute, but eventually made the call.
Kevin: 
Justin: 
Justin remained ahead, with the turn and river bringing the 
and 
, and Kevin picked up his second $20K+ cash of this series.
13th place: Kevin MacDonald, $21,920
Stasiak, Watton leading Event 10
2014/05/27 3:54pm by
Alek Stasiak and Daniel Watton, sitting side-by-side on table 62, are dominating Event 10 for the time being. They each have more than double the 3rd biggest stack, and are a comfortable 3+ times the average stack.
Here is the leaderboard going into level 16:
- Alek Stasiak – 570K
- Daniel Watton – 494K
- Louis Boutin – 241K
- Bill Kontaratos – 211K
- Jordan Westmorland – 206K
- Mario Lim – 202K
- Chris McClung – 199K
