Here’s what the players had to say during this Day 3 of the PokerStars Canada Cup Main Event:

Couple more days in Montreal then Vegas on Thursday for WSOP! First event will be the 10k 2-7 triple draw.

— Mike Watson (@SirWatts) May 26, 2014

Out 35th, snuck into the profit!

— Mike Watson (@SirWatts) May 26, 2014

Kawabonga! Up to 480k

— Laurence Grondin (@LadyLuckPoker) May 26, 2014

Just got moved to the @JonathanDuhamel Invitational. Hi @sportengueule Hi @Stapes Hi #Mom Im a shawty tho

— Marc-Andre Ladouceur (@MarcAndre_FDawg) May 26, 2014

Seems like a fair table in this field. First 7 seats: @MagicAntonio, @vluff, me, @AnkushMandavia, the decano, @Pass_Lefrancois, Siebert

— Jonas Mackoff (@donut604) May 26, 2014

Busto 53 Its was a good run @PlaygroundPoker Had kk 3 Times no Big action lost As Q vs 99 all in pré vs Big blind shove , Vegas hère i come

— AmiAlibay (@AmiAlibay) May 26, 2014

Just lost a 950k pot AQ vs A2 aipf for the chiplead. Same thing every single time I got a big stack in a tourny.

— Jonathan Driscoll (@JDogDriscoll) May 26, 2014

Some more eliminations as the day has progressed.

Eliminations, 37th to 45th, $9,700

37. Carter Swidler
38. Maxime Ouimet
39. Benoit Pesant
40. Doug Hartwick
41. Raffi Don Dayian
42. Jeffrey Kennedy
43. Robert Mcadam
44. Christian Paradis
45. Johnny A Benehoutsos

In the mean time, Marc-André Ladouceur has been move to the feature table, and is right next to fellow PokerStars pro Jonathan Duhamel.

Canadian pro Mike Watson has been eliminated in 35th place. He was on the button facing a preflop raise of 20K from François Goulet when he declared all-in for 185K. François didn’t seem very comfortable but eventually made the call.

Mike:
François:

The flop was perfect for François – and the turn gave François the flush and the win. The river was a meaningless .

Francois Goulet (AJ) vs Mike Watson (AK)

Mike Watson is All-In

We are back from break, and level 20 has just begun. Here are the chip counts going into this round:

Feature Table 

1. Jeremie Bilodeau – 1.12M
2. James Armstrong – 116K
3. empty seat
4. empty seat
5. Jonathan Duhamel – 307K
6. Micah Johnson – 186K
7. Theodore Doukas – 342K
8. Viktor Leonov – 165K
9. Robert Notkin – 1.13M

Table 30

1. Ryan Rivers – 638K
2. McKenzie James Liebzeit – 365K
3. empty seat
4. Francois Goulet – 583K
5. Johnny Mazzaferro – 146K
6. Carter Swidler – 220K
7. Marc-André Ladouceur – 233K
8. empty seat
9. Thiago Nishijima – 1.25M

Table 31

1. Antonio Esfandiari – 802K
2. Vincent Jacques – 144K
3. Jonas Mackoff – 258K
4. Ankush Madavia – 245K
5. empty seat
6. Pascal Lefrancois – 267K
7. Sylvain Siebert – 835K
8. Amer Sulaiman – 313K

Table 38 

1. empty seat
2. Tamer Alkamli – 609K
3. Laurence Grondin – 276K
4. Marcello Delgrasso – 356K
5. empty seat
6. Steven Silverman – 232K
7. Frank Katana – 294K
8. Francois Binette – 970K
9. Spencer Stacey – 310K

Table 39 

1. Chang Whan Sohn – 670K
2. Doris Charlebois – 290K
3. Jonathan Driscoll – 280K
4. empty seat
5. Marco Caza – 241K
6. Michael Watson – 124K
7. Rayan Chamas – 2.2M
8. Justin Miller – 288K
9. Amir Babakhani – 298K

The eliminations from the Main Event have continued pretty quickly with just a few slowdowns, so considering that the tournament is playing down to 27 players, it should be a relatively short (though never easy) day.

For the record, here are the eliminations in more of the early pay levels.

Eliminations, 46th to 54th, $8,340

46. William Molson
47. Francis Labonte
48. Alek Stasiak
49. Domenico Agatiello
50. Levon Dedeyan
51. Jason James
52. Alec Brandstatter
53. Ami Alibay
54. Mathieu Boulanger-Vaugeois

Eliminations, 55th to 63rd, $6,980

55. Marc-Olivier Carpentier-Perrault
56. David Assouline
57. Ryan Pignatelli
58. Jeremy Thompson
59. Vincent Bellissimo
60. Thomas Lefort
61. Alemu Makonen
62. Alexandre Lavigne
63. Jonathan richard Crute

These are approximate chip counts of some notable players, including players who have had past deep runs here in events at Playground Poker Club:

• Antonio Esfandiari – 200K
• Ankush Mandavia – 351K
• Benoit Pesant – 130K
• Carter Swidler – 402K
• Johnny Mazzaferro – 434K
• Jonathan Driscoll – 696K
• Jonathan Duhamel – 284K
• Kevin MacDonald – 223K
• Laurence Grondin – 327K
• Marc-André Ladouceur – 183K
• Marco Caza – 307K
• Michael Watson – 103K
• Pascal Lefrancois – 402K
• Steven Silverman – 263K
• Will Molson – 94K

Players are back from their first break of the day and we took the opportunity to update the leaderboard at this stage in the tournament.

1. Rayan Chamas – 1.4M
2. Jeremie Bilodeau – 1.2M
3. Thiago Nishijima – 865K
4. Sylvain Siebert – 850K
5. Robert Notkin – 756K

Updated counts for some of the other notable players are coming in a few minutes.

Here are some photos taken throughout the day:

Laurence Grondin

Jonas Mackoff

Rayan Chamas

Frank Katana

Johnny Mazzaferro

Amer Sulaiman

Marco Caza

Marcello Delgrasso

Chang Whan Sohn

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As expected there has been a rush to the cashier as 9 players have already been eliminated.

Eliminations, 72nd to 64th, $6,010

64. Medhat Ramzy
65. Nick Nickoletopoulos
66. Louis Boutin
67. Jean-François Bouchard
68. Eric Place
69. Ellis Polsky
70. Ronald Eaton
71. Ian O’Shaughnessy
72. Daniel Denghel

Play has begun in Day 3 in the Main Event of the PokerStars Canada Cup. They’ll play 20 minutes in level 17 and then the tournament will move to 90-minute levels.

Keep in mind that you can follow all of the action via live stream. Visit the Live Stream page here on the blog or go directly to the source at PokerStars.tv to tune in.