Heads-up action between Ami Alibay and Samuel Chartier was a relatively short affair, as Sam put in a dominating performance and he seemingly had an answer at every turn for anything Ami tried. By the final hand, the stack size had migrated from roughly 50-50 at the outset of 2-way action to about 80-20 in favour of Sam.

The final hand, when it came, came very quickly. After a standard button raise from Ami, Sam pushed all-in and Ami quickly called.

Sam:
Ami:

The flop had a little bit for each of them – and would have had more had one of them held any hearts: . The turn and river couldn’t give Ami any additional help, however, and he was eliminated in 2nd place.

 

Event 4 High Roller Champion: Samuel Chartier, $122,050.00

 

Local poker player, nightclub owner, and DJ Ami Alibay has been eliminated in 2nd place in Event 4 of the PokerStars Canada Cup, a $10,000 + $400 No Limit Hold’em High Roller event. Ami played fantastic poker throughout the 3-day event and only fell heads-up after starting Day 3 in dominant fashion.

Congratulations Ami!

2nd place: Ami Alibay, $79,150.00

Ami Alibay and Samuel Chartier are the only two players left in the High Roller event and they have taken a short break before heads up action begins.

Going into heads up play Ami is the chip leader with 529K in chips while Samuel is just a shade behind with 491K in chips. There has been some discussion of a deal but so far no agreement has been reached.

Ami Alibay

Samuel Chartier

 

Event 4 – Heads-Up Action 

David Yan has been eliminated by Ami Alibay in 3rd place.

Action pre-flop was quite tame – David was on the button and made a small standard raise, Samuel folded and Ami called from the big blind. It went check-check on the flop of and check-check again on the turn of . The river brought out the for a straight on board and Ami, who easily covered David, shoved all-in. David didn’t really tank, but quickly (but resigned to the possibility of bad news) put his stack in the middle by way of a call. Ami flipped over for the higher straight and the win.

 

3rd place: David Yan, $49,470.00

There are just three players left in the High Roller tournament (aka Event 4), and they have unbagged their chips and are just about ready to play out the final stages of the event.

The pay jumps from 3rd to 2nd to 1st place are huge, so there’s still a lot to play for.

Good luck to all three players – Ami, David, and Samuel.

There are just three players left in the event but the scheduled ending point of 10 levels played today has arrived and the players have decided to call it a night and return tomorrow to play to the end. It has been a gruelling day of poker and everyone is visibly fatigued.

When they return tomorrow they’ll take the same seats and re-start play at 1pm with the following stacks that have been bagged up for storage.

1. Ami Alibay – 170K
2. David Yan – 248K
3. Samuel Chartier – 593K

The TD moved up the next scheduled break by 5 minutes and the players have moved to their new seats and gone on break. Chip counts are approximate.

Final Table

1. Ami Alibay – 183K
2. David Dong Ming Yan – 146K
3. Danny Lauzon – 78K
4. Jonathan Duhamel – 162K
5. Kevin MacDonald – 93K
6. Jason Duval – 34K
7. Samuel Chartier – 165K
8. Timothy Adams – 118K
9. Carlos Chadha – 20K

We missed the action but Sylvain Siebert has been eliminated in 11th place in the High Roller Event. Sylvain, who was crippled a few minutes earlier by Sam Chartier, had picked up a few chips since then, but still was all in for just around 25K. Ankush Mandavia was the player who took Sylvain out, and the tournament is just one spot away from a final table.

John Andress has been eliminated in 15th place. He open raised all-in his last (approx) 15K and was promptly called by Timothy Adams, who has in one of the current chip leaders in the tournament.

John:
Timothy:

The community cards were no help for John: and his tournament was over.

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