Not too long ago, Noy U was just a little bit short of a million. That was before his Ace-Queen hit the river against his opponent’s Jacks, for a 750K pot. Since then, he has been extremely active, leaning on the table and giving his fellow players a lot of trouble. He is now sitting on 1,969,000 chips. On his own table, the second biggest stack has less than 400K!
Meanwhile, on the other table, Trevor Delaney (title picture) made a very gutsy call against Michael Malouin. Malouin open-shoved the 20K big blind from the button to 501K, sending Delaney to the tank. Malouin was taunting him to call, saying it was only plastic (his trademark comment). He must have said it one time too many, because Delaney finally decided the raise was too suspicious to be that of a good hand (those were his words), and made the call with 
. Malouin turned over 
. The board came favorable to Delaney. He completed a flush on the turn, to earn the second spot on the leaderboard, on the last hand before the break.
Play now resumes at 12K/24K/a4K. Here are the full counts of our 13 finalists, taken during the break:
| First Name | Prénom | Last Name | Nom | Stack | Tapis |
|---|---|---|
| Noy | U | 1,969,000 |
| Trevor | Delaney | 1,321,000 |
| Cristian | Muset | 818,000 |
| Sébastien | Proulx | 509,000 |
| Edward | Guergis | 481,000 |
| Jeremy | Galin | 455,000 |
| Alexandre | Henry | 393,000 |
| Sylvain | Lessard | 370,000 |
| Devon | Morgan | 366,000 |
| Prosper | Azoulay | 268,000 |
| Mark | Fitzpatrick | 191,000 |
| Daniel Joseph | Ross McCarthy | 109,000 |