Play has been steady over the last couple of levels, and as is to be expected, the shorter stacks are feeling some pressure. There have been some all-ins on each of the remaining 3 tables over the last few orbits.
On table 24, many of the players know each other and have been joking around, but, make no mistake, they all really want to knock each other out, hoping to collect more chips as well as another $25 bounty chip.
In the hand we just witnessed, action folded to David Cadoch on the button on seat 1, who limped in, and both the sb and bb chose as well to see a flop. The flop was:
, and action checked around. The turn brought out the
, and both blinds checked. David, threw in a T5,000 chip and both blinds folded. David showed the
, and, asked his opponents,”do you beat this?”, smiling as he pulled in the pot.
Moving on to table 28, Stephan Gelinas limped and action folded to David St-Louis on the button, who raised it up to 7,000, a seemingly standard late position play on the button in a limped pot. The flop was
, and Stephan threw in his bounty chip and announced “all-in”. David snap called and instantly opened his hand, showing
, he had flopped top set. Although Stephan tabled
, he was drawing dead against David’s top set. Stephan was covered and David picked up more chips and another bounty chip too.