William Blais is a skilled poker player who is familiar with the end-game in a tournament of this kind, but unfortunately for him, he has found some rough spots in the early going tonight and is down to just about 300K in chips as level 26 comes to a close.
The first hand that saw an outflow of William’s chips was against Elia Abdallah. Elie raised to 80K preflop and William called from the bb. On a flop of 
, William check-called Elie’s bet to 95K, and on the turn 
he check-called Elie’s bet to 195K. The turn was the 
and William checked again – this time to be faced with a bat of 415K. He thought about it for a minute or so before folding. Elie stacked a nice pot.
Just one or two hands later, Mykyta Kurilenko got it all in and William made the call holding 
. Mykyta turned over a marginal hand – 
– but he got there right on the flop: 
(turn and river were 
and ).