Vincent Tremblay has been eliminated in 11th place, meaning that the 10 remaining players will now be brought together on the final table. Franco Casarcia is the player that took Tremblay out – after Vincent went all in from the button but couldn’t fade the blinds as Franco in the sb made the call.

Vincent:
Franco:

Dominated! The flop of brought with it the slight hope of a gutshot chip, but the on the turn was a killer, and the on the river was too little, too late. Vincent hit the rail in 11th place and the final table was established.

The feeling in the room has been friendly and convivial all afternoon, and when the bb came around to Michael McKinnon he tried the old and almost 100% unsuccessful tactic of “suggesting” that he get a walk. Rene Theberge, playing from utg, was having none of it – he opened all-in for a stack that was much bigger than a desperation stack. Action folded all the way around to Michael… who made the call.

Rene:
Michael:

The flop was all it took to give Michael a lead he would not relinquish: . The turned just made things more secure, and the river was a blank.

Gary Lucci had a bit of an experience getting this deep – he had to re-enter at least once that we noticed – but now that he’s arrived, he’s making the best of his run, having already accumulated 178,500 chips – almost 50K more than his next rival.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Name	Stack | Tapis
Gary	Lucci	178,500
Marco	Trinchini	129,000
Sebastien	Hendren	115,500
Mario	Defoy	104,000

Play is now in level 11 and there are just 28 players left out of the 70 total entries that entered today. Eric Houle’s elimination was pretty typical – he got it on on the button holding and the Sebastien Hendren made the call from the bb.

Eric:
Sebastien:

Eric couldn’t fine a pair as the board ran out and his day was done. Sebastien stacked the chips to move him into a quite strong position moving forward.

As expected, there are already three players in the tourney that are approaching the 100K mark in tournament chips and one other that is near the 75K mark – 3x the starting stack! Registration has now closed and from here on out, the tournament is a freezeout. Play now continues in level 7.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Name	Stack | Tapis
Mario	Defoy	97,400
Ginette	Plourde	92,200
Marco	Trinchini	97,100
Vincent	Tremblay	756,300

The final levels of late entry are always wild in a re-entry tournament, and this one is no exception! There are some over-sized stacks in the possession of several players at the moment – we’ll get counts during the next break in about 5 minutes – and we just caught the tail-end of a 4-way all-in hand in which a pair of Kings held against a pair of Queens, a pair of Eights, and Jack-Ten on a Ten-high flop!

As mentioned above, players will go on break at the end of this level, and late registration will close at the end of this pause in the action.