Play in the $1000 + $100 WPT Warm-up shows no signs of slowing down as players are being eliminated at a very quick rate. In just the last level and a half the field has diminished to 12 players and the final table is now in sight.

Here are the most recent eliminations:

• 17th place: Chanracy Khun, $2,260.00
• 16th place: Ami Alibay, $2,260.00
• 15th place: Grant Fallis, $2,670.00
• 14th place: Griffin Benger, $2,670.00
• 13th place: Ari Engel, $2,670.00

Griffin’s elimination was a little salty. On an 8-high board, he shoved holding pocket Jacks and was called by Alex Fortin Demers with top pair and a straight draw. Alex’s top pair came out on the turn and Griffin hit the rail.

Ari’s elimination was a two-part affair, with Andrew’s out-flopping Ari’s on a flop with no help in store from the turn or river. This took him down to 23K, and Andrew relieved him of that small stack on the following hand when his held up against Ari’s short-stack shove with .

Eliminated

Soon after the redraw, Robert Taylor was eliminated in 18th place.

18th place: Robert Taylor, $2,260.00

Robert Taylor

Here is the full seating redraw that occurred with 18 players remaining.

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First Name,Last Name,Seat [attr sort=”asc”]
Ari,Engel,Table 35 – Seat 4
Alex,Fortin Demers,Table 36 – Seat 3
Alexander James,Allison,Table 36 – Seat 2
Ami,Alibay,Table 35 – Seat 5
Andrew,Graham,Table 35 – Seat 7
Chanracy,Khun,Table 36 – Seat 9
Daniel,Leduc,Table 35 – Seat 3
Grant,Fallis,Table 36 – Seat 8
Gregory,Katayama,Table 35 – Seat 1
Griffin,Benger,Table 36 – Seat 1
Joe,Gualtieri,Table 36 – Seat 4
Jonathan,Duhamel,Table 35 – Seat 8
Joshua Keith,Tucker,Table 35 – Seat 2
Kane,Kalas,Table 35 – Seat 9
Michael,Wang,Table 36 – Seat 7
Peter,Papadakos,Table 36 – Seat 5
Philippe,Belley,Table 36 – Seat 6
Robert,Taylor,Table 35 – Seat 6
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The players remaining in the Warm-up just took a break as tournament staff removed the purple T500 chips from play. Here is the current leaderboard in the event:

1. Kane Kalas – 540K
2. Joshua Keith Tucker – 460K
3. Alex Fortin Demers – 420K
4. Andrew Graham – 360K
5. Gregory Katayama – 330K

Griffin Benger and Jonathan Duhamel both have healthy stacks near the chip average of 250K.

Action after the bubble burst has been pretty fast-moving and there have already been 5 eliminations.

• 24th place: Jeremy Lyons, $1,760
• 23rd place: Jean-Sebastien Gratton, $1,760
• 22nd place: Victor Artemenko, $1,760
• 21st place: Joseph Andres, $1,990
• 20th place: Gagandeep Singh, $1,990

We’re just one elimination away from a new table redraw as the tournament is reduced to 2 tables.

Edward Hislop has been eliminated in 25th place and is the bubble player in Event 7. We arrived on the turn with on the board. Kane Kalas was first to act and bet 56K. Edward made the call. The river was dealt: . Kane led out – this time with an all-in bet of his much larger stack than Edward’s was.

Edward went into the tank, but not for long – he made the call for his tournament life… and lost to Kane’s .

The very next hand, Jeremy Lyons was eliminated for a min-cash so there are now 23 players remaining.

Brendan Kraft has been eliminated in 26th place, and so with 25 players remaining, the tournament is now hand-for hand. After the next elimination, everyone left is in the money!

Here is the new seating chart with 27 players remaining. Note that since the redraw another player was eliminated, leaving just 26 players and an empty seat at table 35.

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First Name,Last Name,Seat [attr sort=”asc”]
Ari,Engel,Table 36 – Seat 8
Alex,Fortin Demers,Table 39 – Seat 1
Alexander James,Allison,Table 35 – Seat 6
Ami,Alibay,Table 39 – Seat 5
Andrew,Graham,Table 35 – Seat 4
Brendan,Kraft,Table 36 – Seat 5
Chanracy,Khun,Table 36 – Seat 6
Daniel,Leduc,Table 36 – Seat 2
Edward,Hislop,Table 35 – Seat 1
Gagandeep,Singh,Table 39 – Seat 8
Geoffrey Robert,McNeely,Table 36 – Seat 3
Grant,Fallis,Table 39 – Seat 2
Gregory,Katayama,Table 39 – Seat 4
Griffin,Benger,Table 36 – Seat 7
Jean-Sebastien,Gratton,Table 36 – Seat 9
Jeremy,Lyons,Table 35 – Seat 2
Joe,Gualtieri,Table 39 – Seat 7
Jonathan,Duhamel,Table 39 – Seat 6
Joseph,Andres,Table 35 – Seat 8
Joshua Keith,Tucker,Table 35 – Seat 9
Kane,Kalas,Table 35 – Seat 5
Michael,Wang,Table 36 – Seat 4
Peter,Papadakos,Table 39 – Seat 3
Philippe,Belley,Table 35 – Seat 3
Robert,Taylor,Table 36 – Seat 1
Victor,Artemenko,Table 39 – Seat 9
,Empty Seat,Table 35 – Seat 7
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