Although action has been rather tame in the last few orbits, Shaan Siddiqui has quietly been chipping up, and now rivals Riyaz Abdulla for the chip lead.
Shaan won pots versus Mike Lafable and Riyaz to climb up to 950,000, and now sits second in chips, and is within 200,000 chips of table captain Riyaz.
Viken Artinian opened from early position to 50,000, and called a 3bet worth 115,000 from Riyaz in middle position. With only 97,000 behind, he moved all-in after the dealer rung out a 
flop, and Riyaz made the call.
Viken: 
Riyaz: 
The running 
and 
brought no change, and Viken successfully doubled up to stay in the running for the $15,370 first prize, putting a small dent in the current chip leader.
Ali Jouni defended his big blind versus a button-open from Riyaz Abdulla, and both players went on to check the 
flop. Ali lead out for 45,000 on the 
turn, and Riyaz obliged. When the turn brought the , Ali opted to check, leaving the door open for Riyaz who fired 70,000. Ali quickly check-raised all-in for just north of 300,000, and found the call from his opponent.
Ali: 
Riyaz: 
Riyaz had the bigger of the two stacks, and added nearly 400,000 new chips to his stack with the rivered straight, propelling him over the 1-million mark and into the chip lead.
7th place: Ali Jouni – $2,900.00
Following an open to 25,000 from Nicolas Aubut from middle position, Jeremie Bilodeau pulled the trigger for 118,000 from the button. Nicolas threw in some calling chips, and they went to battle heads-up.
Nicolas: 
Jeremie:
Jeremie didn’t find any help on the 
board, and was sent to the cashiers in 8th place.
8th place: Jeremie Bilodeau – $2,200.00
Jeremie Bilodeau
While the tournament staff was racing off the T500 chips, we took the time to bring an update on the chip counts of the remaining 8 players.
Here is the current chip distribution, entering level 21:
| First Name | Last Name | Seat | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mike | Lafable | Seat 6 | 548,000 |
| Shaan | Siddiqui | Seat 2 | 520,000 |
| Riyaz | Abdulla | Seat 7 | 473,000 |
| Ali | Jouni | Seat 9 | 464,000 |
| Viken | Artinian | Seat 4 | 376,000 |
| Todd | Pierce | Seat 3 | 337,000 |
| Nicolas | Aubut | Seat 8 | 324,000 |
| Jeremie | Bilodeau | Seat 1 | 255,000 |
Action blew up on the turn in a hand between Mike Lafable and Zheng Wei. With only a few big blinds in the pot and heaps behind, the two players found themselves with all their chips in the middle with one card to come.
Board (when players went all-in): 
Mike: 
Zheng: 
Mike and his two pair were trailing the made straight of Zheng, however the river 
changed everything as he improved his hand to a full house, and scored his second elimination on this final table.
9th place: Zheng Wei – $1,670.00
Zheng Wei
On the fourth hand on this final table, action folded around to short-stacked Guillaume Laroche, who moved all-in for 65,000 from the small blind. Mike Lafable made a quick call from the big blinds, and the two were flipping for the pot.
Mike: 
Guillaume: 
It was all but over for Guillaume after Mike flopped a full house, as the 
board was not very kind to the pair of sevens.
10th place: Guillaume Laroche – $1,260.00
Guillaume Laroche
Event 10 has reached its final table, and with that the blinds have now increased to 40-minute levels. There will be a break in roughly 25 minutes, at which point we will bring an update on full chip counts.
Here are the ten finalists:
| First Name | Last Name | Seat |
|---|---|---|
| Jeremie | Bilodeau | Seat 1 |
| Shaan | Siddiqui | Seat 2 |
| Todd | Pierce | Seat 3 |
| Viken | Artinian | Seat 4 |
| Guillaume | Laroche | Seat 5 |
| Mike | Lafable | Seat 6 |
| Riyaz | Abdulla | Seat 7 |
| Nicolas | Aubut | Seat 8 |
| Ali | Jouni | Seat 9 |
| Zheng | Wei | Seat 10 |
Yaseen Siddiqui flopped an open-ended straight draw, and decided this was his time to try and run his rather short stack up. Viken was sitting at the other end of the table with and made the call to put his opponent at risk.
Yaseen tabled 
on a 
flop, and wasn’t able to improve enough for the win with the running 
. He was eliminated one spot away from sharing a final table with his brother Shaan Siddiqui, who is amongst the leaders of the final 10 players.
11th place: Yaseen Saddiqui – $1,260.00
Gary Yeghiayan and his 216,000 soldiers found themselves in a betting war preflop versus Ali Jouni, who had his opponent ever so slightly covered.
Gary:
Ali: 
Board: 
12th place: Gary Yeghiayan – $1,170.00
