Here is a list, in order, of the recent eliminations from the Main Event. The players have now taken their seats at the final table – we’ll have a full rundown of the redraw in just a few minutes.

11th place: Mathieu Gagniere, $7,200.00

12th place: Benoit Jean, $7,200.00

13th place: Michael Korovine, $5,850.00

14th place: Dean Murphy, $5,850.00

15th place: Philipp Daze, $5,850.00

After a couple levels of very slow action, things are really heating up in the Main Event.

Jiachen Gong has just won a huge pot to double through Benoit Jean. On a board reading Jiachen went all-in on the river, and after tanking for at least 3 minutes, Benoit made the call – only to muck his hand when he saw Jiachen’s for trip 6s. This sent Benoit down to around 450K – by far his lowest point in a long time in this tournament.

On the other table, Jessie Wheatley has made it red-hot.

First she took out Dean Murphy who had been in a very strong position all day until right at the end. After losing about 400K to be left with about 900K, he found himself in a hand with Jessie who held trips and ended up taking Dean’s whole stack. Almost immediately after that, she stacked Michael Korovine as well, who had successfully laddered up a couple of pay jumps but never seemed to get anything going.

Jessie is now playing more than 2.5M, Jiachen has grown his stack to 1.2M, and while writing this, 2 other players have been eliminated bringing us to the final table!

The players in the Main Event have just taken their second break of the day and we now have full counts for the entire remaining field.

So far, although there has been quite a bit of action, no one player has asserted their dominance on this event and it’s literally anyone’s tournament from this point forward.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège	Stack | Tapis
Daniel	Charette	Table 66 - Seat 2	620,000
Grant	Pazarka	Table 66 - Seat 3	1135,000
Philipp	Daze	Table 66 - Seat 4	410,000
Danny	Kalpakis	Table 66 - Seat 5	1330,000
Benoit	Jean	Table 66 - Seat 6	1250,000
Charles-Etienne	Gagnon	Table 66 - Seat 7	1305,000
Maxime	Lejeune Hebert	Table 66 - Seat 9	1,105,000
Eric	Borduas	Table 70 - Seat 1	960,000
Jiachen	Gong	Table 70 - Seat 2	720,000
Michael	Korovine	Table 70 - Seat 3	330,000
William	Molson	Table 70 - Seat 4	1490,000
Dean	Murphy	Table 70 - Seat 5	1265,000
Christopher	Hudson	Table 70 - Seat 6	1300,000
Jessie	Wheatley	Table 70 - Seat 7	1555,000
Mathieu	Gagniere	Table 70 - Seat 8	680,000

Marco Sousa had his stack reduced to one of the smallest in the tournament through the early action today and on the first hand back after the redraw he was eliminated in 18th place.

Several minutes later, Danny Kalpakis (who you may remember from the documentary “Grinders” a couple of years ago) crippled Ryan McGarry with a full double as his held against Ryan’s on a board. The following hand saw Ryan hit the rail in 17th place.

17th place: Ryan McGarry, $5,050.00

18th place: Marco Sousa, $5,050.00

Seating in the TonyBet Winter Festival Main Event has been redrawn as the event is down to 2 full tables of 9 players each. Here is the new seating arrangement.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège
Alexandre	Lavigne	Table 66 - Seat 1
Daniel	Charette	Table 66 - Seat 2
Grant	Pazarka	Table 66 - Seat 3
Philipp	Daze	Table 66 - Seat 4
Danny	Kalpakis	Table 66 - Seat 5
Benoit	Jean	Table 66 - Seat 6
Charles-Etienne	Gagnon	Table 66 - Seat 7
Ryan	McGarry	Table 66 - Seat 8
Maxime	Lejeune Hebert	Table 66 - Seat 9
Eric	Borduas	Table 70 - Seat 1
Jiachen	Gong	Table 70 - Seat 2
Michael	Korovine	Table 70 - Seat 3
William	Molson	Table 70 - Seat 4
Dean	Murphy	Table 70 - Seat 5
Christopher	Hudson	Table 70 - Seat 6
Jessie	Wheatley	Table 70 - Seat 7
Mathieu	Gagniere	Table 70 - Seat 8
Marco	Sousa	Table 70 - Seat 9

Play in the Main Event has been stalled on the “bubble” before the tournament moves to 2 tables, which will be reached when the next player is eliminated. The players recently took a break and we managed to get full counts for the field during their absence from the table.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège	Stack | Tapis
Benoit	Jean	Table 65 - Seat 6	1,991,000
Eric	Borduas	Table 66 - Seat 7	1,910,000
Maxime	Lejeune Hebert	Table 70 - Seat 8	1,359,000
Jessie	Wheatley	Table 70 - Seat 5	1,302,000
Dean	Murphy	Table 70 - Seat 7	1,165,000
Grant	Pazarka	Table 65 - Seat 4	978,000
Daniel	Charette	Table 66 - Seat 6	867,000
William	Molson	Table 70 - Seat 9	755,000
Charles-Etienne	Gagnon	Table 65 - Seat 1	742,000
Alexandre	Lavigne	Table 70 - Seat 6	689,000
Christopher	Hudson	Table 66 - Seat 2	665,000
Jiachen	Gong	Table 66 - Seat 1	602,000
Ryan	McGarry	Table 70 - Seat 1	584,000
Philipp	Daze	Table 65 - Seat 9	480,000
Marco	Sousa	Table 65 - Seat 5	300,000
Michael	Korovine	Table 65 - Seat 2	296,000
Danny	Kalpakis	Table 65 - Seat 8	271,000
Mathieu	Gagniere	Table 66 - Seat 5	242,000
Ron	Farber	Table 66 - Seat 4	238,000