Following a raise to 250,000 from Nick-Real Seide from under the gun, Michael Moussis moved all-in for 1,425,000 from middle position. The 7 players left to act got out of the way, and Nick made the quick call.
Nick: 
Michael: 
Michael cheered when he saw the deuce on the flop, and went on to win the hand as the board ran 
, putting a dent in the former-chip leader, who now holds around 2-million.
With the most recent elimination of Eric Boire in 11th place, the All-Stars for Starlight tournament has now reached it’s final table of 10 players! There is a significant difference between finishing 10th and 1st place, and so we can expect players to be at their top of the game in the levels to come.
Nick-Real Seide still leads the way, holding roughly 3.6 million, but Mathieu Fontaine Raposo is only inches behind at this point.
Congratulations to all the final tableists!
| First Name | Last Name | Seat |
|---|---|---|
| Stephan | Daoust | Seat 1 |
| Jean-Jacques | Dubois-Belisle | Seat 2 |
| Nick-Real | Seide | Seat 3 |
| Theo | Psihogios | Seat 4 |
| Michael | Moussis | Seat 5 |
| Andrey | Vainer | Seat 6 |
| Jeremie | Benoit | Seat 7 |
| Mathieu | Fontaine Raposo | Seat 8 |
| Andre | Dupuis | Seat 9 |
| Name | Withheld | Seat 10 |
Eric Boire was grinding a short stack for some time now, and most of his all-in shoves made it through uncalled. On this last hand however, his utg all-in for 510,000 found some action, as Name Withheld isolated from the small blind.
Eric: 
Name: 
It was definitely an action flop, as Eric picked up a flush draw, while Name flopped a set, however it was all but over by the turn, as the board ran 
.
The All-Stars for Starlight tournament has now reached it’s final table of ten players!
11th place: Eric Boire – $1,600
Eric Boire
Mathieu Fontaine Raposo opened his button to 220,000, and Devon Bestard opted to move in for his last 920,000 from the big blind. Mathieu made the quick call, and players tabled their hands:
Mathieu: 
Devon: 
Board: 
Devon couldn’t overcome his opponents cowboys, and found his way to the cashiers to collect his 12th place prize. We are now but one elimination away form our final table of 10 players.
12th place: Devon Bestard – $1,600
Devon Bestard
The players have just come off a short break, and action is back in level 30. Nick-Real Seide leads the final 12 at the moment, and has grown his stack to over 4-million chips.
Here is a look at the current distribution of chips:
| First Name | Last Name | Stack |
|---|---|---|
| Nick-Real | Seide | 4,120,000 |
| Mathieu | Fontaine Raposo | 3,150,000 |
| Jeremie | Benoit | 2,780,000 |
| Theo | Psihogios | 2,510,000 |
| Michael | Moussis | 1,970,000 |
| Name | Withheld | 1,305,000 |
| Stephan | Daoust | 1,060,000 |
| Andrey | Vainer | 940,000 |
| Devon | Bestard | 935,000 |
| Andre | Dupuis | 915,000 |
| Jean-Jacques | Dubois-Belisle | 800,000 |
| Eric | Boire | 540,000 |
One can not say there has been a lack of action here in Day 3 of the All-Stars for Starlight, as we’ve already lost 17 of the 30 players that started the night just two hours ago.
Andre Vezina was eliminated in 16th place, while Alberto Scuderi fell into the trap of Mathieu Fontaine Raposo to place in 15th. Moments later we lost David Bolduc Hamel, as his chips were claimed by the monster stack of Nick-Real Seide.
Kosta Papa, the chip leader to start the day, was the next to go, as his AK ran into the AA of Mathieu Fontaine Raposo, who now joins the chip leaders.
There will be a break in around 20 minutes, and during this time we will bring a full update on all the stacks still in play.
13th place: Kosta Papa – $1,300
Kosta Papa
14th place: David Bolduc Hamel – $1,300
David Bolduc Hamel
15th place: Alberto Scuderi – $1,300
Alberto Scuderi
16th place: Andre Vezina – $1,050
Andre Vezina
Two huge chip leaders have emerged in the All-Stars for Starlight event with 15 players left. Nick-Real Seide – who has won an event like this in the past – is currently playing over 4M in chips, and Jeremie Benoit – at the same table as Nick-Real – is now playing over 3.7M in chips. Behind these two monster stacks is Mathieu Fontaine Raposo with around around 3M, and then the next player has approximately 1.6M.
We’ll get full counts for the remaining players on the next break.
Janendra Mahendra Rajah has successfully managed to ladders up a few pay levels though he started today with the second smallest stack in the tournament. His elimination hand wasn’t terribly exciting – he open shoved from the button holding and Nick-Real Seide called from the small blind (and playing a huge stack). Nick-Real had Td.
Janendra was unable to hit on the 
and he was eliminated in 17th place.
17th place: Janendra Mahendra Rajah, $1,050
We were drawn to table 36 as there was a lot of commotion going on, and it turns out there was a four-way all-in underway! We missed the exact action preflop, but here were the hands that were tabled:
Philip Tse (utg): 
Kosta Papa (cutoff): 
Michel Poulin (button): 
Devon Bestard (big blind): 
Players were chanting for all kinds of different cards, but in the end it was Devon and his queens who won the lion-share of the pot, as the board ran out 
, running his stack up a little short of 2-million chips. Philip and Michel were eliminated in the process, and Kosta survived with nearly 1,300,000 behind.
18th place: Michel Poulin – $1,050
Michel Poulin
19th place: Philip Tse – $900
Philip Tse
One of the things to remember about this tournament is that even though the prizes are starting to get very large, it’s still fundamentally a $160 tournament, and play never really tightens up the same as it does in tournaments with larger buy-ins.
Consequently, eliminations can come very quickly when they come – sometimes too quickly to track in this blog!
Recent eliminations:
23rd place: Francis L, $800
Francis L
22nd place: Alexandre Henry, $800
Alexandre Henry
21st place: Alexandre Bergeron-Cyr, $900
Alexandre Bergeron-Cyr
