With the players on a short tournament break, we brought an update on the current chip counts of the final 7 players. Jessie Wheatley has taken control of this final table, and now holds an imposing 4,245,000 chip stack, which more than doubles any other player left in the running. We are but one elimination from having our official final table of 6 players, and should we reach this before the end of the next level, play will go on break until tomorrow’s finale; otherwise Day 3 will end after 1 more level of play.

Here are the current chip counts entering level 28:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège	Stack | Tapis
Jessie	Wheatley	Seat 4	4,245,000
Jiachen	Gong	Seat 10	2,510,000
Maxime	Lejeune Hebert	Seat 7	1,905,000
William	Molson	Seat 2	1,775,000
Danny	Kalpakis	Seat 1	1,750,000
Grant	Pazarka	Seat 9	1,610,000
Christopher	Hudson	Seat 8	1,165,000

In just 15 minutes we’ll witness the beginning of Day 2 of Event 10 in the TonyBet Winter Festival, which is a $500 + $50 NL Hold’em Freeze that got started with Day 1 yesterday and sees 21 players return to play down to the end.

The field going into Day 2 is varied affair. There are some big chip leaders with over 300K each – but then a couple of the most experienced players left in the field will start with small stacks (i.e., Jean-Philippe Piquette and Levi Stevens). There is a married couple still in the event, each of whom has had a lot of success in past tournaments both here and elsewhere. There are also two Siddiquis left in the event. We haven’t established for certain that they are related – but it wouldn’t be a surprise!

There are also a couple of past event winners still alive – in particular, this festival’s all-star Nicolas Aubut and past champion Mike Lafable.

It’s certain to be an active night!

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