In a battle of the blinds, Daniel Le managed to extract a considerable chunk of Patrick Trinh’s stack. He called a raise pre-flop from the big blind, then called a bet on the flop and again on the turn before raising all-in versus Patrick’s river bet on a board showing 
. With around 800K in the pot and a bet of 350K in front of him, Patrick went into the tank to decided what to do with his remaining 1.2 million.
“Do you have Aces?” asked Daniel, which made every player at the table take a second look at the board. Patrick nodded no silently, tanked for a few more minutes and finally let go of his hand. Daniel passed the 3 million chip mark with that hand.
While this hand was in process, Jean-Guy Larosiliere doubled up through Christopher King. Action folded around to Christopher in the small blind, who applied maximum pressure by moving all-in versus Jean-Guy in the big blind. Jean-Guy is not one to be bullied around though, and he made the call with 
with his 11 big blind stack, and was poised for the doubled up versus the 
of his opponent. With no help on the board, Christopher was forced to pay out almost 900K.
Moments later it was Nicholas Belanger who tried to throw his opponent off a hand as he 3-bet shoved over the top of Jocelyn Poirier’s preflop open. Jocelyn made the call holding 
, and doubled his 1.1 million stack through Nicholas’ 
.
Play continues 16-handed, with a short break scheduled in a few minutes during which we will update the chip counts.