Arnold Yaxley moved in from early position with a hair below 500K to his name. Action folded around to Frederic Trudel in middle position, who moved all-in for 325K. The rest of the players mucked their hands and action went heads-up.

Arnold:
Frederic:

Board:

16th place: Frederic Trudel – $1,200.00

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.

Christopher Kokozaki only had around 300K when he open-shoved from early position. Brent McCue 3-bet shoved over the top from the cutoff, and Antoine Chuzeville quickly moved-in for less from the button, prompting the blinds to fold their hands.

Christopher:
Brent:
Antoine:

Brent nearly locked in the pot by flopping a set, and went on to win the 3-way all-in on a board showing . He now sits on roughly 2 million in chips.

17th and 18th place: $1,200.00

Yan Nadeau started as one of the chip leaders today but things didn’t go his way and before too long he found himself playing a stack just under 1M in chips – and then came the bad part.

In a hand against the neighbour to his right, Jonathan Bourdages, the players both saw the flop of – as it turns out, the flop hit them both. The chips all got in the middle and Yan turned over while Bourdages had him pipped holding . The on the turn sealed it (the river was ) and Yan shipped 865K to Bourdages, leaving him just over 100K.

One hand later Yan found a quick double but he was still very short. On his next button he shoved again, this time finding a call from Simon Pin-Disle.

Yan:
Simon:

Yan was in decent shape until the flop: . The sealed the deal and he was eliminated in 19th place.

19th place: Yan Nadeau, $1,050.00

There has been another redraw with 18 players remaining – here are new new seating assignments.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège
Daniel	Le	Table 39 - Seat 1
Frederic	Trudel	Table 39 - Seat 2
Brent	McCue	Table 39 - Seat 3
Antoine	Chuzeville	Table 39 - Seat 4
Karim	Idrissi	Table 39 - Seat 5
Daniel	Campbell	Table 39 - Seat 6
Alexandre	Gaudreau	Table 39 - Seat 7
Christopher	Kokozaki	Table 39 - Seat 8
Patrick	Trinh	Table 39 - Seat 9
Simon	Pin-Disle	Table 40 - Seat 1
Tanvir	Ahmed	Table 40 - Seat 2
Jonathan	Bourdages	Table 40 - Seat 3
Nimer	Ltaif	Table 40 - Seat 4
Jocelyn	Poirier	Table 40 - Seat 5
Christpher	King	Table 40 - Seat 6
Jean-Guy	Larosiliere	Table 40 - Seat 7
Arnold	Yaxley	Table 40 - Seat 8
Nicholas	Belanger	Table 40 - Seat 9

Mathieu Boucher and Manon Dallaire have both been eliminated and the tournament is down to 20 players remaining.

Boucher was shown the door after he open shoved his remaining 575K holding . Patrick Trinh reshoved to isolate – successfully – and turned over .

The board ran out to complete Trinh’s flush.

Dallaire left after her open shove from the hijack was called by chip leader Daniel Le on the button.

Dallaire:
Le:

The board ran out safely for Le’s Aces: and Dallaire was sent to the Tournament Desk to pick up her payout coupon.

Next, Karim Idrissi took out Simon Bissonette-du-Cap.

Bissonette-du-Cap open shoved from early position for about 525K holding and Idrissi went all-in over with . Idrissi hit the on the flop and dodged a gutshot draw for Bisonnette-du-Cap to win the hand.

Jacques Perron opened to 120K from middle position, and was put to a decision when Jonathan Bourdages 3bet all-in from the button. He made the call but found himself in a world of trouble, as his was dominated by the of Jonathan.

The board ran out , and once the count was done it was concluded that Jacques was covered by only 5K, sending him to the rail in 26th place. Jonathan earned the 1.1 million chip pot, bringing him back above average stack.

Moments alter we caught up to the action on the turn on table 36, where Patrick Trinh lead out for 125K on a and quickly called the all-in of Olivier Theriault-Boudreau worth around 420K. Olivier, holding , was drawing dead to Patrick’s set of , and the river was dealt as a formality.

On the very next hand, Bart Simienski was eliminated in 24th place holding versus on a board.

Shortly after, another elimination occurred on table 36, asPatrick Trinh opened raised to 115K, and Nimer Ltaif made the call from the small blind. Richard Myron then 3bet all-in for 310K from the big blind, finding a call from both players – who checked on the flop. When the turn brought the , Nimer fired all-in to bring the hand down to heads-up. He tabled for top pair and flush draw, and held to win versus the of Richard as the river paired the board, bringing the field down to 22 runners.