During the break, Carter Swidler was moved to table 40 to balance the tables. He won the first 3 pots since the break. On the first hand, his utg open-shove was uncalled and he picked up the blinds. On the second hand, he got a walk in the big blind. The third hand went as follows:

Jean-Pascal Savard opened to 45,000 from under the gun, and Jordan Saccucci moved all-in from the button for 82,000. With 260,000 now in front of him, Carter 4-bet all-in from the small blind, and Jean-Pascal folded his cards after a minute in the tank.

Jordan:
Carter:

Carter caught the river on the board to add some much needed chips to his growing armory, and Jordan was eliminated in 14th place.

Pascal Lefrancois has taken over the chip lead as 14 players remain heading into level 23. Henry Tran still holds a healthy stack however since his peak at 2.3 million, he has lost over 700K and now holds 1,537,000 for second in chips.

Counts of the final 14:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Pascal	Lefrancois	1,713,000
Nghi Van	Tran	1,537,000
Ema	Zajmovic	1,421,000
Jean Francois	Bouchard	1,194,000
Eric	Afriat	1,063,000
Danny	Li	1,023,000
Jean-Pascal	Savard	957,000
Ryan Tack	Yu	619,000
Mekhail	Mekhail	421,000
Alexandru	Baron	402,000
Tam	Ho	377,000
Patrick	Blye	225,000
Carter	Swidler	187,000
Jordan	Saccucci	121,000

Victor Adams has been nursing a short stack for a few levels now, finding key double-ups when most needed. He was down to 28,000 a few hands ago and found a quadruple by running the nut flush on the board. Moments later, he open-shoved for 108,000 from under the gun, and only Jean-Pascal Savard made the call.

Victor:
Jean-Pascal:

Victor didn’t manage to survive this 20/80 as the board ran out , and he was eliminated in 15th place.

3 more players have been eliminated from the partypoker.net WPT Playground: Kalpesh Raichura places 18th, Maxime Heroux 17th and Kelly Kellner 16th. They each collected $14,010 for their deep run.

In Kelly’s elimination hand, he opened from the button with AJ and Eric Afriat defended from the big blind with . Eric flopped a flush on the board to bring the field down to 15, boosting his stack up to 1.3 million in the mean time.

 

There are just 18 players remaining which has provoked a full tournament seating redraw in the event.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège
Tam	Ho	Table 39 - Seat 1
Alexandru	Baron	Table 39 - Seat 2
Kalpesh	Raichura	Table 39 - Seat 3
Ema	Zajmovic	Table 39 - Seat 4
Pascal	Lefrancois	Table 39 - Seat 5
Danny	Li	Table 39 - Seat 6
Carter	Swidler	Table 39 - Seat 7
Patrick	Blye	Table 39 - Seat 8
Ryan Tack	Yu	Table 39 - Seat 9
Jordan	Saccucci	Table 40 - Seat 1
Kelly	Kellner	Table 40 - Seat 2
Nghi Van	Tran	Table 40 - Seat 3
Maxime	Heroux	Table 40 - Seat 4
Jean-Pascal	Savard	Table 40 - Seat 5
Eric	Afriat	Table 40 - Seat 6
Jean Francois	Bouchard	Table 40 - Seat 7
Victor	Adams	Table 40 - Seat 8
Mekhail	Mekhail	Table 40 - Seat 9

Play continues to be very active since the start of level 22.

Eric Afriat placed a button-raise, then called the short-stacked all-in of Carl Des Granges from the big blind.

Eric:
Carl:

Board:

Eric’s queen-high was good enough to win the pot, eliminating Carl from the WPT Playground.

Moments later, a big pot was formed pre-flop between Hendrik Latz and Ryan Tack Yu. Hendrik tabled , but was bested by on a to end his run in 20th.

Allan Puzantian was the next to go, as his set of fell second best to Ema Zajmovic’s set of on a board.

The field is now down to 18 players, and a redraw is currently taking place.