Two more players just hit the rail. The blinds are now up to 30K/60K and they are beginning to force the action.
Nick Soller was eliminated in 13th place, good for $1,080, when he open shoved an 8 big blind stack with and ran into . While Soller flopped his ace, his opponent, Nicolas Laliberte, flopped a set. The board ran out .
Scott Woodard hit the rail just after Soller. Woodard raised all in before the flop from the small blind overAlain Berard’s button raise and Berard made the call. Woodard tabled and Berard showed . The board ran out , offering no help to either player and ace high was good enough. Woodard’s 12th place finish will pay him $1,250.
In a fairly standard play from the cut off with relatively few blinds, Mathieu Fontaine Raposo went all in before the flop with . Alexandre Cote-st-louis had some lucky timing to wake up in the big blind with when facing Fontaine Raposo’s all-in bet and made the call. The board was , eliminating Fontaine Raposo in 11th place, which will pay him $1,250.
The final table has now started.