Players are back at the tables, with 3 more levels to play before the end of their shift. Anderson Frank-Graham has built a 184,400-chip stack, escaping the pack. His closest rival is Christopher Tavares with 138,100, and 6 more players are above the 100K mark. They are listed below:

With the blinds now at 600/1.2K/a1.2K, many short stacks are feeling the pressure, which leads to a lot of pre-flop action. In this hand, Jean-David Rivard won his race against Ryan Jensen, for a 40K pot:

Jean-David Rivard:
Ryan Jensen:

Board:

Level 11 photographs:

Players will take their last break of the day in a few minutes, after which 3 more levels will be played.

Stéphane Bédard open-limped from the small blind, and Yan Nadeau raised to 2,7K. Bédard went ahead and pumped it to 8K, which was called rather quickly by Nadeau. Bédard placed a c-bet on a dry flop, and when Nadeau mucked, Bédard showed aces, and asked Nadeau if he would have bet into a check. Nadeau chuckled, and said he wouldn’t, indicating that he had Bédard exactly where he was.

Later, on another table, Elvira Popescu and Therlegrand Faustin were involved in a sizable pot. Popescu check-called the turn, and open-shoved the river for about 12K into a pot estimated at almost 30K. Faustin tanked for several minutes, and eventually called time on himself. 3 seconds before expiration, he pushed forward the exact amount. A good call!

Elvira Popescu:
Therlegrand Faustin:

Board:

Players have taken their 2nd break, which allowed us to update the top of the leaderboard. Yan Nadeau is currently in the lead, but a handful of players are really close. Here is the list:

Moments before the break, we caught the hand that propelled Frank-Graham among the leaders. He knocked out 2 birds with one pre-flop stone:

Anderson Frank-Graham:
André Bilodeau:
Jean-Philippe Lehoux:

Board:

Yanis Hamrani raised, and David Sorgente 3-bet. Both players flopped a top pair, which created some heavy action that eventually led to Sorgente being fully invested. His kicker held, and he finally broke off of the field’s average to zoom to over 55K.

David Sorgente:
Yanis Hamrani:

Board:

Sorgente is a force to reckon with, and with these newly acquired chips, his table mates are in for a rough ride.

Level 7 photographs:

Chris Arvanitis managed to double his short stack with a hand that his big blind position allowed him to play. When we got to the table, he had check-raised Alberto Scuderi all-in. When hands were tabled, Scuderi found that he was drawing dead.

Chris Arvanitis:
Alberto Scuderi:

Board:

Arvanitis now works with about 24K, not too far from the average.