Play has ended for today with 6 players bagging chips for Friday’s Day 2. The bubble burst when Sebastien Proulx, who made a remarkable comeback from the brink of elimination, busted Christian Barrett. When the players went all-in pre-flop, the cards revealed a familiar race; middle pair against big slick. Proulx’s 7s took a nearly insurmountable lead when he flopped his set. There was no runner-runner to save Barrett, who rivered a trivial king, and left in seventh place.

The Crazy $80 offers three more day 1s with unlimited re-entries during the first four levels of play so there are lots of opportunities to try to join today’s qualifiers.

Shortly after the final table began, we saw a 3-way all-in preflop with two players at risk. Two players, Daniel Mackay and Sebastien Proulx, were the short stacks at the table. After an early position limp, Proulx moved all-in for his last 14K, only to have his neighbour, Mohamed Ben Yahia, raise to 30K. Mackay, in the small blind, had few options with less than 10K in chips left, so he decided to join them and moved all-in.

Mackay

Proulx

Ben Yahia

The board ran out .

Proulx’s king stood and he tripled up his stack while Mackay was busted in tenth place.

The action heated up in level 13, and Steve Carriere continued to accumulate chips.

With the blinds at 1K/2K, Carriere found himself on the button in a 3-way pot, having raised a limper to 6.5K and picking up a call from the big blind along the way. The flop came and the action was checked to the button. Carriere bet out, only to be check-raised by the original limper. Carriere raised over the top and they got it all-in. Hands were tabled; Carriere showed , for trips, and his opponent rolled over  , drawing to a gut shot to scoop the pot. The turn was a , giving his opponent more outs, but the river was a harmless , and Carriere added to his chip lead.

14 players are now left at the mid-point of level 14.