On a flop, Joël Moreau bet 30K into a pot that was raised pre-flop. Ryan Parsons went all-in, thinking he might be able to take Moreau off a hand. But with , he wasn’t going anywhere.

Parsons’ threes fell, and went down to about 40K, while Moreau now counts about 250K.

With 18 players left, the $500 + $50 Freeze have moved to just 2 tables. With 12 prizes on the board, we are closing in on the money. Here is the seating arrangement:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège
Rong	Xu	Table 58 - Seat 1
Nick	Nickoletopoulos	Table 58 - Seat 2
Dario	S	Table 58 - Seat 3
Ivan	Driard	Table 58 - Seat 4
Janine	Bibb	Table 58 - Seat 5
Sofiane	Boulila	Table 58 - Seat 6
Laura	Farrell	Table 58 - Seat 7
Mingzhe	Zhang	Table 58 - Seat 8
Alexander	Allison	Table 58 - Seat 9
Sylvain	Bouchard	Table 62 - Seat 1
Maxime	Marcouiller	Table 62 - Seat 2
Jacques	Berthiaume	Table 62 - Seat 3
Ryan	Parsons	Table 62 - Seat 4
Joël	Moreau	Table 62 - Seat 5
Ami	Alibay	Table 62 - Seat 6
David	Cadoch	Table 62 - Seat 7
Michael	Lévy	Table 62 - Seat 8
David	Mcneil	Table 62 - Seat 9

Many quick bust outs occurred in the past level. Alain Rondeau, Brenda Mary Blackburn, Marcello Simonetti (who lost with against king-jack with 2 hearts on the flop – ouch), Dominique Giguère, Albert Nguyen and Raymond Glover all busted in the last 30 minutes.

Here are the wealthiest players:

Joël Moreau doubled his 17K stack with against Dominik Palys’ when he hit a flush on the river. After that hand, Palys went on to lose with against Maxime Marcouiller’s .

A table break ensued from that elimination. Here is the seating chart:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège
Alain	Rondeau	Table 58 - Seat 1
Marcello	Simonetti	Table 58 - Seat 2
Dario	S.	Table 58 - Seat 3
Ivan	Driard	Table 58 - Seat 4
Janine	Bibb	Table 58 - Seat 5
Breda Mary	Blackburn	Table 58 - Seat 6
Laura	Farrell	Table 58 - Seat 7
Andrew	Boujaoude	Table 58 - Seat 8
Alexander James	Allison	Table 58 - Seat 9
Sylvain	Bouchard	Table 62 - Seat 1
Maxime	Marcouiller	Table 62 - Seat 2
Mingzhe	Zhang	Table 62 - Seat 3
George	Caragiorgias	Table 62 - Seat 4
Joël	Moreau	Table 62 - Seat 5
Rong	Xu	Table 62 - Seat 6
Albert	Nguyen	Table 62 - Seat 7
Michael	Lévy	Table 62 - Seat 8
David	Mcneil	Table 62 - Seat 9
Ryan	Parsons	Table 66 - Seat 1
Matthew	Bellsmith	Table 66 - Seat 2
Dominique	Giguère	Table 66 - Seat 3
Ami	Alibay	Table 66 - Seat 4
Raymond	Glover	Table 66 - Seat 5
Jacques	Berthiaume	Table 66 - Seat 6
Sofiane	Boulila	Table 66 - Seat 7
David	Cadoch	Table 66 - Seat 8
Nick	Nickoletopoulos	Table 66 - Seat 9

Table 58 – the ladies table!

Twelve levels are behind us, and players have taken a short break. We took that time to scan the room for stacks of 100K or better, and found an extremely uneven distribution of chips. Out of eight 6-figure stacks, 6 are on table 70, where our leader sits.

Nick Nickoletopoulos and Sylvain Bouchard are each leading their own table, while the other 6 are in the lion’s den. Here is the updated leaderboard:

First Name	Last Name	Chip Count
Alexander James	Allison	224,400
Sylvain	Bouchard	152,300
Rong	Xu	135,600
Jacques	Berthiaume	124,700
Michael	Lévy	115,000
Nick	Nickoletopoulos	113,700
Mingzhe	Zhang	109,200
Ryan	Parsons	107,900

Mingzhe Zhang eliminated Gil Charles in a preflop showdown:

Zhang:
Charles:

Board:

David Simard was taken down when Ryan Parsons pulled an upset:

Simard:
Parsons:

Board:

The event moves fast. Only 31 players are left, and not long after the upcoming break, they will move to a 3-table deal.

Update: George Caragiorgias came back and works with about 25K. Jean-Philippe Piquette was eliminated when his last 29K were lost with 7s against 6s.