3 quick eliminations just took place, bringing the field down to 17 runners.

Samantha Cohen was left with less than 10 big blinds when she moved in her final chips in an unopened pot, and her bet was isolated by Ema Zajmovic in the small blind.

Samantha:
Ema:

Ema flopped a set on the board to eliminate Samantha in 20th place.

In almost the same time as this, there was a 3-way all-in on table 28 that lead to the eliminations of Mike Leah and David Thompson.

David, who was recently crippled by Nektarios Papadedes, moved in from under the gun. After Kliment Tarmako made the call, Mike Leah raised all-in to isolate from the cutoff. Upeshka De Silva the re-raised all-in over the top, forcing Kliment out of the hand.

David:
Mike:
Upeshka:

The board was no help to anyone, and Upeshka scooped the massive pot while reducing the field by 2 players.

When action folded around to Adam Cader in the small blind, he moved in with his remaining 10 big blinds. Kauvsegan Eham, who was also on the shorter end of the leaderboard, decided to take his chances and made the call from the big blind.

Adam:
Kauvsegan:

Kauvsegan smashed the board to eliminate his neighbour and bring the field down to an even 20.

David Guay and Sorel Mizzi just built a nearly 2 million chip pot pre-flop in what one can only describe as a cooler. David was all-in and at risk in the hand, holding , and was up against Sorel’s . With no change on the board, the massive pot was shipped towards David.

Even after losing nearly 1 million chips, Sorel remains above average stack with well over 2 million chips in front of him.

Amir Babakhani delivered two big hits to Quentin Siffledeen, ending his Main Event in 22nd place for $30,500.

In the first hand, Amir moved in from the small blind for around 500,000 and found the call from Quentin in the big blind. Amir tabled and found the double-up through on a board.

A few hands later the two clashed in a hand preflop leading to Quentin’s elimination. This time Amir was holding , and his pair held for the win versus on a board.

Jared Griener just made his exit from the WPT Montreal Main Event after running his into the of Sorel Mizzi pre-flop. Once the board was drawn out, Jared congratulated everyone at the table and went to the cashiers to collect his $30,500 prize.

The WPT Montreal has reached the final 3 tables, bringing on a full seating redraw. The table below includes the new seating assignments. Another redraw will take place when the field reaches 16 players, and again at 9 players.