Below is the new seating assignments for the final 2 tables.

With 460,000 in front of him, Jean-Serge Baril open-shoved from late position, finding isolation from Michael O’Sullivan in the small blind.

Jean-Serge:
Michael:

Jean-Serge needed an Ace or some clubs on the board to remain in this Main Event, however the board ran in the favour of Michael. With Jean-Serge’s elimination, the field is now down to the final 2 tables, and a redraw is underway.

The final 17 players in the WPT Montreal Main Event are back from their last break of the day, and have one more level to complete before bagging their chips onto Day 4. Ema Zajmovic has regained the lead in the tournament, with Upeshka De Silva and Pierre-Paul Paulin close behind. Below are the full counts going to level 26:

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.