Alexander Keating was crippled shortly before hand-for-hand began, after his was bested by . He was left with only 30,000 chips, which went in to the middle during the first hand on the bubble. Richard Alsup isolated him next to act by moving all-in himself, and the rest of the table got out of the way.

Alexander:
Richard:

Both players flopped two-pairs, but Richard ended up scooping the pot on the board to bring the field into the money.

The remainder of the field is now guaranteed at a payout of at least $11,400, much to the content of Darryll Fish, who was sitting with under 3 big blinds when hand-for-hand started.

The WPT Montreal Main Event is now on the money-bubble, and hand-for-hand play is now underway until we reach the payout.

Photographs from levels 18-19:

Gianluca Cedolia has just doubled through Jonathan Little on table 28 to give himself a few more chips to try and make his way through the bubble.

Jonathan opened the action with a raise to 20K from utg+2. Gianluca, sitting directly to his left, threw in a time chip with 15 seconds left, and used most of the time before shoving his last 44K. The remaining players folded and Jonathan made the call.

Jonathan:
Gianluca:

The board ran out perfectly for the pocket Kings: and Gianluca moves forward to the bubble with just over 10bb.

Andrew Macdonald has had an excellent start to his Day 3. He came in with 384,000 in chips, and has managed to increase his stack to nearly 1,300,000 in just one level of play.

In the most recent hand, he placed a small raise from under the gun, and was followed by Alexander Dejuante on the button before David Baba 3-bet all-in from the big blind for around 150,000. Andrew made the call, and then quickly called when Alexander moved in over the top for around 300,000 total, putting both players at risk.

Andrew:
David:
Alexander:

Board:

Jason Mandanici-Turcot was just eliminated from the Main Event in an inevitable cooler. He clashed with Harpreet Padda on the turn of a board, where the majority of the 600,000 pot was formed, only for find out that his flopped top set was second best to Harpreet’s turned set.

Once the all-in occurred, Jason tabled and was down to just one out to keep his seat in the Main Event, as Harpreet was holding . As the river was a blank, Jason was sent to the rail 10 spots shy of the payouts.

The Action clock is now being introduced into play.

Mike Leah continues to accumulate at the expense of Nghi Van “Henry” Tran. We arrived at the table on the turn on a board reading: to find that Mike had check-raised all in to a bet of 75K by Tran, who was on the button. Tran thought long and hard about the decision and was obviously unsure of what to do. Eventually time was called and before the clock ran out, Tran folded. He now has just 270K in his stack.

Meanwhile, 2 more players have been eliminated taking the field to 112 players remaining – time for the WPT Action Clock! Every player will have 30 seconds to compete each action, and has been given 4 time extension chips they may use to extend their time by another 30 seconds each. The clock has been paused briefly as this new element in the tournament is being added to each table – play will resume momentarily.