Play in the Main Event has maintained a very fast pace throughout the tournament, which has had the side benefit that the chip average is still a relatively deep 44bb. But with pay jumps becoming more meaningful, the play has slowed down to the extent that after a full level of play there have been no eliminations.
In fact, the first double up just occurred in a hand between Maxime Boulais and Maxime Lejeune Hebert. Lejeune Hebert opened the action and Boulais went all in from the bb for just over 2.3M. Lejeune Hebert called.
Boulais:
Lejeune Hebert:
Community cards:
Boulais doubled up with his pair to get close to a 20bb stack.