LIVE EVENTS

Jonathan Dsouza had a great evening of poker and was pretty much leading the entire field for most of the tournament. He knows how to play the game and the poker gods offered him some run good when he needed it. That worked out well for him, until play went three-handed.

Dsouza picked up and was called by Buswell holding . Buswell hit the flop, and Dsouza really needed to hit a three to win the hand. He did pick up outs to a straight on the turn, but there was no help for him on the river.

Dsouza went home with $8,540 for his evening of poker. A decent score for sure from his $330 investment.

Once the play became three-handed, the clock was paused on the player’s request and the ICM numbers were worked out. The numbers were as follows:

• Dsouza 1,730,000 chips, $8,540
• Buswell 2,415,000 chips, $9,060
• Chackal 1,855,000 chips, $8,650

In addition the above payouts, the players still play down to a winner who will receive an additional $2,915. All three players agreed to the deal and play continued on.

When it works, it works. In Isaac Buswell’s case, well, it really worked! He had the dominating stack and ended up getting involved with Robert Oullette and and Yassine El Faloudi and his timing was spot on.

Oulette:
Buswell:
El Faloudi:

The flop came and boom, Buswell flops a straight. The turn and river were just formalities and Buswell sends Oulette out in fifth place for $3,625 and El Faloudi out in fourth place for $4,840.

What a flop!

When the players returned from their break, Trevor Adams fell in seventh place for $2,145.

Following Adams, Rong Xu got it in with and was called by Jonathan Dsouza holding .

The flop came giving Xu an open-ended straight draw but the turn and river were bricks and he went home in sixth place with $2,765 extra in his pockets.

Here are the chip counts from the fourth break:

Elaine Rawn played a great game and was cautious on the final table, making sure to pick her spots wisely.

Jonathan Dsouza opened the action bumping it up to 110,000. Rawn woke up with an ace and decided to move all in for 216,000.

Dsouza:
Rawn:

Dsouza has been running good all through the tournament and it continued for him on this hand. The flop came which didn’t help him out, however on the turn the dealer put out the , making a pair for Dsouza. The river was the , making trip sevens.

Rawn left in eighth place, collecting $1,690 for her day of poker.

Just after the final table started, Vladimir Georgescu-Mangiurea exited in ninth place for $1,355.

The nine-handed final table has just begun. The final nine players are:

• Robert Oulette
• Vladimir Georgescu-Mangiurea
• Jonathan Dsouza
• Elaine Rawn
• Isaac Buswell
• Trevor Adams
• Yassine El Fouladi
• Christopher Chackal
• Rong Xu

The eliminations since the last post were as follows:

• 10th place: Sterling Webley, $1,335
• 11th place: Sagar Gururaj, $1,105
• 12th place: Stephane Gauthier, $1,105
• 13th place: Peyman Eslami Manouchehri, $920
• 14th place: Christian Barbeau, $920
• 15th place: Francis Bouchard, $780
• 16th place: Hyungki Kim, $780

Once the bubble had burst the short stacks started to bustout quite rapidly. The new chip leader is Isaac Buswell with 950,000. Jonathan Dsouza is right behind him sitting on 828,000.

Here are the current leaders:

The following players have been eliminated in the money:

• 17th place: Raphael Bernard, $675
• 18th place: Dominic Tossings, $675
• 19th place: Alexandre Mongrain, $675
• 20th place: Jean-Luc Joseph, $675
• 21st place: Jennifer Hargreaves, $675
• 22nd place: Seyedrohollah Ettehadi, $5909
• 23rd place: James Thody, $590
• 24th place: Bernadette Burgess-Stege, $590
• 25th place: Andrii Grynechko, $590

Gaofeng Zheng was getting short and when he looked down at an ace he decided to shove his stack, hoping for either a fold or a double-up. Isaac Buswell also had an ace and a huge stack of chips so he made the call.

Zheng:
Buswell:

Zheng was ahead until the dealer fanned out the flop. The turn and river was of no help to Zheng who unfortunately exited the room just shy of the money.

There will be another break coming up which will allow us to put together a new leaderboard with updated chip counts.

Play has been hand-for-hand for the last 20 minutes as the tournament is on the stone cold bubble. There have been a few different all ins with a call but so far no eliminations have taken place.

A big hand just took place between Trevor Adams and Jennifer Hargreaves. On a flop, Adams opened up the action with a bet of 25,000, only to be met by a raise from Hargreaves to 75,000. Adams made the call. The turn came the and action went check-check. The dealer put out the on the river and Adams announced that he was all in. It took some time before Hargreaves finally decided to fold her hand. Hargreaves still has a healthy stack but the hand did not go the way that she had hoped for.