Jason Mandanici-Turcot opened to 60,000 from cutoff and Senthuran Vijayaratnam shoved all in for about 200,000 on the button. Mandanici-Turcot called and the two players showed their hands.
Mandanici-Turcot showed against the of Vijayaratnam. The board ran out and Mandanici-Turcot won the pot with a full house. Vijayaratnam was eliminated in 6th place and will take home CAD $15,000.
He came into today as the short stack, after a huge three-way pot that ended play last night. He four-bet shoved over a min-raise from Nathan Hall, a 355,000 shove from Peter Johnson Jr., and a call by Jeffrey Cormier. He ran into and lost most of his stack. Meanwhile, Johnson Jr. was eliminated in 7th place.
Welcome to Day 3 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) National Montreal. The $600 NL Hold'em event aligned with the World Cup of Cards hosted by Playground Poker Club in Kahnawake, Quebec featured a $400,000 guarantee with seven starting flights.
Alexander Villa takes the lead into the final day of play with Nathan Hall hot on his heels. If there is momentum in poker, Hall certainly will carry it into Day 3 after scooping a monster pot during the final hand of Day 2.
Here is how the final six stack up:
Seat
Player
Chip Count
Seat 1
Nathan Hall
3,140,000
(105 bb)
Seat 2
Jeffrey Cormier
1,905,000
(64 bb)
Seat 3
Jason Mandanici-Turcot
995,000
(33 bb)
Seat 4
Senthuran Vijayaratnam
275,000
(9 bb)
Seat 5
Alexander Villa
3,530,000
(118 bb)
Seat 6
Michael Mellor
2,390,000
(80 bb)
Here is what they are playing for:
Place
Prize
1st
CAD $80,000
2nd
CAD $55,792
3rd
CAD $36,000
4th
CAD $23,500
5th
CAD $18,000
6th
CAD $15,000
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