WPT National Montreal Day 1f | 2016 Playground Poker Club World Cup of Cards

08-23-2016 20:48 UTC-4

Isabelle Tremblay Busts the Bubble, Jason Kastner Eliminated in 28th Place

Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Jason Kastner puts in his last 20,000 in early position. He had only five big blinds and Isabelle Tremblay called from the cutoff.

Amir Babakhani folded from the big blind, leaving Tremblay heads up with Kastner. Kastner was at risk, but held . Tremblay turned over , but for some reason, everyone at the table seemed to think she had a monster.

It turned out to be a monster when the board ran out , giving Tremblay a full house. Kastner was eliminated. Each remaining player is now guaranteed CAD $750.

Player	Chips	Progress
Isabelle Tremblay	230,000 156,000	156,000
Jason Kastner	Busted

Tags: Amir Babakhani Isabelle Tremblay Jason Kastner

08-23-2016 21:10 UTC-4

Final 19 Chip Counts (full)

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Level 16 : 2,000/4,000, 500 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Amir Babakhani	383,000 241,000	241,000

Senthuran Vijayaratnam	337,000 122,000	122,000
Peter Johnson Jr.	333,000 183,000	183,000
Danny Boyaci	257,000 17,000	17,000
Isabelle Tremblay	254,000 24,000	24,000
Alexander Villa	225,000 161,000	161,000
Derek Lerner	212,000 41,000	41,000
Aaron Shepard	171,000 171,000	171,000
Elvira Popescu	163,500 163,500	163,500
Elaine Rawn	145,000 145,000	145,000
Yu Gao	119,000 5,500	5,500
Rene Berube	118,000 138,000	138,000
Denis Cyr	109,000 70,500	70,500
Mark Sloane	103,500 35,000	35,000
Martin Nguyen	96,000 96,000	96,000
Mitchell Dredge	89,000 89,000	89,000
Gary Lucci	87,000 23,000	23,000
Michael Malm	28,500 1,000	1,000

Dalton Dawkins	28,500 50,500	50,500

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Level: 17

Blinds: 2,500/5,000

Ante: 500

08-23-2016 21:28 UTC-4

Eliminated Between 23rd and 27th Place ($750)

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Level 17 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

23 - Christophe Joubert
24 - Francois Goulet
25 - Andrew Cole
26 - Michael Rawn
27 - Timothy Silman

08-23-2016 21:36 UTC-4

Eliminated Between 18th and 22nd Place ($1,000)

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Level 17 : 2,500/5,000, 500 ante

18 - Yu Gao
19 - Michael Malm
20 - Xavier Chayer-St-[Removed:361]
21 - Malcolm Harold Fraser
22 - Siamak S

Level: 18

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 1,000

08-23-2016 21:52 UTC-4

Elaine Rawn Gets Aces In the Big Blind, Spells the End For Yu Gao

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Level 18 : 3,000/6,000, 1,000 ante

Yu Gao was under the gun and he shoved all in for his remaining 78,000. The action folded all the way around to Elaine Rawn in the big blind. She calls quickly and showed . Gao had .

The board ran out and Gao was eliminated. Rawn is now over 250,000 with 17 players remaining. Gao headed over to the Day 1g turbo flight and is taking another shot at Day 2 in the WPT National Montreal.

Player	Chips	Progress
Elaine Rawn	265,000 120,000	120,000
Yu Gao	Busted

Tags: Yu Gao Elaine Rawn

Level: 19

Blinds: 4,000/8,000

Ante: 1,000

08-23-2016 22:09 UTC-4

Updated Chip Counts (full)

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Level 19 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Senthuran Vijayaratnam	480,000 143,000	143,000
Amir Babakhani	376,000 7,000	7,000

Peter Johnson Jr.	310,000 23,000	23,000
Elaine Rawn	255,000 10,000	10,000
Aaron Shepard	241,000 70,000	70,000
Elvira Popescu	191,000 27,500	27,500
Danny Boyaci	190,000 67,000	67,000
Alexander Villa	161,000 64,000	64,000
Mark Sloane	156,000 52,500	52,500
Isabelle Tremblay	151,000 103,000	103,000
Denis Cyr	138,000 29,000	29,000
Rene Berube	132,000 14,000	14,000
Martin Nguyen	124,000 28,000	28,000
Derek Lerner	87,000 125,000	125,000
Gary Lucci	81,000 6,000	6,000

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08-23-2016 22:50 UTC-4

Eliminated Between 13th and 17th Place ($1,250)

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Level 19 : 4,000/8,000, 1,000 ante

Here are some of the recent eliminations. Each player earned CAD $1,250.

Isabelle Tremblay, who finished 14th, flopped top pair against the two pair of Derek Lerner and couldn't catch up.

The board read and Tremblay was in the cutoff. She went all in and Lerner called.

Tremblay showed and was behind Lerner's .

The turn was the , and the river was the , sending Tremblay home just short of bagging for Day 2. Tremblay ran in many of the starting flights and finally broke through today with a deep run and a cash, but fell short of her goal to make Day 2.

Then, Elvira Popescu followed Tremblay to the rail as the Day 2 bubble. The action folded to Amir Babakhani and he shoved all in . Elvira Popescu was in the big blind with only 80,000 behind. She called with . Babakhani turned over .

The board came , giving Babakhani trip sevens and the pot. Popescu left, eliminated in 13th place.

13 - Elvira Popescu
14 - Isabelle Tremblay
15 - Rene Berube
16 - Mitchell Dredge
17 - Dalton Dawkins