Michael Mellor opened to 40,000 under-the-gun and Srinivas Gottiparthi shoved from middle position for 98,000. Action folded back to Mellor and he made the call.
Mellor:
Gottiparthi:
The board ran out pairing Mellor's ten to bust Gottiparthi.
At one of the final three tables, Tomislav Pavkovic just doubled up through David Bonneau.
Bonneau opened under the gun to 23,000 and Pavkovic called from the cutoff. The flop came and Bonneau checked. Pavkovic shoved all in for his remaining 90,000 and Bonneau quickly called.
Pavkovic stood up when he saw the of Bonneau. Pavkovic need help with only .
The turn was the and the river was the , which was the exact help Pavkovic needed.
"I got lucky man," Pavkovic said to Bonneau, "It was a donkey play."
Bonneau tossed a stack of chips into the middle and paid Pavkovic his double up.
At the same table, Tanveer Dhanjal is the chipleader with 25 left, sitting at over 1.3-million chips.
"Imagine if he had chips there," Fabio Luongo said after David Bonneau doubled up, "fireworks."
Meanwhile, Jeffrey Cormier was just shaking his head as the 300,000 pot was pushed to David Bonneau. Bonneau was left short after doubling up Senthuran Vijayaratnam when he called with on an eight-high board with a gutshot and Vijayaratnam had .
On this hand, Cormier opened to 22,000 and Bonneau shoved all in for 137,000. Cormier seemed a little reluctant, but called with . Bonneau showed and the race was on.
The flop came and Bonneau did a fist pump, only seeing that he had flopped two pair. He then deflated after he noticed Cormier flopped a set.
"Hearts," Bonneau called out.
The turn was the .
"Yes, come on."
The river was the , which wasn't what Bonneau was calling for, but gave him the win nonetheless.
"Imagine if he had chips there," Luongo said, "fireworks."
Denis Cyr got all in against Stephane Houle and won with against Houle's .
Earlier, Houle lost a big hand when he flopped the nuts and Gary Lucci's flopped set turned into a full house by the river. He would double up the very next hand.
This time, Houle couldn't catch a pair with ace king to beat Cyr's queens. The board ran out and Houle headed to the rail.