Event #7: No-Limit Hold'em Main Event

Robert Repaci moves all in for just 103,000 chips from the button and Justin Dean calls from the small blind. Charles Sylvestre folds from the big blind and the showdown goes as following.

Repaci shows    and is up against Dean's   . The board runs out       and Repaci doubles but remains the short stack with around 210,000 chips.

Robert Repaci - 210,000 (10BB)
Justin Dean - 410,000 (20BB)

John Nelson raises to 40,000 under the gun and Adam Podstawka three-bets from the small blind to 90,000. Nelson makes the call and the flop brings    . Podstawka bets 80,000 and Nelson makes the call.

On the turn the   pops up and now Podstawka checks. Nelson moves all in, effectively for 208,000, and Podstawka lays his hand down. After this hand Nelson is up to one-million chips.

On the next hand it's Sol Bergren who raises to 40,000 from the button and Nelson calls from the big blind. The flop brings     and Nelson checks. Bergren bets out 35,000 and Nelson quickly decides to raise it up to 100,000. Bergren takes some time before eventually three-betting to 220,000. Nelson folds right away and Bergren takes down this pot.

John Nelson - 950,000 (47BB)
Sol Bergren - 900,000 (45BB)
Adam Podstawka - 208,000 (10BB)

Mike Leah opens for 32,000 from the cutoff and action is on John Nelson on the button. Nelson three-bets to 75,000.

The blinds fold and it's back on Leah. He puts in a raise to 140,000.

Nelson promptly moves all-in and Leah quickly calls.

Leah:   
Nelson:   

The flop pairs Nelson, coming     and giving him the lead.

The turn   is no help to Leah.

The river   officially awards Nelson's pair of aces the pot.

John Nelson - 780,000 (48BB)
Mike Leah - 685,000 (43BB)

Jason Sagle (pictured) opens from under the gun for his last 75,000. Action folds to Adam Podstawka in the small blind and he three-bets all-in for 211,000. Action is on Mike Leah, who's noticeably excited to see all the action in front of him.

Leah, checks and double checks his hole cards. He goes as far as grabbing the French card cheat sheet to verify the R-D he holds in his hand. Sure enough, it's the    and he plops down a stack of orange chips signifying a call.

Sagle:   
Podstawka:   
Leah:   

The flop pairs Podstawka, coming    .

The turn and river brings blanks,   , tripling Podstawka and eliminating Sagle in 14th place.

Adam Podstawka - 520,000
Jason Sagle - Eliminated in 14th Place ($7,691)

Jeremie Trepanier started the day as the shortest stack but he did manage make it to the next pay jump. This was it though for Trepanier as he was just knocked out in 15th place.

Trepanier moves all in for 153,000 and Sol Bergren pushes all in over the top from the big blind. Adam Podstawka folds from the big blind and it's time for another showdown.

Trepanier is behind holding    against Bergren's   . It's all but over when the flop brings out    , as Trepanier is now looking for running cards to stay alive. The turn brings the   giving Trepanier some chop outs, but on the river the   hit knocking him out in 15th place.

Jeremie Trepanier - Eliminated 15th ($7,691)
Sol Bergren - 730,000 (45BB)

Daniel Charette opens for 32,000 from under the gun. Mike Leah calls from late position and Dinara Khaziyeva follows suit from the big blind.

The flop comes     and Khaziyeva checks. Daniel Charette leads for 76,000. Action is on Leah who calls. Khaziyeva folds.

The turn comes   and Charette almost instantly moves all-in. Event faster, Leah calls, tabling    for a flopped set. Leah has Charette, who holds    for ace-high, drawing dead to a win, but with outs to a chopped straight.

The river brings no such chop as the dealer lays the  .

"Does that happen to you a lot, Mike?" John Pentefountas asks. "They just give it to you..."

Charette has Leah covered by just 45,000 and Leah moves over 1,000,000 chips.

Charette was eliminated the very next hand by Pentefountas.

Mike Leah - 1,300,000 (81BB)
Daniel Charette - Eliminated in 17th Place ($6,400)

Dinara Khaziyeva raises to 24,000 and Daniel Charette calls from her immediate left to kick things off. Sol Bergren decides to three-bet up to 63,000 and the action folds to Mike Leah in the hijack. Leah thinks about it for just a few seconds before putting in a four-bet to 100,000.

Khaziyeva folds her hand quickly and Charette makes the call with Bergren still left to act behind him. Bergren takes about 30 seconds before eventually making the call as well.

With well over 300,000 in the pot the flop shows    . Charette and Bergren checked to Leah who announced, "Tapis."

Leah's all in is for 270,000 total and both Charette and Bergren fold their cards after a couple of seconds.

Mike Leah - 640,000 (53BB)
Daniel Charette - 680,000 (56BB)
Sol Bergren - 540,000 (45BB)

Claude St-Pierre started the day out as one of the short stacks and he did not manage to recover from that. We just saw St-Pierre get knocked out in 18th place and that means just 17 players remain with a shot at winning the coveted WSOP Circuit gold ring.

St-Pierre raises all in on his final hand from early position for 88,000 and Gabriel Menard calls from the cutoff. The other players quickly fold creating a heads-up showdown.

St-Pierre tables    and he's in need on help against Menard's   . The board runs out       and St-Pierre gets knocked out in 18th place. Bryan Moon showed a little frustration when it was all said and done as he claimed to have folded ace-ten.

Claude St-Pierre - Eliminated 18th ($6,400)
Gabriel Menard - 355,000 (29BB)

Sol Bergren raises to 24,000 and Adam Podstawka was next to act putting in a three-bet to 56,000. The action folds to John Pentefountas, one of the short stacks in the tournament, and he moves all in for 138,000.

Bergren folds with little chips invested and Podstawka calls immediately.

A classics coin flip situation is upon us as Podstawka shows    versus Pentefountas'   .

The board runs out       and Pentefountas lives to fight another day.

Adam Podstawka - 160,000 (13BB)
John Pentefountas - 290,000 (24BB)