As we mentioned earlier, for heads up play the blind level length has been reduced to 30 minutes. After the first full level was played at the new blinds, the players took a short break and we got some accurate chip counts of the final two.

• Brady Hinnegan – 7,425,000
• Tomas Larivee Magni – 3,375,000

Play is now underway in level 32.

While we were preparing that last post a hand developed that vaulted Tomas back to the head of the table – he’s currently playing over 5M in chips.

Immediately following this Elie and Brady got involved in a hand that saw another massive change. Elie raised pre to 225K only to be met by Brady’s shove of 2.1M (approximately). Elie quickly called and the players turned over their cards.

Elie:
Brady:

Brady’s pocket pair held up on community cards and Elie has been knocked down to being the short stack.

He committed his short stack (around 1.5M) just a few hands later and found a call from Brady once again.

Elie:
Brady:

Elie was instantly dreading the Ace held by Brady, and his fears held up when after a flop and turn of , the famous came on the river. Elie finished the tournament in 3rd place for $58,000.

Play in the CPPT World Cup of Cards continues to be 3-handed, and the pace of play continues at an impressive rate – there’s no stalling or excessing tanking as most of the spots seem quite comfortable for all of the remaining players.

That being said, Tomas Larivee Magni did take a huge hit a few orbits ago when his was called by Brady Hinnegan, who was at risk in the hand and held . Brady made a gutshot on the flop though the was safe enough for Tomas and his small pair. The on the river gave Brady a better pair and they effectively switched spots on the leaderboard.

There are just 3 players left in the CPPT World Cup of Cards event – here is a chip count update mid-way through level 29. The players discussed a potential deal with 5 remaining but the discussion lasted for about 4 seconds before multiple players refused.

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège	Stack | Tapis
Tomas	Larivee Magni	Seat 8	4,450,000
Elie	A	Seat 7	4,080,000
Brady	Hinnegan	Seat 5	2,215,000

Laurence Louie has been very active all afternoon and very talkative as well, particularly since the tournament became short-handed. For the most part he has been among the leading stacks as well, far from any stack-related of blind-related danger. Safe, that is, until the last 30 minutes.

Laurence’s troubles began in a huge hand against Elie A, where after a raise and a called 3bet pre, the flop was dealt . Laurence led out with a bet of 185K and Elie called. The turn was the and Laurence bet 285K only to face a raise to 570K from Elie. He made the call and the river was dealt: . Laurence checked and Elie bet 1M chips… and Laurence went in the tank for at least 3 minutes. This was not a solitary, alone-with-his-thoughts tank however – he was dancing all around the edge of the permitted table talk (but never really getting close to going over) and finally called the clock on himself. By the time the countdown got to 5 seconds, he announced that he’d save everyone some time and just fold.

Elie chose to show for the rivered boat.

A couple of minutes later, Brady raised to 130K under the gun and Laurence took the initiative to shove over top from the bb. Brady had succeeded with several raise-and-take-its in the previous orbit or two and Laurence seemed to be trying to take some initiative against his shorter-stacked opponent. Eventually Brady made the call and the cards were on their backs.

Brady:

Laurence:

The flop brought Brady from behind: and the turn and river didn’t help Laurence and he dropped to below 10bb as the blind level moved forward almost instantly after the hand.

The final hand for Laurence came just a few minutes later when he shoved from the button and found a call from Elie A.

Laurence:
Elie:

The flop gifted Laurence an along with the and but he couldn’t capitalize when the and were dealt. Laurence was at the end of the road in 4th place.

4th place: Laurence Louie, $44,500