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PokerStars Canada Cup Main Event Day 3: Rayan Chamas with Dominating Lead

Lane Anderson

May 27, 2014 3 min read

Seventy two players sat down at Playground Poker Club in Kahnawake, Quebec for Day 3 of the PokerStars Canada Cup $3,300 Main Event on Monday. It was another short day for the players; just five hours later the field had been thinned to 27 players and action was halted for the day with Rayan Chamas holding a massive chip lead with a stack of 2,682,000.

The Main Event caps a 12-event series across 13 days from the world��s largest online poker site for their Canadian players. PokerStars slapped a whopping $2,000,000 guarantee on the tournament, but fell short with 578 entries across the three starting days, creating a $266,000 overlay. First place will pay out $366,660.

The top 72 players made it in the money when the bubble was popped and play halted on Sunday. Monday��s Day 3 narrowed the field substantially and some big names left the table and headed to the cashier. All remaining players are now guaranteed at least $12,990.

Some notable players who won��t be back for Day 4 include Sylvain Siebert, Pascal Lefrancois, Mike Watson, Jonathan Driscoll, Carter Swidler, Will Molson, and Ami Alibay.

Of those who remain in contention for the trophy, familiar faces include 2013 WPT Canadian Spring Championship winner Amir Babakhani, Team PokerStars Pro Jonathan Duhamel, highest-grossing player in the world Antonio Esfandiari, PokerStars Team Online member Marc-Andre Ladouceur, Vancouver online powerhouse Jonas Mackoff, and European Poker Tour high roller champion Steve Silverman, among plenty of lesser-known local talent.

Chamas had the second-largest stack at the beginning of the day and he spun it up to a dominating lead of 2,682,000 to end the day. The closest contender behind Chamas is Francoise Goulet with 1,523,000 �� over 1,100,000 million less than Chamas.

This is already the largest cash Chamas has ever made in a tournament, according to his Hendon Mob profile. He has just two prior results, and his largest cash to date is a min-cash in the WPT Canadian Spring Championship just two months ago at this same poker room.

The complete roster of the 27 remaining players and their chips are as follows:

Position	Player	Chips
1	Rayan Chamas	2,682,000
2	Francois Goulet	1,523,000
3	Robert Notkin	1,290,000
4	Thiago Nishijima	1,253,000
5	Vincent Jacques	988,000
6	Antonio Esfandiari	970,000
7	Jeremie Bilodeau	956,000
8	Francois Binette	898,000
9	Ryan Rivers	837,000
10	Laurence Grondin	800,000
11	Tamer Alkamli	712,000
12	Ankush Mandavia	571,000
13	Marcello Delgrasso	482,000
14	Jonas Mackoff	423,000
15	Theodore Doukas	367,000
16	Justin Miller	293,000
17	Micah Johnson	280,000
18	Johnny Mazzaferro	258,000
19	Amir Babakhani	250,000
20	Amer Sulaiman	247,000
21	Kevin MacDonald	241,000
22	Spencer Stacey	229,000
23	Marc-Andre Ladouceur	216,000
24	Jonathan Duhamel	164,000
25	McKenzie Liebzeit	164,000
26	Steve Silverman	139,000
27	James Armstrong	95,000

Play will resume on Tuesday at 11 a.m. local time and will continue until a final table of nine players has been set. Tune in to the action with the live streaming video on PokerNews with James Hartigan and Joe Stapleton on site for colour commentary. Jonathan Duhamel has been on the feature table for Days 2 and 3, and Ladouceur joined his table immediately to his right part way through Day 3.