Pre-bubble bust

  • Level: 18
  • Small Blind: 3K
  • Big Blind: 6K
  • Ante: 1K
  • Chip Average: 256K
  • Remaining: 101
  • Entries: 862


  • One of the chip leaders for much of the day has been eliminated just 5 spots from the money.

    Vincent Jacques, a WSOP bracelet runner-up in 2010 and widely considered to be among the top up-and-coming Quebec players min-raised from the button, and Darren Rabinowitz to his left went all in for about 300K. Action came back to Vincent and he went deep in the tank. After a while, he took a chip to throw to make the call between his fingers and… tanked some more. Finally he threw the chip, made the call, and Darren turned over Ace of Hearts 10 of Hearts – which was dominated by Vincent’s Ace of Diamonds Queen of Diamonds.

    The flop was not kind to Vincent, however: 9 of Hearts 10 of Clubs 7 of Diamonds. The turn 6 of Spades and river 9 of Spades were no help to Vincent and he was eliminated in 105th place.

    Vincent Jaques