Event 11 had 180 total entries and the size of the field, the quality of the players, plus the 30-minute blind levels added up to a marathon tournament that took well over 13 hours to play down to a winner.

But eventually there was a winner, and the winner had amassed a dominant chip stack relatively early in the event and nurtured and grew it all the way to the end.

1st place: Randy Khalil, $8,100 plus the bracelet

There’s a deal in place between the final 5 players in the marathon that Event 11 has become.

The five remaining players have decided to reserve $4,500 plus the bracelet for the winner and evenly divide the rest of the outstanding prize pool ($3,600 each).

Eliminated after the deal:

• 2nd place: Ti S., $3,600
• 3rd place: Karl Morency, $3,600
• 4th place: Stephane Arbour, $3,600
• 5th place: Adel Boukhari, $3,600

Two more players have been eliminated:

• 6th place: Shawn Spiegel, $1,700
• 7th place: Rich Hastings, $1,600

6th place: Shawn Spiegel, $1,700

The final table has lost its first three players:

• 10th place: Ramesh Arya, $750
• 9th place: André Vezina, $850
• 8th place: Patrick St-Onge, $1,050

The tournament has reached the final table. The eliminations that got us there:

• 14th place: Marc-André Doucet, $550
• 13th place: Garen Galanti, $550
• 12th place: Marie-Josée Leduc, $650
• 11th place: Danny Tran, $650

Here is the final table for Event 11:

• Seat 1: Rich Hastings
• Seat 2: Ti S
• Seat 3: Patrick St-Onge
• Seat 4: Ramesh Arya
• Seat 5: Shawn Spiegel
• Seat 6: Andre Vezina
• Seat 7: Adel Boukhari
• Seat 8: Stephane Arbour
• Seat 9: Karl Morency
• Seat 10: Randy Khalil

The bubble ended up taking a while to play but it finally burst and the next 4 players were eliminated in short order.

• 18th place: Justin George Baxter, $400
• 17th place: Ryan Smith, $400
• 16th place: Jeremy Chandler, $475
• 15th place: Pablo Mariz, $475

They’re down to 19 players and 18 places will pay, so it’s the “hard” bubble. A mitigating factor in a bounty tourney is that shorter stacks may have already earned a few bounties, making it slightly less significant.

Or not – it doesn’t seem to be having too big an effect!

Event 11 is down to 27 players and there are some very large stacks on the tables.

We’ll be posting more photos and some counts as the tournament gets deeper.