Gabriel Alarie is the winner of Playground Poker Spring Classic Event 2 $500 + $50 No Limit Hold’em Deepstack! It went from three to one very quickly. First, Dimitri and Philippe were involved in a two-way all-in that for a nanosecond everyone thought Dimitri had won – but in fact it was a chop. So they continued to play three-way for another few hands, but the next time Dimitri and Philippe tangled, Philippe came out on top, eliminating Dimitri in 3rd place.

Just two hands later it was all over; Philippe took down 2nd place and Gabriel is the winner!

1st place: Gabriel Alarie, $47,000 plus the bracelet

2nd place: Philippe Plouffe, $30,570

3rd place: Dimitri Feoktistovs, $29,425

The players have reached an agreement to divide the prize pool three ways (roughly an ICM chop) and continue to play for $9K plus the bracelet. Play is continuing now; here are the numbers for the deal reached:

• Dimitri, $29,425
• Philippe, $30,570
• Gabriel, $38,000

Just like that we’re down to three players left! More details to come, but after putting up a good fight all evening, Peter Badel has been eliminated by Gabriel Alarie.

4th place: Peter Badel, $15,000

Nicolas was playing a solid final table and avoiding some of the swings the other players have had, but eventually he was crippled in a hand in which he was ahead preflop but ended up losing to turned diamond flush to Gabriel. A few hands later would prove to be the end of Nicolas’ night.

He ended up open shoving – and Gabriel snap called with . The A held up on a double-paired board and the tournament is down to four players.

5th place: Nicolas Aubin, $10,615

Allan Puzantian started the day as the second chip leader and eventually built his stack up to over 4m until some reversals saw him get short and eventually leave the tournament in 6th place.

The hand he went out on was a little tough because it was the second time in about an hour he’d lost huge pots to AK.

Dimitri raised to 200K to Allan to shoved from the BB. Dimitri called and the players showed down for Dimitri against for Allan.

The flop fell . Then the board paired when the came giving a shot at a chop – but when the hit the river, Dimitri’s AK kickers knocked Allan out of the event.

6th place: Allan Puzantian, $8000

Immediately after a 15 minute break, Nicolas doubled through Gabriel in a blind-on-blind hand. Nicolas held pocket 7s which held up against Gabriel’s AK.

Another huge double up for Philippe. Action folded around to him on the button and he raised to 160K. Allan shoves his huge stack… but instead of getting the folds he has gotten used to on this final table, Philippe calls and flips over . Allan holds and is dominated.

The board doesn’t add much of a sweat: then and and Philippe doubles up to around 3.5M in chips.

AK is good.

Gabriel opened the action in the cutoff with a min-raise and action folded to Philippe in the small blind, who shoved. BB folded and Gabriel called with   . Philippe turned over and the big pocket pair held up and then some as the flop came . The turn and river didn’t change anything.

Philippe climbs to around 2M chips while Gabriel drops to around 1.6M.

The chip leader coming into tonight’s final table has been bounced from the tournament in 7th place.

After suffering a few setbacks including doubling up Peter twice (once at the beginning of tonight’s action and one just a few minutes ago), he found himself shortstacked in the small blind. He open shoved holding and Gabriel in the BB called with . Thanh got no help from the board as it ran out and then on the turn and on the river.

7th place: Thanh Phong Trieu. $6000