Event 1 is now down to 4 tables and just 33 players remain in contention for the top prizes.
For much of the day Table 61 has had massive stacks in several seats, and this has led to some pretty amazing hands. Two of the players who have witnessed most of the action are local player Kevin Blais and frequent festival visitor Michael Malm – who has also been among the chip leaders for most of the tournament.
In this hand, Michael raised preflop to 65K and Kevin quickly put his 435K stack in the middle. Action folded back to Michael, who eventually called. Kevin turned over 
while Michael held 
.
The flop came 
which didn’t settle anything, but the 
on the turn put Michael in the lead while leaving Kevin with outs. One of those outs fell on the river – the 
gave Kevin Broadway and the double up.
