We caught up to the action on the river in a hand between Alexandre Lavigne (button) and Patrice Mailloux (big blind). With a considerable amount of chips already in the middle, Patrice fired 40,000 on a board showing
. Alexandre replied with an all-in, which represented Patrice’s tournament life. Patrice threw in a calling chip, but was disappointed to see that Alexandre had ran a straight with
, beating his set of
.
With that pot, Alexandre increased his stack up to just over 900,000, roughly 1/3 of the chips in play.
6th place: Patrice Mailloux – $3,250.00