Charles-Eric Benoit came into this final table as the short stack, but it didn’t take long for him to run up his stack and climb the leaderboard. He maintained a healthy stack until play fell 4-handed, at which point the increasing blinds started taking a toll. He lost a flip with a pocket pair of 6s versus the KT of Mathieu Fonderflick, where he saw a considerable portion of his stack get shipped across the table.

With little room left to manoeuvre, he finally moved in with A4, but fell to the pocket pair of tens of chipleader Robert Aho, ending his run in 4th place.

4th place: Charles-Eric Benoit – $2,640.00

Charles-Eric Benoit

Robert Aho limped in from the button, and was followed by Mathieu Fonderflick from the small blind. Mathieu Gariepy checked his option, and they were three-way to the flop.

With the flop showing , the two Mathieu’s checked over to Robert, who fired 50,000. Fonderflick folded, and Gariepy raised to 150,000. After a moment in the tank, Robert announced an all-in, which was snap-called by Gariepy.

Gariepy:
Robert:

Robert made a straight on the turn, as the running cards brought the and the , and he eliminated Gariepy in the process.

5th place: Mathieu Gariepy – $2,000.00

Mathieu Gariepy

After losing a decent chunk of his stack a few hand earlier to table-opponent Mathieu Fonderflick, Patrick Girard was left with less than 4 big blinds to his name. He moved in from early position, and found isolation from Robert Aho on the button.

Mathieu:
Robert:

Robert turned the nut flush on a board showing , and Patrick ended his deep run in 7th place.

7th place: Patrick Girard – $1,150.00

Patrick Girard

Haralambos Margaritis raised to 55,000 from the hijack position, and Sylvain Lessard moved all-in for a total of 58,000 from the small blind. Charles-Eric Benoit joined in by calling from the big blind, and Haralambos threw in the missing 3,000 to go 3-handed to the flop.

On a board of , Chales-Eric check-called a bet of 75,000. When the turn brought the , Chales-Eric once again check-called, this time for the remainder of his chips.

Charles-Eric:
Haralambos:
Sylvain:

The dealer dropped the on the river, and with that, Charles-Eric scooped the pot of over 600,000, sending Sylvain to the rail in the process.

8th place: Sylvain Lessard – $850.00

Sylvain Lessard

In the hand following Andre Frechette’s elimination, we saw yet another all-in / call.

Sylvain Lessard opened the action from late position to 25,000, and action folded around to Samuel Pouliot in the big blind, who moved all-in for his remaining 90,000. Sylvain tanked for a moment, as the call would represent most of his stack, but he inevitably committed the chips to find himself racing against his opponent.

Sylvain:
Samuel:

Sylvain caught just enough of the board to bring this final table down to 8 players.

Players went on a short break following this hand.

9th place: Samuel Pouliot – $650.00

Samuel Pouliot

Action has been rather slow on this final table, and it took almost a full level before we saw our first casualty.

Andre Frechette’s stack was down to 99,000 when he moved in from middle position in an unopened pot. He found a snap call from Mathieu Gariepy, and the two found themselves heads-up with cards on their backs.

Andre:
Mathieu:

Board:

10th place: Andre Frechette – $500.00

Andre Frechette