4th place: Michael D Brown, $15,575

The remaining 4 players have reached a deal in Event 2. They have agreed to reserve $2,800 from the prize pool plus the bracelet for the winner and chip-chop the rest of the prize pool.

This results in the following payout structure:

• Troy Hamilton – $17,665
• Michael D Brown – $15,575
• Marko – $17,509
• Evgeni Ozadovski – $16,640

Play continues…

Photos of the final four players in Event 2.

Alain Boucher has also been eliminated.

5th place: Alain Boucher, $7,200

Action is fast and furious. We got to the table as Marko was stacking a monster pot – and learned right away that he was stacking two players’ entire stacks.

From what the players told us, Christopher Rassi open shoved UTG and Marko flat called. It folded around to Russel Turner, who went all-in – and Marko called the bet and flipped over pocket AA. Russel held KK and Christopher’s initial shove was made holding KQ (suited).

Two hands later, Alexandros Fixmer shoved on a flop and Michael D Brown called. Alexandros held : for bottom pair, and Michael turned over for no pair. The turn fixed that problem the put him in the lead to stay as the didn’t do anything to help Alexandros’ hand.

6th place: Alexandros Fixmer, $5,255

 

7th place: Russel Turner, $3,830

8th place: Christopher Rassi, $2,800

 

Christopher Shakell has been eliminated in 9th place after a hand between he and Troy Hamilton.

Chris raised to 385K from middle position, and Troy, 2 seats to his left (cutoff) 3-bet to 925K. Michael Brown tanked for a while in the big blind, but eventually folded so action returned to Chris. After a few moments of thought he quietly said, “All in” – and Troy couldn’t call fast enough.

Chris turned over while Troy was way ahead holding .

The flop was reasonably safe: while the turn of gave Chris some additional outs. Unfortunately for him, the river card was a and Troy’s Kings held.

It took a while to count down the stacks because the players started the hand with very similar stack sizes. It turned out that Troy was playing 2.690M chips while Chris had slightly fewer chips – 2.615.

9th place: Christopher Shakell, $2,040

We’ve lost our first player of the final table of Event 2. Stephane Alarie shoved holding two 7s and was called by pocket Kings, and the Kings held up.

10th place: Stephane Alarie, $1,485

Play has begun on the final table of Event 2. All 10 players have taken their places around the table, unbagged their chips and the first few hands have been dealt.

Play tonight starts at level 31 – the blinds are 60K/120K/a20K for another 33 minutes.