7th place: Mark Fitzpatrick, $2,735

Players are now on a short break here at the final table of Event 5. The chips stacks are the following:

• Seat 1. Sonja Smirnov – 1.05M
• Seat 2. Jean-Philippe Piquette – 270K
• Seat 3. Gary Lucci – 650K
• Seat 4. Hichem Rais – 485K
• Seat 5. Mark Fitzpatrick – 290K
• Seat 6. Andrew Graham – 1.62M
• Seat 7. Luigi Fantigrossi – 1.75M

We just lost Joseph Verdugo in 8th place, which means we have our final table of 7 players!

8th place – Joseph Verdugo, $2,050

Tournament is now hand-for-hand, as we are on the final table bubble.

We just lost Johnathan Barrette, who pushed all-in with his last few big blinds from under the gun with . It folded around to Luigi, who, with a stack of over 1.5M, made the call for an extra 90K or so with , after already having 40K in for his big blind. The board ran out , and Johnathan got rivered to finish in 9th place.

9th place: Johnathan Barrette, $1,535

We are nearing the final table here in Event 5, which will be 7-handed, as some more players have recently hit the rail.

• 10th place – Michael Korovine, $1,145
• 11th place – Alan James Percal, $1,145
• 12th place – Eric Afriat, $1,060