One of the chip leaders for much of the day has been eliminated just 5 spots from the money.
Vincent Jacques, a WSOP bracelet runner-up in 2010 and widely considered to be among the top up-and-coming Quebec players min-raised from the button, and Darren Rabinowitz to his left went all in for about 300K. Action came back to Vincent and he went deep in the tank. After a while, he took a chip to throw to make the call between his fingers and… tanked some more. Finally he threw the chip, made the call, and Darren turned over
– which was dominated by Vincent’s
.
The flop was not kind to Vincent, however:
. The turn
and river
were no help to Vincent and he was eliminated in 105th place.