3rd Place: Serge Cantin

For the second hand in a row, Mukul Pahuja and Serge Cantin are all-in against each other preflop for a pot the size of over 17M. On the first hand, they showed down Ace of Clubs Queen of Diamonds and Ace of Diamonds Queen of Clubs, and ended up chopping the pot. On the second hand, we saw Mukul open to 350K, Serge 3bet to 1M, Mukul 4bet to 2.65M and finally Serge move all-in. Mukul snapped called, and they were off to the races.

Mukul: Ace of Hearts King of Clubs

Serge: 8 of Diamonds 8 of Spades

The board was 7 of Clubs 6 of Diamonds Ace of Diamonds 3 of Diamonds 10 of Clubs, and Mukul, who had only 250K more than Serge, picked up the huge pot to go into heads-up with a 2-to-1 lead versus Derrick Rosenbarger. Serge will walk out with a hefty $234,051 payday, vastly improving on his final table bubble last year.

3rd place: Serge Cantin, $234,051

Serge Cantin