The tournament was heads-up between Tomas Larivee Magni and Steve Daraiche, who had a 2-to-1 chip advantage with 3.5M in his stack. They played several hands with little action, and then Tomas raised on the button to 160K, Steve 3-bet to 400K and Tomas snap shoved – and Steve called.

The hole cards:

Tomas:

Steve:

The community cards were dealt: and the river shut the door on Tomas, giving Steve a Full House and the championship!

Congratulations Steve!

Event 12 Champion: Steve Daraiche, $10,000

2nd place: Tomas Larivée Magni, $7,540

The action tonight is moving very quickly as the chip average is relatively short. Michel Chevalier was caught with a short stack and the 2nd best hand and has been eliminated.

Steve Daraiche raised from the small blind and and Michel chose to reraise all-in from the big blind. Steve made the call.

Michel :

Steve :

The community cards: gave Steve the hand and Michel was out in 3rd place.

3rd place: Michel Chevalier, $5,600.00

 

The 8-Max is on its second break of the night and we were able to update the leaderboard while the players were away from the table. There are currently 6 players with at least double the chip average, and with just 72 players remaining and blinds going up, that’s a significant advantage heading towards the middle of the tournament.

1. Andrew Helleur – 129K
2. Jean Robert Quirion – 128K
3. Ron Cohen – 119K
4. Tanvir Ahmed – 112K
5. Philippe Plouffe – 109K
6. Sylvain Coté – 107K

Event 12 of the Playground Poker Fall Classic is a $300 + $30 NL Hold’em 8-Max event. The event attracted a total of 140 players, which generated a prize pool of $40,740.00. This prize pool will be distributed according to the following table.

Tonight’s 8-Max tournament is Event 12 in the Playground Poker Fall Classic – the second-to-last event before the end of this year’s festival.

The 8-Max format has become extremely popular at Playground Poker Club in the 6 months that it has been a regular part of the schedule. It’s not “short-handed” poker like a 6-Max, but players do have a little more breathing room at the tables, the action is slightly faster than standard 10-handed tournaments, and, at the end, the tables are always balanced until a final table of 9 is established.

The action gets under way tonight at 7:30pm and late registration is open for the first 4 20-minute levels plus the 10-minute break following, so there’s lots of time left to come out to Playground Poker Club and get in on the fun.