Pascal Lefrançois and Mark Radoja played heads-up for about a half-hour. For those two to end up playing heads-up was a natural outcome, as they played a lot of hands together since the formation of the final table. They were constantly testing each other in a variety of different scenarios, as if to prepare for the match to come.
They started the heads-up match with even stacks, and were playing for $8,000.00, having split the rest of the pool evenly. Playing 10K/20K/a3K, there were 61 big blinds in play. They played rather small, seeing a lot of flops, dancing around. Radoja was the first to get a significant lead, getting to a 3 to 1 ratio pretty quickly. But then Lefrançois fought back, and eventually tables were turned, favoring Lefrançois by the same margin. After losing a few more blinds, Radoja set a trap from the button, limping on it. Lefrançois took the bait, and shoved from the big blind, for an effective bet of 12.5 big blinds, as Radoja had 250K left. Radoja simply opened his hand:
Mark Radoja: 
Pascal Lefrançois: 
The board came 
, hitting Pascal just enough to give him the pot, and the two friends immediately stood up to shake hands. In this way, Lefrançois was crowned Champion of the Playground Poker Fall Classic’s High Roller Event, taking the High Roller title from Marc-Étienne Mclaughlin who had won that Event here during the World Cup of Cards.
Mark had to leave to prepare for an upcoming trip, so he gave his drink to Pascal, as they had just ordered one each. Pascal went ahead and offered it to one of the Bounty hunters in the adjacent tournament. We hope that this person will go on and win the tournament, thus having a really nice story to tell.
Congratulations Pascal!
The High Roller Champion: Pascal Lefrançois – $128,000.00 and the High Roller Trophy
Runner-up: Mark Radoja – $120,000.00
Last hand of play:
