Event 12 is down to 2 players, as Mohamad Tareg and Richard Mask are in a heads-up duel for the win. They are playing for a difference of $7,385 in prizes, plus two $500 bounty chips (as the winner gets to keep his at the end).

Mohamad begins the heads-up match with a huge 5-to-1 chip lead, as his 4.3 million stack trumps the 800K held by Richard. Blind have just entered level 26 – 20K/40K/a5K.

Best of luck!

With around 800K on the button, Chris Arvanitis looked down at and threw in his bounty chip. Mohamad Tareg made the call with from the small blind, and Richard folded his big blind.

The dealer rung out a board, thus ending Chris’ run in 3rd place.

3rd place: Chris Arvanitis – $10,190.00

Mohamad Tareg opened to 75K from utg, and Jonathan Roy 3bet all-in from the small blind for around 500K. Chris folded his big blind, and Mohamad tanked for a quick moment before making the call.

Mohamad:
Jonathan:

Mahamad’s pair of 6s remained unharmed on the board to earn another bounty, all the while eliminating a very dangerous player from the field.

The final 3 are now secured a 5-figure cash, not including their bounty earnings.

4th place: Jonathan Roy – $6,200.00

Jonathan Cameron returned from the break as the short stack, holding a little over 5bb. He folded the first few hands, and once he was in the big blind position, he was faced with a utg open from Mohamad Tareg and picked up a hand worth getting it in with. Unfortunately for him, his was dominated by the of Mohamad, who inevitably won the hand and added yet another bounty to his collection.

5th place: Jonathan Cameron – $4,790.00

The T1,000 are in process of being raced off in Event 12, and the 5 remaining players are taking this time to stretch their legs in preparation for the final showdown. Mohamad Tareg maintains the lead, and his stack dwarfs the other 4 at this table, although Richard Edwin Mask has creeped up above the 1-million chip mark in this last level of play.

Here are the full counts as play enters level 25:

Shawn Daigle was eliminated from this final table in a two-part process, where both blows were delivered by Richard Edwin Mask.

On the first hand, Shawn 3bet from the blinds facing an open from Richard, and unloaded the clip on the flop and turn. When all was said and done, Richard was scooping a 1.1 million chip pot with over with the board showing .

With a little over 200K behind, Shawn opened shortly after but folded to the 3bet shove of Jonathan Roy. On the next hand he open-shipped his roughly 7bb stack from early position, and Richard made the call to go heads-up. Shawn tabled , and couldn’t improve against on a board.

6th place: Shawn Daigle – $3,960.00

Matthew Harris moved in his last 88K from middle position, and Mohamad Tareg completed the bet from the small blind, as did Richard Edwin Mask from the big blind.

With showing, Mohamad check-called Richard’s 60K bet. He then lead out with an all-in once the dropped on the turn, forcing Richard out of the hand. With no more action possible, Mohamad tabled , and was ahead of the of Matthew. The river brought no change, and Mohamad added another $500 bounty chip to his stack. He nows holds 2 million in chips.

7th place: Matthew Harris – $3,380.00

On the second hand of the final table in Event 12, Steven Buckner 3bet shoved from the cutoff for 1864K after an open to 35K from Jonathan Cameron from utg.

Steven:
Jonathan:

Steven was looking for a 9 or some clubs to survive the hand, but neither turned up on the board, ending his run in 10th place.

10th place: Steven Buckner – $2,120.00