After a bit of a roller-coaster ride on the final table, Laurence Grondin dropped down the leaderboard and became the short stack in 9-handed action. She then waited patiently for a spot to move in her last few blinds, and after several hands finally picked up something worthy of a shove.

She moved in from middle position with , and found a call from Pirooz Bayat 2 spots to her left as action closed heads-up. Pirooz tabled , and picked up just enough on the board to take out his opponent and add a few more blinds to his 7-figure stack.

8th place: Laurence Grondin – $6,830.00

Khaly Dang moved all-in for 220K from late position and found a call from Pirooz Bayat on the button. She tabled and chopped the pot with as two-pairs appeared on the board.

A few hands later she once again open shoved, this time from middle position. Pirooz made the call and Alexander Matveev folded his 30K big blind, leaving him with 50K behind.

Khaly:
Pirooz:

Pirooz found some help on the board to bring the field down to 8 players, while Alexander earned a pay-jump with under 2bb in front of him.

9th place: Khaly Dang – $5,460.00

The $1000 + $100 Deepstack is on a short break, and we took this time to bring an update on chips counts on the final table. Lukas continues to lead the final 9, however Pirooz, Frederic and Christopher are hot in his tracks.

Christopher Willis Jackson raised to 50K from the cutoff, and Michael Malm moved in for 220K from the big blind.

Christopher:
Michael:

Christopher paired his 9 on the board to increase his stack while eliminating a dangerous player.

10th place: Michael Malm – $4,640.00

Salvatore Commisso defended his big blind after Lukas Soucek opened from utg +1. With showing, Salvatore check-raised to 100K after Lukas fired 45K. When the fell on the turn, Salvatore moved all-in for around 200K only to find out he was drawing dead, as Lukas snapped and tabled for a flopped full house. Salvatore turned over and the river was dealt as a formality.

11th place: Salvatore Commisso – $4,640.00

Jason Conforti was sitting in the big blind with 261K in front of him when Daniel Mason open-shoved from the button with a slightly bigger stack. Jason peeled and threw in a calling chip, to find himself flipping for 1/2 million in chips versus .

The dealer pulled out a and Jason gracefully congratulated his table-mates before taking a stroll to the tournament desk to collect his 12th place receipt.

12th place: Jason Conforti – $4,640.00

Pirooz Bayat opened to 45K from the button, and Yan Prevost-Dumont moved all-in over the top from the small blind. After a minute in the tank, Pirooz announced the call and hands were tabled.

Pirooz:
Yann:

Pirooz held for the win on a board and slid forward 396K to be doubled up. Once Yann paid his opponent he was left with 60K behind.

On the next hand, with 3K in for the ante he pushed for 57K from the button. Laurence Grondin had little to no choice to make the call for 37K more, and she tabled . Yann turned over and went on to win the pot by pairing his queen on the flop.

Moments later, he open-shoved with and was called by Frederic Pierre with  . Yann flopped a straight flush draw, but with showing, his run in Event 5 was cut short in 13th place.

13th place: Yann Prevost-Dumont – $3,980.00

We missed the action, but Douglas James was just sent to the rail in 15th place.

Jaime Staples has been eliminated in 14th place after navigating an extra-long bubble period with a short stack and then laddering up through a combination of well-timed aggression and a little luck once the bubble had burst.

The action was opened by Lukas Soucek who raised to 53K and then action folded around to Staples in the sb – he raised all in. The bb got out of the way and action returned to Soucek, who quickly called.

Staples:
Soucek:

The flop was pretty bad for Jaime: but not without hope. The on the turn removed most of that hope and then the took the rest – Staples was out in 14th.

14th place: Jaime Staples, $3,980.00

15th place: Douglas James – $3,980.00

Alex Fortin Demers found himself with a small stack facing a decision with two other relatively short-stacked players all-in before him – and presumably due to his stack size, he decided to get it in as well, creating a 3-way all in with Khaly Dang (largest stack) and Laurence Grondin (shortest stack).

Alex:
Laurence:
Khaly:

The flop gave Laurence a big draw but nevertheless seemed safe enough for Khaly to hope to take out both players: – and with action closed in the hand it wasn’t an issue.

Then the cam on the turn and things looked even better – but the on the river made the final distribution a little more complicated. Laurence took from both players to triple up, but Khaly also got the side pot – and Alex was eliminated.

A few minutes later Siamak S was also eliminated in 16th spot.

16th place: Siamak S, $3,340.00

17th place: Alex Fortin Demers, $3,340.00