These are the official results of Event 8, the $1,000 + $100 No Limit Hold’em Main Event of the 2013 Full Tilt Poker Montreal Festival. This was a five-day event with three Day 1s held from September 27 to October 3, 2013. There were 1625 total entries for a prize pool of $1,576,250.
Note: At 3 remaining the players made a deal. They agreed that Michael Linster (then the chip leader) would take $200,000 and both Eric Despres and Henri Balcazar would take $150,000 each. That left $44,044 plus the trophy in the prize pool for first place. The following payout table reflects this player agreement.
| Rank | First Name | Last Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Henri | Balcazar | $194,044 |
| 2 | Eric | Despres | $150,000 |
| 3 | Michael | Linster | $200,000 |
| 4 | Guillaume | Rivet | $96,151 |
| 5 | Bill | Kontaratos | $74,714 |
| 6 | Vineet | Pahuja | $58,006 |
| 7 | Roger | Lamia | $44,923 |
| 8 | Zeng | Yi Xie | $35,150 |
| 9 | Colin | Piché | $27,269 |
| 10 | Jeremie | Trepanier | $21,121 |
| 11 | Terrance | Eishens | $21,121 |
| 12 | Jeff | Coté | $21,121 |
| 13 | Russell | Crane | $16,865 |
| 14 | Maxime | Laberge | $16,865 |
| 15 | Kevin | Dawe | $16,865 |
| 16 | Eric | Larose | $13,398 |
| 17 | Dawn | Mootrey | $13,398 |
| 18 | Sebastien | Drolet-Poitras | $13,398 |
| 19 | Jonathan | Bussières | $10,560 |
| 20 | Wei | Xu | $10,560 |
| 21 | Pirooz | Bayat | $10,560 |
| 22 | Marc André | Girard | $8,354 |
| 23 | Mike | Saragossi | $8,354 |
| 24 | Michael | Tremblay | $8,354 |
| 25 | Francesco | Buffone | $6,620 |
| 26 | Victor | Ramdin | $6,620 |
| 27 | Stacy | Levac | $6,620 |
| 28 | Asadul Islam | Shah | $5,359 |
| 29 | Brian | Coen | $5,359 |
| 30 | Gavin | Smith | $5,359 |
| 31 | Daniel | Leduc | $5,359 |
| 32 | Gil | Simpritol | $5,359 |
| 33 | Kit | Wong | $5,359 |
| 34 | Bao | Luu | $5,359 |
| 35 | Tyler | Nolan | $5,359 |
| 36 | Eric | Al Halaby | $5,359 |
| 37 | Francois | Allard | $4,886 |
| 38 | Brian | Wright | $4,886 |
| 39 | Baron | Ha | $4,886 |
| 40 | Josh | Kimmel | $4,886 |
| 41 | Manfred | Gunther | $4,886 |
| 42 | Peter | Johnson | $4,886 |
| 43 | Maurice | Simard | $4,886 |
| 44 | Chrishan | Sivasundaram | $4,886 |
| 45 | Marcel | Maltais | $4,886 |
| 46 | Ian Anderson | Johnson | $4,571 |
| 47 | Robert | Amireault | $4,571 |
| 48 | Nicola | Basile | $4,571 |
| 49 | Alexander | Saladze | $4,571 |
| 50 | Giovanni | Massa | $4,571 |
| 51 | Nancy | Teiu | $4,571 |
| 52 | Ronnie | Gerein | $4,571 |
| 53 | Patrick | St.Onge | $4,571 |
| 54 | Robert | Leboeuf | $4,571 |
| 55 | Do | Lien Phong | $4,255 |
| 56 | Samuel | Chartier | $4,255 |
| 57 | Gregory | Katayama | $4,255 |
| 58 | Michael | Chaloux | $4,255 |
| 59 | Robin | Leblanc | $4,255 |
| 60 | Renmei | Liu | $4,255 |
| 61 | Jonathan | Joanisse | $4,255 |
| 62 | Yann | Dion | $4,255 |
| 63 | Dave | Tazbaz | $4,255 |
| 64 | Justin | Litwin | $3,940 |
| 65 | Dermot | Blain | $3,940 |
| 66 | Vincen | Grenon | $3,940 |
| 67 | Michael | Bailey | $3,940 |
| 68 | Patrick | Lalonde | $3,940 |
| 69 | James | Petrillo | $3,940 |
| 70 | Carter | Swidler | $3,940 |
| 71 | Hana Zola | Zoljan | $3,940 |
| 72 | Sylvain | Roland | $3,940 |
| 73 | Thanh Duc | Nguyen | $3,625 |
| 74 | Mehran | Shahabi | $3,625 |
| 75 | Claude | Comtois | $3,625 |
| 76 | Martins | Adeniya | $3,625 |
| 77 | Matthew | Bugley | $3,625 |
| 78 | Borislav | Angelov | $3,625 |
| 79 | Donald | Robert | $3,625 |
| 80 | Peter | Balais | $3,625 |
| 81 | Franck | Peterson | $3,625 |
| 82 | Kostadinos | Kiropoulos | $3,467 |
| 83 | Travis | Robertson | $3,467 |
| 84 | Rodrigo | Milo Scartezini | $3,467 |
| 85 | Jeffrey Dale | Gross | $3,467 |
| 86 | Peter | Senecal | $3,467 |
| 87 | Eric | Fournier | $3,467 |
| 88 | Philippe | Genequand | $3,467 |
| 89 | Albert R | Charettte | $3,467 |
| 90 | Ngoc My | Nguyen | $3,467 |
| 91 | Marc-Andre | Gagne | $3,152 |
| 92 | Jonathan | Driscoll | $3,152 |
| 93 | Theodore | Dimitroulas | $3,152 |
| 94 | Maxime | Asselin | $3,152 |
| 95 | Johnathan Neil | Hansmeyer | $3,152 |
| 96 | Alexandros | Fixmer | $3,152 |
| 97 | Stephen Michael | Diamantas | $3,152 |
| 98 | Faizel | Satchu | $3,152 |
| 99 | Eric | Desjardins | $3,152 |
| 100 | Bob | Taylor | $2,994 |
| 101 | Robert | Hordejuk | $2,994 |
| 102 | Aaron | Grubb | $2,994 |
| 103 | Steven | Kerr | $2,994 |
| 104 | Andre | Boyer | $2,994 |
| 105 | Paul | Lietaer | $2,994 |
| 106 | Dominic | Staniscia | $2,994 |
| 107 | Mike | Vesia | $2,994 |
| 108 | Jean Louis | Arsenaue | $2,994 |
| 109 | Van Cong | Nguyen | $2,679 |
| 110 | Vlad | Faubert | $2,679 |
| 111 | Mathieu | Roy Arbour | $2,679 |
| 112 | Martin | Welch | $2,679 |
| 113 | Daniel | Watton | $2,679 |
| 114 | Chris | Di Gregorio | $2,679 |
| 115 | Gabrielle | Pop-Lazic | $2,679 |
| 116 | Martin | Casaubon | $2,679 |
| 117 | Jay | Kastner | $2,679 |
| 118 | Kemi | Juneau | $2,522 |
| 119 | Andre | Parent | $2,522 |
| 120 | Peter | Koumoutsidis | $2,522 |
| 121 | Ryan | Higgins | $2,522 |
| 122 | Patrick | Braga | $2,522 |
| 123 | Sin | Melin | $2,522 |
| 124 | Sylvain | Siebert | $2,522 |
| 125 | David | Bolduc Hamel | $2,522 |
| 126 | Jean-Philippe | Matte | $2,522 |
| 127 | Dilovan | Hussein | $2,364 |
| 128 | Hugo | Dumoulin | $2,364 |
| 129 | Claude | Leclair | $2,364 |
| 130 | Nikola | Kvesic | $2,364 |
| 131 | George | Caragiorgas | $2,364 |
| 132 | Jimmy | Lehouiller | $2,364 |
| 133 | Gilles | Beauchamp | $2,364 |
| 134 | Sebastien | Laviolette | $2,364 |
| 135 | Sonja | Smirnov | $2,364 |
| 136 | Ryan | Moriarty | $2,206 |
| 137 | Oliver David | Greer | $2,206 |
| 138 | Andrii | Grynechko | $2,206 |
| 139 | Barry | Kruger | $2,206 |
| 140 | Neil | Creighton | $2,206 |
| 141 | Jean Sebastien | Dubois | $2,206 |
| 142 | Patrick | St-Michel | $2,206 |
| 143 | Brian Hardy | Flood | $2,206 |
| 144 | Gabriel | Rouleau | $2,206 |
| 145 | Craig | Hyde | $2,049 |
| 146 | Joao | Fernandes | $2,049 |
| 147 | Ionut | Cotoc | $2,049 |
| 148 | Pierre | Routhier | $2,049 |
| 149 | Jordan | Katzman | $2,049 |
| 150 | Eric | Thibodeau | $2,049 |
| 151 | Nicholas | Soller | $2,049 |
| 152 | Ronnie | Miodrag | $2,049 |
| 153 | Ben | Menache | $2,049 |
| 154 | Jean-Francois | Langevin | $1,891 |
| 155 | Steven | Sharples | $1,891 |
| 156 | Marcello | Iacovella | $1,891 |
| 157 | Pascal | Pittarelli | $1,891 |
| 158 | Joel | Moreau | $1,891 |
| 159 | Mathieu | Blain | $1,891 |
| 160 | Eric | Boire | $1,891 |
| 161 | Rejean | Chiasson | $1,891 |
| 162 | Alain | Corriveau | $1,891 |
| 163 | Constantinos | Psallidas | $1,733 |
| 164 | Mathieu | Legault | $1,733 |
| 165 | Elise | Chabot | $1,733 |
| 166 | Alistair | Melville | $1,733 |
| 167 | Blake | Charbonneau | $1,733 |
| 168 | Vincent | Mailhot | $1,733 |
| 169 | Mustafa | Khan | $1,733 |
| 170 | Danny | Freitas | $1,733 |
| 171 | Yvon | Marceau | $1,733.00 |
looked pretty good. Balcazar picked up a straight draw on the turn and the 
on the river sealed it – the 5-high flush was good!
and Balcazar’s pair held.