Event 1: Final Payouts

These are the official results for Event 1, a $135 + $15 No Limit Hold’em Re-entry tournament, which was part of the 2013 Full Tilt Poker Montreal Festival. This was a three-day event with 3 Day 1s held from September 21-25, 2013. There were 1605 total entries for a prize pool of $210,175.

Rank First Name Last Name Prize
1 Alim Perales $28,842.00
2 Eric Richer $23,842.00
3 Nazmul Huda $20,291.00
4 Jennifer Brooks $12,840.00
5 Simon Tang $9,980.00
6 Jef Roy $7,755.00
7 Donald Somers $6,010.00
8 Josh Brueckner $4,685.00
9 Nicholas Soller $3,635.00
10 Yves Cadorette $2,815.00
11 Sid Michaels $2,815.00
12 Remi Rondeau $2,815.00
13 Arturas Lescinskas $2,245.00
14 Steve Gadoury $2,245.00
15 Nick Petsas $2,245.00
16 Ahman Baalbaki $1,785.00
17 Alain Blais $1,785.00
18 Marc-Antoine Cloutier $1,785.00
19 Arrmry Senat $1,365.00
20 Alexandre Bonneville-Allard $1,365.00
21 Rostand Asselin $1,365.00
22 Denis Robidoux $1,110.00
23 Josh Kimmel $1,110.00
24 Kayden Stacey $1,110.00
25 Jacques McLaughlin $880.00
26 Martin Nguyen $880.00
27 Ron Farber $880.00
28 Francois Cardinal $710.00
29 Mathieu Legault $710.00
30 Larry M $710.00
31 Ray Mahomed $710.00
32 Saad Lakhsassi $710.00
33 Jerry F $710.00
34 Meir X $710.00
35 Georges Hallak $710.00
36 Christien Beaudoin $710.00
37 Alexandre Rochette $650.00
38 Ashley Noganosh $650.00
39 Obaidullah Habibi $650.00
40 Oscar Gustavo Lindo $650.00
41 June Roberts $650.00
42 Isabelle Morin $650.00
43 Xavier Bolduc $650.00
44 Iluz Elias $650.00
45 Presten Cloutier $650.00
46 Steve Daraiche $605.00
47 Ryan Garonce $605.00
48 Jean-Pierre Angelil $605.00
49 Jean-Rene Lafleur $605.00
50 Qiang Dong $605.00
51 Alexandre Patoprsty $605.00
52 Matthew Bracanovic $605.00
53 Claude Begin $605.00
54 Michael Korovine $605.00
55 Stephane Lalancette $565.00
56 Diana Shamshoum $565.00
57 Alex Martin $565.00
58 Do Lien $565.00
59 Jean-Pierre Hetu $565.00
60 Denise Berkowitz $565.00
61 Patrick Mailloux $565.00
62 Lesley Amos $565.00
63 Carole Bastien $565.00
64 Marcin Chyc $525.00
65 Olivier Fournier $525.00
66 Sophie Bourassa $525.00
67 Philippe Plouffe $525.00
68 Angela Luong $525.00
69 Peter Koumoutsidis $525.00
70 Edgar Lucas $525.00
71 Jessie Wheatley $525.00
72 Pier-Alexandre Marquette $525.00
73 Jason Colantonio $480.00
74 Kevin Bijian $480.00
75 Jean-Francois Morin $480.00
76 Robert Aho $480.00
77 Sebastien Beland $480.00
78 Constantinos Psallidas $480.00
79 Minh Luu $480.00
80 Josee Trembay $480.00
81 Marc Castonguay $480.00
82 Randy Khalil $460.00
83 Alberto Melendez $460.00
84 Ruben Perceval $460.00
85 Gerry Lye $460.00
86 Jano Salbzian $460.00
87 Marie-Claude Grondin $460.00
88 Ian Joannette $460.00
89 Cheng Bun $460.00
90 Julien Lemay $460.00
91 Fazeel Munawar $420.00
92 Sylvain Leblanc $420.00
93 Marc-Andre Racine $420.00
94 Michel Decarie $420.00
95 Danick Landriault $420.00
96 Vincent Fortin $420.00
97 Sebastien Laviolette $420.00
98 Jean-Francois Courteau $420.00
99 Craig Hyde $420.00
100 Richard Johansen $395.00
101 Steven Harrington $395.00
102 Terence Hobbs $395.00
103 Etienne Leduc $395.00
104 Maxime Doyon $395.00
105 Danny Pacitti $395.00
106 Shaun Racine $395.00
107 Costa Papadakis $395.00
108 Richard Lafrance $395.00
109 Kevin Roy $355.00
110 Jessica Vierling $355.00
111 Vipul Grover $355.00
112 Alexandre Perrault $355.00
113 Marc Landry $355.00
114 Gabriel Jureidini $355.00
115 Brent F Mccue $355.00
116 Samuel Valois $355.00
117 Costa Tricoulis $355.00
118 Eric Theroux $335.00
119 Manny Mendes $335.00
120 Lorne Wechsler $335.00
121 Wayne Mcdonald $335.00
122 Daniel Germain $335.00
123 Norman Gauthier $335.00
124 Daniel Fortier $335.00
125 Olivier Brunelle $335.00
126 Charles-Eric Benoit $335.00
127 Melanie Viens $315.00
128 Phllippe Dubois $315.00
129 Phil Breault $315.00
130 Raphael Simoneau $315.00
131 Sacha Vidal $315.00
132 Frederick Charland $315.00
133 Robert Czesak $315.00
134 Stephane Arbour $315.00
135 Fu Quiang San $315.00
136 Andre Hernandez $290.00
137 Giovanni Di Cosmo $290.00
138 Nick King-Edwards $290.00
139 Sourasay Souvanh $290.00
140 Nicolas Angers $290.00
141 Jack MacDonald $290.00
142 Michel Morin $290.00
143 Olivier Brodeur $290.00
144 Sterling Mallette $290.00
145 Dan Knobovitch $270.00
146 Sebastien Morin $270.00
147 Faisal Khan $270.00
148 Mathias Estrade $270.00
149 Hope Stacey $270.00
150 Alexandre Morel $270.00
151 Jay Dubeau $270.00
152 Charlie Miceli $270.00
153 Francesco Buffone $270.00
154 Steven St-Jacques $250.00
155 Gaetano Labasso $250.00
156 Maxime Theroux $250.00
157 Enrico Boily $250.00
158 Trevor Zinck $250.00
159 Yannick Labattaglia $250.00
160 Christian Dube $250.00
161 Marcello Simonetti $250.00
162 Benoit Pesant $250.00
163 Richard Chabot $230.00
164 Sandra Dube $230.00
165 Ganita Tchakarova $230.00
166 Yves Plante $230.00
167 Alex Fiorani $230.00
168 N/A $230.00
169 Stephane Racine $230.00
170 Jean-Francois Lescadres $230.00
171 Pascal Gregoire $230.00

Note: The players agreed to a deal with three players remaining. $5,000 and the trophy were reserved for the winner and the players agreed to a modified chip chop of the remaining prize pool. The payout table reflects this player agreement.

Event 1: Perales FTW!

Eric Richer and Alim Perales had a pretty tight heads-up battle for a while, but eventually Perales managed to wear down Richer to the point where any good hand would require a shove.

Unfortunately for Richer, his timing wasn’t great. The players got to the flop safely enough, which came down 9 of Clubs 5 of Hearts 7 of Spades. Richer shoved on the flop holding (we found out later) Ace of Spades Jack of Clubs – but Perales was holding 6 of Clubs 8 of Clubs for a flopped straight.

The turn was very good for Richer – 8 of Diamonds – but he couldn’t keep up that momentum when the King of Spades came on the river and Perales’ straight held up.

Final Hand


2nd place: Eric Richer, $23,842
Eric Richer


Champion: Alim Perales, $28,842
Alim Perales

3rd place, Nazmul Huda

After the players made their deal, Nazmul’s situation changed quite a bit – he was shorter stacked by quite a margin compared with both Eric Richer and Alim Perales. In a few hands of play he got his chips in the middle with a K, but couldn’t out-draw the Ace in Perales’ hand.

Play continues Heads up between Eric and Alim.

3rd place: Nazmul Huda, $20,291
Nazmul Huda

The players have a deal

When the tournament wound down to three players, they asked the floor to stop the clock to consider a deal. AFter working with the chip counts and determining that $5K (plus the trophy) had to remain in the prize pool, the players agreed to a deal that pays co-chip-leaders Perales and Eric Richer $23,842 and pays Nazmul 20,291.

Play continues for $5K and the Full Tilt Montreal Festival Trophy

4th place, Jennifer Brooks

After losing a huge portion of her stack the previous hand, Jennifer Brooks has been eliminated in 4th place. Perales was the instrument of her elimination taking him over the 20M mark with 32.1M total chips in play.

4th place: Jennifer Brooks, $12,840
Jennifer Brooks

Final Four Counts

Alim Perales has a big lead over the other three players still in the tournament.

  • Alim Perales – 16M
  • Eric Richer – 5.6M
  • Jennifer Brooks – 5.7M
  • Nazmul Huda – 2.6M

Perales takes a commanding lead

Alim Perales has more or less had his way on this final table, and took a commanding lead after this hand between he and Simon Tang.

Simon raised from the cutoff to 675K and Alim flat called from the BB.

The flop came out Jack of Spades 5 of Clubs Jack of Diamonds. Alim checked. Simon bet 875K and Alim tank-jammed his massive stack.

Simon thought for a few moments and called, turning over 8 of Hearts 8 of Spades. Alim turned over Jack of Clubs 8 of Clubs – and on that board, Simon was drawing dead with one of his outs in his opponent’s hand. The cards came out 9 of Clubs and the 9 of Diamonds to seal the deal.

Alim became the massive chip leader with somewhere around half the chips in play in his stack.

5th place: Simon Tang, $9,980.

Simon Tang

A bust, a huge hand, and another bust

Before the players went on a short break there was an intense period of play.

First Donald Somers was eliminated in 7th place, losing his just-over-2M-stack to Nazmul Huda on his immediate left.

A few hands later there was a huge hand between the two largest stacks on the table. Simon Tang opened the betting UTG, raising to 450K. It folded around to Alim Perales in the BB who raised to 1.3M. Simon flat called.

The flop came 5 of Diamonds 10 of Spades 9 of Diamonds. Alim checked, Simon bet 975K and Alim called. The turn was the 7 of Spades and both players checked. The river was the 7 of Clubs. Alim bet 2M and Simon folded. The hand pushed Alim’s stack to over 10M in chips.

A few minutes later, Jef Roy was eliminated when he called a shove with pocket 9s. The other player showed down AJ. The flop came QTQ, turn 3, and a dirty river T to counterfeit Jef’s 99.

Early eliminations

Three players have already been eliminated from the final table. In 10th was Yves Cadorette, followed by Nicholas Soller in 9th and Josh Brueckner in 8th.

Photographs of our Final Table Players

Meet our final ten players, who have survived this massive field of 1,605 players and still have a shot at the $35,035 top prize.