Event 8: Final Payouts

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

1st place: Henri Balcazar!

After a very short phase of heads-up play, Henri Balcazar has emerged victorious over Eric Despres and is the champion of the first-ever Full Tilt Poker Montreal Festival Main Event!

The hand he won with was a little out-of-the-ordinary. Despres was actually trying to trap Balcazar holding pocket Kings, but when the flop came down with two diamonds and a three, Balcazar’s 5 of Diamonds 3 of Diamonds looked pretty good. Balcazar picked up a straight draw on the turn and the Jack of Diamonds on the river sealed it – the 5-high flush was good!

Congratulations to Henri!

1st place: Henri Balcazar, $194,044

Henri Balcazar

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2nd place: Eric Despres

2nd place: Eric Despres, $150,000

Eric Despres

Michael Linster out in 3rd place

Michael Linster was a strong chip leader going into 3-way play, but after a long stretch that saw Henri Balcazar chip up considerably, Linster lost a couple of coin flips that made him the short stack on the table.

In the decisive hand, Balcazar raised and Linster shoved for a total of 12.35M. Balcazar thought for a moment and called.

Balcazar: 8 of Hearts 8 of Spades
Linster: Ace of Clubs Jack of Clubs

The board ran out 4 of Clubs 7 of Clubs 9 of Spades 10 of Spades King of Spades and Balcazar’s pair held.

3rd place: Michael Linster, $200,000

Michael Linster

Three-way deal

The players took a short unscheduled break to discuss a deal and were able to quickly come to an agreement. They agreed that Michael Linster (chip leader) would take $200,000 and both Eric Despres and Henri Balcazar would take $150,000 each. That leaves $44,044 plus the trophy in the prize pool for first place. Play continues.

4th place: Guillaume Rivet

After a long stretch of play, Guillaume Rivet found himself short-stacked, and after Despres opened to 575K and Balcazar folded, Rivet shoved holding 5 of Spades 5 of Clubs. Linster folded the big blind and the initial raiser snap-called with Ace of Hearts King of Diamonds.

Despres was behind but caught some additional outs on the Queen of Clubs 6 of Diamonds Jack of Spades flop and the King of Hearts gave him a better pair. The Jack of Spades on the river was a blank for Rivet and he was eliminated in 4th place.

4th place: Guillaume Rivet, $96,151

Guilaume Rivet

Players are on break

The players are now on a slightly extended break but it will do them good to be able to catch their breath after a stunning succession of eliminations towards the end of the last level. There are just 4 players remaining in the tournament after a long period of 7-handed play – but as I wrote earlier, though there were no eliminations the game was anything but static as Michael Linster managed to chip up against the field into a dominant position.

Linster still has a strong chip lead – 20M compared with just under 13M for Guillaume Rivet, 11.5M for Henri Balcazar and 6.2M for Eric Despres – there’s still a chance for Rivet or Balcazar in particular to challenge Linster at the top of the leaderboard.

5th place: Bill Kontaratos

5th place: Bill Kontaratos, $74,714

Bill Kontaratos

6th place: Vineet Pahuja

6th place: Vineet Pahuja, $58,006

Vineet Pahuja

7th place: Roger Lamia

It seemed for a while that something was about to happen, and on this hand it did.

Guillaume Rivet opened the action with a min-raise, Eric Despres called and Roger Lamia 3-bet to 1.3M. Rivet then took a minute or so to think things through and then went all-in for almost 6M (covering both Despres and Lamia). Despres quickly folded but Lamia quickly called.

Rivet: Jack of Clubs Jack of Spades Lamia: Ace of Spades 6 of Spades. The board brought slight hope to Lamia as the flop came out 3 of Spades 7 of Clubs 6 of Clubs but the 7 of Hearts turn and 8 of Clubs river gave Rivet the pot, adding 4.6M to his stack.

7th place: Roger Lamia, $44,923

Roger Lamia