Daniel Fortier just added two more bounties to his collection, as he eliminated Yannick Labattaglia and Brett Blake in one shot.

Yannick, who was crippled the hand before by Moshe Cohen, threw in his 1/2 big blind stack in with , and was followed by Brett with and finally Daniel with , who had them both covered. The dealer rang out a board of , and Daniel won the pot to bring us down to 3-handed poker.

Generally speaking, in bounty tournaments, the bounties hold less values once players are in the money, as the top prize will dwarf the prizes awarded for each bounty. Tonight is a different case however, as players have already made a deal, locking in their prizes, and are playing for the bounties, the extra $450 up top, as well as a Montréal Poker Expo Champion’s Trophy. Therefore there is a little more incentive to call players all-ins on this final table.

Interestingly enough, Moshe Cohen, who is still in the field, has zero bounties to his name!

Vasilios Sklavounos has just picked two of them up, as he found himself all-in in a 3-way pot holding versus the of Viken, and the of Andrew. He turned a set on the board, and scooped both players as he went in with the largest stack.

Moments later, Daniel Fortier, holding , eliminated Behrouz Ghaedi and his , earning himself a $100 cash prize.

5 remain in contention of becoming our Event 8 champion, and Vasilios and Daniel share the chip lead, holding roughly 1,100,000 each.

As expected, since the deal was made, play has opened up quite a bit. Yannick Labattaglia just sprung up the leaderboard, as he won a 3-way all-in with versus Benjamin’s short stack shove with and Behrouz’s isolation with . He now holds over 1-million in chips.

We lost Todor Petkov the hand after, bringing us down to 8 players.