The raising blinds started taking their toll on Reginald Vigneau, who saw much of his stack get blinded out in the last few orbits. He was left with very little choice and pushed his last 3 big blinds in the middle with , but failed to improve over Jean-Pierre Poirier’s :A .

We are now heads-up between Michele Black (350,000) and Jean-Pierre Poirier (1,150,000).

3rd place: Reginald Vigneau – $1,900

Reginald Vigneau

Michael Marino was grinding the short stack for some time now, however his stack dwindled to just 2 big blinds when he finally shoved from the small blind in a unopened pot. Unfortunately for him, he found himself in a world of trouble, as his was up against the of Jean-Pierre Poirier. With no help on the board, Michael’s run ended in 4th place.

Here is the chip distribution of the final 3 players.

4th place: Michael Marino – $1,500

Michael Albart Marino

A few orbits have past since our last elimination, but that doesn’t mean there was a lack of action. In the last several all-ins, the shorter stack always found a way out to keep this tournament 5-handed. That is until Joey Boczek’s open-shove from the button for 221,000 was called by bigger stack Jean-Pierre Poirier in the big blind.

Joey:

Jean-Pierre:

Board:

5th place: Joey Boczek – $1,200

Joey Boczek

Shortly after doubling her 133,000 stack versus Joey Boczek, Michele Black found herself on the winning end of yet another decent pot. She cleaned out Brent Bidan, as her held versus Brent’s on a board, and this hand brought her stack up north of 360,000.

6th place: Brent Bidan – $950

Brent Bidan

Here is an update on the counts of the remaining 6 players in Event 2.

Action has picked up considerably here on the final table of the shootout, as we’ve seen 4 players hit the rail in the last 2 levels.

The most recent casualty was Bill Kontaratos, who found himself all-in and trailing versus Joey Boczek.

Bill:

Joey:

Bill couldn’t catch enough to win the pot on a board showing , and was eliminated in the process.

7th place: Bill Kontaratos – $700

Bill Kontaratos

Bill Kontaratos opened the action with a min-raise from early position, but was forced to fold his hand after an all-in from Ahmad Baalbaki in the small blind, and another all-in from Jean-Pierre Poirier from the big blind.

Ahmad:

Jean-Pierre:

Ahmad had some hope on the flop as he picked up a pair, but inevitably fell short on a board showing .

8th place: Ahmad Baalbaki – $550

Ahmad Baalbaki