Bill Kontaratos just knocked out Joey Boczek, as he re-potted Joey’s open from the button.

Bill:
Joey:

Board:

We are now heads-up between Bill and Pascal.

3rd place: Joey Boczek – $2,200

After a few orbits of 3-handed play, stacks evened up and players opted for a chip-chop distribution of the prize pool. Here is what they have locked in, leaving the required $252 and the Montréal Poker Expo Champion’s Trophy for the eventual winner:

1. Pascal Beaulieu – $2,370
2. Bill Kontaratos – $2,350
3. Joey Boczek – $2,200

Alex Plourde 3bet his stack after and open from Pascal Beaulieu in Omaha round, and they found themselves heads-up.

Alex:
Pascal:

Board:

4th place: Alex Plourde – $1,260

Players Club Member Jean-Philippe Piquette was just eliminated from this final table, as his fell short to Pascal Beaulieu’s on a board showing .

5th place: Jean-Philippe Piquette – $930

Here are the current chip counts:

First Name	Last Name	Seat	Chip Count
Pascal	Beaulieu	Seat 1	445,000
Joey	Boczek	Seat 5	300,000
Bill	Kontaratos	Seat 7	560,000
Alex	Plourde	Seat 8	205,000

With the blinds as big as they are, Jonathan Patrick Marrie had very few options with his 90,000 stack. He pushed from under the gun, and was called by Joey.

Joey:
Jonathan:

Joey’s pocket threes held on the board to bring us down to 5-handed.

6th place: Jonathan Patrick Marrie – $680

We are still 6-handed at this final table of Event 6, and it’s not due to a lack of action. It just so happens that whenever a short-stack found himself all-in, he would end up on the winning side of the hand! Currently it is Joey Boczek that leads the field, however with the pressure of the blinds, we could still see some dramatic shifts in the balance of the chips.

Here is the current chip distribution, as play enters level 23.

First Name	Last Name	Seat	Chip Count
Pascal	Beaulieu	Seat 1	345,000
Joey	Boczek	Seat 5	455,000
Jean-Philippe	Piquette	Seat 6	250,000
Bill	Kontaratos	Seat 7	225,000
Alex	Plourde	Seat 8	145,000
Jonathan Patrick	Marrie	Seat 9	90,000

Luc Fournier spent most of the night in the chip lead, however a little bad luck changed all of that, sending him home in 7th place.

After dropping to average stack, he found a great spot to double-up in a Hold’em round, as his were all-in preflop versus the of Joey Boczek. Unfortunately for him, he lost to a flush on the board to find himself crippled.

He was all-in a few hands later, this time in an Omaha round, but his were outflopped by Jean-Philippe Piquette’s on a board of .

7th place: Luc Fournier – $500

It only took one hand on this final table to bring us into the money, as Myriam Campanelli was eliminated by Alex Plourde in the Omaha round.

When play switched to Hold’em, short-stacked Tomas Larivee Magni found himself all-in versus Jean-Philippe Piquette.

Tomas:
JPP:

Board:

Tomas caught two-pair on the river, but the very same card gave Jean-Philippe a flush, sending him to the rail in 8th place.

8th place: Tomas Larivee Magni – $370