Event 8 in the Montréal Poker Expo is a $100 + $20 + $100 NL Hold’em 50/50 Bounty that began at 7:30pm on August 27th. There were 225 players in the tournament which brought the prize pool to $21,825.00. This does not include the portion of the buy-in that went to players’ bounty chips ($100 each).
Note that at 11 players remaining, the players agreed to reserve $450 plus the trophy for the winner and to distribute the rest of the remaining prize pool ay chip-chop. The prize winnings in this table reflect this actual amount awarded to the player (thus, their relative stack size with 11 players left) but the ranking reflects the order in which they finished the tournament.
| Rank | First Name | Last Name | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel | Fortier | $1,495.00 |
| 2 | Moshe | Cohen | $1,370.00 |
| 3 | Vasilios | Sklavounos | $1,300.00 |
| 4 | Brett | Blake | $2,385.00 |
| 5 | Yannick | Labattaglia | $1,915.00 |
| 6 | Behrouz | Ghaedi | $2,140.00 |
| 7 | Viken | Artinian | $1,110.00 |
| 8 | Andrew | Boujaoude | $2,050.00 |
| 9 | Todor | Petkov | $2,650.00 |
| 10 | Benjamin | Croteau | $1,210.00 |
| 11 | Irina | Tchakarova | $1,020.00 |
| 12 | Theodore | Dimitroulas | $330.00 |
| 13 | Marc | Saddik | $330.00 |
| 14 | Guy | Lebrun | $300.00 |
| 15 | Grant | Pazarka | $300.00 |
| 16 | Brian | Morgan | $270.00 |
| 17 | Lorne | Wechsler | $270.00 |
| 18 | Alex | Chiasson | $250.00 |
| 19 | Steen G | Rassow | $250.00 |
| 20 | Constantine | Papadakis | $230.00 |
| 21 | Mathieu | Boulanger-Vaugeois | $230.00 |
| 22 | Ian | Armorer | $210.00 |
| 23 | Raphael | Clayette | $210.00 |
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. Moshe turned over 
, but failed to improve on the running 
to end his run in second place.
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, and Daniel won the pot to bring us down to 3-handed poker.
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