Moments after losing a huge pot to Steve, James knocked out Jeffrey to regain some momentum going into heads-up play of Event 10.

James:
Jeffrey:

Board:

We are now heads-up between Steve Daraiche (approx. 2,200,000) and James Cooke (approx. 1,700,000).

3rd place: Jeffrey Herman – $2,370

Jeffrey Herman

James Cooked opened to 175,000 from the button, and Jeffrey got out of the way. Steve tanked for a minute, and then announced he was all-in, only to be snap called by James.

James:

Steve:

Steve ran good on the board, making a straight on the river with the board showing . He doubled up his 1,110,000 stack into the chip lead.

James Cooke opened to 175,000 from under the gun, and called Martin’s 3bet shove for a few blinds more.

James:
Martin:

Board:

The flop was big for both players, but in the end it was James who made the winning hand.

4th place: Martin Gelinas – $1,800

Martin Gelinas

Richard pushed from under the gun with a stack of 585,000, and action folded around to Steve in the big blind. After asking for a count, and pondering for a moment or two, he finally committed the chips, opening a premium…

Steve:
Richard:

Steve’s monster improved on the flop, and ended up winning the pot on a board of to bring Event 10 down to 4 players.

5th place: Richard Leger – $1,370

Richard Leger

Sandy was all-in preflop with her 8 big blinds versus opponent Jeffrey, but her needed to improve if it were to vanquish Jeffrey’s . The board of was not kind to her however, ending her deep run in 6th place.

6th place: Sandy Lam – $1,040

We lost three players in the first three hands of this final table, bringing us down to the final 6 players.

One the first hand, it was Sivachidambaram who fell to the hands of James, as his flopped a world of draws, but inevitably lost to James’s on a board showing .

On the second hand, Laurena, holding only 3 big blinds, called off her stack from the big blind position after an open from Richard Leger. She paired the flop, but her lost to Richards on a board of .

On the third hand, it was Marc-Andre and his that couldn’t hold versus the of Steve, as the board brought .

8th place: Sivachidambaram Chinnasamy – $450

7th place: Lauren Matechuk – $600

6th place: Marc-Andre Gariepy – $780

Marc-Andre Gariepy

There was a double elimination leading up to the final table, bringing Event 10 down to 9 players.

While the players were on a short break, we did our rounds and counted all the stacks still in play. Here is the current chip distribution, as play enters level 19: