Event 8 – $100 + $20 + $100 NL Hold’em 50/50 Bounty

Event 8 Champion: Daniel Fortier

2015/08/27 - 5:22 by Playground Poker

Daniel Fortier was one of the shorter stacks when the 11-way deal was made, however he managed to overcome the remainder of the field to emerge as the Event 8 champion, earning himself an extra $450 along with his already agreed-upon $1,045 share of the chop. In addition to this, he also took home a stunning Montréal Poker Expo Champion’s Trophy, as well as a handful of bounties!

After a lot of back and forth in heads-up play versus opponent Moshe Cohen, Daniel finally sealed the deal after calling Moshe’s check-shove on a flop showing with . Moshe turned over , but failed to improve on the running to end his run in second place.

Congratulations Daniel!

Event 8 Champion: Daniel Fortier – $1,495

Event 8 Runner-Up: Moshe Cohen – $1,370

Moshe Cohen

Last Hand of Play

Heads-Up: Daniel Fortier vs Moshe Cohen

Level: 24

Small Blind: 50K

Big Blind: 100K

Ante: 10K

Chip Average: 2.3M

Remaining: 2

Entries: 225

2015/08/27 - 4:41 by Playground Poker

In what could only be described as a cooler in 3-handed poker, Vasilios Sklavounos was eliminated by Daniel Fortier in a preflop raising war.

Vasilios:
Daniel:

Board:

Play is now heads-up between Daniel and Moshe, and although Daniel began with the chiplead, Moshe doubled up on the first hand, as his triumphed over . Stacks are quite even at the moment, so it’s still anyones game! And yes, Moshe is still on the hunt for his first bounty of the night.

: Daniel Fortier

: Moshe Cohen

Down to 3

Level: 23

Small Blind: 40K

Big Blind: 80K

Ante: 10K

Chip Average: 1.5M

Remaining: 3

Entries: 225

2015/08/27 - 4:27 by Playground Poker

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.

Bounties are flying!

Level: 23

Small Blind: 40K

Big Blind: 80K

Ante: 10K

Chip Average: 900K

Remaining: 5

Entries: 225

2015/08/27 - 4:21 by Playground 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.

Chip counts – 8 remain

Level: 22

Small Blind: 30K

Big Blind: 60K

Ante: 5K

Chip Average: 565K

Remaining: 8

Entries: 225

2015/08/27 - 3:54 by Playground Poker

These are the counts of the remaining 8 players, as play enters level 22:

First Name	Last Name	Seat	Chip Count
Behrouz	Ghaedi	Seat 1	305,000
Moshe	Cohen	Seat 2	200,000
Yannick	Labattaglia	Seat 3	1,115,000
Viken	Artinian	Seat 4	430,000
Andrew	Boujaoude	Seat 6	140,000
Brett	Blake	Seat 7	1,040,000
Vasilios	Sklavounos	Seat 8	1,010,000
Daniel	Fortier	Seat 9	265,000

: Brett Blake

: Daniel Fortier

: Behrouz Ghaedi

: Andrew Boujaoude

: Vasilios Sklavounos

: Viken Artinian

: Yannick Labattaglia

: Moshe Cohen

2 quick eliminations

Level: 21

Small Blind: 20K

Big Blind: 40K

Ante: 5K

Chip Average: 565K

Remaining: 8

Entries: 225

2015/08/27 - 3:45 by Playground Poker

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.

Final Table

Level: 21

Small Blind: 20K

Big Blind: 40K

Ante: 5K

Chip Average: 450K

Remaining: 10

Entries: 225

2015/08/27 - 3:34 by Playground Poker

The final table is here!

Good luck!

First Name	Last Name	Seat
Behrouz	Ghaedi	Seat 1
Moshe	Cohen	Seat 2
Yannick	Labattaglia	Seat 3
Viken	Artinian	Seat 4
Benjamin	Croteau	Seat 5
Andrew	Boujaoude	Seat 6
Brett	Blake	Seat 7
Vasilios	Sklavounos	Seat 8
Daniel	Fortier	Seat 9
Todor	Petkov	Seat 10

A deal has been reached!

2015/08/27 - 3:30 by Playground Poker

After some negotiating, a deal has been reached by the final 11 players. A chip-chop distribution of the prize pool was put into play, leaving an additional $450 plus the Montréal Poker Expo Champion’s Trophy to be awarded to the eventual tournament champion. The bounties remain in play.

Here is the prize distribution of the chop:

Name	Prize based on chip chop
Todor Petkov	$2,650
Brett Blake	$2,385
Behrouz Ghaedi	$2,140
Andrew Boujaoude	$2,050
Yannick Labattaglia	$1,915
Moshe Cohen	$1,370
Vasilios Sklavounos	$1,300
Benjamin Croteau	$1,210
Viken Artinian	$1,110
Daniel Fortier	$1,045
Irina Tchakarova	$1,020

Final two tables

Level: 20

Small Blind: 10K

Big Blind: 20K

Ante: 2K

Chip Average: 225K

Remaining: 20

Entries: 225

2015/08/27 - 2:30 by Playground Poker

Only two tables remain in Event 8, and here are the current seating arrangements:

First Name	Last Name	Seat
Irina	Tchakarova	Table 54 - Seat 1
Brian	Morgan	Table 54 - Seat 2
Benjamin	Croteau	Table 54 - Seat 3
Guy	Lebrun	Table 54 - Seat 4
Marc	Saddik	Table 54 - Seat 5
Brett	Blake	Table 54 - Seat 6
Vasilios	Sklavounos	Table 54 - Seat 7
Todor	Petkov	Table 54 - Seat 8
Theodore	Dimitroulas	Table 54 - Seat 9
Constantine	Papadakis	Table 54 - Seat 10
Lorne	Wechsler	Table 57 - Seat 1
Alex	Chiasson	Table 57 - Seat 2
Daniel	Fortier	Table 57 - Seat 3
Andrew	Boujaoude	Table 57 - Seat 4
Steen G.	Rassow	Table 57 - Seat 5
Grant	Pazarka	Table 57 - Seat 6
Behrouz	Ghaedi	Table 57 - Seat 7
Viken	Artinian	Table 57 - Seat 8
Moshe	Cohen	Table 57 - Seat 9
Yannick	Labattaglia	Table 57 - Seat 10

Bubble time; leaderboard update

Level: 17

Small Blind: 6K

Big Blind: 12K

Ante: 2K

Chip Average: 187.5K

Remaining: 24

Entries: 225

2015/08/27 - 1:43 by Playground Poker

Moments before the tournament went on a chip-up break, play entered hand-for-hand as the field dropped down to 24 players, which is one spot away from the money bubble.

Constantine Papadakis has the current chip lead, and his 530,000 stack is nearly triple the average. Here are the chips leaders entering level 17: