We are just over an hour away from dinner break, and 141 players remain of the 218 that started the day. There will be 4 more 45-minutes levels of play after dinner before the tournament goes on pause for the day.
Here are a few photos taken during the last few levels:
We saw the action pick up quite a bit after the deal was concluded, and we are down to our final 2 players: Raphael Clayette (~2,500,000) and Frederic Charest (~3,800,000).
The final 6 players have made a deal, based on a slightly modified chip-chop formula. In order to entice the other players to agree to a deal, Wayne gave a portion of his share to the others, as did Olivier. In addition, 5% of the prizepool has been left for the eventual winner, who will also be taking home a Playground Poker Montreal Festival bracelet. Here is how the rest of the money was divided:
Congratulations gentlemen!
Here are the chip counts of the final 6 players:
Final Table
In an unopened pot, Jonathan Gauthier moved all-in from the small blind for 440K, and was called by Frederic Gauthier in the big blind.
Jonathan: 
Frederic: 
Board: 
Jonathan was left with 5K after the hand, or 1 ante. He won the next hand, bringing it up to 35K, but two hands later found himself in a three-way all-in and no luck.
7th place: Jonathan Gauthier, $940
Sitting on just under 300K, Alexandre moved all-in from the cut-off in a unopened pot, and Olivier reshoved his over 1.7M stack from the button.
Alexandre:
Olivier: 
Alexandre found no help on the 
board, and ended his tournament in 8th place.
8th place: Alexandre Belanger, $710
Phannasophea Muong had a rough beginning to this final table, as he saw 611K of his roughly 740K stack get shipped over to Olivier Morin in the very first hand when he lost with 
to all-in preflop. He was quite patient after that, and lasted almost two orbits before falling victim once again to Olivier.
In his last hand, Phannasophea moved all-in for 125K after Olivier opened from utg +1 to 120K. Frederic Charest joined the party from the big blind, and they were three handed to the 
flop. Frederic checked, and Olivier placed an uncalled bet of 120K.
Olivier: 
Phannasophea: 
The running cards were good to Olivier, as the and gave him the win, thus eliminating Phannasophea in 9th.
9th place: Phannasophea Muong, $540
Here are the current chip counts of the final tableist:
Final Table
We’ve seen a lot of action here in Event 9 since the money bubble has passed us, and the field has dropped down to it’s two final 8-handed tables.
Table 54
Table 57
The final table will begin at 9-players.
Raphael Clayette has been on a roll since the money bubble has burst, more than tripling his stack in the last two levels (and causing a few casualties along the way). He is now sitting on just over 1 million in chips, which is a nice stack to hold when the average is only 390K!
