Alexandre Lavigne – a frequent occupant of final table seats in big events at Playground Poker – has been eliminated in 8th place.
A little context: the hand prior to this one, John Helou lost a huge pot to Noeung Troeung, shipping him over 2M chips after Noeung’s strong value bet of 1.4M on the river holding a straight, while John simply mucked and paid him the chips.
The very next hand, Alexandre open shoves on the button holding 2,025,000. Noeung quickly folded and as soon as he did, John called.
Alexandre: 
John: 
The flop was very positive for John: 
, but the turn 
brought Alexandre a lot of outs to a chop – but alas the river 
was not one of them.
8th place: Alexandre Lavigne, $20,620
