The action has picked up noticeably and the tournament is now down to the final 4 as John Helou has been eliminated in 5th place.
It took two hands to get John out of the tournament. In the first, he found himself all in against a shorter-stacked Thi Nguyen holding 
while Thi was playing 
. The flop was a tease: 
and the 
confirmed that John would lose the hand with a lower set than Thi.
On the next hand, John shipped in the rest of his stack – about 1.5M – holding 
. He was called by Daniel Gagnon who played 
. The flop wasn’t good for John: 
. The turn was a safe but the river brought the 
and the end of John’s tourney.
5th place: John Helou, $53,100
