Event 12 was a $500 + $50 No Limit Hold’em Deepstack tournament being held over three days as part of the Playground Poker Montreal Festival. There were a total of 183 players in the event adding up to a prize pool of $88,755.00, which was distributed according to the following table.
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Rank [attr sort=asc],First Name,Last Name,Prize
1,Steve,Daraiche,”$21,500.00″
2,Xin,Qi,”$15,500.00″
3,Gregory,Katayama,”$11,555.00″
4,Kyle,Chang,”$8,600.00″
5,James,McDermott,”$6,400.00″
6,Alexandre,Bedard,”$4,800.00″
7,Richard,Leger,”$3,600.00″
8,Mike,Fraser,”$2,600.00″
9,Thanh-Phong,Bui,”$2,000.00″
10,Gary,Lucci,”$1,500.00″
11,Andrew,Miller,”$1,500.00″
12,George,Grady,”$1,300.00″
13,Diana,Shamshoum,”$1,300.00″
14,Jason,Gracie,”$1,200.00″
15,George,Metaxakis,”$1,200.00″
16,Eric,Gariepy,”$1,100.00″
17,George,Caragiorgas,”$1,100.00″
18,Andrew,Boujaoude,”$1,000.00″
19,Marko,,”$1,000.00″
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and Steve 
. The board (
) gave Steve aces-up, and that was good enough to win him the pot and the tournament. He earned $21,500 for his first place finish, as well as a Playground Poker Montreal Festival bracelet!
board, but Xin’s three of a kind was good enough to take the pot.
, Kyle Chang was left with only around 250K in the big blind. Action folded around to Steve Daraiche in the small blind, who bet more than Kyle owned to put some pressure on him. Kyle made the call, and they were off to the races:
board to eliminated James and bring the final table down to 4 players.
