David Bonneau was nearly out of the tournament a few minutes ago, when he bet more than half his remaining stack before folding to a check-shove from table-opponent George Caragiorgas. With only 85K left after the hand, he quickly ran it up to 300K before picking up pocket aces to stack Co Tran in 10th place.
Fast forward a few short hands, and he is faced with a 245K open-shove from Mike Lafable, only to look down at another pocket pair of 
. Mike turned over 
, and as his hand failed to improve on the 
, he was sent to the rail in 9th place.
David Bonneau now holds a cool 800K stack, nearly 10x what he held less than 2 orbits ago.
The tournament director has just called the last 4 hands of play, and once they have been completed, the remaining players will bag their chips onto tomorrow’s Day 3.
9th place: Mike Lafable – $2,480.00
Mike Lafable
