The 6-max Re-entry event started at 12 noon and attracted 113 players for an afternoon of tournament poker.
The players had done an ICM chop when they were four handed and had left the required $162 for the 1st place winner. Khanroy Fernandez was crushing for hours, and when play went three handed, he had close to a six to one chip advantage over Antoine Simon, and a little more than a four to one advantage over Robert Gosselin.
Winning a tournament requires a certain amount of aggression and although Kahnroy had most of the chips, Antoine seemed to play the most aggressively of the three finalists. When play went heads-up, Antoine was shoving quite a bit and chipping up along the way until he had a slight lead.
On the final hand of play, the flop came 
and action went check-check. The turn brought the 
and again we saw check-check. The river was the 
and all of the sudden things seemed to blow up. Before it was said and done, there was a three bet, followed by a four bet and finally a five bet shove. Antoine opened his hand: 
. He had flopped two pair. Kahnroy looked at his cards again, and, realizing he couldn’t beat two pair, his cards went into the muck and we had our champion, Antoine Simon.
1st place: Antoine Simon, $1,595
Last hand of play:
2nd place: Kahnroy Fernandez, $1,710 (NB: 2nd place paid as per ICM chop)
