With just 5 players left and an even chop deal in place, somehow the remaining players found a way to play 4-5 orbits before the next elimination. There was a lot of passive play with 4 or 5 players taking a flop, plus a few short-stacks that doubled up… but in the middle of everything, Steve Khoury was chipping up in a big way, and taking lots of those chips from Denis Lafrenière.
He was eliminated on a hand opened by Alexandre Joly with a raise to 40K. Yvon Robert Blais called, and Denis went all-in over the top – but for less than 100K in chips. Alexandre folded quickly enough – but Yvon Robert called and turned over the 
– ahead of Denis’ 
.
The community cards came as follows: :6H 
:5k – no help for the eights and Lafreniere hit the rail.
In the hands immediately following, Steven Taylor and Alexandre Joly also found themselves at the short end of an all-in and call – and play moved to HU without any further delay.
5th place: Denis Lafrenière, $770
4th place: Steven Taylor, $770
3rd place: Alexandre Joly, $770
