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

The remaining 5 players in Event #8 were quickly able to agree to a deal in which they reserved $155 for first place and split the entire rest of the prize pool into equal $770 slices. Play continues with the button ante halved due to the short-handed status of this final table.

Stephane Desrosiers has been eliminated in 7th place following a classic poker hand – Aces against Kings. Steven Taylor opened the action with a utg raise to 25K, which was met with a raise to 100K from Stephane. Yvon Robert Blais re-raised all-in with his covering stack, the blinds folded and after just a second of hesitation, Steven folded. Stephane quickly made the call and the hole cards were exposed.

Stephane:
Yvon Robert:

There wasn’t much of anything on the flop: although the two spades were better than nothing for Stephane’s . The on the turn was a mixed bag but the on the river sealed the deal – Stephane was out in 7th.

Since this elimination, Jean-Christophe Surette was eliminated in 6th, however we were not present for the fateful hand.

7th place: Stephane Desrosiers, $220

6th place: Jean-Christophe Surette, $250

There are now just 8 players left in Event #8 as two players were eliminated very deep into the last level before this break. The final 8 are led by Steve Khouri, who has 373,000 in chips – a solid lead on the field

Event #8 is already down to 10 players remaining and everyone left is now in the money, with a min-cash of $150 awaiting the next player to be eliminated. There is a break coming soon during which we will update the following table with stack sizes.