When you’re in the small blind with a decent ace and playing against a big blind with a stack on the short side and likely to take risks, you’re pretty confident to have the best hand. But sometimes, as Shawn Konig found out the hard way, you’re way behind. Denis Ouellette had a serious pocket pair and only needed to fade an ace on the run out.

Konig:
Ouellette:

Board:

Ouellette picks up the 75K pot.

There were four players on the turn when Razvan Vintiloiu bet 16K. Two players folded, and the second the action came to Aaron Czaja, he threw in a bounty chip, which means an all-in bet. Razvan called instantly with a set of 3s, but found that his opponent was not as far behind as he would have hoped:

Razvan:
Aaron:

Board:

The clean river allowed Razvan to stay in and with a healthy stack of 100K or so.

With 245 entries in tonight’s Bounty, the prize pool was handsomely built, and even though half of the money went to bounty chips, there are some very nice prizes on the payout table:

Players just took their second break of the evening, during which we surveyed the tables to spot the 6-figure stacks. We found 7 of them, with Alex Plourde in command. He is followed closely by his table mate John Yang Huynh. Here is the list:

Daniel Guindon was all-in for a small amount, while Pierre-Luc Siméon and Marc Coallier were fighting for a side pot. The fight was short lived, as both players got it in on the flop for about 25K.

Guindon: :1
Siméon:
Coallier:

Board:

Coallier had a load of outs, but Siméon dodged all of them to pick up Guindon’s bounty and move up the board.

We came across a hand that had 3 players all-in pre-flop and 2 of them severely dominated.

Mario Massie:
Alex Plourde:
Chris Arvanitis:

Board:

Arvanitis had about 11K before the hand but that was enough to pick up Massie’s bounty chip. Alex Plourde had his aces cracked, but he is still on top of the leaderboard.