A number of huge pots have just occurred on all three tables in the past orbit or two.
Samuel Louis Gagnon opened from the button, and found himself heads-up versus Frederic Mercier in the big blind. They found themselves all-in on a flop of , and turned out to be both drawing to a flush! Samuel held , while Frederic had the . The running cards were the , and Frederic saw a pot of nearly 2 million get shipped his way. Samuel was left with only 200,000 behind, but has since run it up to over 500,000, only to lose it shortly after with AQo versus QQ.
Randy Khalil opened to 150,00 from utg, and then 4bet shoved after Richard Figiel raised to 400,000. Randy turned over AKo, and managed to spike an ace on the board to overcome the pair of jacks of Richard to double up his 955,000 stack.
Marc Guerbilsky also doubled up, as his cracked the of Jimmy Setna on a board to double up to over 1,400,000. Not too long after, it was Jimmy who was on the cracking end, as he called the all-in of Francois Bernier on a flop holding . Francois turned over , but his set was no good once the running cards brought the .
In the mean time, we also lost Geri Casey, who moved in for 285,000 after Randy Khalil opened to 150,000. Her KJo was far ahead of Randy’s K8o, but he managed to spike an 8 on the turn to score the knockout.
Action is down to two tables now, and level 28 has just begun.