The blind levels had reduced to 30 minutes heads up as per the published event rules, and during the 3rd level of heads up play, […]
Guerbilsky falls short of the final table
Marc Guerbilsky, sitting on the short end of the leaderboard, opted to make a move in a unopened pot from late position. He found a call from Christopher McClung in the big blind though, and needed some help:
Marc: 
Christopher: 
With no help on the 
board, Marc was sent home in 11th, collecting $2,700 for his run.
With this elimination, the tournament has reached it’s final table of ten players!
Marc Guerbilsky
Event 6 is on break
The 50/50 Bounty has played through 4 levels and the players are now on break. The tournament has proven to be quite popular tonight, with 229 players starting the event. Of those, 210 remain. We’ll get photos of the field a bit later in the evening.
Slotegraaf, Bellsmith, (Joseph) Abou Khalil next to go
James Slotegraaf was short stacked when he moved in from utg, and he was followed by all-ins from Nick Petsas and Joseph Abou Khalil.
James: 
Nick: 
Joseph: 
Board: 
Joseph held the biggest stack of the three, and after the hand was over, he was only left with 200,000, while James hit the rail in 14th, good fpr $2,200.
On the other table, we saw Matthew Bellsmith move in from the button for around 400,000, and get called by Glen Hammers in the big blind. Matthew’s 
were no match to Glen’s 
, and the 
board was his last of the tournament. Matthew also collected $2,200 for his run.
Shortly after, Joseph doubled his short stack off Jimmy Setna, and then found himself all-in versus Randy Khalil.
Joseph:
Randy:
Board: 
Joseph almost improved enough to win the hand, but inevitably placed in 12th place, earning $2,700. Randy now has around 6,200,000 in chips, putting him far ahead of the field. There will be a break in 10 minutes, during which we will publish the chip counts of all the players left.
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- Matthew Bellsmith
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- Joseph Abou Khalil
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- James Slotegraaf
Antia gets rivered, out in 15th
We caught up to action on the flop, as Behram Antia, who was in the big blind position, was in the tank after preflop raiser Randy Khalil open shoved the 
flop following Behram’s check. After a few moments, Behram committed his remaining ~1,000,000 chips, and players tabled their hands.
Behram: 
Randy: 
Behram was ahead at the time of the call, but Randy caught up to take the pot, as the running cards were 
. Behram took $2,200 for his run, while Randy extended his chip lead.
Behram Antia
McClung doubles up; Ranger hits the rail
Christopher McClung just won a huge double up, as he found all of his 1,175,000 chips in the middle, all-in preflop versus Randy Khalil.
Christopher:
Randy:
Community cards: 
Randy is still holding just shy of 3 million after the hand, which is good for the current chip lead.
Shortly after, on the other table, Matt Ranger found himself all-in and in a race, but his were outflopped by Ko Maddock’s on the board to place in 16th, good for $1,730.
Matt Ranger
Hand for hand
A few quick eliminations in succession have brought Event 5 to 14 players remaining – the bubble! Play is now hand for hand on the two remaining tables.
Recent eliminations: Ben Menache, Shaun Bowring, Patrick Braga, Philip Richard Elliot.
Event 5: Full counts
There are 18 players remaining in Event 5 and during the break we got full chip counts for the players remaining in the tournament. Remember that the tournament pays 13 players, so effectively the tournament has reached the bubble phase of the event.
Table 62
- Sammy Lafleur – 182K
- Jean-Philippe Piquette – 129K
- Patrick Braga – 138K
- Dustin Melanson – 228K
- Francois Goulet – 230K
- Alexandre Fortin – 119K
- Tommy Boily – 83K
- Seat Empty
- Ben Menache – 88K
- Isham Yamani – 77K
Table 66
- Olivier Racine – 92K
- Gregory Katayama – 142K
- Philip Richard Elliot – 71K
- Mike Fraser – 167K
- John Paul Tabago – 85K
- Seat Empty
- John Power – 182K
- Shaun Bowring – 31K
- Charles-Eric Benoit – 259K
- Gagandeep Singh – 182K
Shamshoum can’t make it two in a row
Event 1 champion Rick Shamshoum was attempting the improbably, back-to-back bracelets in fields of over 1,000 players, however his run just ended in 17th place. He tried taking advantage of an unopened pot in late position, moving in his last 9bb with , but unfortunately for him, Behram Antia woke up with in the big blind. Rick made a pair on the flop, but it wasn’t enough as the community cards showed 
. He still collect $1,730 for his second deep run in as many tournaments.
Chips are being shifted
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.
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- Geri Casey
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- Francois Bernier
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- Samuel Louis Gagnon
Event 6: Cards are in the air
Play has now begun in Event 6, the 50/50 Bounty, and there are already 146 players seated in the tournament with just under 90 minutes of late registration available.
Good luck to all of the players!
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