Richard Edwin Mask was on a roller-coaster ride in hands with players on the final table, including Mike Saragossi. After losing a huge hand that left him with just 250K (8bb), he went all in on the next hand holding only to find Mike ready to put his chips back in holding .
The kept the suspense alive but an Ace on the turn returned to his total of just one hand earlier. Then a few hands later, the Saragossi/Mask battle continued, again with Richard pushing and finding the call from Mike.
Mike:
Richard:
Richard was dominated and the board run-out of couldn’t bail him out. Richard was out in 3rd place.
3rd place: Richard Edwin Mask – $10,370
James Hugues-Scavone stayed around the chip average for the first half of the tournament, but in the later stages he moved to among the chip leaders for extended periods of time. Chatty and active at the table, he drove a lot of the action (and loved to have his photo taken). And when he got into a hand with he felt sure he would be able to take it to the very end… Jonathan Bussières made the call of the preflop bet holding .
The flop came and Jonathan check-called James’ flop shove having binked the improbable trip 9s and the turn and river couldn’t get James back into the lead.
4th place: James Hugues-Scavone – $7,780