Maxime Pageau was the first casualty of the final table in the $500 + $100 + $500 NL Hold’em 50/50 Bounty. The finalists have been rounded up about 15 minutes ago, and are now on break.

On the last hand before the break, Pageau pushed his short stack forward (about 125K) from the under-the-gun position. Action was folded to Harley Stoffmaker in the small blind, who quickly assessed Pageau’s stack, and isolated him by throwing a Bounty chip.

Maxime Pageau:
Harley Stoffmaker:

Board:

Here is the seating arrangement for the Bounty’s Final:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège	Stack | Tapis
Norson	Shiniti Saho	Table 58 - Seat 1	329,000
François	Tarrab	Table 58 - Seat 2	373,000
Zhao	Kang Peng	Table 58 - Seat 3	192,000
Matthew	Wilkins	Table 58 - Seat 4	413,000
Sreyleap	Prom	Table 58 - Seat 5	913,000
Mitchael	Ferguson	Table 58 - Seat 6	156,000
Steven	Rinaldi	Table 58 - Seat 7	178,000
Harley	Stoffmaker	Table 58 - Seat 8	753,000
Sebastien	Soares	Table 58 - Seat 9	667,000
Maxime	Pageau	Table 58 - Seat 10	0

Seat 10 is now vacant. Maxime took $1,400 for his 10th place, and our 9 finalists resume play at 8K/16K/a2K, with an 433K average.

These 2 elimination hands, which led to the formation of the final table, were both pre-flop battles.

Victor Adams:
Sreyleap Prom:

Board:

Forouzan Sotoudeh:
François Tarrab:

Board:

Sreyleap Prom is now sitting on about 800K, leading the tournament as the 10 finalists are being seated on a fresh table, next to the tournament desk.

Good luck to all finalists!

12th: Victor Adams – $1,300.00
11th: Forouzan Sotoudeh – $1,400.00

Zheng-Yi Xie invested all with , but his opponent’s got the best of him when the board came .

Stuart Taylor, on the same table, went all-in with his own kings, and suffered the same fate. Norson Shiniti Saho called him with , and hit his ace on the turn for the knockout.

Then Matthew Wilkins ( ), Tomas Fara ( ), and Richard Myron ( ) got into a 3-way all-in. All the chips were pushed pre-flop, and the flop favored Wilkins, who still had quite a few outs to dodge:

Board:

All players were alive on the turn, but Myron was eliminated on that hand.

While these lines were being written, Tomas Fara lost the few chips he had left, and finished 13th, for $1,300.

16th: Zheng-yi Xie – $1,110.00
15th: Stuart Taylor – $1,200.00
14th: Richard Myron – $1,200.00
13th: Tomas Fara – $1,300.00

François Tarrab opened to 70K, which is a humongous bet considering the 10K big blind. Kris Klimosko went all-in from a late position for, and watched as the action folded to Tarrab, who completed the bet.

François Tarrab:
Kris Klimosko:

Board:

Klimosko flopped top 2 pairs, leaving Tarrab with a tough draw, as only one of 2 remaining 7s would help him. Tarrab hit one of them on the turn, and when the stacks were accounted for, both players had exactly 294K! Tarrab claimed the Bounty, and is still stacking chips.

Play was then hand-for-hand for 30 seconds, while Kelly Cameron was being eliminated on the other table. Congratulations to all money finishers!

When we arrived at the table, the pot was already quite sizable, and Maxime Pageau (title picture) had gone all-in for 166K on a board. Tomas Fara, who had checked to him, tanked for a long time before throwing a chip in. Pageau then tabled , for a back door straight! Fara looked at the board for a second and a half, subdued, then started counting the payment. He is left with a little over 100K.

With that pot, Pageau is now the owner of 475K, the biggest stack in the tournament.

Shortly after, on the same table, Victor Adams raised to 22K from the under-the-gun position, and was called by Pageau on his immediate left. Then the action was folded around to Zhao Kang Peng in the small blind. He went all-in for about 90K, and Richard Myron immediately did the same from the big blind, with his 150K stack. Adams, the original raiser, tanked for a bit, and finally elected to move in as well, covering them both by a large margin. Pageau quickly got out of the way, and 3 players went to the board:

Zhao Kang Peng:
Richard Myron:
Victor Adams:

Board:

Zhao found himself in s great spot, facing 2 players who had the same over cards, and his pair actually held, for a nice double up.

 

Moments before the break, the field in the $500 + $100 + $500 NL Hold’em 50/50 Bounty dropped to 18 players. The tournament staff formed the last 2 tables as soon as the players got back from break. Sebastien Soares (title picture) is still leading the field, 462K strong, and François Tarrab is now on his immediate left, with 363K, second in chips.

Here is the new seating arrangement, including counts:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Seat | Siège	Stack | Tapis
Steven	Rinaldi	Table 57 - Seat 1	118,000
Sreyleap	Prom	Table 57 - Seat 2	268,000
Kelly	Cameron	Table 57 - Seat 3	115,000
Matthew	Wilkins	Table 57 - Seat 4	185,000
Tomas	Fara	Table 57 - Seat 5	280,000
Zhao	Kang Peng	Table 57 - Seat 6	137,000
Richard	Myron	Table 57 - Seat 7	127,000
Victor	Adams	Table 57 - Seat 8	296,000
Maxime	Pageau	Table 57 - Seat 9	229,000
Forouzan	Sotoudeh	Table 61 - Seat 1	268,000
Stuart	Taylor	Table 61 - Seat 2	96,000
Kris	Klimosko	Table 61 - Seat 3	188,000
Mitchael	Ferguson	Table 61 - Seat 4	132,000
Zheng-Yi	Xie	Table 61 - Seat 5	167,000
Sebastien	Soares	Table 61 - Seat 6	462,000
François	Tarrab	Table 61 - Seat 7	363,000
Harley	Stoffmaker	Table 61 - Seat 8	203,000
Norson	Shiniti Saho	Table 61 - Seat 9	198,000