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Event 5 Champion: Réjean Grenier

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Event 5 of the TonyBet Winter Festival attracted a total of 111 participants and it took over 8 hours to play down to the eventual champion, Réjean Grenier!

There was a player deal reached at 7 players remaining – they chose an even chop of the prize pool while reserving $315 and the trophy for the winner of the tournament. The deal proved to be a great way to “activate” the remaining players – and immediately following, Réjean eliminated 2 players in a single hand leaving just 5 remaining. A few minutes later say François-Étienne Corbin follow the rest of the players to the rail. Things slowed momentarily but then in the span of just a a few hands Denis Asselin and Kevin Birss were eliminated, leaving just Réjean and Yannick Labattaglia alive in the tourney.

The heads-up battle was relatively epic for a single-day tournament, lasting almost 45 minutes. Yannick managed to come from behind multiple times from as much as a 6-1 chip deficit… until the last attempt.

Réjean: Ace of Diamonds 4 of Hearts
Yannick: 9 of Spades 10 of Clubs

Community cards: 5 of Spades 4 of Clubs 3 of Hearts 2 of Spades 5 of Hearts

Event 5 Champion: Réjean Grenier, $2,250

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2nd place: Yannick Labattaglia, $1,935

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Final hand of the tournament

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Event 5 – Results & Payouts

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Event 5 in the TonyBet Winter Festival was a $150 + $15 NL Hold’em 8-Max tournament that had 111 total runners for a prize pool of $16,150.00. This was distributed according to the following payout table.

Note that there were two player deals made during the course of the event. First, $250 was taken from the scheduled 1st prize and given to the player in 13th place. Next, there was a player deal reached at 7 players remaining. They reserved $315 and the trophy for 1st place and evenly divided the remaining prize pool. Both of these deals are reflected in the payout table.

Rank | PosFirst Name | PrénomLast Name | NomPrize | Bourse
1RejeanGrenier$2,250.00
2YannickLabattaglia$1,935.00
3Kevin JBirss$1,935.00
4DenisAsselin$1,935.00
5Francois-EtienneCorbin$1,935.00
6Jean-EricGaudreault$1,935.00
7YangGuo$1,935.00
8J-SebastienSchick$590.00
9SofianeBoulila$450.00
10Joe-ElieAssio$340.00
11GarryThompson$340.00
12ImranHussain$320.00
13DanielLeddy$250.00

7-way deal

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After losing Sofiane Boulila and J-Sebastien Schick in 9th and 8th respectively, the remaining 7 players decided to negotiate a deal. Given that stacks all fell between 240,000 and 400,000, they actually opted for an even chop, leaving behind the required 2% for the eventual winner (who will also take home the TonyBet Winter Festival Champion’s Trophy!).

They are pocketing $1,935 each, while the first place finisher will take home an additional $315.

Congratulations!

J-Sébastien Schick out in 8th place

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Réjean Grenier shoved all-in from utg+1 holding Ace of Diamonds King of Hearts and found a call from the small stack in the big blind holding just Ace of Hearts 10 of Diamonds. The community cards brought no miracles for J-Sebastien and he was eliminated in 8th place.

8th place: J-Sébastien Schick, $590

Final table

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The final table is here!

Final table

  • Siège 1: François-Étienne Corbin
  • Siège 2: Kevin J. Birss
  • Siège 3: Jean-Éric Gaudreault
  • Siège 4: Sofiane Boulila
  • Siège 5: Yannick Labattaglia
  • Siège 6: J-Sébastien Schick
  • Siège 7: Yang Guo
  • Siège 8: Réjean Grenier
  • Siège 9 Denis Asselin

Two big leaders at the break

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With only 11 players left in action, the tournament went on a short chip-up break. At this point, two players have considerably separated themselves from the rest, as Yannick Labattaglia leads with 482,000, and is followed by Denis Asselin with 250,000. The rest of the players fall within the 180,000 – 230,000 range.

Players are in the money

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Players in Event 5 has just assured themselves a payday, as they accepted to offer an additional payout when play reached the bubble. They pulled $150 from first and $100 from second to offer it to the player who will eventually place 13th – but we all know their eyes are on the big prize of $3,820!

Here are the in-the-money players:

First NameLast NameSeat
SofianeBoulilaTable 54 - Seat 1
DenisAsselinTable 54 - Seat 4
Francois-EtienneCorbinTable 54 - Seat 5
GarryThompsonTable 54 - Seat 6
YangGuoTable 54 - Seat 7
Joe-ElieAssioTable 54 - Seat 8
ImramHussainTable 57 - Seat 1
Kevin BrissTable 57 - Seat 2
YannickLabattagliaTable 57 - Seat 3
RejeanGrenierTable 57 - Seat 4
J-SebastienSchickTable 57 - Seat 5
DanielLeddyTable 57 - Seat 6
Jean-EricGaudreaultTable 57 - Seat 7

Hussain leads the way

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After 13 levels of play, only 4 players find themselves upwards of 100,000 in chips, even though the average stack at the moment is of 88,000:

  1. Imran Hussain – 269 000
  2. Yang guo – 172 000
  3. Ryan Garonce – 155 000
  4. Garry Thompson – 139 000

With one more elimination, we will be down to our final 3 tables.

A few photos

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Only 40 remain out of the 111 that started the night.

Leaders after 9 levels of play

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During the short chip-up break that just occurred, we took a walk around the tables and gathered an update for the leaderboard. Only one player has breached the 6-figure mark to date, as Garry Thompson leads the field with roughly 120,000. Here are the current chip leaders entering level 10:

  1. Garry Thompson – 120 000
  2. Denis Asselin – 88 000
  3. Sofiane Boulila – 88 000
  4. Ken Ransom – 76 000

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