Players are in the money? Well, this being a Bounty Event, most of them have been showing profit for some time now. Getting into the prize pool table only adds to the money associated with the number of knockouts performed. This being said, the final table payouts far outweigh the Bounties earned, making those bounties less and less valuable, relatively speaking.

Benjamin Ménard is still our chip leader, having over half a million, while short stacks have been shoving as a group since the bursting of the bubble. We now have 2 tables.

The Bounty tournament just moved to a 3-table game. Players are stacking up Bounties, while others are just trying to skim their way into the money. With 27 places paid and 29 players left, hand-for-hand is just around the corner.

Players took another break, during which the T100 chips were raced off. We put together a list of players who accumulated over 200K in chips. Mathieu Boulanger-Vaugeois, former chip leader, did not make the cut, as his stack was seriously dented. Benjamin Ménard, the new Bounty captain, is sitting on over 400K, almost 4 times the average (see picture on the right)!

We caught an interesting run out between Eric Bienenstock and Paul Betten, when they got it in on the flop. Eric had , while Paul had .

Board:  

That turn came with a lot of baggage , completing 2 pairs for Paul, yet bringing Eric closer to victory, having improved from a one-pair gut-shot to a one-pair open-ended flush draw! It was only a tease though, as the river card was the biggest of bricks. Paul pulled the 100K+ pot.

Here is the new leaderboard, composed of stacks 200K high or more, followed by some of their photos:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Benamin	Ménard	406,500
Grant	Ellis	322,000
Pierre André	Prévost	284,500
Ismael	Keita	267,500
Stéphane	Harvey	238,000
Cynthia	Paquette	225,000
Andreas	Kanakis	213,000

Players are now down to 6 tables, all on the left side of the tournament hall. Main Event players bagged their chips and await tomorrow’s Day 2, but the hall is still crowded with a sea of cash games.

Mathieu Bélanger-Vaugeois (featured on the right) is leading the Bounty with 247K, and the second in chips, Grant Ellis, is sitting at his immediate right! Are we going to see sparks? Future will tell, and we’ll tell you.

He is the updated top 10:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Mathieu	Boulanger-Vaugeois	247,000
Grant	Ellis	164,500
Ismael	Keita	154,000
Marcello	Iacovella	133,500
Stéphane	Harvey	129,500
Alexandre	Lajoie	128,500
Pierre André	Prévost	126,500
Brett	Buschbascher	126,000
Matthew	Routley	117,000
Raphaël	Breton-St-Jean	114,500

Event 11 is moving fast towards the money. We are now playing at level 12, and there will be a break soon, during which the leaderboard will be updated. Spoiler: Mathieu Boulanger-Vaugeois is sitting on a monster stack, about 250K deep, topped with 7 Bounty chips!

The second break is now behind us, and almost half the field have ceded their Bounty. This means that some players have already stacked a few of them, as well as tournament chips. Here is a list of those who have done that best, forming a top 10:

First Name | Prénom	Last Name | Nom	Stack | Tapis
Ismael	Keita	137,000
Mathieu	Boulanger-Vaugeois	129,000
Marcello	Iacovella	118,500
Andreas	Kanakis	105,000
Michael	Taylor	87,000
Mitchell	Dredge	81,000
Brian	Morgan	79,500
Ian	Morton	76,500
Stergios	Alexandrakis	75,000
Grant	Ellis	73,000

On the last hand before the break, Marcello Iacovella won a 4-way pre-flop all-in hand, good for a pot of 118K and 2 bounties! Holding , he bested , and by flopping a king and dodging a flush draw and a couple of queens. This pot propelled him in 3rd place. Nice one!