The Colossus field, after just two hand-for-hand hands, has dropped to 350 players! Short-stackers have been very cautious in the last half-hour or so, conscious of the $1,100 difference between position 351 and position 350.
Isabelle Tremblay, with only a few chips to her name and 4 players to go before the bubble, fearlessly jammed her pocket jacks and managed to double her belongings against 2 over cards. Steve Mansour also went all-in, with ace-queen and 3 players to go before reaching the money, and found a wheel on the river!
On the bubble hand, Andrej Bachynsky was all-in on the small blind with 1K! Two players tagged along, and one of them, Jeffrey Kirton, isolated Bachynsky with 9-high on the flop!
Bachynsky: 
Kirton: 
Board: 
After hitting a 9 on the turn, Kirton watched the river bring Bachynsky a second pair and a min-cash! On a nearby table, Arlindo Bettencourt was also all-in – on the river – and at risk, but it seemed like despite the strength of his hand, he knew that Michel Leblanc had him cooked. All he could hope for is for someone with less chips bust on another table. Bachynsky however, as we know, survived his hand. Here is the bubble hand:
Bettencourt: 
Leblanc: 
Board: 
What a brutal bubble bust! Bettencourt left in 351 place with a heartbreaking story to tell his friends. The rest of the field, as expected, is now shrinking at light speed, with over 60 busts since the bubble burst. Congratulations to everyone in the money!
