Alexandre Nadeau-Levesque’s chip stack was on a roller coaster at the final table. He started out by taking down a huge pot to send Alexander Wong to the rail. Shortly after that, he lost a series of hands and was down to only a handful of blinds but came back from the brink to run his stack back up to average. Once he got there, he doubled up Kristen Bicknell when his pocket jacks ran into her pocket aces. That cooler hand reduced his stack to roughly three big blinds. When he finally moved all in, he picked up three callers, and his tournament run came to an end. He had live cards on his final hand, giving him decent equity for the situation, but came up short as George James rivered trips to take down the pot.
Nadeau-Levesque walked away with $25,000 for his efforts, his largest tournament cash yet.