Yannick Labattaglia is a very experienced and accomplished tournament player, having had multiple success over the years both live as well as on the virtual felt. He came into Day 3 with the second shortest stack (615,000 chips, 7.7 big binds) and he had managed to secure an early double-up with pocket jacks vs. the pocket nine’s of Loai El Ayday.

A little while later Labattaglia opened with ace-queen and was three-bet all in for 475,000 with pocket jacks which he called. Labattaglia hit his queen but his opponent made a set of jacks and Labattagalia’s stack took a hit. A few hands later after having lost a good portion of his stack, he moved all in with but this time the timing was off as he was called by Hamzah Ozor with . He received no help from the board run-out and was sent to the tournament desk to pick up his pay slip.

9th Place: Yannick Labattaglia. $1,360