LIVE EVENTS

The tournament is now heads-up between Denise Lepine and Claire Briere, playing for the trophy, the champion bragging rights, and a nice little $460 to go on top of the guaranteed payouts from the ICM deal as follows:

• Claire Briere: $1,690
• Denise Lepine: $1,555

In a crazy cooler situation, Brigitte Korak got all of her chips into the middle with pocket queens and was called by Denise Lepine holding the pocket rockets. Korak was at least hoping to spike a queen when she saw the aces, but the deck had other ideas for her. Lepine flops quads and Korak was drawing dead. What a final table cooler. None the less, Korak took the blow with grace and congratulated her opponents, collecting $1,445 from the ICM deal.

Fourth place: Brigitte Korak, $1,445

Before losing Korak in fourth, Pauline Briand had been eliminated in fifth place for $1,285.

Just before the players had went on their last break, they decided to ask the floor to calculate what the payouts would be on an ICM chip chop deal. As the tournament must play down to a winner, 5% of the remaining prize pool ($460) will also be removed from the prize pool and awarded to the eventual champion. Here are the numbers as per the ICM calculator:

The players agreed to the deal. The play will now most likely speed up as all players have secured a decent payout for their competitive day of poker fun.

Right after play resumed, Claire Briere was able to knock out Barbara Phillips so the table is now five-handed.

Sixth place: Barbara Phillips, $1,080

Manon Dallaire did her best today and in the end, she finished in eighth place, collecting $410 and some good leaderboard points. A good effort for sure.

Brigitte Metivier, a well known and dynamic player, tried her best but had no cooperation from the cards on the final table today and ended up leaving in seventh spot for $540.

Since the final table has been formed, the tournament has lost Lisa Powell in tenth spot, she collected $240 for her efforts.

The next player to be sent to the rail was Annie Beaulieu, finishing in ninth spot and taking home $320. She almost left on the bubble when play was 12 handed but caught a miracle river to make a running flush, but in the end, she was not able to turn that into gold. A well played tournament and as a consolation at least some good leaderboard points for the championship final.

Ninth place: Annie Beaulieu, $320

After the tournament lost Helene Corcoran on the bubble, Francine Baillargeon was the next to go, finishing in eleventh spot and taking home $240 for her day of poker. Well played!

The final table has been formed. Here are the players and their chip counts:

Chip leader: Julie Poliquin

The play had been hand-for-hand for quite some time, but the bubble has finally burst.

With the blinds at 3,000/6,000, Brigitte Korak opened the action with a raise to 15,000. Annie Beaulieu, seated on Korak’s immediate left, bumped it up to 30,000. When it folded to Helene Corcoran in the small blind, she instantly moved her stack forward as she announced that she was all in. Korak shook her head as she looked at both of her opponents before finally mucking her hand. Beaulieu made the call.

Corcoran:
Beaulieu:

Corcoran was in the lead, and Beaulieu wasn’t thrilled to see that. She looked at the dealer and politely repeated “ten, ten, ten, ten….” The dealer fanned out   on the flop and Beaulieu continued saying “ten, ten, ten.” The turn was the , which gave Beaulieu lots of new outs. When the river fell the , Beaulieu started to get up to leave, thinking that she had lost the hand, but the river card had saved her! Korak looked at her and said “you have the ten of spades, you made a flush!”

Corcoran had played very well today and was always in contention, but the unfortunate river on her final hand led to her elimination in twelfth place, one shy of the money.

Annie Beaulieu:

The play has been moving along and the money bubble is quickly approaching and the remaining players are very aware of that. Everyone of course wants to make the final table and more importantly, be crowned the Event #2 Champion.

Julie Poliquin opened the action in late position raising it up from 5,000 to 15,000. She was met with an all in shove by Vicky Dube. After giving it some thought, Poliquin asked the dealer for a count. Dube moved her chips forward and the dealer cut the chips and told Poliquin the count was 57,000. Poliquin decided to go ahead and make the call.

Poliquin:
Dube:

It appeared that Dube was in very good shape and that Poliquin would need some help . The poker gods must have been on her side as the dealer peeled the on the flop, effectively flopping the nuts for Poliquin who could not believe her eyes. The turn and river were just formalities as they offered Dube no help at all and Poliquin pulled in a nice pot just as those chips are starting to become really valuable.

Dube played a great game today and was leading for quite a few levels early on, but she will now have to wait until Event #3 to try again.

The players have just returned from their third break of the day and over on table 42 there are lots of chips in play, where the four players with the largest stacks in the field are seated. The leader is none other than local legend, the Poker League of Nations Ambassador and 2018 Irish Open Ladies Event Champion, Brigitte Metivier, who is sitting on a stack slightly more than 76 big blinds.

Here are the current leaders: