While the first six players to exit the final table left in relatively rapid succession, the battle to make it to the final two took a lot longer. Not totally surprising, considering the fact that there were 21,820,000 chips in play spread semi-evenly between the three competitors Abram Logasy, Jonathan English and Alexander Allison.

In the end, it was Alexander Allison who did the damage, taking most of Alex’s stack the hand before he officially knocked him out. In the pre-departure hand, it was Alexander’s versus Jonathan’s . The board came down , and Jonathan transferred about 90% of his chips to Alex, whose threes held up.

The final nail in the coffin came the next hand, when Jonathan shoved with . He came up against Alex again, who had this time. The board came down , and the pair of eights took it!

Jonathan had an excellent tournament and an impressive final table performance, taking home the third place prize of $22,081 as well as the respect of his competitors. Congratulations on a great run in the Closer. Nice work!