Last day of play in the Main Event before the final in October! Earlier in the day, there were 27 players including québécois Marc-André "French Dawg" Ladouceur. Ladouceur was leader in chips, which augured very well for him!
Things were going well for Marc-André while there were still 15 players. Until this heart-wrenching hand is:
Ladouceur has AsKc on CO and raised to 480,000. Andras Koroknai a piggyback on the SB and 3bet to 1. 2M. Ladouceur 4bet 2.15 M and Koroknai pushes all-in. Ladouceur called obviously the revival.
To give you an idea, the pot will be shared 99.7% of the time in this situation.
Until the flop helps Koroknai: 10 c-Qc-2 c. At this stage, Koroknai had a "freeroll" or almost, unless Ladouceur is a straight flush (1 time on 1000) backdoor. The turn is a disastrous 8 c, which gives a solid Ladouceur and at the same time, a cold shower in his dreams of final table.
The river is a brick and Marc-André loses 8.9 M of tokens on this hand. He finds himself then at 5 M chips, shortstack, who had spent a lot of time in the top of the standings.
It was Greg Merson which will eliminate Ladouceur on a flip while he made a full house against the set of Marc-André.
A point of seeing negative, it must be frustrating for him who played very well, was among the leaders for long hours and was so close to a final table. Get out like that on a terrible badbeat is extremely frustrating.
A point of seen positive, Marc-André still finished 13th in a prestigious tournament on more than 6500 entries and won $ 465,159, which is a great achievement. Moreover, with the talent there, it will be no wonder again this year or the year next in other big tournaments!
After several hours of game so the 9 finalists are:
1: Jesse Sylvia 43.8 M, tokens
2nd: Andras Koroknai 29.3 M, tokens
3rd: Greg Merson 28.7 M, tokens
4th: Russell Thomas 24.8 M, tokens
5th Steven Gee 16.8 M of tokens
6th Michael Esposito 16.2 M of tokens
7th: Robert Salaburu 15.1 M, tokens
8th: Jacob Balsiger 13.1 M, tokens
9th: Jeremy Ausmus 9.8 M, tokens
The two daughters of yesterday have both been eliminated before the final table.
The charming Gaëlle Baumann came 10th for $ 590,442 so that the Norwegian Elisabeth Hille came out 11th for the same amount.
The tournament is currently on break until the end of next October, date to the what will play this grand finale.
The final table will be played so the 28 and 29 October next while October 30, will take place the final duel to determine the grand winner of this tournament!
In closing, PokerCollectif would like to congratulate Quebeckers who excelled in these world series 2012, both in the Main Event than in other tournaments!
Here we meet again next year!
You can discuss the finals of the 2012 Main Event on our discussion forums: 16 July 12: Ladouceur finished 13th of the Main Event for $ 465,159!
