Event #40 - Hold'em no limit ($1500)
When the tournament resumed yesterday, the Chilean Nicolas Fierro dominated his rivals. After the day of yesterday, he lost his rhythm of the eve to finally finish fourth for a purse of $ 165,501.
It was American Jared Hamby, who won the tournament and the $ 525,272. For Hamby, 24 years, it was his first career bracelet and his 19th purse in a WSOP tournament!
Event #41-Pot - Limit Omaha 6-max ($5000)
It is American Steve Gross, who dominated the 22 finalists from the previous day to win the bracelet and $ 488,817. A single Canadian figure on the final table and it's Joseph Leung who finished 4th for $ 128,742.
Event #42 - Hold'em no limit ($1000)
Yesterday, 2 Quebec were to follow in this tournament ' $ 1000: the 153rd ranked with 11,100 chips were Jeff side and 116th ranked included André Boyer with 21,200 chips.
This is Jeff side that was eliminated first 138th ranked. For his performance, he still won a scholarship of $ 2,116.
A little higher in the ranking, we find André Boyer 60th row which has been awarded a grant of $ 4800 for his performance.
As is often the case, the final table is mostly American even if found English Rory Mathews in the first row with 898,000 chips.
The action will resume today while the blinds will be at 6K / 12K with antes 2 k.
The winner of the tournament will be richer by $ 345,037.
Event #43-2 / 7 Draw Lowball (no limit) ($10,000)
After the Sunday and Monday, only 7 players in the race for the highroller tournament remaining. Now, Calvin Anderson is leader with 134,000 chips.
It should be remembered that the winner will receive $ 253,524. When the action resumes, the blinds will be at 3K / 6K with antes in 1500.
Event #44 - Hold'em no limit ($3000)
1072 players participated in this tournament of Hold'em at $ 3000. Among the lot, some Quebecers whose three still in the race:
12th Jean-Pascal Savard (88,500)
38th Jonathan "poker_john" Duhamel (65,700)
87th Michael Korovin (45,100)
The current leader of the tournament is Elie Karim, who has 128,700 tokens.
Note that the winner of the tournament will win $ 592,684!
This tournament will be to follow with attention today as the tournament with only $ 1500 ante which will begin this afternoon.
To discuss the performance of Quebecers to the 2013 WSOP, you can use the thread of discussion to this effect on our forums: 3 Québec will be agenda #2 event #44