With the end of the World Cup of Cards comes the final tally in the festival-long WCC Event Leaderboard race. Congratulations to Charles La Boissonière on a runaway victory! By the end of the festival he had amassed an amazing 1,647.9 points, surpassing Jason Conforti in 2nd place by 255 points! Joey Boczek put up a great battle as well coming in 3rd with 1,379.1 pts.
For his victory, Charles has won a USD $6,000 Caribbean Poker Party prize package, including flights for 2 to Punta Cana, accommodation at the Hard Rock Punta Cana and a USD $2,750 buy-in for the partypoker Million event with $2M Guaranteed!
The second place prize goes to Jason Conforti, who has won a “Full Red Bull Experience” package at the 2017 Formula 1 Montreal Grand Prix.
The Week 4 Leaderboard winner was Mark Howie, whose 401.8 points in the final week of the WCC have won him a USD $530 tournament ticket to the weekly Caribbean Poker Party qualifier tournament on partypoker. This tournament takes place every Sunday at 4pm, and has 2 x USD $6000 packages guaranteed!
Please contact Player’s Services at Playground Poker Club and provide them with your partypoker ID and/or contact information to receive your prizes.
, and then Benoit shoved all-in with 
. Benoit had made a few moves earlier, so Marcello decided his equity was good enough to call. The dealer put out the cards: 
. No help for Marcello. They both shook hands, a little worn out from this very long tournament, but happy they made it this far.
After a heads-up match that lasted about an hour and a half, the Quantum came to an end, and it is with great pleasure that we crown Jiachen Gong! The last 2 men standing traded chips and words, playing for a $17,000 difference in the best of moods. That light atmosphere was due in great part to Armand King’s entertaining behaviour, that kept Jiachen, the staff and the crowd smiling. His great spirits will be remembered. Here are some of the things he said while playing a fierce game:
. Armand had 5,925,000 out of the 18,500,000 before the hand, so he decided that wasn’t going to let this 500K go away, and placed the call with 
.
, and Jiachen had dodged Armand’s outs.
. Brady bet 200K and Tomas made the call. The river was an action card for Tomas – the 
. Brady opened to 300K and Tomas chose to go all in – only to meet with a snap call from Brady, who instantly flipped over his 
for the flopped straight. Tomas was disappointed that his rivered 2nd pair – he held 
– was no good but he took it like the pro he is and congratulated Brady on the victory.
