After losing chip leaders Team Bill Kontaratos from the final table (finishing in 4th with a prize of $8,105), we then lost perennial chip leaders Team Stuart Taylor (finishing in 3rd for $7,015), it was down to 2 teams. They are:

Good luck to both teams!

After the group lost one team and the final table was down to 5, the dynamic shifted slightly. After 10 or 15 hands with little chip movement, the group decided to ask for another ICM chop count.

Once Playground staff had determined the split, everyone agreed that their share was fair. However, now we were up against that same sticky issue – how would the $1,000 be split? There is no choice – it is required to be pulled back from the total amount so that it could be added to the eventual winner’s share.

This time, the chip leader insisted that he would not only not pay his equal share (now $200 from each team). He insisted he would pay nothing at all, and that the 4 remaining teams could split the $1,000 evenly or nothing.

Surprisingly, all the remaining teams were so exhausted by the day’s play that they almost instantly agreed!

And, as is common after a chop at the final table, the very next hand was an all in. This time it was Team Sylvain Lessard that shoved. He had pocket 6’s. Unfortunately for him, he came up against Team Stuart Taylor’s pocket 9’s.

The flop was dealt , and Team Sylvain’s night was over. He took home his ICM Chop of $7,265, minus $250.

Congratulations on a tournament well played!

Once there remained only 6 players at the table an ICM chop was requested.

Once the numbers were tabulated and shared with the group, everyone agreed that the amounts promised them were fair, and it was only a matter of deciding how to apportion the $1000 that had to be removed from the collective pie, reserved for the eventual winner.

Split evenly, each team would have to pay a total of $167 to cover the $1000, but that was unacceptable. One of the smaller stacks insisted that the chip leader pay significantly more. The figure initially quoted was $500, which the chip leader felt was unfair.

When they couldn’t come to a decision, it was decided that they would all simply continue to play. The very next hand Team Luigi Fantigrossi (the shortest stack at the table) caught a pocket pair of 10’s. They shoved.

Team Vincenzo D’Elia called, but he had pocket jacks, and he made a set on the flop.

That was the end of Team Luigi’s night, meaning they collected only $2,830 for their 6th place finish. Under the ICM, they would have pulled in $4,885. Minus the $167, of course.

Things are moving quickly here at the final table.

Congratulations to Team Michael Corbin Chabot for finishing in 8th place, taking home a prize of $1,600.

And a (slightly larger) congratulations go out to Team Tyler Carslaw, who finished in 7th for a prize of $2,120.

As the blinds rise ever higher and the stacks seem smaller and smaller in comparison with every hand that passes, Team Guylaine Poirier felt it was time.

They ended up shoving preflop for approximately 100K just now, and Team Brigitte Metivier shoved over top for about 700K. There there were no takers, and the board was dealt.

Team Brigitte’s dominated Team Guylaine’s , and the field shrank by one.

Team Alain Trudeau was eliminated in 13th place, and collected a prize of $840.

There are still 12 teams left. Some of the team members are shown in the gallery below.