A few moments before hand-for-hand play, Pierre-Hugues Faulkner bumped the big blind to 10K from the cut-off position. After 2 calls, Jean-Christophe Binette committed his 78K stack from the big blind. Faulkner immediately went all-in himself. After the other 2 players folded, Faulkner showed an offsuit ace-king and Binette revealed the . The flop came . Faulkner’s reaction was candid. He was left with about 60K in chips.

A few minutes later, one elimination from the money, table 23 saw Dardan Elbasan and Santiago Plante go all-in pre-flop. When all other tables finished their hand, the cards were tabled:

Elbasan:
Plante:

The board ran:

Ouch! A terrible way to go on the bubble, but Elbasan took it rather well. As all players were now in the money, the whole field clapped, and the motion was led by none other than Pierre-Hugues Faulkner.