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Event #19 of the 2020 World Cup of Cards was the $300 +$30 PL Omaha 3 Lives Re-entry tournament that featured a $10,000 guaranteed prize pool. When the late registration period came to a close, there were a total of 65 entries, allowing the prize pool to swell to $18,915. All nine players on the final table would be in the money, with a min-cash in ninth paying out $570, and $4,905 in the top spot for the event champion.

The night was action packed as players had “three life chips”, allowing them to choose whether or not they wanted to start the tournament with a full 30,000 chips stack, or, only use once life chip at a time, each with a value of 10,000 chips. By the time the first break came around, Ayana Massa had a substantial lead over the rest of the pack but later on she flopped trip sixes against John Huynh and lost her stack on the river when Huynh’s trip sixes boated up.

John Huynh then kept winning pot after pot and by the second break, he was way out in front of the others, followed in second place by Philippe Beaudoin. Huynh stayed in the top spot and by the time that the final table came to be, he had a massive lead over the other eight players, with almost 40% of all of the chips in play. It appeared that it might be an easy win for him as play began.

Huynh lost ground on the final table and fell in fourth place, collecting $2,180 for his efforts. It was Nohad Teilani, Goran Brestovac and Philippe Beaudoin who were final three, but when Brestovac flopped the nuts, he lost on the river to Teilani and exited in third for $2,860. Heads-up play between Teilani and Beaudoin started with Teilani having a substantial chip lead. Beaudoin was a true fighter and he never gave up, refusing to just roll over and fade away. The heads-up battle was truly epic and it lasted quite some time and when Beaudoin flopped quads in two back-to-back hands, he took over the lead.

On the final hand of play, Beaudoin flopped the nut straight with on a flop and potted all in, finding a call by Teilani who was open-ended with , but never improved with the turn and river, crowning a champion in Event #19, Philippe Beaudoin!

Event #19 Champion: Philippe Beaudoin, $4,905

Second Place: Nohad Teilani, $3,750

Last hand of play:

The Final Table:

Philippe Beaudoin is on a bit of a heater and has just flopped quads two hands in a row. He now has the chip lead.

Nohad Teilani has the lead but Philippe Beaudoin refuses to die. It is turning into a great heads-up battle for the trophy!

Here are the eliminations in 3rd to ninth place:

8th place: Dakota Vandine, $740

9th place: Domenico Paduano, $570

The nine-handed final table has been formed. John Huynh maintains a huge chip lead with 835,000 chips out of 1,950,000 chips in play. Philippe Beaudoin is second in chips with 310,000. All players are now in the money.

The players on the table are:

• Said Nehme
• Goran Brestovac
• Dakota Vandine
• Philippe Beaudoin
• John Huynh
• Domenico Paduano
• Christine Bryant
• Matt O’Conner
• Nohad Teilani

On a flop, Dan Vigderhous moved his stack forward and was all in. John Huynh, playing a stack of just over 600,000 chips (almost 30% of the chips in play), made the call.

Vigderhous:
Huynh:

Vigderhous had flopped two pair and was also open-ended plus outs to a flush draw. Huynh had pocket kings. The turn was clean but the river was lucky for Huynh as he made trip kings. Vigderhous’s tournament life has unfortunately now come to an end.

Play is now in level 14 and coincidentally enough, 14 players are still seated at the tables with the top nine making it into the money.

A snapshot of some of the players still grinding away:

The field has thinned out considerably over the last few levels as only 17 players remain in the running. The average stack is now at 114,700, and John Huynh leads the pack with a stack of 284,400, equal to 95 bigs.

The top stacks currently in play are:

On a flop, all the chips went in from both Ayana Massa and John Huynh:

Massa:
Huynh:

Both had flopped trip-sixes and neither had a re-draw to a flush. The turn didn’t change anything but the river gave a boat to Huynh. Huynh’s stack covered Massa and she wished all the other players at her table “good luck” as she exited the tournament room.

The late registration and re-entry period have now closed and the total number of entries climbed to 65 (including 15 re-entries).

The average chip stack is 47,500, and one player has managed to build up a stack more than three times the average. Ayana Massa leads with 155,000 chips, good for 193 big blinds.

The turnout tonight has been outstanding with already 57 entries and late registration is still open for a little while longer.

On table 38, four players paid the blind to see the flop.  When the dealer put out Philippe Beaudoin opened for 1,200, and was three-bet to 5,000 by Alexandre Lajoie. Kevin MacDonald then moved all in for 8,800 and both Beaudoin and Lajoie made the call. The turn fell the and Beaudoin checked, followed by an all in pot by Lajoie and a snap-call  by Beaudoin. The river was the .

Beaudoin opened up for a flopped boat, and Lajoie busted out. Kevin MacDonald had only been playing his first life chip and he is still in the game with 20,000 chips. Lajoie has re-entered so he is still in contention in Event #19.

There will be a break coming up shortly and we will produce the first leaderboard of the night right after the break.