Yannick Labattaglia, a seasoned live and online local player, had a tough day and was card dead for most of the day and consequently he was also short stacked. None the less, he knows how to be patient when he needs to be and he made it to the final table with his short stack. He watched as others knocked each other out and he kept laddering up the pay jumps.

By the time he shoved, his stack was only about four and half blinds and he was called by both James and Vierling who both checked it down.

Vierling caught a king to make a pair and that was the end of the day for Labattaglia who earned $21,000 for his efforts.