Anthony Comand Captures first WSOPC Ring in $400 Monster Stack
After thirteen hours of play a winner has emerged in Event #2: $400 Monster Stack here at the World Series of Poker Circuit Montreal at Playground. Anthony Comand was the last player standing and will take home $49,735 and his first WSOPC circuit ring.
Final Table Results
| Place | Player | Hometown | Prize (CAD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthony Comand | Laval | $49,735* |
| 2 | Griffin Clifford | Caribou | $37,480* |
| 3 | Nicholas Doumkos | Gloucester | $35,695* |
| 4 | Joshua James | Missauga | $38,635* |
| 5 | Brian Bond | Hamilton | $16,000 |
| 6 | Boyan Shi | Burnaby | $13,000 |
| 7 | Wei Han Zhang | Lasalle | $10,750 |
| 8 | Wing Seto | Toronto | $8,700 |
| 9 | Sergey Hovakimyan | Toronto | $6,800 |
| 10 | Jordan Schneible | Binbrook | $4,900 |
* Denotes a four-way deal
Final Day Action
The second circuit event of the series attracted a total of 1,174 entrants to generate a prize pool of $394,020 CAD, almost double the $200,000 guarantee.
Jordan Schneible enjoyed the chip lead for most of the first half of the day until a cooler from Sergey Hovakimyan brought him close to the middle of the pack. Despite the setback Schneible was able to ride the momentum from his early success all the way to the final table where he finished in tenth place for $4,900.
Joshua James was under the radar for most of the day until the tournament was down to two tables. From that point James went on a heater, scoring four knockouts en route to entering the final table with the chip lead.
Following Schneible's elimination it would take nearly two hours for the next elimination to occur. Several times shorter stacks were all in and at risk only to double up over and over again. Hovakimyan would finally lose a flip to Nicholas Doumkos and bow out in 9th place. Not long afterwards Hovakimyan would be followed out the door by Wing Seto, Wei Han Zhang and Boyan Shi in eight, seventh and sixth place respectively.
After the elimination of Brian Bond in fifth place at the hands of Comand the remaining four players briefly paused to discuss an ICM chop. It did not take long for a deal to be reached that guaranteed the remaining four players similar payouts of just over $35,000 with an additional $16,155 for the eventual winner.
Once a deal was reached Comand and Clifford quickly began to accumulate chips while James and Doumkos saw their stacks steadily decreasing. James would eventually put Clifford on a difficult decision that saw the latter player go into the tank for nearly five minutes facing a preflop shove from James. Clifford would eventually call with a weak ace and held to knockout James and take a commanding chip-lead going into three-handed play.
Doumkos found himself short-stacked several times throughout the day but was consistently able to preserve his tournament life leading up to the final table. It seemed at first that theme would continue during three-handed play, with Doumkos beginning as the short stack but quickly doubling up through Comand to stay in contention. Comand would get everything back shortly afterwards in a blind on blind confrontation that left Doumkos with less than five big blinds. Doumkos couldn't recover and would be eliminated in third place soon afterwards.
Clifford began heads-up play with roughly a 2:1 chip advantage over his opponent but Comand would double up shortly after heads-up play began to take the chip lead. A few hands later, Clifford would get the last of his chips in the middle with king-five and was flipping against Comand's pocket fours. Things looked good at first for Clifford with a five in the window but Comand wouldflop a full house and hold to take the final pot of the night, an invite to the Tournament of Champions in May, a WSOPC circuit ring and the top prize of $49,735.
That concludes the PokerNews coverage for this event but stay tuned as we continue to bring you all the action for the rest of the World Series of Poker Circuit Montreal here at Playground.
