With the eliminations of Pedro Garagnani, Sylvain Loosli, and Michiel Brummelhuis, the ten remaining players in The Grand have reached the final table bubble stage and hand-for-hand play.
Joshua McCully doubled up with 
versus the 
of partypoker Ambassador Patrick Leonard who briefly dropped to second place but has taken the chip lead back now. This is how they were seated a few hands ago:
Bertil Samuelsson bubbled the final table and Espen Jorstad was eliminated in ninth place shortly after. The eight remaining players have all secured at least $5,785 but are all looking to win that first-place prize of $43,284.
partypoker Ambassador Patrick Leonard is in the chip lead while fellow team member John Duthie is sitting in seventh place. Tomi Brouk, Tomas Fara, Andrej Tekel, Joshua McCully, Enrico Camosci, and Damian Salas join them on the final table.
The final table of the World Cup of Cards #02 Quebec Opener is also underway and down to seven players.
Niklas Astedt is in the lead and joined by Tom Kunze, Jonathon Jackson, Jonathan Bussières, Claus Grether, Julian Selinger, and Alexander Petrov.
This is how they are seated right now:
partypoker launched its Hot Tables feature on April 11 and it has proven extremely popular thus far. Even more of the site’s cash game and fastforward players can experience the excitement of being at a Hot Table thanks to partypoker adding three new stakes to the roster.
There are now seven different stakes where Hot Tables can trigger courtesy of partypoker adding $0.01/$0.02, $0.02/$0.05, and $1/$2 cash games and fastforward tables to the feature. Trigger one of the Hot Tables at the $1/$2 tables, hit the biggest prize, and $1,000 is all your in addition to the pot you win.
As the clock strikes 2 a.m. CEST, the Sunday updates on partypoker have come to an end.
The Grand was taken down by Tomi Brouk in a heads-up battle against partypoker Ambassador Patrick Leonard for $43,284. The tournament attracted 215 entries to generate a $213,830 prize pool with 34 players cashing at least $2,066
partypoker Ambassador John Duthie finished in fifth place while Jaime Staples was knocked out in fourteenth place.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tomi Brouk | Finland | $43,284 |
| 2 | Patrick Leonard | United Kingdom | $30,605 |
| 3 | Tomas Fara | Czech Republic | $21,141 |
| 4 | Andrej Tekel | Austria | $14,207 |
| 5 | John Duthie | United Kingdom | $10,450 |
| 6 | Enrico Camosci | Italy | $8,451 |
| 7 | Damian Salas | Argentina | $6,948 |
| 8 | Joshua McCully | New Zealand | $5,785 |
| 9 | Espen Jorstad | Norway | $4,846 |
The World Cup of Cards #02 Quebec Opener has been won by Claus Grether who defeated Jonathon Jackson heads-uip and claimed the biggest amount in bounties at the end of the night as he added $23,341 to his bankroll just now.
Familiar names and faces like Niklas Astedtp and Tom Kunze took their seats at the final table too.
| Place | Player | Country | Prize | Bounties | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Claus Grether | United Kingdom | $12,421 | $10,920 | $23,341 |
| 2 | Jonathon Jackson | United Kingdom | $12,403 | $4,123 | $16,526 |
| 3 | Jonathan Bussieres | Canada | $8,280 | $3,558 | $11,838 |
| 4 | Niklas Astedt | Sweden | $5,407 | $4,856 | $10,263 |
| 5 | Tom Kunze | Austria | $3,724 | $2,163 | $5,887 |
| 6 | Julian Selinger | Malta | $2,883 | $2,147 | $5,030 |
| 7 | Alexander Petrov | Russia | $2,144 | $394 | $2,538 |
| 8 | Paulo Brombim | Brazil | $1,725 | $1,228 | $2,953 |
| 9 | Karim Maekelberg | Belgium | $1,387 | $478 | $1,865 |
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