Jeff Cormier Wins World Cup of Cards $10K High Roller
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New Brunswick's Jeff Cormier has claimed the 2017 World Cup of Cards $10,000 6-Max High Roller. Cormier topped a field of 39 entries Thursday evening at Playground Poker Club to capture the Champion's trophy and a top prize of $160,000.
Final Table Results:
| Place | Name | Country | Prize (CAD) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeff Cormier | Canada | $160,000 |
| 2 | Jonathan Karamalikis | Austrailia | $97,000 |
| 3 | David Ormsby | Canada | $58,000 |
| 4 | JK Kastner | Canada | $43,000 |
| 5 | Francois Billard | Canada | $30,000 |
| 6 | Ari Engel | Canada | $0 |
For Cormier, the win marks his largest-ever live-recorded tournament cash and almost doubles his career live recorded earnings which will push over $400,000 when tonight's results get posted. No stranger to deep runs at Playground Poker Club either, this is Cormier's ninth cash at the Kahnawake poker room.
Just 11 players returned for action on Day 2 but with late-registration open until the start of play, the field quickly doubled in size. All in all, there were 39 entries total with 26 unique players and 13 re-entries.
The likes of Pascal Lefrancois, Ami Alibay, Philippe D'Auteuil, Sam Chartier, and 2010 WSOP Main Event Champion Jonathan Duhamel all fired away but missed their mark and busted before the final table got underway.
Once the unofficial final table of seven was set, partypoker Team Pro Kristen Bicknell saw her stack reduced to below 10 big blinds and shoved from the button with jack-five. Unfortunately, Cormier woke up with aces and Bicknell couldn't crack them.
With just the top five making the money, none of the final six wanted to leave empty-handed. Jonathan Karamalikis was the first to put himself at risk, scoring a double that left Engel with crumbs. Engel busted soon after, bursting the money bubble.
Francois Billard found a good spot to keep his run going, moving all-in with ace-ten and getting Cormier to call with king-queen. A ten in the door was a pleasant sight for Billard but the jack and nine behind it were not. Cormier flopped a straight and Billard couldn't improve.
Cormier claimed his next victim after JK Kastner shoved with pocket tens, running into Cormier's queens and a heads-up battle was set after David Ormsby ran into Karamalikis' pocket aces to fall in third.
Heads-up play began rather even with Karamalikis taking an early lead. Cormier quickly reversed the lead and started to pull away. On the final hand, Karamalikis shoved with ace-eight, right into Cormier's pocket kings.
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and Karamalikis still needed to hit an ace or some running cards to improve and stay alive. The turn was the 
and Karamalikis was down to just an ace for outs. The river was the 
and Karamalikis couldn't improve, making him the runner-up in the $10,300 No Limit Hold'em 6-Max High Roller for $97,000.
and got calls from Karamalikis holding 
in the small blind and Jeff Cormier with 
in the big blind.
and Karamalikis bet 275,000 forcing Cormier out of the hand. Ormsby needed help but found nothing on the 
run-out, falling in third place.
. A sick cooler would spell the end for Kastner as the board ran out 
and he was sent to the payout desk to pick up a nice fifth place cash worth $43,000.
, up against Cormier's 
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and Cormier flopped the nut straight. Neither player held a spade so Billard needed to back into a hand to survive. The turn was the 
on the river to finish for back-to-back High Roller min-cashes at Playground.
at risk against David Ormsby's 
.
to give Bicknell a straight draw also, but the river was the 
and she was eliminated just two spots from the money.
