Event 7: Joe Boulais – 9th Place ($5,992)

$560 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 24: 20,000/40,000/5,000 Ante

Joseph Boulas (Cocoa, FL)
Joseph Boulais (Cocoa, FL)

It didn’t take long to light the final table fireworks. Joe Boulias ran into back-to-back hands that elevated, then crushed, his day.

One of the first hands at the final table saw Boulais and Alexander Beece mix it up with the board reading Js8h2sAd. Boulais put Beece all-in, he called with AsKd and needed to dodge Boulais’ flush/gutshot draw KsQs. Boulais hit the river spade to push the big pot his way and knock Beece down under 400,000.

The very next hand saw Michael Laake open to 85,000 and Boulais three-bet to 185,000. The rest of the table let their hands go and Laake put Boulais all-in.

He got a quick call but Boulais was in trouble with QdQs against Laake’s AdAc. The KcJd2sJc9s provided no help and Boulais’ roller coaster day was complete.

That hand pushed Laake’s big lead into a huge lead with 6,350,000 of the 15,850,000 in play.

Boulais Elimination