Maxime Heroux Tops Field of 606 To Win WPT Montreal Main Event!

Welcome to the WPT Champions Club, Maxime Heroux!

Heroux topped a field of 606 entries in the Season XVI WPT Montreal Main Event to win the C$403,570 top prize and his first World Poker Tour title. Heroux defeated Pat Quinn in heads-up play on the 112th hand of the televised final table.

On the final hand, Heroux and Quinn saw a flop of . Heroux checked, Quinn fired all in for 2.2 million, and Heroux made the call with the . Quinn tabled the , but the turn and river cards put the tournament in the books.

Quinn, a restauranteur, earned C$271,030 for his runner-up performance.

In addition to the C$403,570 first-place prize, Heroux earned a luxurious Hublot Big Bang Steel watch and 1,000 points in the Hublot WPT Player of the Year race for Season XVI. A $15,000 seat into the season-ending WPT Tournament of Champions was included in Heroux’s winnings.

WPT Montreal Main Event Final Table Results

1st: Maxime Heroux – C$403,570*
2nd: Pat Quinn – C$271,030
3rd: Derek Wolters – C$173,220
4th: Brendan Baksh – C$124,310
5th: Eric Afriat – C$95,370
6th: David Peters – C$78,050

*Includes a $15,000 seat into the season-ending WPT Tournament of Champions.

Entering the final table, Quinn was out in front, with Heroux second in chips. Although those two held the largest chips stacks amongst the final six, many were watching to see if Eric Afriat could win his second WPT title or if David Peters could win his first. As it turned out, Afriat and Peters were the first two players to bust.

After starting the final table third in chips, Peters got off to a rough start. Afriat doubled through him on the 13th hand of play, and Derek Wolters doubled through him on the 17th hand of play. Peters nursed his stack below 10 big blinds and even doubled up once through Heroux, but in the end his tournament was done in when his couldn’t beat Quinn’s .

Peters’ elimination happened on the 40th hand of the final table, and it took another 18 hands before Afriat headed to the payout desk with a fifth-place ticket. Afriat was all in with the against the of Wolters, and Wolters made quads to eliminate the WPT Champions Club member.

Wolters also knocked out Brendan Baksh in fourth place before he himself fell in third place. Heroux was the one who sent Wolters to the rail, and that allowed Heroux to take a huge lead into heads-up play against Quinn.

When heads-up play began, Heroux had 14.6 million to Quinn’s 3.575 million. Quinn never saw his stack get back above 4 million, and the final duel was over in 17 hands.

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