Jonathan Roy Wins Inaugural World Poker Tour Montreal Title

The first-ever World Poker Tour Montreal $3,300 no-limit hold’em championship event drew an incredible field of 1,173 entrants, building a massive prize pool of nearly $3.4 million. After five days of action the last player standing was Canadian Jonathan Roy.

The 25-year-old student from Boucherville, Quebec earned $784,101 and 1,440 Card Player Player of the Year points. This was Roy’s second title and third final table of the year, and as a result he has climbed to 40th place in the overall POY standings.

Roy overcame a tough final table that featured one of Canada’s most successful pros ever in Gavin Smith (4th – $212,973), Jeff Gross (3rd – $319,238) and runner-up Pascal LeFrancois (2nd – $473,572). The majority of the final table was played three handed in front of a packed cheering section that included Jeff Gross’ good friend, Olympic gold-medal record holder Michael Phelps.

After more than 100 hands of three-handed action, it took only 28 hands of heads-up play for Roy to overcome fellow Canadian LeFrancois. Roy began with a 5-4 chip lead, but the heads-up action was close until the key hand took place.

LeFrancois opened for a min-raise on the button to $1,000,000 and Roy three-bet to $2.4 million. Pascal moved all-in over the top of that and Roy called with K Q, having roughly only one big blind less than LeFrancois who revealed the 6 6. Roy won the race when the board ran out K 7 7 Q J. LeFrancois was left crippled, and was eliminated on the very next hand.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the televised WPT final table:

Other notables who made deep runs but fell just short of making the final table include Ashton Griffin (13th – $25,070), Amanda Musumeci (14th – $25,070), Bruce Buffer (19th – $17,615), Jason Koon (22nd – $17,615), Timothy Adams (25th – $17,615), Mike McDonald (27th – $17,615), Christian Harder (30th – $14,905) and Dan Smith (42nd – $12,535).

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