The 6-Max is now complete with Michael St. Pierre-Porter standing atop the 60-entry field. He took the biggest score from nearly $40k in prizes, after the final four players cut an ICM deal while he was in the chip lead.
They came into Day 2 with 7 players remaining, after Calyton Gaudry took the min-cash at the end of Day 1. The final seven were very deep to start the day, but they were still down to five in about an hour. After that, things stalled at five for a while before defending champion Nu Teliani, who had started the day second in chips behind Mike Malm (runner-up for $7,575), ended her day in 5th.
That left the final four discussing a deal, and they finally arrived at what was mostly an ICM chop. Tony Ma and Mike Malm were the short stacks and agreed to $7,575 each, while Joe Roberts got just over $9k for the second stack, and St. Pierre-Porter got $9,334 for the big stack.
After that, they played for the trophy. Roberts & Ma busted quickly, but then Malm and St. Pierre-Porter battled heads up for about half an hour before they finally decided on who was taking home the trophy. It all ended in a bit of a cooler after St. Pierre-Porter flopped a boat with deuces on a deuce-four-four flop. Malm was on an overpair of jacks, and when the turn came an eight, the money went in.
St. Pierre-Porter held, but was slightly out-chipped by Malm. However, the hand left Malm with less than 100k, and he lost that in the next hand to send the trophy to St. Pierre-Porter for his third PPT win.
