{"id":43135,"date":"2016-11-28T10:04:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T09:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/?p=43135"},"modified":"2020-08-20T08:33:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T08:33:12","slug":"meet-the-people-troy-quenneville-partypoker-million-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/meet-the-people-troy-quenneville-partypoker-million-champion.html","title":{"rendered":"Meet The People: Troy Quenneville, partypoker Million Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imagine heading to the Caribbean full of high hopes for the week of poker that lay ahead, then returning home having won $620,000 during your poker vacation. It would be amazing, right? Well that is exactly what Troy Quenneville managed to do thanks to finishing as runner-up to Niall Farrell in the WPT Caribbean Main Event then going on to win the partypoker Million tournament in Punta Cana.<\/p>\n

2016 partypoker Million Final Table Results<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Place<\/th>\nPlayer<<\/th>\nPrize<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nTroy Quenneville<\/td>\n$400,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nErik Cajelais<\/td>\n$250,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nEdward Van Klooster<\/td>\n$150,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nAndre-Lucian Boghean<\/td>\n$90,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nFabian Jergen<\/td>\n$70,275<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nAri Engel<\/td>\n$58,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nDavid Yan<\/td>\n$46,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nMartin Kozlov<\/td>\n$36,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

A mixture of good play and some run good helped Quenneville reach the eight-handed final table of the $2 million guaranteed partypoker Million tournament at the Caribbean Poker Party as an overwhelming chip leader. Quenneville held 8.1 million in chips with his nearest rival, David Yan, holding 3.5 million.<\/p>\n

Martin Kozlov was the first casualty of the final table, committing his short stack with the powerhouse hand that is and finding a caller in the shape of Quenneville who held . Quenneville paired his ten on the flop and caught a jack on the turn to bust Kozlov in eighth place.<\/p>\n

Next to fall was David Yan, an exception poker talent who first cut his teeth in the online poker world<\/a>. Yan found himself all-in with a pair of sevens against the of Quenneville. Of course, Quenneville won the coinflip, catching the on the river to send Yan home earlier than many expected.<\/p>\n

Quenneville took a hiatus from his role of one-man wrecking ball to allow Erik Cajelais\u2019 dominated to come from behind to beat Ari Engel\u2019s , again the river being the crucial street as the appeared there.<\/p>\n

Engel\u2019s exit left five players in the hunt for the $400,000 first place prize and those five became four when Fabian Jergen attempted to steal the blinds and antes with his and Quenneville called with a pair of eights. Jergen failed to melt those snowmen and he became the fifth place finisher.<\/p>\n

Andre-Lucian Boghean fell in fourth place and was the last player not to secure a six-figure prize for their efforts. Boghean ran a spectacular bluff at the worst possible time to be eliminated at the hands of Edward Van Klooster.<\/p>\n

Boghean completed for 60,000 with and Van Klooster checked in the big blind with . A perfect flop for Van Klooster fell and both men checked. The turn improved Van Klooster to a full house but it was Boghean who led for 120,000, a bet that Van Klooster called. The river was the , Boghean checked, Van Klooster bet 350,000 and then had the easiest call of his career when Boghean check-raised all-in. Game over for the plucky Boghean.<\/p>\n

Van Klooster couldn\u2019t put those new found chips to good use and bust in third place, at the hands of Quenneville, to send the tournament to the heads-up stage where Quenneville enjoyed a massive chip lead over Cajelais.<\/p>\n

Cajelais doubled when his aces held against ace-king and won another big pot when his ace-ten prevailed against Quenneville\u2019s king-queen to drag himself back into contention. The Canadian\u2019s comeback ended prematurely, however, when Cajelais was all-in with against Quenneville\u2019s and when the dealer spread the board, Cajelais bust in second place and Quenneville was announced as the inaugural partypoker Million champion, an accolade that came with $400,000 in cash.<\/p>\n

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Imagine heading to the Caribbean full of high hopes for the week of poker that lay ahead, then returning home having won $620,000 during your poker vacation. It would be amazing, right? Well that is exactly what Troy Quenneville managed to do thanks to finishing as runner-up to Niall Farrell in the WPT Caribbean Main<\/p>\n

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