Gagne will begin the final table with over 200 big blinds (Photo courtesy of the World Poker Tour)

There has never been a female winner of an open World Poker Tour event.  Gigi Gagne will have an opportunity to change that on Tuesday though.  Gagne is the last woman standing in the Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open and she isn’t just surviving, she is running over the competition.

Gagne will go into the final table of this event with a major chip lead, holding 2,708,000 chips while her next closest competition is Matt Juttelstad with 1,651,000.  Juttelstad and Gagne began Day 3 of play in the event neck and neck at the top of the counts, but Gagne pulled away from the pack after a massive pot that eliminated Alex Ivanov in 11th place.

Ivanov opened for a raise to 25,000 at the 5,000-10,000 ante 1,000 level and Gagne reraised to 50,000 behind him. Ketih Ferrera was in the blinds and four-bet to 200,000, then Ivanov moved all-in for 393,000 total.  Gagne tanked, then called, then Ferrera called as well.  The flop came queen-high and Ferrera checked.  Gagned moved all-in, having him covered.  Ferrera folded and Gagne’s K-Q for top pair was enough to dispatch Ivanov in 10th place and surge past 2.5 million in chips.

Ferrera managed to survive the day to join Juttelstad and Gagne at the final table, along with Uri Kadosh, Sharon Levin, and Todd Jacobson.  Most of the Day 3 field was much less fortunate.  After beginning with 34 players and seven eliminations to go before the money, the tournament plowed through the money bubble in just an hour of action, with Jonathan Little and Fred Goldberg just narrowly missing out on a payday by busting out in 29th and 28th places respectively.

Once the bubble burst, the breakneck pace continued, taking out Darryll Fish (23rd), Justin Zaki (21st), Noah Schwartz (19th), Raj Vohra (15th), and Christian Harder (13th) along the way.  Once the field got down to the unofficial final table of ten, it looked like past PCA Main Event winner and WPT Seminole Hard Rock Regional Event winner Harrison Gimbel might add yet another Florida accolade to his record, but he exited in ninth place, short of the official final table.

The final table gets underway at 1pm ET and will be livestreamed on WPT.com with hole cards on a 30 minute delay and commentary from Tony Dunst, Dan O’Brien, and Poker Hall of Famer Mike Sexton.

Here are the chip counts and seat assignments for the Lucky Hearts Poker Open final table:

Seat 1: Matt Juttelstad – 1,651,000
Seat 2: Gigi Gagne – 2,708,000
Seat 3: Uri Kadosh – 1,470,000
Seat 4: Keith Ferrera – 1,094,000
Seat 5: Sharon Levin – 1,208,000
Seat 6: Todd Jacobson – 718,000

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