It ended up being a very thrilling (and long) quarterfinal between Phil Galfond and Ben Tollerene for the last ticket to the semifinals. The two poker pros, who live in the same apartment building in Vancouver and know each other very well, battled it out for over 14-hours and 4,341 hands until a winner had been crowned: Phil Galfond. Galfond will now face Daniel "jungleman / w00ki3z" Cates on Saturday. It will be very interesting to see who wins that battle!
