With the elimination of TJ Cloutier the top spot in the chip counts is now even more solidly in the hands of Gus Hansen. Gus (right) was in the big blind and had called a 40k opening bet from Cloutier at the 8k/16k blind level. On the 7-6-3 rainbow flop Gus checked and [...]

Gus Hansen ended day three strong, with a good call against Tim Phan on the very last hand of the day and a good turn card a little earlier to eliminate Jared “TheWacoKidd” Hamby. When all was said and done Gus walked away as the chip leader of the final 55 with 2,246,000 chips.
Jared [...]

The first hand of hand for hand play was uneventful and took about 3 minutes for all the tables to finish up. The next hand put an end to the money bubble and hand for hand play. Jordan “Octavian_C” Rich (left) was all in preflop with pocket aces against the pocket eights of [...]

The century mark of remaining players gets closer and closer as the field has dropped to only 113 after an hour of play into the 3rd level of the day. Here are some chip counts from a quick scan of the room:
Cory “UGOTPZD” Carroll - 625k (right)
Joe Sebok - 425k
Richard “Lee Nickel” Fohrenbach - [...]

Richard “Lee Nickel” Fohrenbach (left) busted Cliff “JohnnyBax” Josephy earlier and has continued to accumulate chips throughout the rest of the day. A rough count as the last level of the day winds down puts him at 250k chips. Bryan Devonshire has jumped out to the chip lead, sitting with 415k chips at [...]