Or every time. John Roveto (right) was able to win his first pot of the day with an all in move. His chips went into the middle not long after tournament director Jack McClelland joked that John was the trying to ante his way to victory. The first all in move was [...]

After successfully raising Gus Hansen to pick up a few pots preflop Cory “UGOTPZD” Carroll again popped one of Hansen’s opening raises. Gus made it 480k and Cory raised to 1.65 million chips. Gus called and on the QJ6 flop Cory checked and Hansen stood up to get a look at Carroll’s chips. [...]

Coming into the final table as the shortstack, Jeff King (right) knew he would have to double up pretty early on to have a chance. Mission accomplished on hand 7. Jeff was all in for just under a million and Gus Hansen said “I hate this hand” but finally called anyway with pocket [...]

With the elimination of Amir Vahedi in 7th place the televised final table participants are now set. Gus Hansen will go into the final table holding the chip lead, with Cory “UGOTPZD” Carroll (right) and David Chiu not far behind.
Here are the full chip counts:
Gus Hansen - 8,570,000
Cory “UGOTPZD” Carroll - 6,670,000
David Chiu - [...]

After 2 quick eliminations play slowed with 15 players remaining. The stall was ended when Nick Binger (right) was eliminated by Gus Hansen. Binger was all in preflop with AQ against Hansen’s suited A3 and by the time the river was out Gus had made a flush to bust Binger in 15th place [...]