Blinds/Limits: 25,000-50,000 with 50,000-100,000 limits

Players Left: 2

Chip Counts:

Zach Fellows: 2,100,000
Jimmy Shultz: 500,000

Eliminations:

none

Big Hands and Storylines:

Tug-of-War

The two competitors in the heads-up battle have started things off by trading chips back and forth. This eventually evened them up before they took turns holding the chip lead over the first hour. It may take a major cooler to evoke some major action.

Shultz Pulls Away

Jimmy Shultz took down two substantial pots to take a 2-to-1 chip lead on Zach Fellows. Shultz held pocket fives on the first of these hands, and on the second he turned up A7 on a board of Q77810 to take down the hand. After seeing the bad news Fellows mucked his hand and flashed a single 10 in the process.

Fellows Fights Back

The board read AQ459 and 640,000 sat in the pot when Fellows revealed 88 for a flush to defeat the Q-9 of Shultz. This hand pulled the two even, with Fellows holding a slight advantage.

Shultz Pulls out the Pressure

Shultz took down three hands in a row to put his chip advantage back in the 2-to-1 neighborhood. He then increased that lead to a 4-to-1 advantage when he took down the largest pot of heads-up play. Each player contributed 100,000 on every single street on a board of 976A3. They turned up their hands on the end and the cooler arrived in the form of pocekt jacks (Fellows) vs. pocket kings (Shultz). 

Blinds/Limits: 15,000-30,000 with 30,000-60,000 limits

Players Left: 3

Chip Counts:

7th Place: Ali Eslami ($41,441)
6th Place: Markus Golser ($53,453)
5th Place: Teddy "Iceman" Monroe ($67,867)
4th Place: Brendan Taylor ($82,882)

Big Hands and Storylines:

Ali Eslami Eliminated in Seventh Place ($41,441)

Ali Eslami was knocked down to 70,000 on the first hand after dinner, and that put him in dire straights when he had already committed over half of his chips to a pot and the flop hit the table 744. Eslami bet 20,000 and Jimmy Shultz put him to an all-in decision with a raise. Eslami made the call and they turned up their cards. Eslami held 95, while Shultz held A5. The turn brought the A, which was too much for Eslami who busted in seventh place. He took home $41,441 in prize money.

Markus Golser Eliminated in Sixth Place ($53,453)

Shultz raised to 40,000 preflop and Markus Golser made the call. The flop rolled out Q109 and Golser moved all in for 20,000. Shultz made the call and the two players turned up their hands.

Golser: AJ
Shultz: 97

The turn and river bricked out and Golser was eliminated in sixth place. He took home $53,453 in prize money.

Vinny Vinh Doubles Up

Vinny VInh was perilously low on chips when he got all of them into the middle of the table preflop against Shultz. Their cards:

Vinh: A8
Shultz: K3

Board: 8227Q

Vinh doubled up on the hand to 90,000, but he still needed some more ammo to climb back into contention. He used the momentum created on this hand well to eventually grow his stack to the half-million mark.

Teddy "Iceman" Monroe Eliminated in Fifth Place ($67,867)

Shultz raised to 40,000 preflop and Teddy "Iceman" Monroe made an all-in call for 30,000. Brendan Taylor also made the call and the flop hit the table 1092. Taylor and Shultz then checked the board as the the 8 fell on the turn, and the J fell on the river. Shultz reached for a bet on the river, but Taylor mucked his hand. Shultz revealed 87 and Monroe was out in fifth place when he mucked after the hand. The Iceman took home $67,867 in prize money.

Brendan Taylor Eliminated in Fourth Place ($82,882)

Vinny Vinh got the best of Brendan Taylor after his vocal antics may have induced him to get invloved in heavy action on every street of a board that read 332Q3. Taylor made an all-in call on the river, but then mucked when Vinh revealed pocket eights. Taylor was eliminated in fourth place, and he took home $82,882 in prize money.

The players are on dinner break until 10 p.m.

Blinds/Limits: 6,000-12,000 with 12,000-24,000 limits

Players Left: 8

Chip Counts:

10th Place: Erick Lindgren ($14,774)
9th Place: Chung Law ($23,423)

Big Hands and Storylines:

Erick Lindgren Eliminated in 10th Place ($14,774)

Erick Lindgren raised preflop to 10,000 and Markus Golser reraised. This put Lindgren to an all-in decision for the last of his 7,000, and he decided to call. They then turned up their hands:

Lindgren: J8
Golser: KK

Board: 7649Q

Lindgren was eliminated in 10th place, and he took home $14,744 in prize money.

Vinny Vinh Puts on a Show on the Way to Second Chip Position

Vinny Vinh has easily been the most interesting feature on the final day. He showed up 45 minutes late, and then it was not apparenet that he realized things were down to a final table when the final 10 players took their seats. He has followed up these antics by dominating card play at the final table, and dominating the airwaves with his trash talk. He took down a hand that he bet on every street with pocket jacks, and then he took down a pot from Markus Golser with A4 on a board of Q6374. This took Vinh to well over 300,000, but he didn't stop there. Vinh then confronted the chip leader Jimmy Shultz, and won. Shultz mucked to a Vinh's bet on the turn of a board that read J1064. Vinh now holds over 400,000, and he is currently second in chips.

Chung Law Eliminated in Ninth Place ($23,423)

Chung Law got all of his chips into the middle holding high hopes with pocket tens, but he ran right into the pocket jacks of Shultz. The board rattled off Q8897 and Law was eliminated in ninth place. He took home $23,423 in prize money.

Blinds/Limits: 4,000-8,000 with 8,000-16,000 limits

Players Left: 13

Chip Counts:

none

Big Hands and Storylines:

Vinny Vinh Takes a Hit

Jimmy Shultz raised preflop and Vinny Vinh made the call. The flop hit the table 865 and the two players four-bet the action. The turn fell A and Vinh check-raised Shultz's 16,000 action to 32,000. The river fell A and Vinh bet out. Shultz made the call and they turned up their hands. Vinh held 85 and Shultz turned up pocket tens. Shultz took down the pot, which grew his stack to over 300,000, and gained the chip lead. Vinh was dwon to 150,000 after the hand.

Steve Shkolnik Triples Up

Steve Shkolnik moved all in prelop and both Chritsop Niesert and Zach Fellows made the call before the Q33 hit the table. Fellows bet out after the flop and Niesert mucked. Fellows then showed pocket fives and Shkolnik turned up pocket eights to triple up after the turn and river fell 6Q.

Break Time

The players went on a 20-minute break at the end of the level.