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Play is underway and our remaining British hopes come in the form of John Gale, Richard Redmond and Carlo Citrone.

Alex Jacob -- 111,700
John Gale -- 100,500
Ariel Schneller -- 89,600
Theo Tran -- 68,800
Lee Grove -- 67,800
Nick Guagenti -- 56,000
Joshua Vanduyn -- 55,400
Gregory Alston -- 54,600
Iwan Jones -- 45,400
Matthew Matros -- 42,200

Craig Gray -- 39,600
Jon Turner -- 37,100
David John -- 35,500
Aaron Bartley -- 32,400
Richard Redmond -- 31,500
Christopher Howard -- 31,400
Zack Stewart -- 29,300
Tommy Smith -- 28,900
Lee Watkinson -- 28,000
Thomas Fuller -- 27,800

Greg Turk -- 25,900
Jeffrey Robinson -- 25,900
Gary Parsons -- 25,100
Efrain Lopez -- 24,900
Mike Dufloth -- 23,400
Daniel Negreanu -- 22,400
Joe Hachem -- 21,900
Lee Markholt -- 21,300
Spiro Mitrokostas -- 19,900
Emanuel Santiago -- 18,500

Mike Ivin -- 18,300
Carlo Citrone -- 18,000
Alex Brenes -- 16,200
Randy Brown -- 11,700
John Hansmeyer -- 11,600
Mors Lechman -- 10,800
Ernie Caledon -- 10,200
Robert Neary -- 9,300
Kevin Ho -- 5,400
Scott Auerbach -- 5,400

Access isn't great for this Event as it's tucked away in the corner by the tv area, thereby resulting in just the one side of rail.

Players spotted are Matros, Jones, Gale, Citrone, Hansmeyer, and Hachem

Unfortunately, we can't seem to see Negreanu or Redmond, but their exits need to be confirmed.

$5,000 6-H

Brian 'The Rookie' Wilson is OUT

Heard him mumbling something about Queens.

5,000 6-H

222 players left (which is cool, because it means we'll be able to nip in and grab some chip counts) with 11,418 the average stack.

Rumour has it that dpommo, badpab and Dubai are in this one.

I've found Richard 'Squelch' Redmond.

He's on 31k.

5,000 6-H

Tex Barch
George 'The Tank' Danzer
Bruno Fitoussi
Mike Matusow
Andy Black
Mateyboy

Matyeboy's the 'name' here.

Anyhow, that list needs updating. George Danzer has just eliminating Andy Black, 8-8 v A-4, all-in preflop.

$5,000 6-H

Some more taxing tables:

Joe Awada
Clonie Gowan
Freddie Deeb

Johnny Chan
Mel Judah
John Duthie

Stuart Fox
Joe Beevers

5,000 6-H

Barney Boatman is OUT

$5,000 6-H

Some more familiar names playing this event:

Phil Hellmuth
Dubai
Scott Fischman
Chip Jett
Mats Iremark
badpab
Robert Williamson III
Chris 'Jesus' Feguson
John Juanda
Juha HElppi
Evelyn Ng
Humberton Brenes
Phil Hilm (I think)
Captain Tom Franklin

Joe Hachem has around the 30k mark.

Meanwhile, Richard Redmond finds himself with A-K versus A-rag (not sure how that happened, although they were suited!)

King on the flop and Redmond is back up to 35-40k.

$5,000 6-H

Okay, I think this is how this hand played out...

Flop = Qc 3c Ad

Dubai checks, MB#1 bets 800, MB#2 calls, Dubai raises to 1600, both call.

Turn = 6c

Dubai checks, MB#1 bets, MB#2 & Dubai reluctantly fold, both claiming to have held 2 pair.

I'm sure Dubai will correct me if I'm off the mark with this one.

And with four tables remaining, it looks like Richard 'Squelch' Redmond is OUT

Confrimation: Richard placed 29th for $4,524

Bracelet winner Lee Watkinson is also OUT.

$1,500 NLH

6 left, Padraig Parkinson still in

$5,000 6-H

chip run:

Mats Iremark -- 3,600
Erik Seidel -- 3,800
Mel Judah -- 13,500
Juha Helppi -- 13,700
Dave Colclough -- 5,825
Robert Williamson III -- 12,250
Bengt Sommer -- 21,500
Kenna James -- 20,000
Erick Lindgren -- 6,750
Marty Wilson -- 10,450
Chip Jett -- 26,550
Scotty Nguyen -- 19,000

$1,500 NL

Padraig takes out a loud American in Seat 1.

Padraig raises to 70k utg, chip leader calls, Seat 1 moves all-in, so does Padraig, chip leader folds Jh Th (apparantly) after a very lenghty dwell indeed, even asking for stacks to be counted.

Anyhow, Padraig flips pocket queens, American youngster A-K

No Ace or King came (although turn brought a wheel draw), and Padraig doubles up.

down to 4

$1,500 NL

With Mike Sexton, Jesse May, Rory Liffey, Paul McKinney, and Julian Garner watching from the stands, the approximate chip counts are as follows:

Seat 1 -- 600k
Seat 2 -- 800k
Padraig -- 550k
Seat 4 -- 700k

$2,500 PL

27 players left

Average stack = 52,037

Iwan Jones, John Gale, John 'Decision' Hansmeyer, Joe Hachem and Carlo Citrone still plugging away, the latter on around 25-30k.

Joe Hachem -- 41k

Seated next door to one another are Stuart 'Foxy' Fox (7,575) and Phil 'PokerBrat' Hellmuth (24,500)

Stu Fox is OUT. He made a move with J-3, but the original raiser had Big Slick, which stood up.

$5,000 6-H

Erik Seidel has just this second been eliminated.

$5,000 6-H

Dubai -- 55k
Dave Coclough -- 13k
John Duthie -- 27.5k
Johnny Chan -- 8.5k

$2,500 PL

Carlo Citrone is OUT

A-K v Q-Q

King on the flop.

Another solid performance from Carlo though.

$2,500 PLH

Hachem, Gale, Hansmeyer, Jones all still in with 3 tables left, the latter 3 all seated on the same one.

Iwan Jones has his chips nicely stacked, so I was able to tot up 75k.

$5,000 6-H

26 tables, 156 players, 16k av stacks

$1,500 NL

Still 4 left, but Padraig is on a roll.

According to Lawrence Gosney, before the break, the Irishamn raised 11 hands in a row, all of which went uncontested.

And now, I've just seen him take another pot down.

Padraig raised preflop, MB stuck in another 75k, PP called.

Flop = Jh 5d 6c

PP checks, MB bets 75k, PP moves all-in.

MB thinks for a loooooooooooong time, before folding, showing the Js in the process.

PP shows Ac Jc

$1,500 NL

Padraig Parkinson just folded to an all-in from Seat 1 (Richard, I believe the announcer referred to him as).

Flop was 2d 5d 8s

Parkinson is still running well.

$5,000 6-H

Neighbours Hellmuth and Dubai (!) with stacks 20k (Phil) and 50k (Dave) - not a quiet table.  While I was standing there it was Hellmuth who kept the conversation going, with himself, while Dubai seemed uncharacteristically sedate.

Phil says, "Come on and deal 'em fast; I've been here 8 minutes and they've re-raised me three times already."  Here a finger gets waved in Dubai's general direction. :)

$5,000 6-H

Awada vs Mateyboy

Board = 6h Kc Ts 8s

Pot = 15-20k

MB bets 15k

Awada makes a deep reach

MB calls all-in

MB = Tc Th

Awada = Kd Qh

The latter was drawing dead, and now finds himself down to the felt.

$1,500 NL

approximate chip counts

Mats Rahmn -- 950k
Chris Birchby -- 800k
Padraig Parkinson -- 550k
Richard Toth --  500k

Back to the 1,500 NL, whilst Padraig is still hovering around the 600k mark, your new chip leader is young Hungarian Richard Toth is your new chip leader with around 900k.

$2,500 PL

John Gale -- 130,000
Iwan Jones -- 50,000
Jo Hachem -- 35,000
John Hansmeyer -- 35,000

$2,500 PL

17 left, Av stack = 52, 647

$2,500 PL

Iwan Jones is OUT.

pocket fives vs pocket nines

no help

In Buzz's own words "The killer hand was when I had K-T. The flop was K-8-2, and there was a raise and another raise, so I let it go. Then I found out that the reraiser had K-9."

1,500 NL

Exact chip-counts:

Richard Toth -- 1,680,000
Mats Rahmn -- 1,165,000
Padraig Parkinson -- 350,000

$5,000 6-H

41 players remaining - still getting tableside so here are some quick chip guesstimates:

John Duthie     40,000
Phil Hellmuth    41,000
Dubai              32,000   (Although early casualty DPommo says he's "not happy as he should have more!")
Kenna James    19,000
Rolf 'Woody' Woods   6,500   (Didn't recognise Team Norsemen captain at first in his sunglasses and baseball cap)
Vanessa Rousso  47,000
Dave Colclough   10,500
Richard Williamson  46,000
David Plastik       14,000
Joe Beevers       40,000
Tony G              14,000
Anders Berg       12,400
John Juanda       43,000
Rob Hollink         15,000
Mel Judah           12,000

Icky Luck for El Blondie News Now:

He calls a big stack's raise from the big blind, and the flop comes 8c 7h Td.  Check from Dave, check from raiser.
Turn:  Js   Check from Dave, there comes a 2,000 bet at him, he calls.
River:  9c   And somehow it's Check - Check again, as Dave shows his (now) losing Th Jd and gets Jc Qc shown in return...

$2,500 PL

John 'Decision' Hansmeyer is still in there too. He doubled up not too long ago when his A-K held up against Mateyboy's K-Q.

$5,000 6-H

90 out of 507 players left

Kenna James -- 17k
Vanessa Rousso -- 28k
Erick Lindgren -- 29k
Captain Tom Franklin -- 55k

It appears as though Dave Colclough is OUT.

Dubai -- 39k
John Duthie -- 36k
Phil Hellmuth -- 35.5k
John Juanda -- 39k
Evelyn Ng -- 45k
Robert Williamson -- 33k

$5,000 6-H

blondeite, Dave 'The Rivercard' Brannan, is playing this one.

He was down to 3k at one point, but has managed to climb all the way back up to 23k after Mateyboy called his A-T all-in with K-T and, later, a flopped flush found a customer.

The $1,500 NL, $2,500 PL, and $5,000 6-H are all on a break, although the $1,500 Final looks braced to recommence and the Stud final is still in full swing.

$1,500 NL Final

And right after the break, on the ex-TV final table, Padraig Parkinson re-raises all in right away.  As the short stack, with blinds of 15k/30k ante 5k, he found Aspades 4s (I think those were the suits) and a bigger Ace called - the Ace on the board helped them both, and although there was a chance for a split when four hearts came in a row, the blank 3c on the river sealed his third place finish.

$5,000 6-H

Dubai -- 51k

badpab -- 17k

$1,500 NL

And Padraig picks up a  cool $203,139.  Not bad for three days' work, huh?  And he's a cool customer too - here pictured in the break while they were transferred off the Limelight Table.  He said he likes those TV tables, because he's so unfazed by it all (been there, done that) and just gets on with it without being overwhelmed.  But he admitted at this point that the blinds were "silly" and being a short stack (about a third of the next guy in chips) he was already prepared to make his move-or-bust decision.

$5,000 6-H

72 left
Average Stack = 35k

$2,500 PL

14 players left in

Hachem and John Gale still plugging away, although both are shortstacked

$5,000 6-H

Robert Williamson III -- 35k
John Duthie -- 51k
Dubai -- 54k
Phil Hellmuth
Erick Lindgren -- 33k
Kenna JAmes -- 39k
badpab -- 28k
Joe Beevers -- 39k
John Juanda -- 27k
David Singer -- 29k

$5,000 6-H

Dubai has just lost 37k

board was Q-4-Q-rag-T

Dubai check called the river.

MB showed pocket fours, Dubai mucked

$2,500 PL

2 tables, 13 players, Hachem and Gale still in (separate tables)

$5,000 6-H

Joe Beevers -- 30k

Jennifer Tilly (on about 36,000 currently) just lost a pretty big pot to a short stacked guy - Please forgive any small inaccuracies (although there's no way you could know, to be honest) -

Flop Ac Qh Qd

Jennifer was in the big blind with Aspades Td and just pushed a big stack in (c.10k) which put the other guy to a call for all his chips, effectively.
He had Qh Kh -Call.

The turn brought something paint-y (I think it was a King) and the towers of Tilly (she'd collected Marcel-like stacks of black and pink chips) took a hit.

$5,000 6-H

Dubai is down to just 12,500 after, according to railer DPommo "Slowplaying the Aces, and letting a guy hit a set."  In shorthanded it must be more tempting than ever to try to get some value out of your big hands - but this time about 30k must have jumped ship to the chip leader's stack.

$5,000 6-H

Dubai is OUT

Doubled up Phil Hellmuth, then his final 5k found two callers with Erick Lindgren eventually picking up the pot.

Other counts  from the short-handed  (been sneaking beyond the rope for 20 seconds a go):

John Duthie      52,300
Phil Hellmuth      10,000
Kenna James      45,000
Vanessa Rousso   56,000
David Singer        32,000
Robert Williamson  28,000
John Juanda          35,000
Pab                      29,300

$5,000 6-H

badpab, still seated next to Joe Beevers, is on 15.5k

$5,000 6-H

Familiar names still left in:

badpab
Captain Tom Franklin
Robert Williamson III
Bill Gazes
John Duthie
Marty Wilson
Joe Beevers
John Juanda
David Singer
David Pham
Joe Awada
Kenna James
Erick Lindgren
Phil Hellmuth

$5,000 6-H

Prize Pool = $2,382,900
1st prize = 643k

We're currently on Level 8 with blinds at 400/800

56 players (10 tables) left

$2,500 PL

Aaron Bartley hits the dreaded bubble spot in 'ouch, one in the testicles' moment.

A-J off versus A-J suited

MB makes his flush.

So, we're down to 9, two of which are Joe Hachem and John Gayle.

There seems to be a bit of confusion as to whether they're going to play this final today or tomorrow. It was planned as a 2 day Event, but it looks like they're gonna bag em and come back tomorrow.

$2,500 PL

Ariston has confirmed that they coming back to play the final tomorrow.

$5,000 6-H

46 players left on 8 tables

Average stack = 55,108

Play seems to have slowed down a little with the likes of Hellmuth, Williamson, Rousso and Juanda still in.

$2,500 PL

Here are the chip counts going in to tomorrow's final:

Seat 1: Lee Markholt -- 128,000
Seat 2: Maros Lechman -- 101,000
Seat 3: Joseph Hachem -- 64,000
Seat 4: Jeffrey Roberson -- 24,000
Seat 5: John Gale -- 134,000
Seat 6: Lee Grove -- 66,000
Seat 7: Alex Jacob -- 524,000
Seat 8: Kevin Ho -- 287,000
Seat 9: Greg Alston -- 80,000

$1,500 NL

Here are some belated photos of the very end of the No Limit ex-TV final table, after Padraig's elimination - it was not the seven hour marathon of the HORSE heads up,  but while all the attention veered somewhat towards the last 10 in the $2,500 PL, Mats Rahmn took the bracelet and $655,141, while Richard Toth took the $333,721 for second. 

Yep - still in!  In the money, sat next to Joe Beevers (still) with 32,400.

He also, unfortunately, has one of the chip leaders on his table, who has truly gravity-defying towers of chips reaching up to his chin like an unassailable wall...

It looks like Hellmuth's out though.

OK - play in the $5,000 6-H has finished for the night, and unbelievably it's only 1am!  Early one here....

Anyway, they're Bagging and Tagging, but I managed to catch Joe Beevers who's made it into the final 36, but with only 23,900.  He pointed out that "Mad Marty's got all the chips in the room..." and sure enough, at least 120k was piled in front of him.  He's been sat with his back to the rail, and to be honest I thought he was out ages ago - apologies for quietness on the Marty front!  He's way out in front...

$5,000 6-H

Play for the day has come to an end.