WSOP MAIN EVENT FINAL TABLE

[tikay]

Aaron Kantor has A-9, Tex Barch has JJ, it's on their backs.

Flop is K-7-9, all hearts, turn is an 8, and the river is an J.

So Aaron Kantor is OUT, & we are down to 3 players.

[Karabiner]

Hi Tikay and Djen,

Back in Blighty now and way easier to follow the series here at home.

Hi Micky 147, I'm Titter on Laddies.

[tikay]

And the prize money for 4th was a paltry $2,000,000.......

[Micky147]

hi Titter

[tikay]

ONLY IN AMERICA......

The money has arrived. First, two men with shotguns.

Then a man with an open topped bankers box, full of dollar bills. Followed by 16 - SIXTEEN - more men, each with an identical bankers box, each full of money.

[Djinn]

So now there are three...

Joe Hachem             
Tex Barch                 
Steve Dannenmann   

We have a magic formula here - all of team blonde goes out for a cigarette or some McDonald's or to the loo or to mill around and someone goes all-in and gets called and we all run back in to update.  We are spending the next hour in the corridor.

Little break while they all contemplate that the next prize is $2,500,000

THE MONEY MAKES ITS WAY INTO THE ROOM....

[tikay]

Now they have tipped all the boxes of money onto an adjacent, empty, poker table, all piled up higgly piggly.

The Americans fascination for bigger, better, MORE, of everything, is sated. The folks are drooling & dribbling.

I'm irrestibly drawn to the thought of Live 8, & the starving children of Africa.

Strange world, eh?

[tikay]

OK, break over, it's shuffle up & deal time again.

Dannremann & Hachem clash pre-flop immediately. Flop is 7-2-2, two diamonds, brings about a $1 million bet, $4 million RR, then an all-in RRR for about $10 million. WOW! I hope these guys not used the break to discuss "business".......

[tikay]

....but Hachem declines the invitation to get it on, & get it in, & lives to fight another day, Dannemann taking down a whopping pot..

[tikay]

Now it's Dannemann & Barch who are scrapping. A R, RR, & RRR pre-flop suggests someone has something........

So THEN Danemann dwells, before moving ALL-IN with that rarest of animals, a RRRR for 21 million dollars.....!

Barch passes, Dannemann shows aK.....

[tikay]

Hachem has 17 milliuon

Barch 12 million

Dannemann 27 million

[snoopy1239]

The first R would be all-in at the Gala. 

Good to see they can make these plays here.

[tikay]

Press Room estimates of the finishing time seemed to be aroiund 0800, US time.

But the game seems to have changed massively since the break, with much more adventurous play being shown by sall 3.

[tikay]

Though I would not suggest for even a moment that any business has been discussed.

[snoopy1239]

Wouldn't it be tragic if they had done business and they started playing half-heartedly.