This tournament is over and Yoshihiro Tasaka is champion!

We said before these two weren't afraid to mix it up and apparently we were right on the money. The last hand saw a flurry of raises and re-raises with all the money ending up in the middle. The only surprising thing were the cards we saw when the hands were turned over.

Hidenari Shiono opened to $60,000 and Tasaka re-popped to $196,000. Shiono moved all-in and Tasaka made the call.

Tasaka: 9 2

Shiono: A 4

The board ran 9 8 6 J 3 and Tasaka's pair of nines was enough to earn him the pot and the title! 

Hidenari Shinio takes runner-up honors and $80,135 while Yoshihiro Tasaka takes the trophy and $128,216!

Yoshihiro Tasaka is slowly but surely grinding down his opponent in this heads-up match and he just took another sizable pot. Tasaka opened from the button for an additional $32,000 and got a call from Shiono in the big blind.

The flop came down J T 3 and Shiono fired $50,000. Tasaka made a quick call and the T hit the river. Both players checked and the 6 came floating in on the river. Shiono checked again but Tasaka took the initiative and bet a cool $100k.

Shiono folded rather quickly and the pot goes to Tasaka.

Our heads-up players have already been mixing it up and neither of them are showing any fear when it comes to putting chips in the pot. We just saw the biggest hand of the match so far and it was shipped to Yoshihiro Tasaka, further extending his lead over Hidenari Shiono.

Tasaka made it $61,000 to go from the button and Shiono added another $100k on top from the big blind. Tasaka made the call and the flop rolled out T 9 7. Shiono checked and Tasaka immediately announced all-in. Shiono looked at his cards once again, tanked for a short minute and dumped his hand in the muck.

We're heads-up here in Seoul. Here are the new counts for our final two players.

We are down to heads-up and it's Brian Kang headed out the door in third. He was left with very few chips and shipped them into the middle with T 3. Hidenari Shiono made the call with K 4 and after the board had finished out Shiono had paired his king and eliminated Kang.

Canada's Brian Kang is out in third and will take $44,074.

We just witnessed the most dramatic hand of the tournament so far. It all began with Yoshihiro Tasaka opening to $36,000 from the button and Brian Kang re-popping to $120,000 from the small blind.

Hindenari folded in the big blind and Tasaka announced all-in. The crowd began to cheer and in all the confusion Tasaka must have thought Kang had called because he turned over his hand, A Q. The tournament director told him the call was still pending and Tasaka cursed himself for the mistake.

It was $360,000 or so back to Kang and he now had the luxury of knowing what hand he was up against. After doing four or five minutes of mental arithmetic Kang shrugged his shoulders and announced call, tabling the surprisingly weak K 7. He was indeed getting the right price and we have to commend him for a gutsy call.

The crowd was pushing in from all directions as the flop came down 9 6 4. "You're going to get there on the turn," cried Dan Williams from the audience, cheering for his fellow Canadian Kang. Sure enough, the turn brought the K and Kang jumped out in front.

It was Tasaka's section's turn to call for a card and once again the calls rang true as the A hit fifth street. Kang had turned away from the table as though he knew what was coming and didn't want to witness the brutality with his own eyes.

Tasaka's crew went crazy as the behemoth of a pot was pushed to his side of the table. Kang is crippled with around $75,000 left while Tasaka takes a massive chip lead.

We'll have new counts for you in a minute.

Brian Kang looked like the likely candidate for next elimination but he just doubled up, putting near even with his two opponents. Tasaka opened to $36,000 from the button and Kang shoved for around $230,000.

Tasaka made the call and tabled K-Q. He was in bad shape against Kang's A-K and things got even worse when an ace hit the flop. The turn and river brought no miracles and Kang is back in the game with over $450,000.

It looks like we might be here a while. Not only do these three players rarely, if ever, three-bet before the flop, they each sit stone still and tank out every decision, whether it's an open fold pre-flop or a bet on any street.

We don't mind people thinking through important decisions but does it really take that long to muck a trashy hand or put in a blind-stealing raise?

Here's a look at the updated chip counts.

It seems the Brian Kang's two Japanese opponents are taking turns beating on him and it's taken it's toll on Kang's stack. Moments ago Kang came in with a raise from the button and got a call from Yoshihiro Tasaka in the big blind.

The flop came out Q-Q-T and Tasaka checked. Kang fired $40,000 and Tasaka check-raised to $120,000. Kang took one last look at his hand and tossed it in the muck.

Just a few hands later Kang opened the pot from the small blind and got a call from Hidenari Shiono in the big blind. The flop came down A 8 3 and Kang led out for $40,000. Shiono min-raised to $80,000 which was enough to force Kang out of the hand. 

Kang is now a little under $300,000.