The heads-up match is over and Danny Nelson is champ! He wins the individual part of this tournament while Team Aced takes the bulk of the cash for winning the team segment. Nelson gets the $13,000 he agreed to in the three-way chop with Philip Rousseaux and Gerald Percival, as well as the $6,000 they left on the table to play for.

Team Aced, made up of Jamie Gold, Ashley Nataupsky and Houston Waldie, take the $59,000 team prize as well as a set of Dream Team trophies.

And now, on to the heads-up match. Rousseaux started with the chip lead and kept it for some time as the two battled back and forth. The counts were pretty much the same when the biggest hand of the match occurred. 

The Turning Point

Rousseaux raised from the button for slightly more than the minimum, adding 190,000 to the pot. Nelson defended in the big blind and the flop came down Q-6-2. Nelson led out for 300,000 and Philip min-raised to 600,000.

Nelson took a moment before moving in for 1.5 million more. Rousseaux went way into the tank. After a long time and a lot of head-shaking he showed one of his cards to our side of the room, a queen.

We were shocked to see him take so long, and we couldn't believe he was going to fold top pair with that much invested. He thought some more and eventually mucked. 

We spoke with Nelson and he had flopped bottom two pair with 6-2.

The Death Blow

Nelson had the lead going into the final hand. It started with Rousseaux limping on the button and Nelson checking his big blind. The flop came down K 8 4 and Nelson checked. Rousseaux min-bet 160,000 and Nelson min-raised to 320,000.

Rousseaux took a second before moving all-in and Nelson made a quick call.

Nelson:K 9

Rousseaux: J 8

Nelson was in the lead and would need to dodge a jack or an eight. The turn and river bricked and just like that Danny Nelson had every last chip in play.

Philip Rousseaux has been turning up the heat at this final table and just sent another player to the exit. Gerald Percival shipped over the top of Rousseaux's button raise when it got to him in the big blind. Rousseaux snap-called and turned over K Q. Percy let out a groan and tabled 9 3.

"I've got you so dominated," Rousseaux said before he saw his opponent's cards. "The nit's got you dominated," he continued, a nod to an earlier update written by this reporter right here at PokerListings.com.

Apparently Philip's buddies have found this blog and are relaying our commentary to him at the table - damn technology.

Back at the felt the dealer was busy running the board with no help whatsoever to the all-in Percival. Percival is out and Rousseaux has a big lead going into the heads-up match.

The remaining three players have struck a deal to chop the remaining money. They're going to leave $6,000 and the trophy on the table for the winner. With the deal in place and the blinds so high we can't see this lasting long. Stay tuned for the details.

Ashley Nataupsky made an impressive run in this event but, sadly, it has come to an end. She was getting super short and shoved from the small blind when it was folded to her. Gerald Percival woke up with pocket aces and snap-called.

Nataupsky tabled 7 9 and was looking for a miracle. The crowd was definitely on her side as the dealer put K 6 3 down on the felt. Things got a bit better with the 7 on the turn, but the 5 on the river wasn't enough to get her back in this event.

Nataupsky gets $6,660 for her individual finish as well as a cut of the almost $60,000 first-place team prize!

After a long period devoid of eliminations we have our fifth-place finisher, John Regis. The pot began with a raise from Philip Rousseaux on the button. Regis took a quick time-out to confer with his team and when he returned he moved in.

Rousseaux snap-called and turned over K Q, which was racing the sixes of Regis. The flop was laid out 7 4 2 and Regis kept the lead. The turn was the 7, no change. Rousseaux had a death grip on the table rail as the dealer threw down the river, the Q!

Rousseaux let out a powerfu, "YEAAAAAAAH," doing his best frat-boy-winning-a-game-of-beer-pong impression. Regis, meanwhile, melted into the background as Rousseaux bumped chests and high-fived his teammates.

We'll be back with updated counts in a sec.

We've just returned from a 20-minute break and the blinds have gone up to 40,000/80,000 with a 10,000 ante. To put that in perspective the average stack has less than 900k, meaning everyone at the table is in danger of being blinded down if they don't get busy.

Five players remain and we'll keep at it until just one is left standing.

Ashley Nataupsky has consistently gotten her money in good in this event but a moment ago she did not. We can't blame her for getting it in with A-Q but in this instance she ran into a bigger hand, pocket kings from Danny Nelson.

Her teammate and boyfriend Jamie Gold was calling for an ace but the dealer refused to oblige. Nelson is up to 1.3 million while Nataupsky is down to 600,000.

Philip Rousseaux went on a quick heater last level to take the chip lead but he just lost a monster coin flip to Gerald Percival. It was an auto-all-in with A-K for Percival and pocket queens for Rousseaux.

The flop and turn were no help to Percival but the river brought an ace, crushing Rousseaux's ladies and reducing his stack to next to nothing. Percival, meanwhile, is on right around 2 million.

We mentioned in the last post that Philip Rousseaux was playing like a nit. The last hand we saw confirmed it. It was folded to him in the small blind and he limped. Danny Nelson shoved from the big blind for 360,000 and Rousseaux went into the tank.

After some thought he flashed an ace and folded. We're pretty sure we shove every ace there, or if we're limping it's to snap off the shove. Just saying.

Philip Rousseaux was playing like a bit of a nit, letting himself blind down dangerously low. That all changed in two quick hands. On the first one he shoved with A 3 and got a call from Danny Nelson, who was ahead with pocket sixes.

Rousseaux was sweating the dealer hard (pictured at right) as the flop came down and let out a cry of victory as an ace hit the flop. By the river Rousseaux's aces were still good and he was up to 525,000.

We didn't see the next double firsthand but we're being told he got it in on the flop with a set of nines against an open-ended straight draw from Danny Nelson. The set held up and he's now on well over 1 million.