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Nam Le picked up another big hand heads up but this time Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand Grospellier could not be beat.

The money went in the middle with Nam holding A♦ Q♥ and ElkY on pocket tens. The Le loving crowd was screaming for an ace, but when the flop fell 10♦ 7♠ 6♠ making Grospellier a set it looked all but over.

The 9♥ turn gave Nam a chance to chop with an eight, but the K♠ river ended the tournament.

Nam grabs $943,215 for second while Grospellier takes all the glory of a WPT title and the $1,411,015 first place prize.

We'll put up our signature recap of ElkY's big win over here before the night is through.

Nam Le has started the long climb back to contention with two quick doubles on the first two hands heads up.

He shoved, Bertrand Grospellier called and his A♠ J♣ beat ElkY's Q♣ 3♣ on a 10♣ 9♥ 8♠ 4♠ 5♦ board.

Grospellier shoved the very next hand and Nam made the call with 2♠ 2♦. ElkY's two overs were the 6♣ 3♠, but Nam doubled when the A♠ 8♣ A♥ K♥ Q♦ board ran out.

He's on almost $4 million now.

ElkY shoves, Dardon makes the call and his A♠ J♣ has Grospellier's 10♣ 2♣ crushed.

The flop changes things, as the 9♠ 4♠ 2♠ fall, giving ElkY a pair of dueces and Oddie the nut flush draw.

However, the 9♦ turn and 3♥ river brick out for Dardon and he's out 3rd cashing $506,245.

The girls, the cash, the chip set and the ticket to the championship are coming out as ElkY will go into heads up with $15 million to Nam Le's less than one.

Stay tuned; it could be quick.

Faced with a decision for his tournament life Nam asks how much time is left in the level.

Eventually, he aks for a count of Dardon's chips, mulls it over a bit longer and folds.

A couple hands later Bertrand Grospellier pushed him off his big blind with a small blind shove.

The same trick worked again on the next orbit and Nam was getting dangerously short until he finally made a stand.

He moved in from the button, when, but niether Oddie or ElkY called.

His big blind was stolen by Odie on the next orbit as the Nam Le death watch continues.

Grospellier raised from the button to $360,000 and Oddie made the call. The flop came 9♥ 5♠ 3♦ and both checked. However, the K♣ turn brought a $460,000 bet from Grospellier following a Dardon check.

He called, the river came the 7♥ and after another Dardon check, Grospellier bet $960,000.

Dardon called, but ElkY showed K-4 to win the pot and the chip lead.

Oddie made it $400k from the button and ElkY called from the small blind.

Nam Le folded and the flop fell A♠ Q♦ 5♦. Both players checked and they did it again on the 7♥ turn.

The river came the 7♠ and Grospellier took a rather small $160k stab at it.

Oddie made it $700k more and ElkY called.

Oddie flashed A-10 and it was good enough to scoop the pot and the chip lead.

ElkY made it $360k from the button moments ago and Oddie called from the big blind.

Oddie checked the Q♠ 7♠ 3♣ flop, but when Grospellier bet $460,000, he check-raised it upstairs another $1.4 million.

Grospelleir folded and while Oddie is now close to $6 million, Bertrand falls to under $8 million.

Nam Le suts threateningly behind with $3.2 million.

He took more than one million chips off of him slow playing jacks until the river, then getting Dardon to pay him off.

A few hands later Grospellier sniffed out an Odie Dardon bluff, calling a $550k post flop bet then shoving into a $1.4 million turn bet on a 10♦ 10♣ 2♦ 2♠ board.

Oddie folded and the Team PokerStars Pro showed some kind of bluff that turned out to be better garbage than Dardon was playing anyway.

ElkY is now back on close to $12 million while Dardon slips to around $3 million. Nam Le has just over $2 million

ElkY decides to make it $550,000 more and after a minute Oddie speaks up.

"Sooner or later we gotta go home," he says. "I'm all in."

Grospellier folds, the crowd at Bellagio goes wild and Oddie shows Q-10 off.

Don't look now Team PokerStars fans, but here comes Oddie.

We've had another confrontation and this time it was Osmin Dardon shoving from the small into Bertrand Grospellier's big blind.

Dardon had Q♠ J♥ and ElkY made the call with A♦ 4♠.

The Team PokerStars Pro had the slight edge until the K♦ J♠ 6♥ flop hit Dardon. He faded an ace on the 10♥ turn, but Grospellier picked up a few more outs. 

The 3♣ river wasn't one of them and Dardon doubled to $3.5 million.

Virtually every hand sees one player shove with Bertand Grospellier doing it most of the time.

We were waiting for a big confrontation when suddenly we found one.

ElkY shoved from the small blind and Nam Le made the call. Nam had A♣ J♦, but the Team PokerStars Pro had two live cards with 8♠ 3♥.

The flop came Q♠ 9♠ Q♦ and Nam remained ahead.

He stayed there on the 4♥ turn and 6♦ river and doubled up to around $3 million.

It's $1,280,000 and Dardon folds, but Bertrand Grospellier makes the call with K-J.

Nenad has sixes and the lead, but after the flop comes J♣ 9♣ 3♦, he's left drawing thin with his tournament life on the line.

The turn brings the 2♦ and the river is the 5♥ and Nenad is out 4th.

He'll cash $373,010 for his efforts while Grospellier rolls on three handed now with another $1.2 million in his massive stack.

Nenad Medic jokingly asked for a count from the small blind, but folded, as did Dardon from the big blind.

ElkY turned over the 3♠ 2♠ with a smile.

He's also shoved into Nam Le's big blind from the small the last two orbits.

Four handed now, Bertrand Grospellier has more chips than the oother three combined and knows how to use them.

The Team PokerStars Pro has got $11.5 million, while Nam Le has close to $2 million, Osmin Dardon has $1.7 million and Nenad Medic is shortest with $1.4 million.

We're down to four here at Festa after the exit of Adam Levy.

He shipped it with A♣ 9♥ facing a Bertrand Grospellier raise, b ut ElkY had two queens.

The Team Pokerstars Pro made the call and the K♠ 3♣ 2♦ flop kept him in the lead. Then, like a knife to Levy's heart, the Q♥ turned making Grospellier a set.

Roothlus was drawing dead, so the 7♠ river didn't matter and he headed to the cage to grab $266,445 in fifth place money.

ElkY now has $11 million and is in the driver seat.

The hand started with a $260k raise from ElkY that Mietz called from the big blind.

The flop came 9♠ 7♠ 4♦ and both players checked.

The turn brought the 9♦ and after a Mietz check, the Team PokerStars Pro bet $360,000. Mietz moved in for a little over $1 million total and ElkY looked perplexed.

Eventually he made the call with just A♣ 10♠, but it had Mietz beat, as his K♦ 10♥ stunk of desperation.

The river came the 9♥, Grospellier added a few more chips to ElkY mountain and we are down to five.

Bertrand Groispellier shoved into a short stacked Nam Le from the small blind and Nam made the call for his tournament life.

It was A♦ 9♣ for ElkY and it looked like an easy fade for Le's A♥ K♦. The flop came 7♣ 5♣ 3♥, but when the turn brought the 8♣ Elky picked up a gutshot and a club draw.

In the end though, Le doubled when the J♦ fell and he is right back wehre he started on $2.2 million now.

ElkY raised it up to $275k from the small blind and Nam protected his big.

The flop came T♣ T♥ 3♠ and Grospellier led out making it $335,000.

Le slowly made the call and the 8♠ turn was revealed.

ElkY checked, but Le did not, betting $400,000 into the growing pot.Grospellier flatted and the 2♠ came down on the river.

Both players checked and Grospellier's A♠ 8♣ forced a Le muck.

Le's slide continued when he raised it up to $265,000 a hand or two later then folded to an Adam Levy shove.

By virtue of pushing all in and stealing the blinds and antes, Adam Levy is no longer the short stack.

We've played just a couple of hands, but that honor now belongs to William Mietz!