Both Christian Harder and Bertrand Grospellier have been eliminated and suddenly Ran Azor and Yevgeniy Timoshenko are heads-up for the WPT Championship title.

The double elimination came after Harder open shoved. Azor made the call and ElkY shoved behind him.

Azor called for an extra 180,000 having both players covered. It was A 8 for Harder, A J for Grospellier and Azor had the worst of it with A 7.

However, the K 3 7 flop changed all that, putting the Israeli in the lead.

The Q turn gave ElkY some more outs, but the 2 wasn't one of them.

Harder takes fourth, Grospellier takes third and it's time to cue the money presentation.

Heads up will begin with Azor on about 10 million to Timoshenko's 23 million.

The average chip count may be over 8 million in chips, but no player at the table except Yevgeniy Timoshenko has even half that amount.

In fact, the mountain of chips sitting in front of Timoshenko represents more than twice as many chips as the rest of the players combined.

We're not saying it's over, but the engravers just got to work on the championship trophy as the blinds were bumped to 100,000/200,000.

Shannon Shorr just busted fifth adding to the massive stack in front of Yevgeniy Timoshenko.

Shorr moved all in pre and Timoshenko called.

Shorr didn't seem too happy about flipping over his 6 7, but his crowd cheered when Timoshenko turned up pocket fours and the less-than-classic race was on.

The A 3 9 flop was no help for Shorr and the J turn kept Timoshenko in the lead.

The K river sealed Shorr's fate as fifth place finisher. He grabs $408,550.

Interestingly enough, Shorr's elimination sealed up a different race.

Bertrand Grospellier just won the WPT Player of the Year title - now back to the real business at hand.

Check the video below to see what Shorr had to say heading into the final:

Yevgeniy Timoshenko moved just a little bit closer to becoming this year's WPT Championship winner moments ago.

He opened for 375,000 from under the gun and just Shannon Shorr called.

The flop came Q T 4 and Shorr led for 490,000. Timoshenko called.

The turn brought the T and both players checked.

The A river looked like a good bluff card for Shorr. Holding pocket eights, he took a 1.3 million chip stab at it.

Unfortunately, Timoshenko called with A Q and raked another pot.

The rich keep getting richer here at the final table.

Yevgeniy Timoshenko just rivered trips when the case jack came down to drag four million chip pot from Christian Harder and his aces up.

The 2008 APT Macau champ could be running away with this thing on over 15 million now.

It may only be a matter of time before it happens, but Scotty Nguyen will not become poker's all-time leading money winner at Bellagio tonight.

Left short by the Shannon Shorr double, Scotty didn't waste time much time before moving all in.

He was called in two spots by Shorr and Christian Harder.

Scotty must have gotten his hopes up when he saw two aces come out on board to go along with the ace-four in his hand.

Unfortunately, Harder, who pushed Shorr off the pot, came up with a slightly better ace-nine to out-kick Nguyen's trips.

Out sixth, Nguyen will take home $285,985 for his trouble, inching him ever closer to 2006 WSOP Main Event champ Jamie Gold. 

Check out what Scotty had to say to the WPT's Amanda Leatherman the night before the final six in the video below:

The folks from Alabama just found something more to cheer about.

Ran Azor raised pre-flop and Scotty Nguyen made the call.

Shannon Shorr, possibly looking to pick up some freshly squeezed chips, moved all in for about 1.5 million.

Azor let it go, but Scotty tanked it awhile before making the call.

Shannon tabled pocket tens to Scotty's pocket sixes.

The crowd rose to their feet as the dealer dealt the flop: A K 3. The turn was close for Scotty, but not close enough as the 7 fell.

The Q river drove Shorr's cheering section wild as suddenly he has twice as many chips and Nguyen was left crippled.

It's a nit fest ladies and gentlemen!

The first half hour has seen very cautious play by almost everyone at the table.

After moving all in four times, Shannon Shorr has found enough breathing room to sit a few hands out.

Yevgeniy Timoshenko seems to have picked up on everyone's reluctance to play a hand and has come out raising several times.

Nobody has put up any resistance, so for now it appears he will continue to apply pressure whenever possible.

Check out what Timoshenko had to say to the WPT's Amanda Leatherman the night before the final six in the video below:

Shannon Shorr has the loudest cheering section of all the players here at the final table and they're definitely making themselves heard.

Shorr moved all in twice in the first four hands to scoop in some much needed blinds and antes much to his fans delight.

Play is underway at the WPT Championship final table.

There is still 16 minutes left in the 60,000/120,000 level which will give a couple of the short stacks a little extra breathing room.