We’re little more than an hour into the final table of Event 38 and we’ve already seen one of the ultimate coolers in poker. Read on to find out exactly what went down.

First Double-up goes to Ben Roberts

We have our first double-up of the final table. In the pivotal hand Full Tilt Pro Ben Roberts bet $34,000 from late position and action was folded to big blind Michael Greco. It’s only $18,000 more for Greco and eventually he makes the call. The players flipped over their cards:

Roberts: A 8

Greco: 4 2

The board came A Q J 5 T which was enough to double up Roberts to approximately $80,000.

Greco Deco’d (Ninth)

Former English soap-opera star Michael Greco has had a rough go at the Event 38 final table. In his first major hand he was pretty much pot-committed to call with 4 2 and when he finally got a premium hand his opponent held a monster.

The hand in question saw Greco bet $40,000 pre-flop but Chris Bell fired back in the $100,000 range. Greco pushed all-in and Bell insta-called. The cards?

Greco: K K

Bell: A A

Greco was in terrible shape and praying for a king but the board came T 7 5 T 8 to eliminate the Englishman. Greco will receive $22,573 for coming in ninth and one hell of a bad beat story to tell his grandchildren.

Ben Roberts Bent (Eighth)

It looked like Ben Roberts was on his way to a comeback at this final table but Robert Cheung put a cruel end to his dream of winning this event.

In the hand Cheung made it $39,000 to go and Roberts moved in for $52,000. Cheung called and flipped over K J while Roberts showed 7 7.

It was a classic race as the board was dealt 8 5 5 J 2 which gave the definitive checkmark to Vancouver, B.C., native Cheung.

Roberts is out in eighth and will receive $30,831 for three days of poker-related activities.

Welcome to PL.com's coverage of the $2,000 Pot-Limit  final table. Nine players have battled there way through a field of 605 to be here and by the end of the night we'll have ourselves a bracelet winner.

The tournament director has just instructed the dealer to shuffle up and deal so we are underway but before we begin here is a look at the chip counts (courtesy of the fine folks at www.worldseriesofpoker.com):

1. Jan Von Halle	$485,000
2. Lee Watkinson	$357,000
3. Robert Cheung	$352,000
4. Ayaz Mahmood	$314,000
5. David Kitai	$274,000
6. Chris Bell	$260,000
7. Keith Greer	$238,000
8. Michael Greco	$120,000
9. Ben Roberts	$82,000