This last hour hadn't been much different from the other two since three-handed play began. It was an up and down affair with the lead continuing to change hands between hands.

Truth be known it looked very little like anyone wanted to win. But we were positive none of these three wanted to lose.

At last check Jonathan Tamayo had once again climbed out of the cellar into the chip lead with over $1 million in chips.

Frank Gary had close to $700k and Nick Binger was behind sitting on near $500,000.

We would have yawned at that point, but we were not sure it was appropriate.

And then....

Binger Banged (3rd)

Nick Binger controlled this table until it went three handed. Now we're heads-up and somehow he's not part of it.

Binger will cash $84,814 after getting chipped away at and finally playing his last hand of the night in Limit Hold'em.

He raised from the small blind, Tamayo reraised, Binger popped him back, Tamayo capped it and Binger called. The 10 7 2 flop saw Binger get it all in and Tamayo call with Q Q. Binger could only show 3 3 and when the 10 turn and J river fell he was done.

Going into heads up Tamayo has $1.5 million to Frank Gary's $750k.

Thanks to a couple of strongly played Limit hands by Nick Binger and Frank Gary all three players pulled even after the first half of the first hour following the dinner break.

First Binger flopped two pair against the aggressive Jonathan Tamayo. He bet it the whole way but Tamayo could not get away from whatever he was holding.

Gary then picked up a few smaller pots before Binger struck again flopping top pair holding Q J on a J 8 2 board and once again coercing Tamayo to call him down all the way.

By the time it was all said and done each competitor was hovering around the $700k mark.

Tamayo's losing streak continued on with Gary putting tremendous pressure on him hand after hand until he was forced to start folding on several flops and turns. Suddenly Gary had taken the chip lead while Binger was second and Tamayo had dipped to third.

Tamayo fought back in the No-Limit half of the hour though. One of the bigger hands played out with Gary making it $65k to see a flop and Tamayo making the call. The flop came down K Q 3 and Tamayo check-raised a $60k continuation bet from Gary making it $210,000 total. It was enough to win the pot and get him headed in the right direction again.

A few hands later he pushed Binger off a limped hand with a $120k raise from the Big Blind.

By the time the hour had ended Frank Gary held the lead with almost $900k. Jonathan Tamayo was hot on his heels holding $726k and Nick Binger was once again holding down third sitting on $579k.