In the last hour Jean-Robert Bellande has joined Danny Wong, John Kranyak and Joe DeNiro on the final table. On the other tables, they are all heads up with no immediate signs of finishing, two tables where the action is still three handed. One is mentioned below where all three players are close to equal while in the other Mikael Norinder and Spencer Lawrence are close to being heads up with the third stack on their table quite short.

Floor-ed Matt

Matt Graham is suffering a real horror show. He's been outdrawn on turns and rivers several times. First he was 4-bet preflop by Duane Graff Jr when holding 9 8 and hit the 8 6 3 7 K board, calling his opponent down, only to find Graff had re-re-raised with 7 6 and caught two pair on the turn.

Needless to say, he was unimpressed with Graff's extra raise before the flop and let his opponent know it. Soon after he held A-J on a J-T-5-9-K board against Stefan Rapp's J-9 and was left sighing in frustration again.

He then got his last few chips in with A K against Rapp's Q J on a T 9 5 board, he managed to all of Rapp's out and doubled back up to the point where all three are now evenly matched in chips once more.

Bellande Survives

Jean-Robert Bellande finally finished off Hansu Chu after winning most of Chu's chips when his K-7 made two pair against Chu's K-J. Chu was down to his last $1,000 and got all-in with 8-5 against Bellande's 7-4. The Survivor star spiked a seven on the flop and it was enough to put him into the final.

Two tables have been completed so far, five are at the heads-up stage with one still three-handed and another which still has four players battling it out to win their spot at the final table.

You Talkin' To Me

Joe DeNiro was the first person to win his table. He had already had his opponent Sol Mammon, all-in twice already and lost both times, the third time was the charm though. He had Mammon all-in with 9 5 vs A 6 on a 9 4 3 and the latter needed to catch an ace or running cards to survive again. The turn and river came Q J and DeNiro is the first person to final.

Final FTW!

John Kranyak was the next person to final table, winning his heads up against Markus Stranzinger when the A 3 T 5 A board was capped on the flop. Stranzinger was all-in by this and needed to catch a spade or king which he failed to do.

Graham Still Going...

In the remaining four handed table, Matt Graham button raised and bets every street of a 3 4 2 8 4 board. On the river his opponent leads out and Matt raises and is called. He flips over 6 5 for the floppped nuts which wins a healthy pot.

Chop!

Short-stack Hansu Chu gets it all-in with 8 7 against Jean Robert Bellande's A 9 on a 9 7 6 flop. Chu catches the T on the turn to make his straight but then the 8 on the river chops the pot. Both players stare blankly at the board for about 10 seconds before realizing they'll be splitting this pot.

Bellande is the more happy of the two, but admits, "I was just trying to see if I had a flush or not!"