Hoyt Lance moves all-in preflop and Chad Batista quickly calls. He shows Q 4 to Lance's K 9 and claims to be entering the hand as the underdog for the first time all tournament. The flop comes 2 A 3 giving Batista a draw at the wheel straight, and after the turn comes 3 a five is his key to victory. Like a Hollywood movie scripted by Soren Turkewitsch, the river is the 5 and Chad Batista is the 2006 Caesars Indiana Main Event champion!

Chad takes home $262,002 and a WSOPC ring, while Hoyt Lance gets a $137,471 consolation prize. Congratulations to both players!

Chad Batista has taken back this event! This hand started out with both players checking and seeing the flop which came 4 T 7. Hoyt lead out with a bet of $50,000 and Chad immediately bumped it up to $150,000. Hoyt took about two seconds to move all-in and was called immediately. Batista showed T Q and Lance showed J 4 for bottom pair. The board didn't reverse The Grill's advantage, finishing out A K and doubling Batista from $787,000 to over $1.5 million in the blink of an eye. Hoyt Lance is crippled and will need some serious doubling-up to remain in contention.

Chad Batista gets all his chips into the middle (around $300,000) and gets a call from Hoyt Lance, who shows A 3 to Batista's 6 6. The flop comes 3 8 2 and the turn is the 4, leaving Lance drawing to two aces and two threes to end this thing. The river doesn't oblige, coming 9, and Batista has doubled up again. He now has about $750,000 to Lance's $950,000.

On the first hand of heads-up, Chad Batista moves all-in with A K and gets a call from Hoyt Lance with Q 9. The flop comes 7-3-2 rainbow and the board finishes J 7, doubling Batista up and giving him a little more breathing room.

Hoyt Lance limps in from the small blind and Ed Corrado checks his option in the big blind. The flop comes 4 6 J and Lance checks to Corrado, who bets out $30,000. Lance comes over the top with an all-in raise. Corrado makes the call and shows T T to Lance's J 7. The turn brings the 7 and the river is the 2, and Ed Corrado has been eliminated in third place, for which he will recieve $80,865.

Chad Batista and Hoyt Lance are now heads-up, with Lance holding a prohibitive chip lead.

Hoyt Lance is the chip leader at the final table and is using that big stack to his advantage. There's not a hand that goes by without Lance raising the pot, and Ed Corrado and Chad Batista are left waiting for cards to push back with. Lance has just broken the $1 million chip mark while both of his opponents see their stacks rapidly dwindling.

The players are back and we're now playing with blinds of $10,000/$20,000 and an ante of $3,000. Three players remain and what was once a friendly table has become a feeding frenzy. None of the players seem to have much love for their competitors so we may be in for a blood-bath.

The remaining three players have broken for a comped dinner at the Legends Restaurant upstairs at Caesars Indiana. Action wil resume at 7 pm EST so grab a bean burrito or two and hurry back for the thrilling conclusion! Here's each players bank as they dine compliments of the house:

Hoyt Lance	$879,000
Ed "Uncle Jun" Corrado	$435,000
Chad "The Grill" Batista	$377,000

Hoyt Lance opened this pot to make it $80,000 to go and after a few minutes Hilbert Shirey came over the top and pushed all-in. Even before Ed Corrado, who was still in the hand, could make a decision, Hoyt emphatically called and threw his pocket queens down on the table. He was in a dominating position over Shirey's A-J. Hoyt had Hilbert covered and so Shirey's tournament life was on the line going to the flop. A monstrous board hit, 7 Q 7, giving Hoyt a full house! Shirey was drawing to running aces to win the hand but a deuce on the turn gave Hoyt the check mark and the win. Shirey is out in fourth and will receive $64,692.

Hoyt Lance limps in from the small blind and Doug Carli checks his option. The flop comes 2 7 2 and Lance checks to Carli, who moves all-in for his last $170,000. Lance makes the call and shows A J to Carli's 9 7. Carli wanders off, muttering about how Lance wants to let Carli back into the game, but the turn reverses his fortunes with the J and the river slams the door on them with the A, sending "Rico" to the rail with a consolation prize of $48,519.