In the first hand of three-way action John Racener and Rick Rossetti found themselves in a pot and after the flop of 7 7 9, John threw out a bet of $150,000. Rick immediately pushed all-in and got a call from Racener. Surprisingly John was actually ahead with J Q for queen high and a spade flush draw. Rick was holding 5 8, just an inside straight draw! A king on the turn was no help but the 6 on the river made the straight and knocked Racener out of the tournament. Racener is out in third and will officially take home $103,527.

A deal was struck over dinner between the final three players in this event. Rick and John will both take home $190,000 while chip leader Alex Gomez will net a respectable $270,000. They will play for the title, the ring and the seat in next year's WSOP Main Event.

After a wonderful dinner at Polostina's, a great italian restaurant downstairs, which we were treated to by the tournament staff, we were on the casino floor and chip leader Alex Gomez was approached by a member of security and asked for an ID! Granted, Alex does look younger than his 33 years, but it's still funny to see the chip leader in a million dollar poker tournament having to produce ID to stay in the casino! Thankfully he was able to make it back to the tournament area to finish the match.

The players have been released to go on a dinner break of 90 minutes. When we come back we'll be playing a little higher.

This was a heads-up pot between John Racener, shortstack, and Alex Gomez, chip leader, that began with a pre-flop raise to $60,000 from Gomez. A call from Racener in the big blind brought a flop of Q-J-T and another check from both players. The turn was a five and Racener checked the action over to Gomez. Alex threw out a stack of $5,000 chips equalling $100,000 and Racener made the call. Another queen hit the river and after a slow check from John, Gomez fired again, this time $150,000. Racener went into the tank to try to figure out the situation but in the end would opt to muck his hand, sending a nice pot across the table to the chip leader.

Players are back and the cards are in the air. Three players remain, vying for the first prize of $368,096.

The players have gone on a short break and will return in five minutes. The current chip counts are as follows.

1	Alex Gomez:	$1.19 million
2	Rick Rossetti:	$607,000
3	John Racener:	$572,000

Feming Chan made a loose play in this hand when he called Alex Gomez's pre-flop all-in with A-3. He saw he was in bad shape when Gomez turned over A-T. Alex hit a ten on the flop and quickly had Chan drawing thin. No help from the turn and river and Feming Chan is out in fourth place. He'll take home $80,521.

John Racener moved all-in from the small blind and got a call from Alex Gomez. Racener was out in front with A-T against Alex's K J and Gomez was looking to improve. The flop was not what Alex was hoping for as Racener paired both his ace and ten. His aces-up would hold up past the river as he doubles-up to more than $300,000.

Rick Rossetti's not afraid to mix it up with the chip leader, Alex Gomez, as he showed us in this hand. After a raise to $75,000 from Rick and a call from Alex, the flop came out 8-7-7. Gomez checked to Rossetti who took his time making a move. Eventually reaching for chips, he pulled the trigger and fired out $90,000 which was enough to push Gomez out of the hand.