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Jason Hallee opened for around 60,000 under the gun and the action moved on to Neil Channing, who asked Hallee how much he was playing (answer - 460,000 behind). He thought about it for a while and then re-popped to 167,000. It folded right back around to Hallee, and he quickly folded too, leaving himself the shortest stack at the chipped-up feature table.
From middle position, Billy Griner opened the pot with a 80,000-chip raise. William Kakon re-popped it to 250,000 in the big blind. Griner moved all in and Kakon tanked.
The clock was called and in the last second, Kakon folded pocket tens face up.
Griner tabled 
and took the pot. Kakon slipped to 600,000 chips and Griner moved up to 1,100,000.
It folded around to Jeff Cohen in the small blind, who announced all in for just about 10 big blinds. In the big blind, Alexander Queen tanked up for some time. We rather feel for Queen - he seems to have spent an awful lot of the day with one short stack or another to his right, attempting to steal his blinds. After a while he made the call.
It was a good call.
Queen: 
Cohen: dominated with 
Board: bink! 
Cohen's pair of fours was good enough to double him up to 540,000. Queen was left with 450,000.
"Not good enough," he sighed.
While most of the chips are up on the feature table, down on the second table David Wilkinson and Billy Griner are trading chips back and forth like there's no tomorrow.
Most recently, Wilkinson just limped in on the small blind and big blind Griner checked his option. They saw a flop.
Flop: 
Wilkinson checked to Griner, who bet 50,000. Back to Wilkinson, who now check-raised all in.
Griner tanked up for a long, long time, his leg jiggling frantically. Eventually he called.
Griner: 
Wilkinson: some rather sneakily played 
Turn:
River: 
Wilkinson doubled to 565,000 while William Kakon reassured the devastated Griner that he had done the right thing. Griner dropped back to 700,000 after that.
Martin Jacobson raised to 55,000 from the cutoff seat and Mike Ellis moved all in in the big blind. Jacobson called the additional 350,000 chips.
Showdown
Ellis: 
Jacobson: 
The 
board, gave Ellis a double up. Ellis moved to 815,000 chips and Jacobson slipped to 1,300,000.
Level: 24
Blinds: 15,000/30,000
Ante: 4,000
When we arrived at the table the board read 
and Jean Gaspard moved all in from the small blind. William Kakon snap called in middle position.
Gaspard tabled 
for top pair and gutshot, and Kakon tabled 
for top two pairs.
The turn card was a 
and the river brought a 
to the felt. Gaspard is our 12th place finisher and took home $33,191.
No more grinding for Billy Griner, as he doubled through the newly chipped-up David Wilkinson to put him up to around a million in chips.
Wilkinson:
Griner: 
Board: 
"YES!" cried Griner as the nine fell on the flop, "Drawing dead to an ace, dead to an ace..."
He duly doubled up, to everyone's amusement except Wilkinson's, who grudgingly paid up and dropped down to 500,000 or so.
"What would an ace do?" TD Nikki asked Griner. "It'd fill you up."
Replied the very emotional Griner, "Yeah... I'm a little slow."
The chips all went in preflop, and when they came out again they went straight into David Wilkinson's stack.
Markus Lehmann:
Wilkinson: 
Board: 
The three on the flop gave Lehmann a bit of a sweat, but it was not to be and he headed for the payout desk.
Jeff Cohen raised to 112,000 in the small blind and Alexander Queen moved all in from the big. Cohen tanked, and called the additional 179,000 chips.
Queen tabled pocket nines and Cohen tabled 
. The board 
gave Queen a double up. Cohen slipped to 320,000 chips and Queen is now up to 500,000.
