It’s down to the final two players. After having battled their way through 894 other competitors, these two gentlemen are the last ones standing. One will get the $222,000 1st place prize and title of WPTDeepStacks Champion, and the other will get a very healthy consolation prize of $150,000 for 2nd place.

Good luck to both players!

After a wild couple of swings in which Richard doubled up (immediately after his triple-up), then lost an all in the very next hand, he finally met his final hand of cards when he shoved with a .

David Quang had a , which would have been catastrophic had the board not been dealt .

In the end, David’s trip-9s took the pot and ended Richard’s night. That said, it was an excellent tournament for Richard, who really held his own all night despite being short-stacked for much of the final table. Congratulations are due to him for an great 3rd place finish and the $110,000 cash prize. Well done!

With Richard Alsup holding only 1,000,000 out of a total of 26,880,000 chips on the table, to call him the short stack is almost an understatement. But he started off the 3-handed play in the hottest possible way, tripling up against both of his opponents.

In the end, when the players flipped over their cards they had to laugh: Richard had A-K, David A-7 and Daniel A-J. The board was dealt , and Richard continues on in a much stronger position.

After 2 hours of play 4-handed, Omid Shahbazian was eliminated at the hands of David Quang. Both players shoved all in preflop, and it was David’s 9s versus Omid’s 8s. The 9s triumphed on a board.

Congratulations to Omid for an excellent tournament. He goes home with the 4th place prize of $82,480. Well done! Now we are down to 3 players, and closer to crowning a champion.

Said El-Yousfi held a commanding chip lead just a little over an hour ago, but after 3 devastating hands in which he went all in preflop with A-K (losing every time), the table had a much more democratized chip count. It was in this context that Said and Omid Shahbazian ended up in a decisive hand that changed the course of the tournament’s  late stages.

This time, Said was all in preflop again. Only, unlike the other times, he wasn’t holding the A-K, but a . Omid’s ended up the winner in this hand that was dealt . It was a turnaround that left Said with less than 1,000,000 chips. Several hands later he shoved again, this time against Daniel Dubeau.

The hand started with a 375,000 raise by Daniel, only called by Said. The flop came down , and both players checked. A came on the turn, and Daniel checked. Said went all in, and after a short pause to think about it, Daniel called. All this occurred as time ran out on level 32, the 10th 60-minute level of the day.

Said flipped over his , and was dominated by Daniel’s . The river was a King, but Daniels ace had Said beat. Said finished an excellent tournament in 5th place, taking home $62,300.

It marks the second final table Said made in a week here at Playground Poker Club. So while he is surely disappointed in the finish considering his earlier chip lead, hopefully he will look back on this week at a later date and consider it a great success.