Event #2: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

James Akenhead has the button in seat 9 and he raises to 300,000. Grant Hinkle folds and Akenhead wins the blinds and antes.

James Akenhead has the button in seat 9 and he raises to 300,000. Grant Hinkle reraises to 1,000,000 and Akenhead quickly folds. Grant Hinkle wins the pot.

Grant Hinkle has the button in seat 10. He completes the small blind. James Akenhead checks. The flop is      . Both players check to the turn of  . Akenhead bets 175,000. Hinkle thinks, then calls. The river is the  . There is a pause before Akenhead bets 500,000. Hinkle is staring at him from across the table, but he folds. Akenhead wins the pot.

Grant Hinkle has the button in seat 10. He raises to 250,000. Akenhead folds.

Grant Hinkle - 7,595,000 James Akenhead - 4,235,000

Hand #105 - Chris Ferguson has the button in seat 8 and he moves all in for 815,000. James Akenhead quickly calls and Grant Hinkle gets out of the way. The players table their hands. Ferguson:     Akenhead:     Cries from the gallery are coming left and right..."spades...ace...king." It's hard to tell who wants what. The flop comes      . There are plenty of cheers. When the   hits the turn, Ferguson is now drawing to a jack and a jack only. If he fails to catch one, he'll be our third place finisher. The river is.....the  . Chris Ferguson finishes in 3rd place and in addition to a lengthy ovation from the crowd here, will also collect $388,287 in prize money.

James Akenhead has the button in seat 9 and he folds. Grant Hinkle moves all in from the small blind. Chris Ferguson takes off his sunglasses and surveys the situation. He looks at Akenhead's stack, then his own, then as though some sort of equation was solved, tosses his cards into the muck. Grant Hinkle wins the blinds and antes.

Grant Hinkle has the button in seat 10 and he folds. Chris Ferguson caps his cards and thinks for a bit. After a few seconds, he counts out a raise to 350,000 and slides it out with two fingers. James Akenhead nervously shuffles his chips with a look of concern on his face. James calls and they see a       flop. Ferguson stares straight ahead as the cards come off. He slowly looks over at Akenhead, first his face, then his stack. He then moves his entire stack into the center and Akenhead insta-calls. The players show: Ferguson:     Akenhead:     The crowd is once again nuts, chanting "heart! heart! heart!" Akenhead supporters are staring intently at the monitors hoping for the best. The turn is the   and the Akenhead camp sticks out like a sore thumb. The river is the   and the applause is present, but surely less overwhelming than had a heart hit the river. The tournament director doublechecks the counts and James Akenhead doubles through Chris Ferguson.

James Akenhead has the button in Seat 9. He folds. Grant Hinkle moves all in. Ferguson double-checks his cards and then calls. His tournament is at stake: Hinkle:     Ferguson:     Nobody wants to see Ferguson's fairy tale journey through this tournament come to an end. Even though Hinkle has been hitting all of his hands and playing well, it feels like the entire gallery is calling for an ace on the flop. No help for either player when it comes      . The turn is the  , giving Hinkle an open-ended straight draw and tons of outs. Now the entire gallery is shouting. We can't hear anything in here. The river is the   and Ferguson survives again! A roar from the crowd. They are all on his side as he doubles up again.

Grant Hinkle has the button in Seat 10. As first to act, he folds. Chris Ferguson peeks at his cards and then moves all in for about 1.3 million. James Akenhead folds and Ferguson picks up another pot.