Seat 1 Paul Maxfield UK 2,885,000

Seat 2 Hasan Habib US 7,795,000 Last years runner up , fantastic achievement .

Seat 3 Phil Ivey US 3,365,000

Seat 4 Tuan Le US 2,680,000

Seat 5 John Pham 1,405,000 Currently no 2 in Player of the Year rankings

Seat 6 Rob Hollink 4,430,000 won the EPT Monte Carlo Championship event last month , what a double this would be !

Michael Mizrachi hardly played a hand then he raised to 140,000 Tuan Le called , flop was T high , Tuan checked and Michael bet 300,000 , Tuan raised to 700,000 and Michael went all in for a total of 1,500,000 called by Tuan who had KTs , Michael had JJ and won over 3,000,000 . Later however he made an error , Tuan le raised and in the SB Michael reraised , Hasan in the BB now made it 700,000 and after Tuan passed Michael raised all in , his timing was off , Hasan had QQ and won a 6,000,000 pot after flopping a set .

On one other hand George Miller had gone all in with KJs ,Rob called the 230,000 in the SB with AQ and Michael in the BB showed 78 and passed , flop was 4 5 6 !

Paul Maxfield was doubled up by Tuan who had raised preflop then called Pauls all in with KQs , Paul had AK , he then doubled up later with the same hand , he limped for 60,000 , then when Chris Ferguson raised 400,000 he reraised all in , Chris called for his last 545,000 and flipped up TT , flop was J high but turn a K.

In a later pot just before the end Paul raised a J 2 2 flop and John called , turn was a 7 , John checked and Paul moved in for a 1,000,000 , John passed after ten minutes and showed JQ , Paul showed a T !

I think tomorrow Tuan and John will tangle in the blinds , Hasan will initially sit back playing only premium hands as he did last year , Phil Ivey will try to dominate and Rob Hollink and Paul Maxfield won't let him , this could be a quick final !