All Hail Hank

With Pablo in Vegas the starting field was seven, and three players split two different chip bonus (although Pablo didn't make it, the 250 he was splitting for tying Candy in points was still chopped).


Bearded Mike knocked Phil out early and took Brandon's chips as well to build a huge stack. Candy finished off a depleted Tim and despite being third in chips Hank promised a win. Of course, heads-up wound up between him and Mike, with Sean cashing in third.



Bearded Mike started with not quite a two-to-one chip advantage, which quickly swung to Hank. After a long series of KCL took a large chunk out of a steaming Mike, the players took a brief break. The key hand (above) had Mike AI against Hank who had taken the lead in the hand. A call would have left Hank with only about 3,000 chips, but he eventually laid down the 6 in ace-to-five. Fittingly, the last hand of the TOC was another A-to-5 hand.