West limps for 10k from the button. Daneshgar raises 48k more from the large blind. West instantly shoves in, and Daneshgar calls just as quick with A A . West has K J . The flop came 2 3 4 . The turn is the A , giving West a flush draw but Daneshgar three aces. The river is the 2 , and Tim West is our second place finisher, earning $181,115.

David Daneshgar is our champion, earning $330,105! *

* = Prize money does not reflect financial deal made heads up.  Winner's prize also includes $25,500 WPT Championship seat.

Daneshgar limps on the button and West checks his option. The flop is K 5 3 . West checks & Daneshgar bets 24k. West check-raises 80k more. Daneshgar folds. West turns over 2 7 .

Play has been pretty slow so far. Usually a single bet wins the hand. Lots of hands checked down with bottom pair winning.

I take it back. Right after play resumed, they agreed to a previous deal arranged. They are now playing for the $25k WPT seat and the bracelet.

And the verdict is... no deal. Play it out. Play begins now.

Players are still discussing a possible deal. I will resume coverage when they return.

This has been one of the toughest final tables in this series. Daneshgar, West, McCaffrey and the rest have played fabulous poker. West & Daneshgar will begin heads up play shortly.

David Daneshgar just stopped by and said to say hello to his mother Lily, father Shahram, and brother Steven. They are watching at home.

Our two finalists are taking a quick break. Heads up, the chip counts have David Daneshgar as the chip lead with 1.06m to Tim West's 692k.

Daneshgar limps from the small blind and McCaffrey moves all in. Daneshgar instantly calls and shows A K . K Q . The board comes 5 4 6 9 J . Paul McCaffrey is our third place finisher, earning $90,560.

Daneshgar opens for 41k and Shak moves all in from the button. Daneshgar instantly calls with Q Q . Shak has A 9 . The board comes J 7 8 8 Q . Daniel Shak is our fourth place finisher, earning $49,385.

	Daniel Shak

	Paul McCaffrey

	Tim West

	David Daneshgar

Daneshgar 640k
Shak 250k
McCaffrey 115k
West 700k

Action folds to Shak who raises to 55k, putting McCaffrey all in. McCaffrey calls in the dark, and turns over K J . Shak has K 6 . The board comes A J T 3 7 and McCaffrey doubles up.

McCaffrey opens for 45k first to speak. West calls on the button. The flop is T 6 7 . McCaffrey pushes and West instantly calls with A A . McCaffrey shows 8 6 . The turn is the J . The river is the 4 . West doubles up and criples McCaffrey.

Daneshgar opens for 35k and Shak moves all in from the small blind. Daneshgar calls and tables T T . Shak is caught in a bad spot with A 7 . The board comes T 2 3 Q J . Daneshgar doubles up to over 600k. Shak's stack is cut in half.

Daneshgar 300k
Shak 600k
McCaffrey 450k
West 375k

Cousineau moves all in and McCaffrey calls from the small blind. Cousineau has A 2 and McCaffrey A K . The board comes 3 A T K 8 . Tony Cousineau is our fifth place finisher, earning $37,045.

Daneshgar 230k
Cousineau 115k
Shak 580k
McCaffrey 270k
West 420k

Shak opens for 60k. Soulier moves all in for the second straight hand. Last time he reraised Daneshgar all in, who folded. Shak calls and shows Q Q . Soulier has 8 8 . The board comes A K 4 T 2 . Frabice Soulier is our sixth place finisher, earning $28,815.

The blinds have increased to 8k-16k with a 3k ante.

A deal could not be reached, and play is resuming.

I also promised I'd post a picture of Amir Nasseri & wife Ladan. Sorry it took me so long to get it up. Wish you could have stayed longer with us here.

Play has paused as players discuss a chop.

Daneshgar 300k
Cousineau 125k
Shak 310k
Soulier 225k
McCaffrey 270k
West 480k

Shak opens for 40k and Soulier instantly moves all in from the button. Everyone folds to Shak. He thinks for about a minute and then finally folds.

Soulier moves all in from first position for 62k and Daneshgar calls from the button. Daneshgar has K Q and Soulier Q 9 . The board comes J 9 3 5 6 . Soulier doubles up to 154k in chips.

Daneshgar 330k
Cousineau 90k
Shak 360k
Soulier 154k
McCaffrey 300k
West 530k

Tony Cousineau moves all in, and in his best Borat impression, says, "I'm all in... not!" His action is binding of course, and he really did move all in. Everyone folds. He collects the blinds and antes.

West raises to 50k from the cutoff and Hulugalle moves in for about 40k more from the button. West calls with A 7 . Hulugalle shows A Q . The board comes K T 3 A K and West spikes a flush. Ramesh Hulugalle is our seventh place finisher, earning $20,580.

Shak raises to 50k from the button. Bonomo moves all in for a small raise and Shak calls. Shak has A 3 . Bonomo shows K Q . The board comes J 5 2 3 2 . Justin Bonomo is our eighth place finisher, earning $16,456.

Action folds to Daneshgar in the small blind, who completes. Cousineau checks his option. The flop is 6 4 2 . Daneshgar bets 20k. Cousineau quickly calls. The turn is the 9 . Daneshgar checks, Cousineau bets 35k. Daneshgar checkraises to 135k. Cousineau folds.

Action folds to Nasseri in the next pot. He moves all in for around 130k. West instantly reraises all in for another 160k. All fold and Nasseri shows 8 8 . West shows T T . The board comes 5 5 3 3 A . Amir Nasseri is our ninth place finisher, earning $13,170.

Daneshgar - 320k
Cousineau - 215k
Shak - 300k
Bonomo - 75k
Soulier - 60k
McCaffrey - 250k
Nasseri - 120k
West - 290k
Hulugalle - 100k

Nasseri, Daneshgar, Cousineau all limp for 12k, and Shak moves all in from the button. Everyone folds.

Play has resumed after the break. They are now ante'ing 2k a hand and playing 6k-12k blinds.

David Daneshgar, chipleader

Noah Boeken moves all in from the button in an unopened pot and is instantly called by Ramesh Hulugalle in the big blind. Ramesh has sixes and Noah is behind with T4 offsuit. The board improves neither and Noah Boeken is eliminated in 10th place, earning $9,880.

We're now ten handed at the final table. Here are the chip counts.

1 - David Daneshgar - 380k
2 - Tony Cousineau - 210k
3 - Daniel Shak - 165k
4 - Justin Bonomo 95k
5 - Fabrice Soulier 90k
6 - Paul McCaffrey 200k
7 - Amir Nasseri 160k
8 - Noah Boeken 70k
9 - Tim West 270k
10 - Ramesh Hulugalle 80k

Daneshgar opens for 24k from the button and Fields moves in from the small blind. Daneshgar studies and finally makes the 83k call. Daneshgar has J T . Fields shows A K . The flop has two tens, and Fields is left drawing dead on the turn. Kris Fields is our 11th place finisher, earning $9,880.

McCaffrey limps from the cutoff. Boeken completes from the small blind, and Nasseri raises 40k from the large blind. McCaffrey then shoves all in and both Boeken and Nasseri fold.

Ramesh Hulugalle doubles up on the other table. I missed the hand, so I have no other details.

The blinds have just gone up to 4k-8k with a 1k ante.

Noah Boeken is all in again from the button, and Tony Cousineau calls an additional 30k or so with red treys. Boeken shows AT offsuit. The flop is A 5 6, turn 2, river K. Boeken doubles up.

McCaffrey opens on the button and West moves in from the small blind. McCaffrey thinks for a long while before calling with KQ. The pot is over 200k and West shows pocket sevens. The board comes A 5 4 3 2, giving them both a wheel and splitting the pot.

Tim West 304k
Amir Nasseri 255k
Daniel Shak 255k
Paul McCaffrey 180k
Justin Bonomo 180k
David Daneshgar 170k
Fabrice Soulier 125k
Kris Fields 85k
Noah Boeken 70k
Ramesh Hulugalle 70k

Noah Jefferson moves all in for 42k from first position. Paul McCaffrey calls from the small blind. Paul has AQ, Noah QJ. The flop is A T x, and the turn and river miss both of them. Paul wins with a pair of aces. Noah Jefferson is our 12th place finisher, earning $9,055.

Everyone at the feature table is discussing rules & rulings with Jack McLelland. Amir Nasseri told Jack that he runs the best show in town and that the Bellagio tournaments are the best to play.

Having been around the country to different casinos, I'd have to concur. If you're playing big buy in tournaments, Jack & the Bellagio are the best in the business.

Jimmy Tran moves all in from first position for 40k and Tony Cousineau calls from the button. Jimmy has A8 offsuit, Tony AQ. Tony flops a queen and Jimmy is drawing dead on the turn. Jimmy Tran is our 13th place finisher, earning $9,055.

Tim West opens from the cutoff and Cornel A. Cimpan reraises all in from the large blind. West makes the call and shows Q T . Cimpan has A Q , but West flops a ten to win the hand. Cornel A. Cimpan is our 14th place finisher, earning $9,055.

Kris Fields opens for 22k, and Justin Bonomo shoves from the button. Fields thinks then mucks pocket fours face up. Bonomo shows him AK.

On the featured table, Noah Boeken is all in yet again. It folds to Jimmy Tran, who squeezes an AT. He thinks for a minute before folding face up. Boeken shows him AK as well.

Tim West is moving chips early. All fold to him in the small blind. Jimmy Tran has just been moved to balance tables and is the large blind. Tim grabs a stack of 100k and shoves it in, covering Tran's 50k stack. Jimmy thinks for a long while then shows K J . He asks what he should do, jokingly, to Tony Cousineau. Tim West mucks and the dealer ships him the pot.

After the hand the table asks Jack McLelland, the tournament director, what would happen if Jimmy called. First, since Tim's hand hadn't been killed by the dealer, if he did, they would retreive the hand. If he did happen to call, he would receive a 20-minute penalty for exposing his hand prior to calling. So, let that be a lesson to you who come to the Bellagio... don't expose your hand before calling!

Cornel A. Cimpan just moved all in and was called by three players. They all checked the hand to the river, and Cornel quad-ed up with AJ when no one else improved. His ace high on a 77223 board was enough to win the pot.

Gevork Kasabyan moves all in from early position and it folds to Tim West in the big blind who instantly calls with K K . Kasabyan shows Q T . The flop came Q high but all spades, leaving West with a sizeable lead. No queen or ten appeared and Gevork Kasabyan is out in 15th place, earning $8,235.

Paul McCaffrey calls the all in reraise from Mike Crystal. Paul has tens; Mike AK. The board comes nine high, and Mike Crystal is our 16th place finisher, earning $8,235.

Play is underway with a 1,000 ante and 3,000-6,000 blinds.

After days of frigid cold, Las Vegas has finally warmed up a bit. It's in the 60's and sunny, a nice change from the past week. Today is the $5,000 NLHE final table, which still has 16 participants left. The slow structure and deep stacks of Bellagio poker tournaments sometimes causes this type of thing to happen.

The scene here in the Fontana Lounge is pretty calm for the time being. It's still early in the day in today's $1,500 No Limit event, which drew a whopping 519 players. First prize is $244,395, which seems to be about the average first prize in this series of tournaments. Up on the TV I see the Aussie Millions poker tournament, the 2006 WSOP Main Event, and the PokerDome challenge. So if playing a $1,500 event wasn't enough, you can watch three other tournaments on TV while doing so.

One interesting note about today's final two tables. The chip leader, Amir Nasseri, is the same Dr. Amir Nasseri you saw on High Stakes Poker season 1. Second in chips is French player Frabice Soulier, a recent WPT final tablist. David Daneshgar has come close many times to making a TV final table, but does have several five and six figure cashes to his name. Tim West is best known as "Tmay420," the top ranked player online today.

That's just the beginning of the roster of players still in the event. Stay tuned, live coverage begins within the next fifteen minutes!

$5,000 + $180 Buy-in 175 Entries 12/5/06

End of Day Event 5 Total Prize $848,750

Prize Money

*First place includes a $25,500 entry in World Poker Tour Finals on April 21, 2007.

Results from yesterday's event:

$3,000 + $120 Buy-in 203 Entries 12/4/06

Final Event 4 Total Prize $590,730

*First place includes a $25,500 entry in World Poker Tour Finals on April 21, 2007.