Wendell Barnes Texas Hold'em Shootout Champ----$29,975 and a 10K seat

	and the Ring from the ever lovely Sue Phillips

And as these heads up often go, they see a flop of T83 and a big bet from Mike Postle gets an all-in from Wendell Barnes and pot committed Mike calls and shows 77 but Wendell shows T8 for two pair and a win.

Mike Poste 2nd place --- $16,440

210K to 120K Wendell Barnes is the chipleader, we are seeing a lot of flops followed by bet & fold

165 to 155

Wendell continues to push on every hand, right now its been very effective.

A couple of nice hands for Wendell Barnes, one straight over straight gives him the chiplead of about 90K.

Yes its true folks it snowed in Tunica today.

	Mike Postle

About 220K for Mike Postle and 110K for Wendell Barnes and the boyz are playing it fast.

	Wendell Barnes

Another big hand Mike Postle with KQ calls the all-in from David Segal who shows AQ. The flop (QT4) was already out there when they got it in. A turn Ace gives David top two but a river Jack fills in the Ace high straight for Mike.

David Segal 3rd place --- $9,670

	David Segal 3rd place

1500/3000

Oops there was a pot in play during that last guesstimate.

These are exact: Mike Postle 148,400; Wendell Barnes 88,000; David Segal 90,000.

These are eyeball approximate: Wendell Barnes 59K; David Segal 90K; Mike Postle 118K.

Big Pot! All three players go to the river with two pair and David Segal picks up a river deuce to make it SB 24o fall into a full boat. No more short stacks here.

There is rumored to be a Stud final table going on about fifteen feet from here, we will check on them just as soon as these Shootout players slowdown a bit.

but on the next hand David Hurely moves in with JJ gets a call from the other short David Segal with AQ. Its a big fat River Queen.

David Hurley 4th place --- $7,735

and on the very next hand, we did NOT lose a player

And on the very next hand Norm Ketchum is in with A4 gets a call from David Hurley with A3 and we see a board of KJ2 5 4. Its a wheel for Norm and

Norm Ketchum 5th place --- $5,800

On the very next hand Joon Cho gets it in with AQ gets a big stack call from a KQ and a board flop of a lonely king.

Joon Cho 6th place --- $4,835

Bill Johnson, who had no cards today, finally puts it in and runs into AK from Mike Postle and a AA4 flop.

Bill Johnson 7th place --- $3,870

A big double up for Mike Postle through the chipleader Wendell Barnes. Mike is just short of 100K.

Sorry about the limited coverage today folks but we are trying to follow both the Stud Event (#13) and this event, both down to short final tables.

Michael Uvalle takes QQ all-in but runs into AA from David Segal.

Michael Uvalle 8th place --- $2,900

Slightly over 10K for Mr. Ketchum our current short stack and our only WSOP bracelet holder at this final table.

Now playing 1K/2K..

Wendel Barnes has over 100K, nearly one-third of the chips in play.

James Neal and Wendell Barnes with two big stacks get into a pot, after a 27T flop, they both get all of those chips in Mr. Neal shows KK top pair; Mr. Barnes shows 77 for a set of sevens.

James Neal 9th place -- $1,935.

Mr. Segal moves all-in on the first hand with K 8 he gets one caller and discovers a flush on the river for slightly more than a double up.

800/1600 blinds--cards are in the air.