Fred Conforti 1st place $121,105 and a 10K seat and the WSOP Ring

	Fred Conforti Champion

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On the fifth all-in from Norm Ketchum he goes in with AQ and Fred Conforti calls and shows pocket threes. Those big threes hold up and we have a winner.

Norm Ketchum 2nd place $62,500

Norm is all-in again with QQ gets a call and doubles up again. Norm Ketchum 160K.

Since that monster hand, Norm Ketchum has been all-in twice. Once he got the call and once, NO WAIT twice now he gets a fold.

A REAL POT! Fred with AT goes all-in and is called by Norm with A8, there is a Ten on the river and Fred gets a monster double-up.

Starting the heads up, its Fred Conforti with 425,000

	Fred Conforti

Norm Ketchum 401,000

	Norm Ketchum

Bill Edler and Fred Conforti get all in on a flop of AA4; BIll shows JJ but Fred shows A4 for a flopped boat.

Bill Edler 3rd place --- $31,250

	Bill Edler

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Bill Edler moves in with 99 and gets one call (both players we find out later had AQ) being that the draws are diminished. Bill doubles up to 185K.

This may take awhile OR we might be in the steakhouse in twenty minutes or there could be rain.

There is a huge mega-satellite going on here tonight, will get the numbers, but they are probably going to be 10 or more seats.

Sorry again folks, we had some miscommunication on that big pot won by Fred. Bill Edler was in that pot with Fred. So now Bill has about 90K and Fred just over 230K, leaving Norm will 490K. (approximately)

BAM! Fred takes AQ suited up against AT off from Norm and even with a scary flush board the AQ holds up and Bill has doubled up.

Bill Edler and Fred Conforti each have approx. 175K, leaving Norm Ketchum, our chipleader all day long, with 475K.

1K ante 4K/8K blinds, cards are back in the air

Dinner break, cards back in the air at 7:45 PM CST

Approximate counts: Norm 470K; Fred Conforti 190K; Bill Edler 160K.

The short stacks get into it and all-in-to-it. Wayne Philpot shows KT and Fred Conforti shows 99. The board begins to straighted but it straightens to Fred's hand.

Wayne Philpot 4th place --$27,345

	Wayne Philpot

Wayne Philpot has taken a couple of second bests and layed down to a couple of big reraises. He is now short-stacked with 30K. Fred Conforti is just under 100K; Bill Edler is just over 100K and all the rest of the chips are resting in front of Norm Ketchum.

In the other action here today: The LIPS event is down to the final four tables and the HORSE event is down from the 50 starters to about 32.

Welcome to all those poker fanatics who were following day four of the WPO event at the Goldstrike; we are down to the final four here in our $1,000 NLHE event continuation from yesterday. We are about 22 minutes from a dinner break and we have a big chipleader in Norm Ketchum, exact counts on the break.

Just as I was getting a chipcount the two leaders got into a heads up battle 25K on the flop; 50K more on the turn and all-in and call on the river. Norm Ketchum shows a set of sevens; Fred Conforti shows two pair and Norm is now a massive chipleader.

Wayne Philpot 66K; Bill Edler 115K; and now Fred Conforti with 96K; thats over 350K for Norm.

Action, action we are looking for the action. You might think they are one off the bubble for a TV appearance here rather then over at the Stike.

Sorry folks, this was a 2,000 starting chip event. So there are 826,000 chips in play. So give Norm Ketchum 290K or thereabouts; Fred Conforti 240K or so; Bill Edler 170K or near abouts; and 110K nearly for Wayne Philpot.

500 ante 3000/6000 blinds

With just over 600,000 chips in play we have two player hovering just over 200K (Norm Ketchum & Fred Conforti) and two players right around 100K (Bill Edler & Wayne Philpot).

Tony Hatley makes his move two hands later with KQ and runs head long into Wayne Philpot with ACES.

Tony Hatley 5th place $23,435

	Tony Hatley

Next hand its Rufus Yates making his move with two overs and Norm Ketchum covering the bet with a small pocket pair. Do we see a trend here?

Rufus Yates 6th place $19,530

	Rufus Yates

Frank Kessela moves in with AQ and runs into the big stack (Fred Conforti) with pocket fours and those hold up.

Frank Kessela 7th place $15,625

	Frank Kessela

Tony picks up the blinds and antes with that all-in move. Please remember these chip counts are on the fly and very approximate.

From Bill Edler: "PokerPages your source for Live Tournament Coverage." Bill has 117K in chips almost indentical in count to the other chip leader: Norm Ketchum. Opps, bigger stack in front of Fred Conforti about 155K and 90K for Frank Kessela. 80K for Rufus Yates. 105K for Wayne Philpot.  All-in for 25K for Tony Hatley.

Norm Ketchum, for those who do not recognize the name, has a 2004 WSOP bracelet and one previous final table at this current WSOP Circuit Event at the Grand Hotel and Casino Tunica.

Our short stack is Tony Hatley with 27K. 500 ante 2000/4000 blinds

Bill Elder bets all-in and gets a call from Pat Henegan. Its AK for Pat and KQ for Bill but a flop Queen reverses the roles.

Pat Henegan 8th place $11,760

	Pat Henegan

Just back from break Fred Conforti pushes a A6 hard and doubles up to 130K+

Russ Sherrod makes a nice raise gets reraised all-in by Bill Edler and makes the call, of course, with his Pocket Rockets. Bill shows Pocket Jacks. But the flop is J66 and Bill has a full boat and Russ is drawing to the last two aces in the deck, it is not to be. Cracked Aces!

Russ Sherrod 9th place -- $7,810

	Russ Sherrod 9th place

Some generalized non-poker confusion at the moment.

Pat Henegan doubles through.

Fred Conforti took a couple of hits but has just doubled up to about his final table starting stack of 40K.

Cards are back in the air and on our first hand we get an all-in from Adam Bradley, he gets called and shows AQ but his opponents pocket nines hold up.

Adam Bradley 10th place $4,685

This is Frank Kassela's fourth final table at this WSOP Circuit event. Bill Edler won event #17 two night ago.

and we have our 11th place finisher and we will redraw for the 10 person table

Jason Song 11th place ---- $4,685

400 ante 1500/3000 blinds, we are at 11 players and the action is non-existent

Michael Ta 12th place --- $4,685

Thomas Brown 13th place --- $3,905

Brett Zimmerman 14th place ---- $3905

Champie Douglas 15th place ---- $3,905

For those of you following day four of the WPO event in Kaelaine's tournament report, the 13th place finisher over there, Josh Arieh, has just sat down as our 49th entrant in the HORSE event here at the Grand.

Cards are in the air in the restart of yesterday's $1,000 NLHE event.

2 PM restart to yesterday's $1,000 NLHE event.

11 AM Ladies (LIPS) event started with 297 entrants.

1 PM HORSE 50 entrants including many of the name pros

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