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The dinner break couldn't have come any quicker for Aadam Daya as his stack heads further south than anyone in this three-handed encounter. After being three-bet by Deepak Bhatti (300,000 to a stonking 1,250,000 - fold), Bhatti called a raise to 360,000, blind on blind, versus Gabe Costner. Bhatti then called a bet of 550,000 on the 
flop before checking back the 
turn. On the 
river, Costner led for 1,400,000, which was enough to take the pot.
We're beginning to miss Nicholas Mitchell and his boozy rail in here - it's all gone terribly quiet since they left.
"Guys, you can cheer or clap, or act like you're alive when a player wins a hand..." volunteered announcer Nikki, but this only elicited the vaguest of collective titters from the subdued crowd.
So the newly-chipped-back-up Aadam Daya made it 300,000 from the button, only for Bart Davis to make it 750,000 from the small blind. Daya tanked for a while, and then made the call. They saw a flop, which looked like so:
Flop: 
That's a lot of hearts, isn't it?
Davis announced all in.
Daya insta-called.
Davis tabled the premium 
, but Daya had flopped another flush with 
, leaving Davis drawing extremely thin indeed.
Turn: 
leaving Davis drawing dead
River: an academic 
Aadam Daya shoved under the gun for 1,145,000, and Deepak Bhatti called from the small blind. Simple as that. And indeed it looked like it would be a pretty clinical affair...
Daya: 
Bhatti: 
Clinical? Not even close.
Board: 
Yup, that's right, Daya flopped a flush and once Bhatti had failed to resuck, start-of-day chip leader Daya doubled back up to 2.3 million. Bhatti wasn't in any particular trouble either though - he still had 3.2 million after that.
Much to the chagrin of his army of fans, MTT specialist Nicholas Mitchell, sometimes known as his online moniker aggrifod, has been eliminated from today's final. In the end, it was the man who dissected his stack in half that finished him off, Deepak Bhatti with his nose in front with versus 
.
As Mitchell's loyal following swamped the table and screamed for a four, the flop was dealt. The first card shown was a 
, which the dealer seemed to pause on momentarily, thus allowing the Mitchellites to roar with delight. But elation soon turned to devastation as the dealer slid across the other two cards: 
.
"Four!" they chanted, reverting to their original plan.
Turn: 
"Four! Four! Four!"
River: 
Close, but no cigar, and a deflated Mitchell is forced to settle for fifth place.
Gabe Costner and Deepak Bhatti saw a 
flop from the blinds. Both players checked before Costner took it down with a bet of 150,000 on the 
turn.
Chips are moving around the table so fast that it's hard to keep a track, but the current chip counts (although I expect they'll be totally different in an orbit's time) are:
Seat 2: Bart Davis -- 1,800,000
Seat 3: Nicholas Mitchell -- 1,600,000
Seat 4: Deepak Bhatti -- 3,400,000
Seat 5: Gabe Costner -- 4,300,000
Seat 7: Aadam Daya -- 2,200,000
Nick Mitchell opened for 250,000 under the gun, but Deepak Bhatti went one better and pushed all in. It folded right around back to Bhatti, who bumped his stack up to around 1.7 million.
A few hands later, and Mitchell opened for 250,000 again, this time from the button, and Bhatti, now in the small blind, made it a cool million to go, just 600,000 or so behind. Gabe Costner gave up his big blind and left the two of them to fight between themselves.
Mitchell went all in.
Bhatti called.
Mitchell:
Bhatti:
"Sarah, king me, baby!" shouted one of the Mitchellites at the dealer, but it was not to be. Mitchell started glumly counting out the call before the flop had even been dealt.
Board: 
Despite the calls to run it twice from the brave Mitchellites, their boy was reduced to a 1.3 million short stack. Happy days for Bhatti, though - he doubled to around 3.5 million.
By the by, since the blinds went up to their current 60k/120k/15k level, there have been merely 100 big blinds in play, total. This means that there really isn't a lot of room to maneuver, and even relatively small pots are having a big effect on the chip distribution at the table. It's anyone's game yet.
Gabe Costner raised to 350,000 in the small blind, and Aadam Daya called in the big. Together, they went to a 
flop.
Costner bet out on the flop but Daya called and they proceeded cagily to check down the turn and river. At the end of the hand, Costner turned over 
for ace high, and presumably it was god enough to win - Daya mucked his hand, and Costner picked up the pot.
