The final hand had him behind before the flop, but his Q8 quickly caught up and passed the A5d when the flop came out Q910. The turn was a 4d and another 10 came on the river and that was that. Naalden takes home a healthy $190,770 from this very short field of 446 players. Steven Cowley finished in second place and won $117,902.

In other tournaments…

Event 39 is down to 26 players for the final day and they will be back early to get this one finished. The huge field of 2715 players was once again dominated by amateurs and the biggest name left in the field is one of the young starts of the game, Brandon Cantu (270,000). He has a lot of work left though if he is going to grab a bracelet here as Michele Iacovone currently holds the chip lead with 1,605,200.

The World Championship of Pot Limit Omaha is still going strong with 25 players standing tall. Noah Schwartz (1,220,000) has a huge lead and is double the second place player. There is still a lot of talent left in this field and having just gotten under the bubble, play should be pretty spicy to start the session. David Williams, Howard Lederer and Barry Greenstein are all still alive in this one.

Day 2 of the NL Hold’em Shootout is set to get underway with 30 players remaining. They are all now in the money and the infamous Phil Ivey is still alive. Everyone will start this round with 150,000 in chips. Jennifer Harman, David Pham and John Monnette are also still alive.

Day 2 of Event 42 will also get started with only 153 of the 412 original players. We are going to see some double dipping here are several players that still have stacks in this one are also in the shootout. It is always entertaining to watch these guys sprinting from table to table trying to catch a hand and stay alive.