We’re down to two players remaining in Event #60 of the World Series of Poker, a $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event. After a grueling day of play on Thursday, Brandon AreTheseUtzHall (pictured) and Salman Jaddi elected to pack it in for the night and return on Friday at 1:00pm PT to determine a winner.

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Jaddi has about a 3:2 chip lead, but, according to coverage on WSOP.com, we could be in for quite a finale on Friday: “Jaddi had the lead for some time, but the patient Hall chipped away at him and was never at risk of elimination despite some frustrating early hands. Jaddi too has been resilient and focused and never looked as if the pressure of playing heads-up for a WSOP bracelet was getting to him. Whoever goes on to win this, it is sure to be a continuation of an epic struggle, with neither player willing to give an inch.”

At stake is a $614,000 top prize; whoever finishes second will land $381,000.

Zachary HustlerGrune Gruneberg (pictured) finished in third place in Event #60 for $270,000. He 4bet shoved pre-flop with pocket tens, but ran square into the queens of Hall. The board came out 5-K-9-A-A and Gruneberg was eliminated. Gruneberg recorded his fourth cash of the 2014 WSOP and, amazingly, all but one has been for a final table. He is up to $516,000 in career WSOP scores.

If you’re not familiar with Hall, he has over $2 million in scores in his PocketFives profile, including a runner-up finish in the PokerStars Sunday 500 in 2010 for $68,000 and a runner-up finish in the site’s Super Tuesday one year prior for $63,000. He won the Aruba Poker Classic in 2009for $753,000, beating Robert Mizrachi heads-up and outlasting a field of nearly 500.

Also today, a $1,500 Ten-Game Six-Max event (#63) should play down to a winner. There are nine players left, with New Zealand’s Jan Suchanek out in front. The rest of the pack, including three PocketFivers, has some ground to make up, as WSOP.com coverage put it, “Suchanek bloomed toward the end of the night and shot his stack to the top of the chip counts during the final two levels. Suchanek holds a substantial lead over the rest of the competition, having right around 200,000 more than his nearest competitor.”

Here are the chip counts entering Friday’s restart:

1. Jan Suchanek – 494,000
2. Bryn BrynKenney Kenney – 298,500
3. Andrey Zaya Zaichenko – 259,000
4. Randy mavsrule3 Ohel – 212,500
5. Fabio Coppola – 212,000
6. Daniel Zack – 205,000
7. Michael Mixer – 172,000
8. Haresh Thaker – 116,500
9. David Blatte – 41,000

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