Perhaps we cursed him saying that he was making a recovery, or maybe he's just running bad - but Jim Collopy is now right down below the one million mark.
He did well not to go broke, to be honest.
Gus Hansen limped on the button (back to limping!) and Collopy checked to see a flop. Collopy led out for 28,000, but Hansen made it 62,000 to go; Collopy flatted, and they proceeded.
Collopy check-called 114,000 on the turn, and another 282,000 on the river. A massive pot - and at the end of it Hansen turned over for flopped trips which runner-runnered a flush. Collopy, laughing like the eternally cheery chap he is, showed Hansen the for a nasty cooler. Ouch.
Hansen - 2,940,000
Collopy - 900,000
The two of them went on a short break after that, but they're back at the table now.
Jim Collopy seems to be making a bit of a recovery - he's up to around 1.5 million.
Again, nothing big - he raised from the button twice in a row, both times getting a call from Hansen but taking it down with a continuation bet on the flop.
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Jim Collopy - deep into shoving territory
Jim Collopy opened for 54,000 - standard - and Gus Hansen reraised to 142,000 - also pretty standard. But this time Collopy pushed a whole stack of white T25,000 chips into the middle - technically a four-bet to 979,000, but effectively commiting himself.
Hansen folded, though, and Collopy edged back up to 1.25 million.
Not much change in the stacks, but a definite change of pace as Gus Hansen limped on the button - again - and Jim Collopy raised out of the small blind to 76,000 - again - but this time Hansen limp-raised to 198,000. No call from Collopy, and he remains short on 1.1 million.
It's been a while since a hand ended with anything other than X number of chips being shipped to Gus Hansen, but just now he proved that he doesn't always have a monster as Jim Collopy picked up his first pot in some time.
It was just a small one, though - they limped and checked their way to a flop on which Collopy bet out 25,000. Hansen called, but Collopy followed it up with a 72,000 bet on the turn, and Hansen folded.
Collopy was at 1.1 million before the hand, and he's now at 1.145 million.
Wow, Gus Hansen is really pulling out in front now - as we type he's at 2.665 million to Jim Collopy's 1.175 million.
The latest bit of damage was done when Collopy raised to 48,000 on the button and following Hansen's call, they checked the flop. Hansen bet out 72,000 on the turn and Collopy called, but Hansen fired out another 188,000 on the river and this time Collopy was disinclined to call.
By the by an interesting note from the rail - Stephen Chidwick was chatting to Jim Collopy at the break, and told him that some of the other Full Tilt pros he's been up against in this tournament - Huck Seed and Ram Vaswani - have seemed to favour the same limp-on-the-button approach in their heads-up matches that Gus Hansen went for in Round 1 of the final. Good to know.
However, now that he's one-nil, Hansen seems to be getting more aggressive with the button, and whichever way this match goes we suspect it won't take as long as the first one did.
This really does feel a lot like the last match - mostly Gus Hansen is just sort of chipping away at Jim Collopy's stack, no one hand getting really huge so far.
Most notably, Hansen called Collopy's preflop button raise, but they checked down the board until Hansen led out on the river. Collopy called, but sighed dejectedly and mucked when Hansen showed him .
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flop. Collopy led out for 28,000, but Hansen made it 62,000 to go; Collopy flatted, and they proceeded.
turn, and another 282,000 on the 
river. A massive pot - and at the end of it Hansen turned over 
for flopped trips which runner-runnered a flush. Collopy, laughing like the eternally cheery chap he is, showed Hansen the 
for a nasty cooler. Ouch.
flop on which Collopy bet out 25,000. Hansen called, but Collopy followed it up with a 72,000 bet on the 
turn, and Hansen folded.
flop. Hansen bet out 72,000 on the 
turn and Collopy called, but Hansen fired out another 188,000 on the 
turn and 
river, and Collopy turned over 
