Guzzardi grabbed a massive chip lead after wheeling in a straight against Ashley Warner on the first hand after the deal was struck. He nursed a ten big blind stack for about six hours yesterday, and had things gone a little differently earlier today, and Ismail Ismail had folded his ace-queen, Guzzardi would’ve been the first player eliminated from this final table.Īs it was, he escaped with a chopped pot and from there, he was the danger man throughout this final table. It’s been a tremendous effort for Michael Guzzardi to even get this far. But perhaps we underestimated how much the title meant to these three players. When the three players struck a deal some time ago to lock up a healthy pay day and play for a little loose change, we thought we might be able to meet our dinner reservations. It’s been three and a half hours of three-handed warfare but finally we’ve seen this tough trio broken after the elimination of Michael Guzzardi in third place.