Chris Ferguson was in prime position to barrel past the 2-million chip mark. He wound up getting Mark Bryan to stack off preflop with against Ferguson's . Ferguson took a stranglehold on the hand with a flop of , making top pair of aces and leaving Bryan drawing at running cards for the one million chip pot. One runner, the , hit the turn; a second runner, the , hit the river, giving Bryan the second nut flush.
When the stacks were counted down, Bryan had 503,000 chips. He doubled to just over one million; that 503,000-chip hit knocked Ferguson back to 1,218,000.