With Day Three upon us, we were hoping to fly through the field as we played down to just one.

However that wouldn’t be the case as the final table wouldn’t be formed till just a tad before 11pm with mainly locals and a few crowd favourites amongst them.
Nicolas Zakem
I managed to slap a PokerNews patch on chip leader Nicolas Zakem, but it wouldn’t bring him any luck as he fell early in seventh. The final four players made a chop, and once Nabil Matta’s 9♥ 8♠ managed to outflop Omar Gaedah, we crowned the first Lebanese Poker Champion – good for US$606,000.

With it being 5am and our last night in Lebanon, we were unsure of exactly what to do.

Joe picked us up and organised to come by in the afternoon to make sure our last day was interesting, and with that we were back at the hotel pleased with the way we covered the event for both PokerNews and the Casino Du Liban.