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  The story of Event #36 could be written with the simple words that Jesper Hougaard started the day with the chip lead, and that is also how the day ended. Technically this would be accurate, and leaving it as such would save a lot of computer ink, but there were a few more things that happened during this event than one man devouring the competition like a Jurassic Park T-Rex eating a lawyer.



  At the start players were almost flying from the table at fevered pitch. During the early goings a player was eliminated on an average of about every twelve hands. It took only sixty-three hands to get rid of five competitors. Number six was a little more stubborn. It took 61 hands to get rid of Danny Wong. Under most circumstances his hole Kings would have been a good hand to go all in with, but his cowboys were crushed by Jesper Hougaard's Ah-5h when Jesper flopped a nut flush. Danny was left drawing dead and having to accept 4th place money. Seeing as his finish left him $217,110, he is probably okay with it.



  Hougaard continued to pile-drive his way through the table until Cody Slaubaugh was the only other one left standing. His presence in the heads-up contest had to do more with him being there by default than anything else, but that didn't mean he wasn't going to make a go of this opportunity for a bracelet.



  Cody was facing a 7 to 1 chip deficit: the sort of handicap that would make some lesser players just go all in to get the inevitable over, and go on with their lives. He didn't succumb to the hopeless odds and actually battled back until he had a 200,000 chip lead on the formerly dominant Hougaard.



  After the dinner break Jesper Hougaard pulled himself together and played until they were pretty much on even footing. On the final hand with both players all in, Hougaard only had him covered by a mere 25,000 chips.



  The comeback of the WSOP was not to be today. Hougaard coaxed Slaubaugh into going all in before the flop on the final hand. Cody was holding an A-10, so it really didn't take a lot of encouragement. Unfortunately for him, Jesper was working with pocket Queens.



  A third Queen was delivered on the flop, and this ended Cody Slaubaugh's amazing comeback. Both men played some world class poker and it is almost a shame that someone had to win, but Jesper Hougaard is the Event #36 champion.