Ouch. That one had to hurt.

We're keeping close eye on the $1,500 Stud-8 final table where Team PokerStars Pro Chad Brown is now fighting seven-handed for his first WSOP bracelet.

Involved in a three-way pot with famed tourney TD Matt Savage and chip leader William Kohler, Brown was showing a pair of sixes and a likely low when he raised Kohler's bet on seventh street.

Savage, who was almost certainly shooting for the bottom half of the pot, tossed in his remaining chips and stood up. The look on his face already had him at the cage cashing in for seventh place money. Kohler said, "I'm only calling. I have three aces."

Brown tabled his cards. He had two pair--no good for the top--but an 8-7-6 low.

Savage screwed up his face and tossed his cards in front of him. They didn't hit the muck, but it was clear Savage was no long interested in them. He turned around to talk to someone on the rail, when an eagle-eye floor person held the dealer for a moment.

By this point, Brown had already pulled back his additional bets and was stacking them up. Savage saw the floor person peering over the cards.

"Wait, what do you have there?" Savage said leaning over the table and studying Brown's holding.

That's when Savage's cards were assembled to make an 8-7...4. Brown was beat both ways, and in a not-too-nice way.

There began the process of Brown having to reassemble his bets and ship them across the table.

Savage was a bit embarrassed. "Give me my ticket," Savage joked of the cash-out cards the eliminated players get. Then he changed his mind, pointed to the pot and said, "Give me half of that."

Brown's jaw set firm. It wasn't an intentional slowroll, but the effect was the same.

Brown is down to around 250,000 in chips and now has some work to do to catch up to Kohler's 600,000 stack.

There's this little thing called Rule 96. It's a piece of genius and everybody seems to approve of it. However, when the rule comes into play, you know it's going to be a late night.

The rule states that if a tournament has not reached the final table on Day 2 by 3am, the remaining players--no matter how many there are--will break for the night and come back the next day. The bad news in Event #53 is that we got 96'd. The good news is that Chad Brown made the most of every hour and is the chip leader with 14 players left in the tournament.

Brown is one of the world's most accomplished tournament players. He has more than $2.3 million in tournament winnings. This year, he already has a third place finish in the $10,000 Limit Hold'em Championship. What he does not have yet is a WSOP bracelet. He hopes to rectify that later today as he returns with the chip lead in the $1,500 Stud-8 event.

Play in the tournament resumes at 2pm local time on Tuesday. We'll be here for all the action as Brown tries to bring home Team PokerStars Pro second bracelet of the WSOP.