The chip lead has swapped over to Simon Nickmans now. There was one pretty big hand wherein Nickmans made the preflop raise before calling McMahon’s check-raise on the Qc 9c 8c flop, then betting the Td turn to push McMahon off and take the pot. Otherwise though, it’s largely been a Series Of Small Pots. They’ve been roughly even for much of the heads up, with Nickmans probably doing most of the chipping away. Currently he leads on 3.6 million to McMahons 2.5 million, but there’s really not much in it.
“This is why I proposed a deal,” Nickmans said at the end of another small pot, “When you’re heads up with 40 big blinds, it’s like this.” Everyone’s just going to have to sit tight until something unusual happens.