This has been an incredible tournament... the king going down (#994800) and returning with a vengeance, several players contending for top spot (#996531), Stackers going bananas with the betting (#981462).

Round 9, the penultimate round, could have been a full sweep...

...but Hikaru didn't trust his guts (taking a free pawn in an opening line), a decision he said afterwards that had he made, he probably would have gone on to win the game. That extra 1.5 points would have made the final round exceeeedingly exciting. Fabiano goes down against Magnus in what looked like a completely drawn, impenetrable end game... and now he's trailing by more than 3 points and so can't win.

It's down to the three I've got my Predyx sats (@mega_dreamer) on -- but mostly just Magnus:

I see @grayruby yolo-ing into Magnus in preparation for Round 9. Bold move, but perhaps not that bold as there aren't too many ways he can screw this up. The GOAT is the GOAT after all, and he has GOATed his way out of trickier situations

For Round 10 we have Magnus vs Arjun, Fabi vs Gukesh, and Wei Yi vs Hikaru.

PLACE YOUR BIDS, Stackers! Final orders!