The hand started with a player opening to 1,600, before Mel Judah in middle position, raised to 3,700 in chips. The action folded around to the player in the small bind, who went all-in for her remaining 12,100 in chips.
We took a trip back upstairs to check on the players on the TV set, and it appears both Simon Watt and Mel Judah have been eliminated from the tournament. According to Watt's Twitter: "Busto in main.
While the $100,000 Freeze Out is nearing its conclusion there are still four Main Event tabled located upstairs surrounding the tv set. The four tables hold only four players we recognize after Shawn Buchanan managed to bust.
Talk about being in the right place at the right time. We just so happened to wonder by Table 26 when a monster pot was developing.
We haven't seen too many players exiting the tournament area at this early stage of the tournament. That was until Australian poker legend Mel Judah was seen quickly striding towards the rail.
Legend Mel Judah open-shipped for 280,000 on the button. Unceremoniously, Marin Kozlov called in the small blind. Gerasimos Deres ducked out of the way, and Judah got the bad news.
"I just want to play Mel Judah heads up, I'm not gonna lie," Martin Kozlov admitted. "Then every hand we'll be contesting the bounty." But that's looking less and less likely.
Mel Judah raised to 32,000 from the small blind, and slowly Martin Kozlov made it 66,000 in the big blind. Judah moved all in for 282,000 total, and Kozlov snap-called. Judah: Kozlov: "Good luck, Mel," Kozlov said.
Martin Kozlov raised, and Gerasimos Deres called in the small blind. Mel Judah joined them from the big. The action flop came . Deres quickly slid out a big stack of chips, around 60,000 or so.
In case you've noticed that the title of this event has the word "bounties" in it, Mel Judah is the only player with a bounty on his head to make the final table.
Mel Judah started the day as the short stack and has played much of the final table thus far, as the players seeming to be the next bust out, but he won't go that easy.
Mel Judah shoved his button for the third time, this time geting the call from Jarred Solomon and Judah's tournament life on the line for the first time.
After Milan Gurung was left crippled he would have to move allin and soon and he chose the under the gun position as the right time to move his stack in the middle.
Folded to Martin Kozlov in middle position he made the min-raise and got both Gerasimos Deres and Mel Judah to call in the blinds. Flop: The action would be chacked to Kozlov who would again fire out a bet, this time only 9,000.
Only one final shootout table remains, with Mel Judah, Martin Kozlov and Scott Peel the last three sitting at the felt. Only two of them can make it with no player holding a dominating chip lead over the others.
Mel Judah was allin for his last 15,800 waking up with against one opponents . The board ran out and Judah doubled-up, keeping his hopes to play the shootout alive.
When play folded around to the cutoff he raised it to 4,700 whereby the dealer button moved allin for aroun 20,000. With the play now on Mel Judah in the big blind he too would move allin for his remaining 13,400.
Some of the remaining bounties include Graeme Putt, Tyron Krost, Mel Judah, Bruno Portaro and Full Tilt Red Pro Steve Yea.
The bounties at the tables vary from big names to familiar names and unknowns but a quick look around the room will show you that Tyron Krost, Vesko Zmukic, Roberto Romanello and Mel Judah all have targets on their heads.
2-7 Triple Draw Mel Judah has been knocked out just a couple of hands after Eli Elezra left him with only a few chips to stand on. We caught the action with Judah allin with one round left and Pantling standing pat.
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