Foregone Conclusion?

Even thought Jeffrey Duvall hasn't been officially eliminated yet (he still has about 25,000 chips), Rainer Quel and Mel Judah have wasted no time engaging each other as if they've already begun heads up play. Each man has roughly 250,000 of the chips in play and are showing a willingness to raise and reraise on later streets. Duvall seems amused by the proceedings, but with only two big bets in his stack he's going to need to find some great cards lest he be eaten alive by the blinds.

Judah was the unfortunate recipient on the losing end of a rivered three-outer to fall into solid second place. He showed {J-?}

to Quel's

on a board of {6-Diamonds}

. Quel now has more than 300,000 in chips.