Daniel Farid tried his best to take out Mel Judah, but he came up short. It was a flip for the two men, with Farid's racing against Judah's . Judah's last chips went into the middle on a flop of . Farid, perhaps taking a page from the lesson that Van Marcus tried to give him earlier in the tournament, made the call. He was unable to improve on his lowly pair of deuces. The turn gave Judah an unnecessary two pair that held up on the river. As a result, Judah remains in the tournament with about 12,000 chips.
We can't tell you how the betting went. All we can tell you is that there was a massive pile of chips on the table, with two separated side pots, in a hand contested among Mick Stanton, Trung Tran, Michael Guzzardi and Tony Green. Stanton and Green were the two players who wound up all in. The hands at showdown were:
Green: / / -- a pair of sevens, no low
Stanton: / / -- four kings, no low
Tran: / / -- aces and queens, no low
Guzzardi: mucked with a board of .
Unfortunately for Stanton, he was so short at the start of the hand that this win only propelled him to 6,000 in chips. When the pots were pushed in their proper directions, Green was eliminated.
After bringing in for four of the eight hands during his table's stud orbit, Van Marcus finally gets one back.
With the up he brought in for 400 and Kerry Stead completed to 1,000 showing the . Marcus called and then called a bet on fourth street before raising fifth and leading the betting from then on. Both of their boards read:
Marcus: x-x /
Stead: x-x /
Stead sat in the tank for close to a minute before calling the 2,000, and quickly mucked his three down cards when Marcus tabled for his hole cards and a dangling for seventh to take the pot with aces-up.
As Marcus raked in the pot sending him up to over 41,000, tablemate Andrew Demetriou stated, "What a hand! . . . That hand could be worth thirty-grand" (in reference to the first prize of AU$30,380).
Marcus responded with, "Or it could be worth nothing" as both players laughed it out as the game changed to stud hi/lo.
Kent Hunter couldn't get past Marwan Nassif in a recent hand of hold'em. He has been eliminated. The chips were all in on a flop of , with Nassif's leading Hunter's . The turn and river were both small cards, the and the , allowing Nassif's king high to take down the pot. The 10,400 chips that are now in his stack give him a bit of breathing room, but not much.
Michael Guzzardi has pulled cards when he needed to today. He set Anthony Quattrocchi all in on fifth street, with Quattrocchi making the call. Guzzardi showed for a flush draw and a gutshot straight draw against Quattrocchi's trip aces. Each player caught an unhelpful queen on the turn. At the river, Quattrocchi squeezed first. He did not fill up, coming up with the . Guzzardi then squeezed his own card, finding the to fill his straight and knock Quattrocchi out.
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Details are scarce, but Ashish Gupta and Ross Boatman have both hit the rail. Gupta was sitting on a massive stack going into the last break, making his departure sudden and stunning.
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and Stanton is making an early entrance to tonight's official Aussie Millions Welcome Party, kicking off in under 20 minutes.
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