Playground Poker tournament regular Michael Mellor has been eliminated in 6th place.
Michael opened the action UTG to 450K, and if folded around to Daniel Gagnon in the small blind, who flat-called, which he has been doing very frequently from the blinds. Thi Nguyen in the big blind folded and they were heads-up to the flop.
Flop: 
Michael pushed out a stack of whites for a bet of 500K and Daniel instantly raised all-in with a stack about the same size as Michael’s – about 5.5M or so. Michael called right away and the players’ hole cards were turned over.
Daniel: 
Michael: 
Daniel had outflopped Michael and the 
did nothing to improve Michael’s situation. After a quick countdown of the stacks it was found that Daniel had Michael out-chipped by a few hundred thousand and Michael went to pick up his payout ticket.
6th place: Michael Mellor, $40,720
