Matthew Pearson just recalled to us his elimination hand which saw him commit his short stack preflop with .
He found two callers who checked down the board of . That board missed Pearson but it hit the 2008 PokerNews Cup champion in Nali Kaselias who flipped the for running trip fives to send Pearson packing!
You may be wondering what this bounty stuff is? Of course being the Tony G Celebrity Bounty Shootout there has to be a "Celebrity Bounty" element.
Basically the bounties are mostly well known and notable poker players wearing a lanyard with "Bounty" on it. If a player successfully knocks out a bounty they will win $500.
Players are free to knockout as many bounties as they want, so the successful bounty hunter could have quite a handy night regardless of whether they cash or not.
Preflop a player open-shoved for 2,300 and Tony G made the call in late position with only for the opponent to turn over .
The board was no help to Tony and he takes a slight hit to his stack. Amazingly we're two levels in and he has not yet delivered on his prophecy of busto early.