Darkhan Botabayev is counting his lucky stars right now after a huge double-up through chip leader Brandon Demes. The two players got all in preflop for 562,000 on a flip, with Demes tabling the slightly better against Botabayev's . Neither the flop nor the turn helped Botabayev's hand.
Down to his last card and just six outs, Botabayev stood up and shouted, "ACE!" That's exactly what he got -- the , to be precise. It made his hand a pair of aces and gave him a pot worth 1.15 million chips.