By the Skin of His Teeth Before Doubling Again

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Bryn Kenney has doubled-up to 88,000 after getting it in in bad shape on the bubble. Rudy Blondeau opened to 9,500 from the hijack and then snap-called when Kenney moved in from the SB. The play was paused as the camera's and media gathered round for this important show-down:

Blondeau: {a-Hearts} {k-Hearts}
Kenney: {a-Spades} {9-Spades}

The flop came {8-Spades} {7-Diamonds} {6-Spades} to offer more help to Kenney and things got even better for him on the {7-Spades} turn as he picked up a flush draw to go with the straight draw. Neither of those draws came in on the river but he did spike the {9-Hearts} to survive.

Moments later he doubled again to 200,000 through the big stacked Bojan Gledovic. Gledovic raised and then tank-called when Kenney moved in again. Kenney was the dominator this time with {a-Clubs} {k-Clubs} to Gledovic's {a-Spades} {q-Hearts} . The board ran and uneventful {7-Spades} {5-Diamonds} {6-Spades} {6-Diamonds} {9-Clubs} .