Kevin MacDonald was amongst the shorter stacks in the room a few moments ago, however he has just doubled up twice in the last orbit to climb over the 1 million chip mark.
In the first hand, he pushed all-in for just under 200,000 on a board showing
, and found a call from Azim Popatia. Kevin tabled
, and had a lockdown on the hand as Azim showed
.
Moments later, he found himself in the middle of a betting war on a flop showing
, where he winded up all-in versus opponent Steve Savard. Kevin tabled
for the nut straight, and only had 4 outs to fade to hold the win versus Steve’s
. The running cards were the
and the
, and Kevin succesfully doubled up his stack once again, this time bringing him up over 1 million in chips.