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.