It looked like a dream spot for Michael Mckinnon, but the poker gods had other plans.
Sitting on the button with a relatively short 415K stack, Mckinnon woke up with pocket aces. The pre-flop action folded around to his neighbour, Jean-Francois Bruens, who moved all in for 410K with 
. Mckinnon pushed his stack forward, watched the blinds get out of the way and happily tabled his hand. But when the monotone heart flop appeared, Mckinnon’s dream spot turned into a nightmare. There was no runner-runner full house to save him, his stack was reduced to a single chip, and he was eliminated on the next hand. He will collect $1,360 for the deep run.