Every tournament ever played has produced a chip-and-a-chair story, as a short-stacked player suddenly rises from the ashes like the mythical phoenix, breathing fire down on their opponents after being left for dead.

Today's comeback kid is none other Maurice "Reece" Lightner, who found himself down to 80,000 - or just two big blinds - mere moments ago. Currently, Lightner holds around 800,000, having experienced a truly stunning reversal of fortune.

First, immediately after receiving the beat that decimated his chip stack, Lightner was moved to a new table, where he was sat between the blinds. After sitting out two hands to let the button pass, as is standard in such situations, Lightner looked down to find . He managed to quadruple up with the cowboys, but before any momentum could be generated at his new table, Lightner was ushered off to a new seat once again.

The say lightning never strikes the same place twice, but for Lightner, this maxim does not apply. In one of his first hands after arriving, Lightner woke up with , and like a flash he found himself all in once more, trying to fade the deck against .

When the flop fell , Lightner's lead in the hand was lengthened, as he now held a four-flush to nullify some of his opponent's outs. Of course, the arrived on the turn to make things interesting, giving Lightner's opponent a gutshot straight draw, but the on the river was a safe card, and the man known by his friends on the rail as "Reece" was resurrected.

Player	Chips	Progress
Maurice Lightner	840,000 -360,000	-360,000

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