Going, Going, Nearly Gone But Not Quite Yet
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Team Pokerstars Pro Chris De Meulder has become short stacked and you could sense it was only a matter of time before he found himself with his chips in the middle.
When it happened he was actually in pretty good shape. The most aggressive player on the table, Ali Ahmad, pushed all-in from the button with his remaining 4,000 and De Meulder called from the Big Blind.
De Meulder: 
Ahmad: 
Ahmad was cursing his luck.
"Why couldn't you have had ace-three?" said the Belgian.
For a moment it didn't seem to matter when the first card the Dealer turned over was the 
. A 
and then a 
completed the flop and it looked like De Meulder's tournament was going to end. The 
turn almost confirming the inevitable before the 
flew out of nowhere to send home Ahmadi and give De Meulder a 8,000 life-line.