The Champ Goes Runner-Runner Against Seidel
Level 11
: 5,000/10,000, 1,000 ante
Moments after he busted Antonio Esfandiari, Erik Seidel hit the rail thanks to Joe McKeehen. McKeehen had put Seidel all in on the ![]()
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flop, and Seidel called off his stack with the ![]()
for bottom pair with a flush draw. McKeehen had the ![]()
for a worse flush draw.
The turn was the
, and the river was the
. That combination of cards gave McKeehen a straight and sent Seidel packing.
"I'm not gonna lie, when I saw the turn I thought I was going to win," McKeehen said after the hand.
McKeehen increased his stack to almost 1.6 million with that pot.