Aaron Paul Almost Flushed Away But Doubles Up

Aaron Paul has enjoyed a rollercoaster day at the felt so far, having been at risk and involved in big pots throughout the level and a half we've played. He was in two more big pots and managed to ride them out with all the breakneck enthusiasm for danger his award-winning character Jesse Pinkman once displayed in Breaking Bad!

First, Paul made it 3,200 to go from early position preflop and was only called by Belgian PokerStars qualifier Jan Jacobs in the hijack position. The flop of saw Jacobs make it 3,500 and Paul called. The turn of saw the direction of the betting change, as Paul led out for 4,000, which was called by Jacobs, but on the river, Paul's repeat bet of 4,000 was raised to 18,000 by Jacobs. After taking his time to call, Paul called, turning over . It wasn't enough, as Jacobs turned over for the rivered second nut flush.

"Nice! Beautiful hand," conceded Paul, who had the nut flush blocker and could consider himself a little unlucky.

In the next hand he played, Paul moved all-in over the top of Christoph Vogelsang's small blind raise to 9,000 for a total of 17,900. Vogelsang called it off with , but he was behind Paul's . The rail and Aaron Paul's supporters waited with baited breath, but their man survived across the board of and he breathed a huge sigh of relief at the hand's conclusion. Back in the game.