The Ups and Downs of Morgan Machina
, and he'll need the hand to hold to stay alive. The board comes Q-10-8 with two hearts, and Machina is behind with an overcard and a flush draw. The last two cards are offsuit 10-4, and Machina is knocked down to 24,000. The next hand, Machina is all in with Q-J against Julian Lefevre's A-6. The board comes Q-9-8-2-K, and Machina doubles up to about 69,000.
The hand after that (yes, this is three hands in a row), Machina is all in from the big blind with
against a middle position player with 
. Machina's opponent said something along the lines of "I have to call," and Machina replies, "You have kings? I'd have called to. Unless I knew about that ace coming on the flop." Sure enough, the flop comes
, and Machina takes the lead. The last two cards are 
, and Machina wins the pot with two pair to double up to about 140,000 in chips.