Smith Doubles Up, Then Doubles Down
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It's been a see-saw battle for short stack Benjamin Smith since the break as he's both doubled up, and doubled down in the space of just a couple of hands.
On the first occasion, the action folded around to chip monster Mihai Manole in the small blind who peeked over from his Manhattan of chips and delicately inquired, "How much do you have left?" "About 200," came Smith's meek response. Manole grabbed a stack of green chips and firmly plonked them onto the felt. Smith snap-called.
Although Manole's fingers, toes and any other body part for that matter had been firmly caught in the cookie jar, he certainly didn't expect to be dominated by an ace, Smith's 
in commanding shape against a rather paltry 
. A 
board later, and Manole was sliding two of his giant columns across the felt.
On the very next hand, Smith was in the thick of the action once again, this time against John Myung. As the all-in player, Myung was in search of one of six outs to survive with 
versus , and with the board coming 
, he did indeed double through to 550,000. Smith, meanwhile, was back down to 260,000, although he had enjoyed a slight profit for his roller coaster ride.