Winter Open

Event 7: Maroun Akiki Spikes a Timely King

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$560 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 22: 12,000/24,000/4,000 Ante

Maroun Akiki hits a king on the river.
Maroun Akiki hits a king on the river.

Maroun Akiki was all in for his tournament life holding KdKh against the pocket aces of George Qiao and the QdQh of Tom Nguyen. Nguyen had both players covered while it was Akiki who held the shortest of the three stacks.

All was fine for Qiao on the 6c5d2s7c flop and turn, but the Ks nailed the river and Akiki jumped in celebration. He more than tripled up and now sits with a stack of 1,825,000.