Hawkins Makes Friends with the Beast to Stay Alive

Action folded around to a shot stacked Maurice Hawkins in the cutoff. He moves all in for 5,500 total. Next to act is Ankush Mandavia and he calls the shove. Everyone else folds leaving the two players heads up going to a showdown.

Hawkins:
Mandavia:

The flop comes down giving Hawkins a big lead as the only player with a diamond. The turn is the though, and that takes the lead away from him as Mandavia makes a pair of aces. Hawkins begins to push forward his signaling that he can still make a flush. And while he doesn't make a flush on the river, he does make trips, and that gives him the best hand and allows him to double up through Mandavia, giving him right around 12,000 chips.