Donna Houle was just involved in one of the craziest hands of the tournament when she was all in on a flop of against an opponent, with her tournament life at risk.
Donna Houle:
Opponent:
The turn gave her opponent a full house, but with just 2 outs, Houle hit the miracle on the river for the straight flush to double up and stay alive.
Scott Ayers and Mackenzie Horwitz are the bubble people of Event #54.
PokerNews caught Horwitz's hand, where he was all in under the gun for his last 6,000 and was three-ways against two opponents on a flop of .
The other two players got their money in too and Horwitz's was in bad shape against the and of his opponents and was eliminated as the board ran out and . The second shortest stack had the flopped boat and thus doubled through the other player.
Mackenzie, known as Mac was playing for his brother, a veteran who sadly passed at 40 years old. The Alaskan native said he's so happy he got to cash, even if it's for $400, to play his first ever event in his brother's memory.
In another hand, Scott Ayers was eliminated also and thus will chop the min-cash with Horwitz and also receive $400.
Day 27 of the 2022 World Series of Poker saw the start of the ever-popular $1,000 Tag Team - with the likes of Veronica Brill, K.L. Cleaton, Ben Spragg, Andrew Neeme, and more all getting involved in the action early on.
Elsewhere, more bracelet winners were crowned as Brazil's Joao Simao celebrated his second piece of WSOP hardware in the $5,000 No-Limit Holdem/Pot-Limit Omaha Mix.