Lyford's Third Double Move Him Close To 1 Million

Event 1 (Day 2)
Level 26 (15,000/30,000/5,000)
Total Entries: 332
Players Remaining: 7

Chip Average: 950,000

Doug Lyford (Hallowell, ME)

Doug Lyford came into this Final Table as one of the big stacks, but was immediately cut down by Ryan Eriquezzo and has been nursing a short stack of close to 10 big blinds ever since.

While we say "nursing" he's been playing to perfection, using his stack to steal the occasional blinds and antes to keep himself afloat and getting some two vital doubles before the dinner break to keep himself alive.

He just got another one a few hands after dinner and is now back up to the chip average for the first time in recent memory when his [Ac][10h] beat the [Ks][Js] of Marsel Backa.

The action was picked up with Lyford raising in early position to 65,000.

The table would fold to Backa on the button and he'd three-bet to 225,000.

That would be close to 75% of Lyford's stack and after more than a minute in the tank, he'd announce himself all-in.

Back would have to call as he was priced in, but he wasn't happy about it, tabling his King high hand that he'd need to hit to win the pot and bring us to a six handed Final Table.

But, it would be Lyford being the one "hitting" and completing the double as he's now playing just shy of 1,000,000 chips, a well deserved reward for what has been some exceptional short stacked play.

Backa on the other hand is now below the chip average, playing close to 750,000.