Two Hands Take Out Affleck
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Matt Affleck's tournament is now over. Never a mountainous stack, Affleck lost two large pots in a row (one an all in preflop) to exit in 60th place (winning �9,000).
First, he doubled up Kirill Zapletin, who took so long to make his turn decision we'd pretty much written off 'move all in' as his likely choice. However, facing a board of 
on which he'd bet 28k only to be check-raised by Affleck to 80k, he finally moved all in. Affleck covered him, found it was around 70k more to call, and went for it with 
. Zapletin held 
which held on the 
river giving him a full double up. He double-punched the table in what was clearly relief.
Affleck's remaining chips went to button Dirk Richter, who opened with 
, enough to call big blind Affleck's shove. Affleck's 
failed to improve and he headed to the rail.