Austin Tournaments

Day 1D: Doan Wins a Flip, Amesur Exits

Written by Kirk | Jul 25, 2025 10:42:12 PM

After some preflop back-and-forth, Ethan Doan moved all in preflop and was called by Alan Kirkland to put him at risk. 

Doan tabled 9♣9♠ and would need to hold against the K♠Q♥ of Kirkland to stay alive. 

Fortunately for him, the runout of T♠8♥3♣5♥8♣ was clean to score him the double.

Unfortunately, the same can't be said for Patrick Amesur on a neighboring table, who got it all in with AK against the KQ of Hao Chang, but a queen appeared right on the flop to send Amesur to the rail. 

Doan - 105k
Kirkland - 95k
Chang - 360k
Amesur - 0