Kempe Needs a Miracle

Towards the end of the last level, Rainer Kempe open-shoved from the button and Dan Colman called in the small blind.

Dan Colman:
Rainer Kempe:

Both players hit their set on the flop, and the urn and river brought no one-outer drama.

Colman then shoved the next hand and Kempe folded in the big blind before calling Erik Seidel's shove in the last hand of the level for just over three big blinds with . "I run pretty good in those," Kempe said when he spotted the of Seidel. And the board came to let Kempe double.