WPT Finale: Matt Haugen Doubles Through Ryan Van Sanford

$10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Finale
Level 17: 4,000/8,000 with a 1,000 Ante
Players Remaining: 46 of 349

Joining a heads-up pot on the turn, Ryan Van Sanford and Matt Haugen were involved in significant action as the board showed 4s3c2d8s. Van Sanford checked, and Haugen moved all in for 102,000, about twice the size of the pot. Van Sanford called, committing more than half his remaining stack to put Haugen at risk.

Haugen: JcJh
Van Sanford: 5s5h

Van Sanford needed an ace, five, or six to score the knockout, but the 9d river was a blank. Haugen doubled up.

Matt Haugen – 265,000 (33 bb)
Ryan Van Sanford – 74,000 (9 bb)