Igor Kurganov Survives (and Keeps his Massage) Thanks to Miracle River Card

Photo: Igor Kurganov

Just as Igor Kurganov is preparing for a table massage, he opens to 120,000 in the cutoff and is three-bet to 275,000 on the button by Shannon Shorr.

Kurganov moves all in for about a million and Shorr quickly calls.

Igor Kurganov: .
Shannon Shorr: .

Kurganov may have to put his massage on hold, and tells his masseuse as much after the flop comes , giving Shorr a set of aces.

The turn brings the , presenting chop outs to save Kurganov, who now calls for the queen to put Broadway on the board and do just that.

Sure enough, the falls on the river putting that unlikely straight on board to save Kurganov’s tournament life.

He now continues on in the tournament, and is enjoying that massage as he does so.

Shannon Shorr – 3,400,000 (56 bb)
Igor Kurganov – 1,000,000 (16 bb)

Photo: Kurganov enjoys this massage a bit more after miraculously surviving