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Chris Hunichen won $2.8 million and a WSOP bracelet on a wild river and predictably went nuts

Maybe Chris Hunichen was just playing coy. Maybe he was accepting fate.

Either way, when Big Huni went all in with 7-9 suited against Jeremy Ausmus’ pocket jacks in the final two of the 2024 World Series of Poker’s $100K High Roller, it seemed like Hunichen was preparing himself for disappointment. 

The flop hadn’t helped him much. The turn didn’t offer any relief, either. Huni had an 11 percent chance of winning the hand, still, he just needed either a seven or a nine to clinch his first WSOP bracelet.

And wouldn’t you know it. That’s exactly what came up.

Look at that reaction. Huni can’t believe it. Neither can Ausmus, for that matter.

“No one’s ever due in poker, but I feel like I was due,” Hunichen told PokerNews after the event. “And I’ve been in this position a couple times, got unlucky, a couple seconds. It was my time.”

Aumus may have just missed out on his seventh WSOP bracelet, but walking home with a cool $1.8 million isn’t a bad consolation prize at all.

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