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Share on Twitter Share on Facebook 3 min readWhen 1,373 teams of two showed up to the Paris Ballroom on Tuesday, June 24 for Day 1 of Event #65: $1,000 Tag Team, one of the most notable faces on the rail was none other than high-stakes cash game player Alan Keating.
Keating was there to cheer on his teammate, Cody Daniels, whose story captured the hearts of the poker world after he played in the 2023 World Series of Poker Main Event while battling a terminal illnessβultimately finishing 635th for $30,000. Daniels followed that up with another deep run in 2024, finishing 590th for $32,500.
Daniels and Keating entered the final day short stacked but managed to spin their stack up, thanks in part to a key double-up from Keating, who came from behind after being dominated pre-flop.
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They used that momentum to survive to the final 14 players, where Daniels was back in action and all in, poised for a double-up. He held pocket jacks against the pocket tens of Felix Rabas and Team Heinzβbut a turned set ended their hopes, sending Daniels and Keating out in 14th place.
Part of what made this run so special for Daniels was just being back at the WSOP. βItβs wild to be back. Me and Alan had planned to playβthis was my only eventβand it took a couple months to pep me up,β Daniels said.
Despite those impressive Main Event performances, Daniels told PokerNews, βThis is the most fun Iβve had in a tournament.β He went on to reiterate, βEasily the most fun,β adding, βItβs nice that when you have a teammate and you feel like youβre doing it together, itβs a blast.β
A tag team event creates a unique dynamic, requiring teammates to strategize when to tag in and out. That didnβt seem to be an issue for Daniels and Keating, whose approach appeared to be simple: ride the hot hand. βI played most of Day 1, and he was asking to sub in,β Daniels said. βBut I kept waving him offβI was in the zone.β The duo ended Day 1 with a healthy stack of 178,000 heading into Day 2.
As the money bubble approached on Day 2, it was Keating who took over the reins. βHe put me on his back and just did work for us,β Daniels said. The pair cruised into the money and bagged up for Day 3, albeit short, with just over 10 big blinds.
The team entered the final scheduled day of the tournament with tempered expectations, as their team sat 29th out of the 31 remaining. Daniels saying, βI came in very short today, basically dead last,". Daniels started the day to get things going for their team, before Keating once again took over to extend their run, but the team eventually bowed out in 14th place for $7,865 after the bad beat to Daniels.
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