LAS VEGAS -- When you're a kid, there are a few universal sports dreams, like hitting a walk-off home run in Game 7 of the World Series, nailing a buzzer-beater 3-pointer to win a championship or holing out to win a golf major, to name a few.
Poker has a similar dream scenario, where you're dealt pocket aces deep in the World Series of Poker main event against two players who hold pocket kings and you take all of their trips.
For Michigan native Nicolas Manion, that exact dream was realized late Wednesday night in as perfect a scenario as could be imagined, in a hand that reduced the 2018 WSOP main event field to its final table of nine and made him the overall chip leader.