Taylor von Kriegenbergh, who won the 2011 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open for more than $1.1 million, is sitting with a mountain of chips, and he was kind enough to tell us about two big hands that helped boost his stack by 100,000 each.

In the first, he held and a series of raises saw two opponents get it in with and . The board ran out clean and that was von Kriegenbergh’s first big pot.

The second was fairly similar in that von Kriegenbergh, who held , got it in against opponents who held and . An ace appeared and von Kriegenbergh claimed another six-figure pot.

Taylor von Kriegenbergh - 335,000