The Tide Rolls Over Super Tuan
Kenny "Super Tuan" Nguyen checked the flop, and Claudia Crawford bet 25,000. Nguyen check-raised to 75,000 with 137,000 behind, but Crawford wanted to play for it all and reraised all in.
Nguyen began to tank. At one point during his thought process, his phone rang aloud and he said, "Uh oh! Phil Ivey's calling to call her bluff!" Nguyen tanked another minute or two, then called with the for top pair. Crawford held the for an overpair.
The turn was the and river the . Both missed Nguyen, and he was eliminated at the hands of the chip-leading Crawford as she moved to 2.7 million in chips.
Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Claudia Crawford |
2,700,000
400,000
|
400,000 |
Kenny Nguyen | Busted |