Bruce Nguyen has been active in putting the pressure on the shorter stacks. However it backfired against Nick Haidaris in a recent hand.
Nguyen opened under the gun to 8,000 with Haidaris moving all in over the top for another 22,500. It folded back to Nguyen who made the call and the players tabled their cards.
Haidaris:
Nguyen:
The board ran out to safely double Haidaris through to 50,000.
In a battle of the blinds William Skountzos raised to 6,000 from the small blind and Bruce Nguyen popped it up to 16,000 from the big blind. Skountzos responded by shoving all in and Nguyen paused for a quick moment before making the call.
His was definitely going to need some help against the of Skountzos though.
It didn't arrive, the flop came . The turn was the and the river was the to make Skountzos a boat that would sail him into the chip lead.
After the hand Skountzos moved to 300,000. Bruce Nguyen has slid all the way down to just 90,000. He'll be hoping to get off the slide very soon.