Nguyen Making Moves
Level 13
: 800/1,600, 200 ante
Yesterday, Los Angeles tournament grinder Phong "Turbo" Nguyen locked up his first cash at the WSOP, and so far today, he is doing very well for himself. We just saw him post this on twitter, and thought we would share it with the rest of the world.
Got away with a triple barrel bluff with 63 off then on the very next hand woke up with KK #Range #TurboRunGood n PlayGood :-) have over 80KFollow @phongturbo
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82,000
82,000
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82,000 |
. The small blind checked to initial raiser Gamini who checked as well. Russell Thomas bet 8,000 and the cutoff and small blind folded. Gamini made the call however and check called another 13,500 on the 
on the turn. The river was the 
and Gamini checked to Thomas for the third time. Thomas counted out 26,200 and put that in the middle. Gamini thought for a little while, and then made the call. Thomas mucked his hand and for a second it looked like Gamini wanted to do the same. At the last second he turned over his hand though and showed the table (and the world) he had made a hero call with 
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but the turn had given his opponent a flush with his 
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. At what time the chips went in exactly is unclear, but we are sure that Mizzi is gone from todays $1,500.
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) and Idema gathered some more chips.
