Hyoung Jin Nam peeked at his cards. "Oh my God," he complained. "Oh my God! How much is it?" The dealer counted down Marcus' stack as 372,000. Nam leaned backwards in his chair, seemingly pained, then reraised all in (as everyone in media row expected, having been witness to this act several times in the last three days).
Marcus:
Nam:
It was Marcus' specialty -- needing to hit a slim draw to say alive in the tournament. The gallery started shouting alternately for an ace or a ten, but neither hit the
flop. Marcus walked around to the other side of the table from his seat and leaned over the table, both hands on the rail, awaiting his fate. We've said it before, but we'll say it again. If you've been following our coverage of this tournament, you know that Van Marcus laughs in the face of slim draws and eats them for breakfast. He is simply invincible in this tournament. We figure that at this stage of the hand, Marcus had Nam right where he wanted him. And we don't expect you to be surprised to learn that the turn was a ten-ball, the
, to give Marcus a commanding lead in the hand. From dominated to dominating. He needed to duck three aces on the river, and did so when it fell 
.We reckon that Van Marcus can never ask for anything "one time" for the rest of his life.
was checked all the way down with Noh's ace-high unable to overcome the 
and wouldn't you know it, it was checked down by both players. Nam showed down 
but was bested by Noh's 
. Both players checked. on the 
turn, Noh bet 70,000 and Jin called. We expected further action on the 
river, but both players shut down with checks. Noh turned over 
for top pair, solid kicker to take down the pot.
for a baby pair which was good to collect the pot.
, Noh checked to Marcus. Bucking the trend of recent hands, Marcus actually bet the flop, bringing out 80,000 chips. Noh quickly folded.
for two pair to collect another pot. Noh would now be our chip leader as all three players are now fairly even in chips.
turn. Marcus bet 35,000, then snap-called a raise to 85,000 by Nam. Both players checked the 
taking down the pot.
and Noh checked over to Nam who fired 50,000. Noh made the call. The river brought the 
