Nguyen Times Out

A hand that took roughly ten minutes to play at Table 34 never got to showdown. John Phan opened the preflop action with a raise to 3,000. He was called by Men Nguyen before the button player, Andy Le, re-raised to 10,000. Phan and Nguyen both called.

A flop of {K-Spades}

brought checks from both Phan and Nguyen. Le took his time before putting his remaining 53,500 chips into the middle. That folded Phan and brought the action back to Nguyen. After a few minutes, he asked one of the other players at the table to call for a clock.

Nguyen started talking to himself. "I can bet ace-queen," he said. "That's all I can beat. Maybe two queens." With a floor supervisor standing over the table and twenty seconds remaining on the clock, Nguyen exposed his hand, showing {A-Spades}

. He took no further action on his hand as the supervisor counted down the last ten seconds on the clock and declared his hand dead.

Nguyen was given a warning for exposing his hand while the action was still live. If he had called, he would have been given a penalty. He didn't call, however, so Le now hs roughly 85,000 chips.

Tags: Andy Le John Phan Men Nguyen

2009 L.A. Poker Classic

2009 L.A. Poker Classic

Nguyen Times Out