02-26-2009 23:44 UTC-7

Nguyen Back on Top

[user75032]

Coming out of a recent extended break, the chip counts showed that Binh Nguyen was barely ahead of Cornel Andrew Cimpan in the counts thanks to a few small pots that Nguyen picked up right before the break.

On the first hand after the break, the two players took a limped flop of {8-Diamonds}

{8-Diamonds}

{4-Diamonds}

{6-Clubs}

. Cimpan called a bet of 175,000 on that flop, and then called a second bet of 350,000 when the turn fell {4-Spades}

{4-Spades}

. The river was the {3-Clubs}

{3-Clubs}

and Nguyen didn't slow down. He bet 600,000, putting Cimpan into the tank for about a minute before calling. And what did Nguyen show down? Just {A-Spades}

{A-Spades}

{A-Diamonds}

-- a pocket pair of aces! It was a 1.2 million chip swing for each player.

Tags: Binh Nguyen Cornel Andrew Cimpan