Nguyen Surrenders The Chip Lead
We caught up with the action in a heads up pot between Soi Nguyen and Edmund Liu on the flop, which was 
. Liu fired out 75,000, and Nguyen made the call. The turn was the 
, and Liu moved the rest of his chips in, a bet of 370,000. Nguyen spent about two minutes in the tank before releasing his hand, and Liu took the pot to get up to 700,000.
After that hand, Nguyen was left with 2.29 million, which is now trailing the 2.4 million of Jonathan Chehanske.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
2,400,000 | 105,000 |
|
2,290,000 | -260,000 |
|
700,000 | 185,000 |