Featured Table: Philip Hilm Doubles Through Scotty Nguyen

Tuan Lam has the button in seat 1, Scotty Nguyen raises from the small blind to 530,000, and Philip Hilm calls from the big blind. The flop comes {Q-Clubs}

, Nguyen bets 600,000, and Hilm calls. There is now 2.36 million in the pot.

The turn card is the {K-Diamonds}

, Nguyen checks, Hilm bets 1.2 million, Nguyen moves all in, and Hilm immediately calls with {5-Clubs}

for a set of fives. Nguyen shows {A-Hearts}

for a pair of queens, and he's drawing dead. (The meaningless river card is the {4-Hearts}

.)

The crowd goes silent as the chip stacks are counted down to see how many chips Scotty Nguyen has left.

Philip Hilm has exactly 6.845 million. Scotty Nguyen has about 9.195 million. Hilm doubles up to about 16.05 million in chips. Nguyen is knocked all the way down to about 2.35 million.

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2007 World Series of Poker

2007 World Series of Poker

Featured Table: Philip Hilm Doubles Through Scotty Nguyen