John Juanda is hanging on by a thread...but he is hanging on tightly.
In a recent hand, action folded around to Juanda in the small blind. Juanda raised to 14,000 and Nam Le decided to flat from the big.
The flop came 
and Juanda checked. Le didn't take long to put Juanda all in for his remaining 23,000. Juanda dejectedly mucked.
The very next hand, action folded around to Juanda on the button and he raised pot. Nick Jivkov put Juanda all in from the big blind and Juanda called.
Juanda: 
Jivkov: 
"There are those aces he's been waiting for!" tablemate Negreanu said.
The board ran out 
and Juanda doubled up.
Juanda is sitting on 50,000 now, but is still very much short-stacked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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50,000
20,000
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20,000 |
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, and Vedes, who already seemed resigned to his fate of losing the hand, begrudgingly said "nice hand". After the 
hit the turn, giving Juanda a set, Juanda said "now it's a nice hand", not realizing that Vedes had picked up the nut flush draw. Despite picking up those outs, Vedes bricked the river, as it came the 
, and Juanda scooped the pot to get to 108,000, while Vedes dropped below 70,000.
and Tabali doubled through.
on the turn gave Mottur a flush draw but changed nothing, as Jivkov was still looking for one of the three remaining queens, and one of those, the 
, came on the river. Mottur took the beat in stride, saying "it happens" before heading to the rail, while Jivkov collected the chips, upping his stack to 160,000
for queens and tens and scooped the pot.
, and Chian checked to Hale, who fired out 22,000. Werthmann tanked for about 30 seconds before assembling a raise of 65,000, and sliding it into the middle. Chiang quickly got out of the way, and Hale rechecked his hole cards before moving all in for about 88,000. Werthman made the call, and the cards were tabled.
on the turn was safe for Hale, as was the 
on the river. Hale is up to 180,000 after the hand, while Werthmann drops to 100,000.
on the river provided no help.
and Eames snap-shoved his remaining stack of about 20,000 in. Werthmann quickly called.
