The champion of the 1998 edition of this event, Scotty Nguyen, will not be making history this year with by winning a second Main Event title, as he has just been eliminated from the field in particularly painful fashion.
Picking up the action on the river of a board with about 9,000 in the pot, Scotty Nguyen was facing a bet of 4,400 before he moved all in for 6,725.
With the board reading by the turn, we caught Scotty Nguyen putting 1,700 into the pot along with a lone opponent. The river card came , and Nguyen led out for a bet of 2,000.
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Stud Shortly after Benjamin Dobson fell in 22nd place to Greg Raymer in a hand of 2-7 Triple Draw, Scotty Nguyen was eliminated in 21st after losing the last of his stack in a stud-8 hand to Scott Abrams.
Badugi Felipe Ramos raised from middle position, and Scotty Nguyen called from the blinds. Nguyen drew two and Ramos one, and Nguyen checked. Ramos bet, Nguyen check-raised, Ramos three-bet, Nguyen made it four bets, and Ramos called.
Stud-8 Steven Wolansky has been eliminated in 24th place after losing most of his chips in a three-way hand involving Scotty Nguyen and Scott Abrams, then the rest in another hand involving the same two opponents.
Limit Hold'em We caught up to find Scotty Nguyen heads up in a hand where the flop read . Nguyen's lone opponent checked over and the Prince of Poker fired out a bet. A call was made and the hit the felt on the turn.
Pot-Limit Omaha Some big-bet poker to report, as we've just seen a couple of big pot-limit Omaha hands over at Table 407. The first hand saw a three-way all-in situation develop involving Joseph Deluca, Steve Zolotow, and Sergii Baranov.
Badugi We caught up with the action on the third and final draw, with Phillip Hui having been all in and standing pat since early on and three other players still vying for the pot.
A couple of the more colorful personalities in the room have run out of chips, as Scotty Nguyen and Dee Tiller have both been eliminated.
The action started with the player under the gun opening to 300, and getting called by the player in the cut-off. Sebastian Bastian then opted to raise to 1,350 from the small blind and was snap called by Scotty Nguyen to his left.
Hold'em A player in middle position opened with a raise to 600 and action folded to five-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Scotty Nguyen in the small blind.
Calen McNeil opened with an early position raise and Scotty Nguyen called from the next seat over. It folded to Ryan Lenaghan who called from the cutoff and the rest of the table folded. The flop came and McNeil led out.
We caught a hand on fifth street between Scotty Nguyen and his opponent. Here is how the hand played out: His opponent, showing bet. Nguyen raised with , and his opponent called.
We came to action on the flop, with the board showing . The player in the small blind bet out for 1250, and the always entertaining Scotty Nguyen raised all-in for over 4,000.
Scotty Nguyen raised all in from UTG+1 for 3,850 and Chad Brown called from the hijack. Nguyen: Brown: The board ran out bringing no help to Nguyen, ending his tournament.
Three players created a preflop pot of 14,000 and saw a flop of . The hijack checked, Maxime Conte bet 7,500 from the cutoff, and Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi called from the button.
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