Cuong Van Nguyen Eliminated in 2nd Place ($408,264)
Level 32
: 80,000/160,000, 20,000 ante
Hand #118: Cuong Van Nguyen raised to 450,000, and Brian Yoon shipped all in. Van Nguyen made the call for around 3 million.
Van Nguyen:
Yoon:
The flop came , and Yoon was suddenly a bit behind and in danger of being in an even-stacked heads-up match. The turn was a , which changed nothing.
"Seven!" yelled one of Van Nguyen's greedy railbirds. Instead, the river was the , and Yoon had spiked one of the cards he needed to take down the tournament.