This hand was pretty uninteresting until the river, so we'll pick it up there. Heads up, Thang Duc Nguyen and Alexey Rybin watched the dealer fill out a board of . When Rybin checked the river, Nguyen made a standard-sized bet of 140,000. After a moment of thought, Rybin check-raised all in over the top to put Nguyen to a decision for his last 530,000 chips. Nguyen thought it over long and hard before finally yielding to the bet and surrendering his hand into the muck.
Nguyen is left with just about ten big blinds with which to wage some short-stack war.