In a battle of the blinds, Minh Nguyen came in raising to 1,000 from the small. In the big, Jim Ghobrial reraised to 4,500, and Nguyen came right back with a third raise to 9,000. Ghobrial called, and it was heads up with a big hunk of chips already in the middle.
The flop rolled out . Nguyen kept the heat on with a bet of 7,000, prompting Ghobrial to move all in. That was all Nguyen could handle, as he tossed his hand into the discard pile. He has been knocked back to 25,000, while Ghobrial is up to 41,000.