Hand #90 - Theo Tran
Akenhead folds before Hinkle makes it 250,000 to go. Tran pushes all in for about 1.5 million. Tran is out of his chair, drinking a bottle of water, and doing his usual shtick of wandering around the stage. Meanwhile, Ferguson has taken well over a minute to decide what he wants to do in this hand and seems no closer to a decision. Finally, he pushes his own stack into the middle. He has Tran covered. Hinkle folds and here we go again!
Tran:
Ferguson:
I don't think Ferguson has lost a race in the last two days. The law of averages is going to catch up to him at some point.
The flop comes , but Tran still has plenty of outs. One of them comes on the turn - the . Ferguson can only catch the to avoid doubling up Tran. It doesn't happen when the river is the . Tran wins the hand and goes up to about 3 million; Ferguson is absolutely crippled, retaining only 225,000.