Nguyen Calls with Small Pair
Soi Nguyen opened to 490,000 and action folded to Brandon Steven in the big blind. He three-bet to 1.59 million and Nguyen made the call, creating a pot over three million chips.
The flop came down and both players checked. The turn brought the and both players checked again. The river completed the board with the and Steven fired 1.15 million. Nuyen made the call.
Steven held the , but Nguyen had a pair, the . Nguyen won the pot and took a chunk from Steven's stack.