$3,500 WPT Showdown Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure
Level 10: 500/1,000 with 100 ante
Flight A Players Remaining: 252 of 646
There was about 13,000 in the pot on the turn with the board reading .
Phong “Turbo” Nguyen moved all in out of the big blind for 18,000 and a player in early position moved all in for 20,000. Zachary Smiley was in the cutoff and thought for about a minute before folding.
Nguyen showed , giving him a nine-high straight and had his opponent’s drawing dead.
The river was the irrelevant and Nguyen doubled up just before the end of the night.
Phong “Turbo” Nguyen – 49,000