Event 12: Phong Nguyen Loses Ground

$1,650 Purple Chip Bounty NLH (Single Re-Entry)
Level 22: 5,000/10,000 with a 1,000 ante
Players Remaining: 3 of 139

Phong Nguyen opened the button to 25,000, and Josias Santos defended his big blind.

Both players checked through the 9h9s3s flop, and the turn was the Qd. Santos led for 35,000, and Nguyen called. The river was the Th, and Nguyen called another bet from Santos — 57,000 this time.

Santos showed down Kc9d, winning the pot with trip nines.

Josias Santos – 755,000 (76 bb)
Phong Nguyen – 280,000 (28 bb)