$3,500 LHPO Championship (Re-Entry)
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Level 28: 75,000/125,000 with a 125,000 ante
Players Remaining: 10 of 1,162
Long Nguyen got knocked down to just a chip and a chair (a single 25K chip), and he’d have to mount his comeback.
Nguyen got it all in preflop from the cutoff against Kyle Taddei (big blind) and Caio De Lucca (UTG).
Both players checked to the river on a board of 
, and all three players turned over their cards.
Caio De Lucca: 
(two pair, eights and deuces)
Kyle Taddei: 
(two pair, nines and deuces)
Long Nguyen: 
(heart flush)
Nguyen won the main pot with his flush to nonuple (9x) up in chips. Taddei won the side pot with his higher two pair.
Long Nguyen – 225,000 (2 bb)
Kyle Taddei – 3,900,000 (31 bb)
Caio De Lucca – 8,825,000 (71 bb)
The next hand, Nguyen moved all in from the hijack for 225,000. Taddei called from the small blind, and De Lucca called from the big blind.
Both players checked to the river on a board of 
, and all three players turned over their cards:
Caio De Lucca: 
(two pair, nines and fours)
Kyle Taddei: 
(two pair, nines and fours, queen kicker)
Long Nguyen: 
(ace high)
Kyle Taddei won the pot with his two pair and a queen kicker to eliminate Nguyen in 11th place.
Kyle Taddei – 4,350,000 (35 bb)
Caio De Lucca – 8,475,000 (68 bb)
Long Nguyen – Eliminated in 11th Place ($46,500)
With 10 players remaining from a field of 1,162, the average chip stack is around 5,800,000 (46 big blinds). The remaining players are guaranteed at least $56,000 each.
Action is scheduled to continue tonight until there are seven players remaining for tomorrow’s live-streamed final table, which is scheduled to begin at 12:00 noon EST.
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