If there is one thing that poker players have nightmares about, it’s going out of a Day 2 in the manner that Leng Khauv just experienced. When we got to the table, the was already down, and around 500K was in the middle. Yan Nadeau had placed a 225K bet on that flop. Leng was in the tank, and finally shipped around 650K, which was called instantaneously by Yan.
Leng tabled , and was horrified when he saw Yan’s . The board completed with the and the . About 1.8M was pushed Yan’s way, as Leng stood idly by, looking around as if to find a way to go about the rest of his day.
We could think of no other preflop scenario than Leng raising his suited ace from the cutoff, and Yan trying to steal it from the small blind by 3-betting big, then continuation betting on a dream flop.
Keap your head up Leng, it’s hard to see these things coming. Congratulations on a good run!
Yan Nadeau takes a montrous stack to Day 3, as you will be able to see in the upcoming complete counts.