Hand #44: Keating Doubles Thru Nguyen; Nguyen Down to One Chip

Photo: Binh Nguyen (left) and Alex Keating (center) stand together to watch the board that will determine their fates in the tournament.

Hand #44  –  Binh Nguyen raises from the button to 75,000, Alex Keating reraises from the big blind to 250,000, and Nguyen moves all in for 835,000.

Keating calls with a similar stack and turns over . Nguyen turns over , and it’s unclear who is at risk here. Whoever loses this pot will either be eliminated or down to very few chips.

The board comes , and Keating pairs his ace on the turn to win the pot. Their chip stacks are counted down, and Nguyen had just 5,000 more than Keating.

Alex Keating  –  1,715,000  (57 bb)
Binh Nguyen  –  5,000  (1 ante)