APT Super High Roller

Nguyen Tan Phuong is one of the most entertaining players to be seen in Day 1 of the APT Super High Roller. It certainly helps as well that he is running well today. In a blind versus blind situation he raised it up to 28,000 against the completion of Mingcong Chen. The small-blind called and both players saw a flop of A♣ J♠ 4♥ .

Chen started with a check, same went for Nguyen. The turn brought the 8♦ and Chen started the postflop betting with a 25,000 bet. Nguyen called and the river was the 6♠. Chen put out a strong bet of 80,000 and without blinking an eye Nguyen moved all-in. The baffled Chen had to throw his hand into the muck.

With the board running out A♣ T♠ K♥ 6♣ 2♥ and around 123,500 chips in the middle, Mingcong Chen bet 85,000 from the button after tanking for a long time. Martin Stausholm from the big blind check-called to take it to a showdown.

Chen flipped a flopped pair of kings with K♦ 3♦ , but it still couldn’t best a flopped of pair of aces from Stausholm’s A♥ 7♥ , which earned Stausholm the sizable pot.