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Daniel put Scotty all in before the flop holding a pocket pair of sixes and Scotty, short-stacked, made the call with
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board ensued and Scotty took down the pot, worth right around 20,000, with a king-high flush.
2009 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship
$20,000 Heads-up Championship
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
2009 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship
Buy-in
$20,000
Entries
64
Daniel put Scotty all in before the flop holding a pocket pair of sixes and Scotty, short-stacked, made the call with
.A
board ensued and Scotty took down the pot, worth right around 20,000, with a king-high flush.
It's unclear what hand either player had or what the action was and since we're restricted to the media desk, we have absolutely no idea. Mark your brackets though -- Hellmuth advances to the quarterfinals.
PokerNews' Gloria Balding caught up with Phil Hellmuth in between matches and the two discussed Phil's Round of 32 match with Caesars qualifier Jeffrey Ishbia, yesterday's bout against Mike Sexton and Phil's rematch against online phenom Tom 'durrrr' Dwan.
Meanwhile, Nguyen and Negreanu are yukking it up at their table in the back center of the room.
"Where's my cocktails bro?" shouted Negreanu, looked around wildly. "Get that waitress over here. More cocktails!" To his credit, Nguyen laughed and covered his face with his hands, acknowledging that his behavior that night was not his best.
On the "secondary feature table" are Scotty Nguyen and... Scotty Nguyen? Daniel Negreanu showed up for his match against the Prince of Poker dressed as the Prince of Poker, complete with a wig, matching sunglasses, a matching white outfit and lots of bling.
"One thing's for sure," said Nguyen. "Scotty Nguyen's gonna win, baby."
There's one more round of matches tonight - the other half of the Third Round enters the field at 9:30pm local time. The matches that are on tap are:
Clubs Bracket John Juanda v. Bertrand Grospellier
Phil Hellmuth v. Tom Dwan
Spades Bracket Paul Wasicka v. Vanessa Rousso
Scotty Nguyen v. Daniel Negreanu
Tran, on the short stack, open-shoved from the button with
. Oppenheim called with 
and made his small pair hold up on a board of 
. He advances to the quarterfinals, where he will face Huck Seed.
, while Lindgren tabled the powerhouse 
in what we assume was an unfortunately timed bluff. Lindgren did not improve on a board of 
.That loss left Lindgren with 30,000 chips at limits of 3,000 and 6,000. He put them in the middle on the next hand with
and was called by Williams, who showed another pair, 
. Williams moved onto the quarterfinals with a board of 
. Lindgren is eliminated but will receive $25,000 in consolation money.