Le Leaps To The Top

We caught up with the action on the turn, with the board reading . There was already a huge pile of chips, roughly 60,000 in the middle, when we arrived. We saw that Nam Le had checked to his lone opponent in the hand, Paul Hendee. Hendee fired out 30,000, and it was back to Le.

Le tanked for about 45 seconds before assembling a raise of 65,000, and sliding it into the middle. Hendee quickly moved all in, and Le took only about five seconds to call.

Le:
Hendee:

Le was in fantastic shape to secure the knockout, and virtually double his stack in the process. The river was scary, but it was the , and Le took the pot to get up over 300,000.